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Learn from the people actually building. These masterclasses give you practical frameworks used by top founders and investors to pitch with confidence, build your AI second brain, make smarter decisions, and operate at peak performance.
Practical, hands-on, and built for execution.

In this masterclass, Iwo Szapar will explore how founders can build their own AI Second Brain, a system that turns AI into a long-term thinking and productivity partner. Instead of starting every prompt from scratch, entrepreneurs will learn how to structure knowledge, automate workflows, and create AI-powered systems that support decision-making, creativity, and execution.

This session is not open to general registration. Access is by invitation or with a special pass.

In this masterclass, we will explore how AI is reshaping the way brands are discovered, built and experienced. Participants will learn how artificial intelligence can help identify new consumer insights, accelerate creative processes, test brand ideas faster and design more relevant experiences across every touchpoint. The session will show how AI is becoming a practical tool for brand strategy, creativity and experimentation, helping teams move from intuition to smarter, faster and more adaptive decision-making.

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Hack the fundraising game into your own with behavioural science, psychology, and the science of first impressions, replicating the real-life capital raising outreach strategies that the Top 1% of Founders used to raise millions in 2025. Recapped by founders as “extremely practical, unlike any other talks I’ve seen in my entire founder journey", this masterclass will give you access to the insider knowledge and methodology that secured investor replies in record timing as short as <20min, a reply from a Partner at Sequoia Capital in <2h, a reply from Mark Cuban in a day, and a 100% response rate on emails sent to 8 individual VC Partners within 4h of hitting ‘Send’.

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Before becoming a venture capitalist, Hian Goh built and sold the entertainment network Asian Food Channel to Scripps Networks Interactive. Now Co-Founder of Openspace Ventures, he has seen thousands of startup pitches from the investor side. In this masterclass, he’ll show founders how to use storytelling, clarity, and stage presence to captivate investors and pitch their vision like a rockstar.

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This masterclass explores how artificial intelligence is redefining peak performance for leaders, teams, and experienced professionals. Participants will learn how to use AI as a cognitive partner, not just to work faster, but to work better, stay sharper, increase creative output, and remain effective for longer. At every stage of a career, AI can help compensate for what slows down while amplifying what grows stronger with experience: judgment, pattern recognition, perspective, and strategic thinking. This session introduces the Ageless Peak Performance framework and shows how leaders and executives can apply it to themselves first, then bring it back to their teams to build more resilient, adaptive, AI-augmented organizations.

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A practical, interactive session showing how leaders can use AI to accelerate research and stress‑test strategic decisions, while improving judgment in high‑uncertainty environments. We use real case studies from social enterprises operating under extreme constraints (especially early deployment stages, where funding is limited but impact is mission‑critical).

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The leap from founder to leader is one of the most underestimated challenges in business. In this masterclass, organizational psychologist and executive coach Garret Kilmer breaks down the top 5 mistakes entrepreneurs make when their company starts needing a leader more than a visionary. This session blends real cases and research to deliver practical, honest insight for founders ready to level up.

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Building a business shouldn't cost your well-being. This masterclass explores how entrepreneurs can cultivate resilience without burnout—through intentional habits, emotional awareness, and sustainable performance practices. Participants will learn tools to navigate uncertainty, recover from setbacks, and lead with clarity and energy, all while protecting their mental and physical health.

This session is not open to general registration. Access is by invitation or with a special pass.