Public Activity
Conferences, meetups, and industry events I participate in, as a speaker, panelist, or guest. Here are some highlights.
Google Gemini AI Event
A talk from the Google Gemini stage on how, with vibe coding and everything modern LLMs handed us, we gave up privacy and personal space the moment we crossed our own doorstep. Plus a live demo of a custom Ray-Ban Meta glasses setup with streaming face recognition on iPhone for sharper networking.
Hacker Dojo Startup Pitches
Judging startup pitches at the legendary Hacker Dojo: scoring teams and giving founders feedback on product, architecture, and go-to-market.
Wearable Gemini
An evening focused on wearable AI experiences built around Gemini.
The Agentic Enterprise Platform — ThinkingAI Launch with MiniMax
Launch event unveiling ThinkingAI's enterprise platform, with a live demo of its Agentic Engine and how companies can move from insight to action in real time.
Real-World ClickHouse: Stories from Builders & Operators
An evening for data practitioners: real-world ClickHouse stories and engineering talk, plus networking around analytics, observability, and production-scale workloads.
Startup Pitch Night — TheAgentic & Tehele Ventures
A startup pitch night featuring six AI founders, rapid-fire presentations, judge Q&A, and high-signal networking with builders and investors.
ISC2 Silicon Valley
An evening for security professionals featuring practitioner-led sessions on real-world security strategy, including third-party risk management.
NSIC Startup Ecosystem & Happy Hour
A casual gathering for startup founders, builders, and ecosystem members to connect and unwind over happy hour.
YC Founders Gathering
A curated gathering for YC founders, investors, and ecosystem builders.
BASES Welcomes Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, one of tech's most influential investors, on AI and investing, and what separates a real opportunity from hype.
Silicon Valley Founder Lecture
Lecture for founders selected for the Zain Great Idea Soft Landing Program in Silicon Valley, brought together by Vibranium Venture Capital. An inside look at the product and engineering decisions that separate momentum from failure.
BubbleCon 2024
AI, Native Mobile, Flusk and more.
FlutterFlow Developer Conference
Conference on Flutter-powered app development, hands-on building, and the latest ecosystem updates.
SaaStr Annual 2024
Hosted 10,000 Cloud and SaaS Founders, VCs, and Execs for the 10th SaaStr Annual: 3 full days of tactical content, hundreds of workshops, and thousands of networking sessions, all built around how to scale a SaaS company faster.
AI for Software Development
Talk on no-code product building and how AI is reshaping modern software development.
Plug and Play x HubSpot Founder Meeting
Founder session on startup ideas, product strategy, and venture growth opportunities with Plug and Play and HubSpot.
Stripe Sessions 2024
Stripe's leadership team shares progress across three core product areas: Global Payments, Embedded Payments and Finance, and Revenue and Finance Automation.
International CES
The biggest tech show in the world, where new products and the companies behind them get their first public airing.
Mentoring a Vibranium.VC startup cohort on building products right — Silicon Valley
Presenting G1 Software at a US–Kazakhstan business roundtable
With Emmanuel Straschnov, co-founder of Bubble — BubbleCon
With Vlad Magdalin, founder of Webflow
With Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum
Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale
Pitching AppMaster at a Silicon Valley startup event
With Bagdat Mussin, then Kazakhstan's Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry — Consulate General of Kazakhstan, San Francisco
Presenting AI-first development at Z-Park Silicon Valley
Google campus, Mountain View
Presenting AppMaster at a PeopleConnect event
AppMaster booth at TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
Presenting AppMaster — fastest-growing on the G2 no-code grid — church venue, Palo Alto
Expert session for a Vibranium.VC cohort — building products and technical teams
Invited expert at Zain Great Idea — alongside Stanford, Carta, TSVC and AWS leaders
Sam Altman on stage — OpenAI keynote
"Our AI Journey" talk — San Francisco AI Meetup, Great Star Theater
Startup Grind Global 2023 — Fox Theatre, Redwood City
With Arsen Tomsky, founder & CEO of inDrive
With Andrew Feldman, co-founder & CEO of Cerebras
With Landy Wang, Microsoft Technical Fellow — architect of the Windows kernel memory manager
With Laurence Moroney, AI lead at Arm — Arm × NVIDIA event
With Cliff Click, architect of the HotSpot JVM C2 compiler (Sea of Nodes) — LinkedIn office
On stage at a Google Gemini event, Google Sunnyvale — privacy in the age of vibe coding and LLMs
Demoing Ray-Ban Meta + on-iPhone streaming face recognition — Google Gemini event, Sunnyvale
Judge at Hacker Dojo Startup Pitches — Silicon Valley, June 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt — with the Astana Hub team
TEDx San Francisco
Founders Floor, San Jose
School 42, Silicon Valley
Samsung Developer Conference 2019, San Jose
CES, Las Vegas
At Grishin Robotics
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev personally inspecting our fintech product Feebme — Astana
SaaStr Annual
Pitching AppMaster
With Dmitry Panov (Whillet) — SaaStr Annual
FlutterFlow Developer Conference
FlutterFlow Developer Conference
With Matt Graham (RapidDevs) and FlutterFlow partners — FlutterFlow DevCon
AppMaster booth — TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
With fellow founders — TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
Demoing my Face ID & document verification for public service centers (TsON) to Askar Zhumagaliyev, then Kazakhstan's digitalization minister
Kazakhstan delegation — official roadshow visit to Kyrgyzstan
Showing our innovative tech to Askar Zhumagaliyev and Dauren Abaev (the First President's press secretary)
Official demo of my Feebme superapp for HOA management to government entities — Astana
Security innovation demo for PM Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Askar Zhumagaliyev and Dauren Abaev
Demoing document recognition & identity verification to Askar Zhumagaliyev, Defense Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev and CIS guests
Brazilian Startup House event, supported by Link School
AppMaster booth — TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
With the G2 team — SaaStr Annual
SaaStr Annual
SaaStr Annual
Pitching AppMaster — church venue, Palo Alto
TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco
With Zamir Shukhov (Vibranium.VC) — Startup Grind
With Yasmeen Butt — event at the Tesla showroom, San Francisco
With medical-device founders — pitch competition
Stripe Sessions
Pitching AppMaster on stage — Great Star Theater, Chinatown, San Francisco
With friends and founders — AI Silicon Valley
After a session with Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) — Stanford
Medical startups & innovation conference — Stanford
Speaker lineup — Great Star Theater, Chinatown, San Francisco
Unicorn Battle pitch competition — San Francisco
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