Aparna Dhinakaran
Founder & CPO
Arize AI
AIBoomi ONE 2026 — Full Impact Report
Attendee outcomes, community data, and what founders said about the day.
SPEAKERS & ORGANISERS
Arjun Pillai
Co-founder & CEO
Docket
Avinash Raghava
CEO & Founding Volunteer
AIBoomi
Corey Ching
Developer Experience
OpenAI
Kanav Hasija
Co-founder & CEO
MeltPlan
Keerthi Madhu
COO
AIBoomi
Manoj Agarwal
Co-founder & President
DevRev
Marc Manara
Head of Startups
OpenAI
Patrick Salyer
Partner
Mayfield
Prashant Mittal
Applied AI Lead – Startups
OpenAI
Prukalpa Sankar
Founder & Co-CEO
Atlan
Rajoshi Ghosh
Co-founder & Chief Ecosystem Officer
PromptQL
Rishab Kumar
Partner
Cooley LLP
Sandeep Todi
Lead Volunteer – US Chapter
AIBoomi
Sean Kim
Chief Product Officer
HighLevel
Sethu Meenakshisundaram
Co-founder
Zluri
Srikrishnan Ganesan
Co-founder & CEO
Rocketlane
Srinivas Njay
Founder & CEO
interface.ai & BankGPT.ai
Swapnil Jain
Co-founder & CEO
Observe.AI
Vijay Rayapati
CEO
Atomicwork
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AGENDA
Day 1
18th May 2026
Arrival & Networking
Welcome
Keerthi Madhu
Boring Is Beautiful: Why Vertical AI Beats Horizontal SaaS
Kanav Hasija
From Engineer to GTM: How a Technical Founder Learns to Sell in America
Manoj Agarwal
Multiplayer AI with PromptQL
Rajoshi Ghosh
Disrupting Yourself Before the Market Does: The Founder’s Dilemma in the Age of AI Agents
Swapnil Jain
The Great Software Rewiring – If platforms own agents, where do startups win
Day 2
19th May 2026
Arrival & Networking
Opening Remarks
Marc Manara
AMA
Prashant M, Aparna Dhinakaran, Srinivas Njay, Prukalpa Sankar
Codex Session + Demo
Corey Ching
OpenAI Workshop
Day 3
20th May 2026
Welcome, Recap and Context
Sandeep Todi
The Uncomfortable Truths About Building AI-native Products
Vijay Rayapati
From Selling Your First 30 Customers to Building Category Leadership
Srikrishnan Ganesan
Cooley and the State of the VC Market
Rishab Kumar
Roadkill or Rocket Ship: An Investor’s Framework for AI Startups
Patrick Salyer
Workshop: From the Other Side of the Table: A Founder’s Guide to Fundraising
Arjun Pillai
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WHAT PEOPLE SAID
“The food and facilities were amazing. Really
thankful to you all for creating such a platform for us.”
“The mentors were really helpful in asking the right questions that we had missed while
building.”
“This is my first time building. I didn't think I could build so much. Both mentors helped me innovate my idea.”
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