The AI Foundry Series- San Ramon Chapter

The AI Foundry is a community-driven initiative bringing together startups, investors, government leaders, and academic institutions to collaborate on responsible AI innovation.
Pitch application
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgRW2eqSIMbwBa60KUICrAM1oBVvTvpZ8ctsZCa7DafCVR3g/viewform
This is not a competition, but a curated showcase designed to highlight real-world AI innovation to angels, VCs, and a professional audience.
Speaker: Sonia Mehta
https://pavedroadai.com/
Sonia Mehta is the Founder and Head of AI Engineering at Paved Road AI, bringing over two decades of engineering leadership experience scaling mission-critical platforms at IBM, Epocrates, athenaHealth and Eatsa. As an engineering leader at IBM, she scaled API Connect to $350M in ARR and led IBM Aspera, following her work building clinical systems at Epocrates used by half of U.S. physicians. Today, Sonia specializes in agentic architectures and harness engineering, helping teams build dependable, production-grade AI systems with the safety checks, memory bounds, and verification layers needed to trust them in the real world. She holds the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) credential and authors the Paved Road AI newsletter.

🎤Pitch:
Kentron AI (https://kentron.ai)
Nera Systems (https://nera.systems/)

Hosted by the AI Foundry Team:
Vasudha Badri-Paul, CEO
Avatara AI/GTMBUNNY
https://avataraai.com/
Suresh Madhuvarsu, Co-Founder Product10x
http://www.product10x.com
Sridhar Verose, Vice Mayor, City of San Ramon
https://www.sanramon.ca.gov/ourcity/citycouncil/vicemayorsridharverose