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Afsheen Afshar

Aug 4, 2026

9:44
So to pivot off the data thing, because I think there's not that many people that have literally... help to build human brain interfaces and where this is going and i'm level zero on this thing yeah can you talk to the audience a bit about where you think this tech is going how this tech works sure and like the things you're concerned about the things you're excited about with it like that's something i feel like we get a lot of like news bits where it's like you know neural links slap some chips in a monkey's brain and whatever right and yeah but then on the flip end there's like a kid playing like counter-strike with like a neural link and i'm like whoa
10:13
So by the way, those two things aren't that different.
10:15
So it's actually may not be obvious to the public.
10:17
Okay.
10:17
So let me take a step back.
10:18
Let me start with the caveats because I am a scientist.
10:20
So this has not been my job for 15 years.

25 MINS LATER

3:39
Some of us didn't work out that way.
3:41
Yeah, you know how it goes.
3:42
So I've always been at the intersection of technology, of business operations, and investing.
3:49
So I was at Goldman Sachs, was fortunate enough to become a managing director there, running every AI data science team they had, fundamental back office, went on to JP Morgan, where I was the first chief data science officer in Wall Street history, global firm-wide role.
4:02
Then I went on to the buy side at Cerberus Capital, was the first chief AI officer in private equity history there.
4:08
And really always doing the same movie and just doing it bigger, better, with newer technologies.
4:14
And saw that there was an opportunity to really help Main Street be collectively competitive in the technology and AIH.
7:33
It used to be

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