Join us for DataConnect Conference on Oct 2-3, 2025. Round 1 pricing ends December 31, 2024.
The DataConnect team is excited to host our second Start-Up Showcase event, supported by our friends at Women in Data! Join us in the Regency Ballroom to hear from early-stage companies as they showcase their innovative ideas, field questions from VCs, and increase exposure.
This year's startups include:
Plurall AI - Plurall AI: Authenticity in a Digitized World. Providing anti-deepfake AI tool for protecting businesses and people
ApertureData - For ML and data engineers who must store and query multimodal data to develop advanced ML models and AI applications, our product, ApertureDB, is a new graph-vector database that makes multimodal data management simple and efficient. Unlike today’s separate vector databases and graph databases, ApertureDB combines the benefits of both in a single solution, enabling ML and data teams to get their AI applications to market faster and with fewer data engineering headaches along the way.
AbeaData -At AbeaData we are not just redefining data management; we're revolutionizing it!
Our growing suite of innovative data solutions unleash the power of AI by swiftly validating, scaling, governing, and contextualizing critical analytic data. Drawing inspiration from the industrious bee, we've mastered the art of transforming raw data (pollen) into refined, trusted, and meaningful information (honey). We know that this transformation isn't just about data organization, democratization and governance... it's about those that use the data, and the unique problems their organization must solve for.
Join us on this exhilarating journey as we redefine the future of data through our open-source initiatives, tailor-made enterprise data contract management solutions, and an AI-powered data discovery SaaS offering designed for the mid-market!
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Sadie St. Lawrence is the Founder of the Human Machine Collaboration Institute (HMCI) and the Founder of Women in Data.
HMCI provides research, education and consulting services to support humans in the new area of working with machines.
Women in Data is an international non-profit organization represented in 55 countries with a community of over 60,000 data leaders, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Women in Data has earned recognition as a Top 50 Leading Company of the Year and as the #1 community for Women in AI and Tech.
Before establishing HMCI and Women in Data, Sadie gained extensive experience in data science and AI strategy, providing consulting services to healthcare, high-tech, and government organizations.
Sadie's accomplishments include being named one of the Top 30 Women in AI (2022), one of the Top 10 Most Admired Businesswomen to Watch in 2021, a Top 21 Influencer in Data (2021), and one of the Top 30 Most Inspiring Women in AI (2021). She is also a recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from UC Davis (2019) and just recently, included in Dataleum’s 30 Outstanding Women in Data, 2023.
Apart from her accolades, Sadie serves on various start-up and non-profit boards, and hosts the award winning Data Bytes podcast and has educated more than 600,000 individuals in data science and AI.
Ashley is an executive 20 years of experience in finance, M&A, capital raising, operations, governance and strategy for a combination of private companies, Fortune 500 corporations and private equity firms in the U.S. and Europe. As a current investment partner, Ashley is responsible for team/talent building, sponsoring new venture investments, capital raising, deal flow strategy and portfolio management, as well as overseeing marketing and communications. For seven years prior as a CFO, Ashley built the fundraising platform, compliance policies, financial strategy and back-office team for CincyTech while growth quadrupled. She's also a former PwC M&A advisor and is a Director for a seed-stage venture company and NASDAQ-listed company.
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Shuchi brings 20+ years of Silicon Valley and Cross-Border experience with a focus on technology, investment, impact and ecosystem building. She is currently an investor and heads up portfolio development for ServiceNow Ventures, ServiceNow’s Strategic Venture Fund with a commitment to invest $1B by 2026 in cutting edge enterprise startups.
Shuchi has previously served as the GM for VentureBeat Transform, helping some of the largest brands with thought leadership. She was also the head of GTM for HeadSpin, a google backed startup. Prior to that she was the Head of SAP.iO at SAP, a strategic program that invests in and accelerates enterprise software startups. In her role she helped growth stage startups go to market with SAP and it's customers. In her previous roles she has led operations, funding diligence and M&A for startups.
Over the course of her career she has worked with great entrepreneurs, mentored, advised and angel invested in several startups.
She is a big advocate of anti-recidivism, inclusion and has worked with the likes of UCLA, ARC (Anti-recidivism coalition), and tech/startup ecosystem to create inclusive opportunities. She was named a digital leader by the united nations foundation.
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Rachel Stern has over a decade of experience in the GovTech industry, bringing together a background in venture investing, lobbying, operations, fundraising and strategy. She has worked with companies of every size, from Fortune 500 to pre-seed startups, helping them navigate and partner with state and local governments to drive innovation.
