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Workplaces in the AI Era

How AI is changing the workplace as we know it - management practices, operating models, value realization, KPIs

Which jobs can we expect AI to gobble up and which jobs can we expect AI to create? 

Panel:

Ronnie Sheth - CEO Senen Group

Shay Sabhikhi - CEO ArcOne

James Beechan - CEO ALTR

Join industry leaders, innovators, and curious minds for an insightful look at the current landscape of technology.

This program will spotlight Austin’s emerging leadership in deep tech, exploring innovations that extend beyond traditional software and SaaS into fields like neurotechnology, photonics, space technology, and advanced hardware.

• Heather Brunner – Keynote Speaker

One of the positive side effects of the AI content boom is that people are craving authenticity.

This didn't just start with AI. Following spam, automated phone services, and content farms, people want a real person.

As society in general went through the loss of 3rd spaces, years of quarantine, and addiction to phones, the desire became even stronger: connect me with a human.

Then Substack goes and flags everyone that might be using AI.

Respect, Substack, it's a good intention but the wrong application.

* People will research with AI

* Language translation gets flagged as AI

* People will write with AI

And... So what? Flagging that doesn't help with what people really want. Because some people couldn't care less if what they read is from some well thought, person, who happened to use AI.

So what's a right solution?

Comments.

Notes.

Those are meant to be conversations between people (or, why bother, if it's two machined talking back and forth).

Now, you might not care... Content results in page views.... Which is revenue.

But, people care.

An Author, who writes with AI or not (if people like it), should be able to OPT IN to automatically flag any Comment written by AI.

That would be a helpful feature ❤️

Flag and even block when comments (mean to be people) are clearly just AI slop pretending to be someone.

Authenticity is this...

An author might write with AI but if people like it AND the author is present, in discussion, to meet, to connect with, to talk with, then that is authentic.

Comments that are AI are not authentic. They trigger an author to engage with what is a machine. They aren't genuine. They aren't researched. They're just a positive (or negative) conversation starter that wasn't even made by a person.

Mind you, I don't actually think much of this works or matters. But what does matter is how Substack as a company and brand signals your intentions and culture. Support authors, no matter how they create, and help filter bots on comments and notes? Or, judge authors for using every resource available, to try and make it (as long as it's really a person)?

I would ask you to consider that the first question is a far better value to hold than than second.

TEXVMS Mentors Luncheon Tickets, Tuesday, August 25  •  11:30 AM - 1:30 PM | Eventbrite

Im interesting in working with a local startup (preferably green tech or renewables based) but most resources are paywalled (Angel List, Crunchbase, etc)

What is best to use to learn more about local startups?

ATCC Austin Chapter and the Consulate General of Argentina in Houston, August 5th, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM.

The company continues to ramp up spacecraft production and recently doubled the size of its facilities in central Texas and expanded its spacecraft cleanroom to enable an assembly line of lunar landers and orbital vehicles in support of multiple missions a year to the Moon and beyond.

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Founders, investors, mentors, community leaders, and startup supporters of DivInc

Curious if it's open to the public

Our community lost one of its own today. Saddened to hear of the passing of Josh. My condolences to their family, friends, and colleagues.

Showcase your innovation, connect with leading investors and industry leaders, and join one of the premier energy venture events in the country. | Apply by Friday, July 17

Worth a look. $3MM in an Austin Startup doing Sales Operations with AI

"Venture-capital investment in Austin reached a record $7.4 bn last year ...The city is now America’s 5th-most active for VC investment, up from 10th a decade ago"

Angel / seed stage funding

The metro ranked just behind the Bay Area, New York City, Boston, London and Los Angeles. It was named the top rising star in North America.

Tauri Laws-Phillips (CEO, DivInc ), Emily Gupton (President, Austin Women in Technology), and Gabriel Rucker (Managing Director, Founder Institute Austin) for the Austin Innovation Exchange at Cabana Club; an evening of honest conversation about where this ecosystem actually is right now, where it's going, and what we keep getting wrong.

What we'll dig into:
→ The real state of Austin's startup economy (not the press-release version)
→ Where the capital is actually flowing
→ Resources founders keep missing
→ How investors, builders, and operators stop talking past each other

Come pitch us hard questions. Stay for the networking. THURSDAY, June 11, at Cabana Club (so you know we'll have some fun)

🎟️ RSVP: https://luma.com/r4bs9ii2