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Adam Yormark Team Lead RSVP Approved

Previous Entrepreneurship Instructor at Cornell Tech
Claude Code, Vercel, Github, OpenAI APIs, other tools listed previously.
Eclectic experience, including mechanical engineering, data science, hardware product development, and production, culminating in teaching entrepreneurship at Cornell's Masters campus here in New York City.
I'm deeply interested in the direction of humanity and how the broader large systems intertwine and the direction they might be pushing us.
I'm working on: - A product to more deeply know my network - A product to manage and plan my day and entire life - A project to match investors with startups - A project to streamline the litigation experience for specific lawyers in New York City - A product to cure phone addictions I'll probably come up with three more things to build in the next day.

Dev Devnani RSVP Approved

Co-founder, CEO at Varia
Cursor, etc. (other tools not listed)
Former McKinsey consultant and NYU Stern grad. After consulting, worked at Oddity (LVMH-backed skincare brand) on growth strategy before starting Varia. Building at the intersection of AI and sales - specifically exploring how conversational interfaces can replace (or augment) traditional pitch decks, proposals, and demos. Fascinated by the gap between what AI can do and what actually feels useful to end users. Background spans strategy consulting, brand marketing, and now AI product development. Love thinking about problems where the constraint isn't "can we build this technically" but "will humans actually want to use this?" Based in NYC, always happy to talk about GTM strategy, AI UX patterns, or how to make sales cycles less painful for everyone involved.
I'm most curious about how to make AI interactions feel less like "chat with a bot" and more like genuine conversations. Specifically: AI UX patterns: How do we design AI interfaces that people actually want to use vs. just tolerate? What makes some AI products feel magical and others feel like glorified search boxes? RAG quality & hallucinations: Working daily with retrieval systems - always learning better ways to prevent hallucinations, improve source attribution, and make answers more accura
Building Varia - an AI layer that lets prospects engage with sales materials conversationally instead of reading static PDFs. Working on two core problems: (1) giving sales teams visibility into what prospects care about before calls, and (2) letting founders/sellers scale themselves asynchronously. Currently piloting with healthcare/medtech companies and exploring how to make RAG systems feel less like chatbots and more like actual sales conversations. Always looking to talk to people thinking

Georgy Trushevskiy RSVP Approved

Founder at TRU SYNTH
Warp, Claude code, Codex, Antigravity.
22-year-old entrepreneur and recent ESCP Business School graduate. Founded TRU SYNTH, an AI automation company building enterprise agent infrastructure. Previously scaled TRU Productions to €1.5M revenue before a successful exit, working across hospitality, events, and fashion including Fashion Week Paris. Multilingual (English, Russian, Czech, German) with experience across Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Lisbon.
AI agent infrastructure and autonomous enterprise systems; voice interfaces for business automation; prediction markets and algorithmic trading; generative AI applications for creative workflows. Looking to connect with founders building in AI infrastructure, enterprise automation, and anyone exploring the intersection of agents and business operations.
Building SynthOS at TRU SYNTH—a voice-operated enterprise agent platform that automates business workflows through natural language. Also developing AI-powered SaaS spend management and procurement automation tools at spend.trusynth.com, helping businesses cut software costs and manage vendor relationships through intelligent agents.