How Can Gaming Companies and Startups Leverage Generative AI for Competitive Advantage?
Channel: Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Date: 2023-05-28

Join EHF Fellows Justin Kan, Amitt Mahajan, and Riana Shah for a discussion about how to incorporate AI into startups and gaming companies in Aotearoa NZ. They will cover how to use ChatGPT+Whisper to create NPCs in a game environment; using Generative AI to create gaming assets, and AI transforming gaming workflows. The Panel will be moderated by Fellow Chris Gagne.  

Justin Kan is the Co-Founder of Fractal, a marketplace to discover, buy and sell durable game assets and NFTs; and Rye, an API to power e-commerce anywhere. Justin also co-founded Twitch, which was sold to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million.  

Amitt Mahajan is Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Presence Capital, investing in seed-stage Virtual Reality, Artificial Reality and computer vision startups. Amitt co-created MyMiniLife and FarmVille, Founded and was CEO of Toro, which was acquired by Google.  

Riana Shah works within the Technology Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. She has worked on deals such as gaming company, Unity Software’s acquisition of ironSource and fintech company, Affirm’s Public Listing. She is the Founder of ITSA (acquired), an education technology venture that redesigns schools for the 21st century. Riana was a Venture Capital Fellow at Pear Venture Capital, where she advised and sourced early-stage startups at MIT / Harvard, and was a fellow at the Harvard Innovation Lab.