Pankaj Kedia

As a tech intrapreneur, Pankaj played leadership roles in founding, incubating and growing a series of new personal computing businesses at Intel and Qualcomm over the last 3 decades. He is credited for driving the growth of the Internet with laptop PCs, establishing mobile Internet with smartphones, and capitalizing on cloud expansion with IOT and wearable devices. Having lived through these technology revolutions – Internet, Mobile, and Cloud – Pankaj is now shaping and accelerating AI explosion as an investor, entrepreneur, educator, advisor, and thought-leader. As a renowned global tech executive, Pankaj is bringing the benefits of AI to society-at-large and is focused at the intersection of AI and high-growth verticals such as healthcare, wellness, industrials, consumer, finance, and energy. As the Founder and Managing Partner of 2468 Ventures, he has directly invested in 125+ early-stage and Series A startups, is a partner at multiple VC firms and angel groups where he chairs the AI committees, teaches AI to MBA students at the University of San Diego, sits on multiple public, private, and non-profit boards of AI companies, and is a sought-after CXO advisor around AI and technology topics. He is a lifelong learner with degrees from the University of Michigan, Wharton, Stanford, and IIT Roorkee. Pankaj lives in La Jolla, has worked in 25+ countries across 4 continents, has traveled to 100+ countries as a global citizen, and is committed to making San Diego a beacon of AI innovation.