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Panels, fireside chats, workshops and demo days from past quarters. What’s coming up next is on the homepage.

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  • A man in a purple University of Washington T-shirt speaking and gesturing at a podium bearing a large block W logo.
    AIC x WTIA Fireside Chat

    A fireside chat on AI and job security, with a recap published in the AI Collective Substack.

    Partners: WTIA

    Speakers: Nick Ellingson

  • A large group of students posing together and holding up three fingers, in front of a screen reading "Project Cycles Batch 03 Demo Day."
    Spring 2026 Demo Day

    Eight student teams pitched and live-demoed the projects they built over six weeks in Project Cycles Batch 03.

  • Four panelists and two students seated and standing around tables, one panelist gesturing while speaking, in front of a projected "Founder Panel" slide showing headshots of four speakers.
    Startup Founder Panel

    Three founders on early fundraising, finding product-market fit, and the realities of building a company from scratch.

    Speakers: Reuben Santoso (Qualty), Jensen Kalal and Will Hand (AISC), John Kennedy (Actual AI)

  • A speaker presenting to a full lecture hall, with two screens behind him displaying an "AIC @ UW x ThinkCyber — AI x Security Panel" title slide.
    AI x Security Panel

    A panel on how AI is changing threat detection, incident response and governance, covering how teams deploy AI safely with guardrails and monitoring, what careers at that intersection look like, and why human judgment stays in the loop.

    Partners: ASUW, ThinkCyber UW

    Speakers: Humberto Arias, Ivo Ivanov, John-Luke Peck

  • A student presenter pointing at a projected Sentient Labs slide about its builder program, seen from behind rows of students with laptops open.
    Fall 2025 Sentient Ideathon

    A fast-paced, high-energy ideathon where students design the future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

  • Three recruiters, one in an Amazon T-shirt, seated behind a table on a lecture-hall stage, the one in the middle gesturing as she speaks, under a slide asking about misconceptions in tech hiring; two student hosts stand at the podium.
    Fall 2025 Amazon Fireside Chat

    An exclusive chat with Amazon recruiters about internship opportunities and the application process.

  • Two investors and a student moderator seated on a stage at the Foster School of Business, one investor gesturing with a microphone as he answers a question about Pack Ventures projected on the screen behind them.
    Winter 2025 Why We Invested: VC x Founder Case Studies

    A case study of the Pack Ventures and Scispot deal from first meeting to term sheet, a fireside chat on how VCs evaluate AI deals, and topic-table networking with VCs and founders.

    Partners: Pack Ventures, Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

    Speakers: Ken Horenstein, Satya Singh