12th Annual LDV Vision Summit

March 11, 2026, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Virtual Event

Since its inception in 2014, our Annual LDV Vision Summit has been the premier global gathering in visual tech and AI. Each year, we bring together an impressive array of speakers – from tech giants to under-the-radar startups, esteemed research labs and leading venture capital firms.

Please RSVP to join over one thousand people from around the world to learn how cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions will improve the world we live in!

Speakers

More speakers will be announced soon!

Who should attend?

» Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence experts, researchers, professors, students and professionals
» Media and brand executives interested in enhancing revenue through innovative imaging technologies & AI-powered products
» Investors looking for investment opportunities across all sectors
» Technology executives assessing companies for potential partnerships and acquisitions
» Journalists, reporters, editors: to get an update on all things visual tech and AI

Topics

We will discuss computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and AI relating to the following sectors:
- Physical AI
- Robotics
- Energy
- Nanotech
- Invisible Imaging
- Neuroscience
- Material Science
- Healthcare
- Investing trends & opportunities

Speakers - agenda will be published soon…

Keynote: 14 Years Investing in People Building Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies & Artificial Intelligence - Future Investment Opportunities Across Invisible Imaging, Physical AI, Materials Science, Energy, Nanotech, Healthcare and Much More

Evan Nisselson is the founder and General Partner at LDV Capital.
LDV Capital’s thesis: a majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data AI will analyze will also be visual, spanning the light and electromagnetic spectrum across all sectors. This thesis was considered cute, niche and science fiction when LDV Capital was founded in 2012. Over a decade later, LDV Capital’s thesis is validated and will continue to be extremely valuable for many more decades. LDV Capital continues to be the only fund that invests with this thesis – investing in people building businesses powered by visual technologies and AI.

LDV Capital I & II funds have been returned and we continue to have significant upside potential across each of our funds thanks to our brilliant entrepreneurs, experts, team and LP partners. We led the Seed financing of Synthesia who recently announced surpassing $100M in revenue and raised $180M at $2.1B led by NEA. We invested early in Ezra which was acquired by Function Health, and we have many more early-stage deep tech investments. Uizard was acquired by Miro, Memorable AI was acquired by Reddit, Geniachip was acquired by Roche and many more. We are now investing out of LDV Capital IV and looking for brilliant people to hopefully improve our world and create significant value.

He has been investing out of LDV Capital since 2012. Prior to investing, he built four businesses powered by visual technologies as a serial entrepreneur for 18 years from Silicon Valley, New York and Europe. He was a professional photographer and digital media expert in the early 1990s. 

In his opening keynote, Evan will share insights into future investment opportunities across visual technologies and artificial intelligence.

Fireside Chat: Computer Vision Pioneer & Serial Entrepreneur Jan Erik Solem Will Share Insights Into The Rollercoaster Journey of Building Startups That He Sold To Apple, Meta and Starting His Next Startup in Physical AI.

Dr. Jan Erik Solem, Co-Founder and CEO at Stær and an Expert in Residence at LDV Capital.
Jan Erik is a visual technology and artificial intelligence visionary. Most recently, Dr. Solem was Director of Engineering for Maps at Meta following the company’s 2020 acquisition of his startup Mapillary, a platform that scales and automates mapping through street-level images and map data. We were honored to be Mapillary’s first investor and then follow-on co-investors with Sequoia, Atomico, BMWi and others. Before that, he was a Computer Vision Researcher at Apple after his prior startup Polar Rose was acquired by Apple in 2010.

We are thrilled to have a fireside chat with Jan Erik Solem who will share insights into the rollercoaster journey of building and selling startups to Apple, Meta and starting his next startup in Physical AI. There are significant challenges and opportunities of integrating spatial perception and AI to power physical systems like robotics and autonomous vehicles. Sectors impacted by these solutions will span manufacturing, logistics and many more.

Fireside chat: Serial Entrepreneur with Three Exits & Former Twitter CEO who Took the Company through IPO Shares Lessons on Building and Backing Transformative Companies

Dick Costolo is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm that invests $10-20 million post-product-market fit.
Dick was CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015, having joined the company as COO in 2009. During his tenure, he oversaw major growth and was recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential U.S. Tech CEOs by Time. Before Twitter, Costolo worked at Google following its acquisition of FeedBurner, the web feed management company he co-founded in 2004. He also co-founded SpyOnIt, a web page monitoring service that sold in 2000, and Burning Door Networked Media, a web design and development firm which was acquired in 1996. He began his career at Andersen Consulting in Chicago, where he spent eight years as a senior manager in product and technology groups.

In a fireside chat with Evan Nisselson, Dick will share his insights, lessons and advice from founding companies, getting them off the ground, selling them (three times a row!). Then becoming the CEO of Twitter and taking it public. Now, as a venture capitalist, he is investing in people and helping them turn breakthrough products into world-class companies.

Keynote -  Leveraging Vision-Language-Interaction Models To Enable Robots To Interact More Safely and Intuitively with Humans

Dr. Catie Cuan is an entrepreneur, engineer and artist pioneering the emerging field of choreorobotics.
Many say robots will be everywhere and do everything that humans can do. However, today robots interact in rudimentary ways. There are exciting opportunities to reinvent how we interact with robots and AI in more human-centered ways. Dr. Cuan's latest startup is building a vision-language-interaction (VLI) foundation model to improve human interaction with and around robots. While traditional robot foundation models optimize for task performance, VLIs are an essential new layer that makes robots more accessible, intuitive and safe when interacting with people. As autonomous robots increasingly become a part of our everyday lives, VLIs will anticipate human intentions and behaviors to choose appropriate robot actions.

She works at the intersection of AI, human-robot interaction and performance, and is currently building a new AI and robotics company. Catie is formerly the founder and CEO of Zenie, a journal that writes back to you. She holds a PhD and MS in robotics and AI from Stanford, where she was also a Postdoctoral researcher and is now an Adjunct Professor. Her research – funded by the NIH, Google and Stanford – explored how robots can learn tasks from humans with imitation learning. A prolific, award-winning robot choreographer, she has created works with nearly a dozen robotic platforms and held residencies at the Smithsonian, Jacob’s Pillow, the Exploratorium, TED and more. Catie is also an International Strategy Forum fellow at Schmidt Futures and an Obama Leader USA at the Obama Foundation.

Panel: Finding The Diamonds: Where Are the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities That are Powered by Visual Technologies & AI?

Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Tesla, Anthropic, Mistral AI, UIPath, Roblox, Pinterest, Zoom and many others are leveraging the power of visual technologies and AI. Visual technologies are critical to the success of artificial intelligence. These innovations are transforming industries, from enabling autonomous vehicles and streamlining manufacturing to enhancing healthcare diagnostics and optimizing e-commerce. Their ability to process and analyze vast amounts of visual data across the light and electromagnetic spectrums at unprecedented speed and accuracy is improving operational efficiency and opening doors to new business opportunities. The integration of visual technologies and AI is no longer optional – it is a key driver of competitive advantage.

Where are the investment opportunities today, tomorrow and 20 years into the future? Our panel of distinguished investors will explore trends in visual technologies and AI across various industries and their impact on society.

Moderator: Marina Temkin, a venture capital and startups reporter at TechCrunch.

Panelists:
– Praveen Akkiraju, a managing director at Insight Partners. He was CEO of Viptela, scaling it to a $100M run rate before its acquisition by Cisco, and CEO of VCE, acquired by EMC. He spent 14 years at Cisco in senior roles across enterprise networking and cloud infrastructure. We are co-investors with Praveen/Insight Partners in Glass Imaging. Insight Partners and LDV co-invested in Uizard, the world’s first AI-powered UI design tool, acquired by Miro.
– Julia Hawkins, a General Partner at LocalGlobe & Latitude with a focus on health and deep tech. Her investments include Accurx, Apian, CoMind, Cusp, Oxford Nanopore, Robeaute, Spore, and Yulife. Prior to LocalGlobe, Julia worked at Universal Music, where she established the company’s corporate venture arm and led investments in ROLI and Sofar Sounds, among others.
– Cem Sertoglu, co-founder and managing partner at Bek Ventures, backing founders across Central and Eastern Europe, including UiPath, Payhawk, and Peak. Bek Ventures has been recognized by HEC as the world’s best-performing venture firm since 2010. Cem co-invested with us in VitVio, an AI platform for safer, more efficient hospital operations.

Keynote: Delivering Broadcast Quality 3D Video to Transform Sports

Have you ever watched a game and thought, “I wish I could see this from the perspective of the referee, the catcher, or from the eyes of a boxer going for the knockout”? Now you can, powered by Arcturus’ 3D platform!  Arcturus is a SaaS platform that takes broadcast viewers onto the field where no physical camera could go and enables entirely new immersive 3D experiences on mobile, desktop and VR devices. 

They capture real-world sports action from multiple angles and reconstruct the play, so viewers can move freely within the scene to see it from any viewpoint. Unlike traditional or 360-degree video, volumetric video records a complete 3D volume, including accurate depth, color and lighting, creating a "hologram" of the original scene.

Steve Sullivan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcturus, shaping the future of live-action 3D media and next-level immersive experiences. Previously, Steve led Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios, delivering holographic performances for VR, AR, TV and film, experienced by hundreds of millions worldwide. Earlier, as Senior Technology Officer at ILM/Lucasfilm, he contributed to more than 70 films including Star Wars, Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean, earning three Academy Awards for Technology in bringing computer vision to film production. Steve’s PhD research in the 1990s on multi-camera reconstruction laid the groundwork for the human holograms in Minority Report – a direct ancestor of today’s volumetric video.

Keynote: Leveraging Network Effects to Deliver Earlier and More Accurate Healthcare Diagnoses For Everyone

Startups, hospitals and healthcare organizations are working on delivering earlier and more accurate healthcare diagnoses. Care personalized for each person. Hospital-level care at home. World-class care in every neighborhood. The vision for the Mayo Clinic Platform is to create a world where the best possible care is available to everyone, everywhere.

Dr. John Halamka will share his insights into what it was like implementing healthcare information strategies 40 years ago when he started to why the Mayo Clinic Platform was created and how he envisions the opportunities of leveraging visual technologies and AI to improve human healthcare into the future

John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare. Mayo Clinic Platform tools and solutions are on track to reach 55 million people in 2025. Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing healthcare information strategy and policy for more than 40 years. Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he served governments, academia and industry throughout the world. As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration and governments worldwide plan their healthcare information strategies.

Panel: Beyond Human Vision – Unlocking the Invisible with Visual Technology & AI

The human eye can only perceive 0.0035% of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, yet most of the world’s ~50B cameras and visual sensors are still designed to only capture and analyze visible light. Check out Ash Cleary’s article to learn more about unlocking the invisible with visual technology and artificial intelligence.

This panel will explore how visual technologies are expanding far beyond visible light – from hyperspectral imaging and optical tomography to nanoscale visualization, millimeter-wave radar and 3D LiDAR. We’ll discuss how these modalities capture, analyze and interpret data that is fundamentally invisible to the human eye, and why that matters for precision healthcare, environmental monitoring, industrial inspection, autonomy and navigation.

Panelists will dive into the hard parts – sensor physics, data quality, ground-truth generation, real-time perception and sensor fusion – and where AI is finally making these systems commercially viable. We’ll also look ahead at what it takes to move from lab-grade breakthroughs to scalable platforms that redefine how machines see, reason and act in the world.

If the future of intelligence depends on better vision, this is where that future starts.

Moderator: Ash Cleary, Principal at LDV Capital. 

Panelists:
– Professor Dame Molly Stevens FREng FRS is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery. An international leader in biosensing, regenerative medicine and advanced therapeutics, she has published over 400 papers and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field Research. She is a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in translating research into impact, holding numerous patents and founding four spin-out companies. A Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, she has received more than 40 major awards.
– Ziv Attar, CEO & Co-founder, Glass Imaging. Ziv is an imaging expert with 20 years of experience in Optics and Image Processing. Until recently, Ziv worked at Apple leading various computational photography projects including the famous Portrait Mode that launched with the iPhone 7+ and its derivatives. In 2011 he founded LinX Imaging and served as the CEO until the company was acquired by Apple in 2015. LinX Imaging built the first stereo based Portrait Effect based on dual camera systems which has become a market standard for mobile phones today. The company also developed the first mobile dual camera system that fused a monochrome image with a color image for boosting low light performance and image quality.

– Additional Panelist will be announced soon.

Keynote: New Frontiers in Imaging The Wiring of the Brain to Target Neuromodulation Therapies

Anastasia Yendiki’s keynote will highlight how the latest advances in imaging the wiring of the brain are set to transform neuromodulation therapies. She leads a team of researchers who are working on generating the most detailed maps of the wiring of the brain to date, with a combination of multi-scale imaging techniques, including diffusion MRI, optical and X-ray microscopy, and computational modeling. These connectivity maps are particularly important for therapies like deep-brain stimulation, where electrodes are implanted to stimulate brain networks associated with specific disorders. By elucidating which connections should be targeted to improve therapeutic efficacy, and which should be avoided to minimize side effects, these imaging advancements promise more effective, safer, and individualized interventions for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Anastasia Yendiki, PhD, is Associate Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Investigator at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and lead principal investigator of the center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC), a multi-institutional effort funded by the NIH Brain Initiative to scale up technologies for imaging the wiring of the human brain at unprecedented resolutions. Anastasia is also an LDV Capital Expert.

Keynote: AI Can Scale Infinitely But Humans Are Finite - Is This a Feature or a Bug?

Esther Dyson is a long-time techy, investor and author, and was an investor in Ezra along with LDV.   She was also an early investor in 23andMe, Avanlee Care, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, Omada Health, SpaceX, Square/Block, and many others. She wrote the widely read and translated book, “Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age” in 1996. At the Summit, she will share “visions" from her next book,  “Term Limits: Time and scale in the age of AI” (MIT Press, 2027).  She will discuss how humans can realize their unique value in a world obsessed with immortality, exponential growth, and the quantification of everything.

Check out a few articles that relate to our 12th Summit:

• Physical AI Can’t Exist Without Eyes: Why Visual Tech Is the Real Engine Behind the Machines

• Your Bathroom Will See You Now

• Beyond Human Vision: Unlocking the Invisible with Visual Technology & AI

• Visual Data is the Crux of AI & Automation for the Future of All Industries

• Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

• Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

Attendees & Speakers About Previous LDV Vision Summits

Stay tuned for a detailed agenda!