Vince Kohli, An Empathy Scholar

Oracle is a global leader in AI, delivering the cloud infrastructure, data, and applications that organizations across the world trust to successfully achieve business outcomes at scale. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, scalable AI infrastructure. With superior compute performance and network design, a comprehensive choice of AI services for developing and orchestrating agentic AI workflows at scale, and unrivaled data control, security, privacy, and governance, OCI is designed for AI workloads. It also gives customers the flexibility to run their workloads wherever they need by supporting public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, sovereign, and on-premises deployments. The Oracle AI Database is the only database with AI natively built in everywhere. By bringing AI to where data lives, the Oracle AI Database delivers enterprise-grade AI securely, cost-effectively, and at scale. In-database machine learning and vector search enable AI models to run where data resides. Support for multi-modal data (structured, unstructured, graph, vector) enables richer AI use cases. The Oracle AI Data Platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and applications on top of private, secure, and distributed enterprise data. This enables organizations to operationalize AI without compromising data security or control. Oracle Applications embed AI directly into business workflows and industry processes to ensure AI is delivered in context, where work happens. They include the only applications suite that brings AI to every aspect of a business, with AI-powered ERP, HCM, and CX applications, and the Oracle Health Suite which provides applications for managing the entire healthcare ecosystem. Oracle also provides industry-specific cloud application suites for more than two dozen industries and NetSuite, the world’s first cloud computing company. This LinkedIn page serves as Oracle’s official global company page.

Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.

Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 5,400 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.

The Founder Institute is the World’s Largest AI-Native Company Builder, where ambitious professionals, solo founders, and first-time entrepreneurs go to turn ideas into funded, AI-powered startups. Since 2009, our structured methodology, global mentor network, and platform have helped over 8,900 founders across 100+ countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Whether you’re an employee ready to make the leap, a solo founder with a big idea, or a first-time entrepreneur looking for direction, we provide the AI toolkit, structured sprints, expert feedback, and investor network to take you from Zero to Founder, faster and cheaper than ever before. And when you’re ready, our venture fund Founder Capital and global investor network are there to write your first check.

IE University is for students who believe that learning is a way of life and are open to the transforming role of higher education. With its international outlook, humanistic education, and pioneering spirit, IE University is committed to educating professionals and experts for an international vocation who will make a difference in society. The unique learning environment at IE University is based on its key pillars of personalization, academic rigor, the integration of different fields of knowledge, both theoretical and practice-based, and entrepreneurship. IE University takes an applied and student-centered approach to education. At the center of the educational experience is the student advisor. Advisors create a personalized study path for students and guide them throughout their university years to ensure that students achieve their academic and professional goals. As a pioneer in learning technologies, IE University holds a leading position in Europe among institutions of higher education for excellence in innovation. In addition, its undergraduate programs are recognized by the most prestigious associations in their respective fields. Our practice-based approach to learning starts in the classroom and continues in different parts of the world to fully prepare IE University students to become international professionals.