Richard Socher
Richard is the Managing Partner and Founder of AIX Ventures and CEO/Founder of you.com. Richard previously served as the Chief Scientist and EVP at Salesforce, where he lead teams working on fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, search, customer service automation and a cross-product AI platform for unstructured and structured data. Before that, Richard was the CEO/CTO of AI startup MetaMind, acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Richard received his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University in 2014 and later served as an adjunct professor in the CS department at Stanford. Outside of work, Richard enjoys paramotor adventures and photography.
AIX Ventures and You.com
Senior Leadership AIxBioPharma Luncheon - Inflection Points: Lessons from Computing and Cloud to Catalyze AI in Bio
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This is an invite-only exclusive luncheon with senior leaders at the forefront of AI and BioPharma to explore how decades of progress in computational technologies can inform the next wave of breakthroughs in biology. Featuring insights from Sandy Pentland (MIT), Richard Socher (You.com, ex-Chief Scientist at Salesforce), Ola Wlodek (Constructive Bio), and Simon Kohl (Latent Labs) this conversation will examine the strategic parallels between past inflection points in computing and today’s rapidly evolving AI-driven biological revolution. From data infrastructure to predictive modeling and decision-making under uncertainty, what can we learn—and what must we do differently—as we chart the future of biology.
