This evening brings together international delegations, local founders, and emerging technology leaders for a dynamic exchange of ideas and opportunities. With a strong focus on AI, biotech, and semiconductor innovation, the night blends workshops, demos, and curated networking to spark meaningful collaboration. Attendees will engage with global perspectives while gaining practical insights they can apply immediately. From startup showcases to strategic discussions, the experience is designed to connect ecosystems and accelerate innovation across borders.
Sponsored By:
City of Phoenix
Arizona Commerce Authority’s International Trade & Investment Office
Arrive early to Venture Café Phoenix for your chance to connect with Cole Kümmer, Founder of Groupsked.com, to gain insights on how to build your own Website + App. Mentor Hours meetings begin at 4:30pm and run in 15-minute slots.
Please note: Mentor Hours are first come first served and must be done on-site at the event. A sign-up sheet will be located at the room where the mentor is stationed, so be sure to stop by early to secure your spot.
Arrive early to Venture Café Phoenix for your chance to connect with Chung Trinh, Founder & CEO of Lighthouse Psychiatry Brain Health Center & VYSRE, to gain insights on how to overcome scary tunnel vision from idea to entrepreneurship. Mentor Hours meetings begin at 4:30pm and run in 15-minute slots.
Please note: Mentor Hours are first come first served and must be done on-site at the event. A sign-up sheet will be located at the room where the mentor is stationed, so be sure to stop by early to secure your spot."
Join entrepreneurs, innovators, and ecosystem leaders from across the globe for an evening of connection and conversation. This international mixer is designed to bring together founders, partners, and community builders to spark new relationships and cross-border collaboration.
Sponsored by: Arizona Commerce Authority’s International Trade & Investment Office
Sign up in the lobby for your chance to head upstairs and take a guided tour through the Taiwan AI Smart Health Showcase Center. Covering fields such as AI, Precision Health, Innovative Medical Devices, and Telemedicine, the Showcase highlights Taiwan’s deep expertise in advanced biomedical technology and serves as a platform to foster new opportunities for U.S. Taiwan healthcare collaboration.
Harvesting Collective Genius: Turning AI into Your Team's Strategic Advantage
What if your current team could operate like one twice its size without adding headcount? This session shows business owners how to deploy AI tools and agents as a digital workforce that owns repeatable work end to end. Learn how to free your team for strategy, accelerate execution, and scale capacity faster than traditional hiring allows.
Takeaways
- How AI tools and agents can own repeatable work end to end
- How to increase team capacity without hiring
- How to free people for strategy and growth work
Powered by: Serpico AI
In this course we will focus on the core financial aspects of your venture and how to apply that information to build a compelling financial model. This will include specific units on: analyzing your business and revenue model, understanding the core metrics and ""levers"" you have in your business, how those impact your revenue and expense in the future, and how to apply that information to a financial model that tells your company's unique financial story.
After taking this course, you should be equipped with all of the financial tools you need to successfully plan, project, and grow your business!
This curated showcase will feature a select group of leading organizations from the Taiwan AI Smart Health Showcase Center, each chosen for their strong potential in real-world deployment and international collaboration.
Unlike a traditional pitch session, participating companies will deliver focused presentations while also providing live demonstrations and hands-on experience opportunities, allowing attendees to directly engage with their solutions.
The showcased innovations represent Taiwan’s cutting-edge capabilities in AI-driven healthcare, including smart care systems, advanced sensing technologies, and clinically applicable digital health solutions. Each solution is designed not only to demonstrate technological excellence, but also to address real-world challenges such as aging populations, workforce shortages, and the need for continuous, scalable care.
We can’t afford to let Main Street die of old age. Over the next decade, millions of small and mid-sized businesses will change hands or shut down entirely, not because they aren’t viable, but because owners lack a realistic, fundable path forward.
In Arizona and across the country, this is already happening. Strong businesses are reaching a crossroads with no clear exit, no successor, and no structure to support what comes next. What looks like a succession issue is often a deeper problem: the business is still built around the owner.
In this fireside chat, we’ll unpack what the succession crisis looks like on the ground and why it matters not just to Main Street business owners, but to tech founders, operators, corporate refugees, and first-time acquirers looking for their next opportunity.
We’ll explore the most common pattern we see: businesses that perform well but remain founder-dependent, making them hard to scale, difficult to step away from, and challenging to exit on reasonable terms.
You’ll leave with a clear lens to evaluate where you or your business sit on the owner dependency curve, and three practical moves you can make in the next 90 days to create real options: to keep, grow, or eventually sell with confidence.
In collaboration with:
Build Scale Prosper
MZT:1990INC
This evening brings together international delegations, local founders, and emerging technology leaders for a dynamic exchange of ideas and opportunities. With a strong focus on AI, biotech, and semiconductor innovation, the night blends workshops, demos, and curated networking to spark meaningful collaboration. Attendees will engage with global perspectives while gaining practical insights they can apply immediately. From startup showcases to strategic discussions, the experience is designed to connect ecosystems and accelerate innovation across borders.
Sponsored By:
City of Phoenix
Arizona Commerce Authority’s International Trade & Investment Office
Arrive early to Venture Café Phoenix for your chance to connect with Cole Kümmer, Founder of Groupsked.com, to gain insights on how to build your own Website + App. Mentor Hours meetings begin at 4:30pm and run in 15-minute slots.
Please note: Mentor Hours are first come first served and must be done on-site at the event. A sign-up sheet will be located at the room where the mentor is stationed, so be sure to stop by early to secure your spot.
Arrive early to Venture Café Phoenix for your chance to connect with Chung Trinh, Founder & CEO of Lighthouse Psychiatry Brain Health Center & VYSRE, to gain insights on how to overcome scary tunnel vision from idea to entrepreneurship. Mentor Hours meetings begin at 4:30pm and run in 15-minute slots.
Please note: Mentor Hours are first come first served and must be done on-site at the event. A sign-up sheet will be located at the room where the mentor is stationed, so be sure to stop by early to secure your spot."
Join entrepreneurs, innovators, and ecosystem leaders from across the globe for an evening of connection and conversation. This international mixer is designed to bring together founders, partners, and community builders to spark new relationships and cross-border collaboration.
Sponsored by: Arizona Commerce Authority’s International Trade & Investment Office
Sign up in the lobby for your chance to head upstairs and take a guided tour through the Taiwan AI Smart Health Showcase Center. Covering fields such as AI, Precision Health, Innovative Medical Devices, and Telemedicine, the Showcase highlights Taiwan’s deep expertise in advanced biomedical technology and serves as a platform to foster new opportunities for U.S. Taiwan healthcare collaboration.
Harvesting Collective Genius: Turning AI into Your Team's Strategic Advantage
What if your current team could operate like one twice its size without adding headcount? This session shows business owners how to deploy AI tools and agents as a digital workforce that owns repeatable work end to end. Learn how to free your team for strategy, accelerate execution, and scale capacity faster than traditional hiring allows.
Takeaways
- How AI tools and agents can own repeatable work end to end
- How to increase team capacity without hiring
- How to free people for strategy and growth work
Powered by: Serpico AI
In this course we will focus on the core financial aspects of your venture and how to apply that information to build a compelling financial model. This will include specific units on: analyzing your business and revenue model, understanding the core metrics and ""levers"" you have in your business, how those impact your revenue and expense in the future, and how to apply that information to a financial model that tells your company's unique financial story.
After taking this course, you should be equipped with all of the financial tools you need to successfully plan, project, and grow your business!
This curated showcase will feature a select group of leading organizations from the Taiwan AI Smart Health Showcase Center, each chosen for their strong potential in real-world deployment and international collaboration.
Unlike a traditional pitch session, participating companies will deliver focused presentations while also providing live demonstrations and hands-on experience opportunities, allowing attendees to directly engage with their solutions.
The showcased innovations represent Taiwan’s cutting-edge capabilities in AI-driven healthcare, including smart care systems, advanced sensing technologies, and clinically applicable digital health solutions. Each solution is designed not only to demonstrate technological excellence, but also to address real-world challenges such as aging populations, workforce shortages, and the need for continuous, scalable care.
We can’t afford to let Main Street die of old age. Over the next decade, millions of small and mid-sized businesses will change hands or shut down entirely, not because they aren’t viable, but because owners lack a realistic, fundable path forward.
In Arizona and across the country, this is already happening. Strong businesses are reaching a crossroads with no clear exit, no successor, and no structure to support what comes next. What looks like a succession issue is often a deeper problem: the business is still built around the owner.
In this fireside chat, we’ll unpack what the succession crisis looks like on the ground and why it matters not just to Main Street business owners, but to tech founders, operators, corporate refugees, and first-time acquirers looking for their next opportunity.
We’ll explore the most common pattern we see: businesses that perform well but remain founder-dependent, making them hard to scale, difficult to step away from, and challenging to exit on reasonable terms.
You’ll leave with a clear lens to evaluate where you or your business sit on the owner dependency curve, and three practical moves you can make in the next 90 days to create real options: to keep, grow, or eventually sell with confidence.
In collaboration with:
Build Scale Prosper
MZT:1990INC