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Founder, Culineer

Jodi Frank is the founder of Culineer, an AI-powered platform transforming how people discover and enjoy locally produced fresh food. Culineer personalizes the local food experience—helping consumers find, cook, and connect with food grown close to home - much like Spotify personalizes music, AllTrails curates hiking, and and Airbnb reshaped travel.

With deep and wide experience in sales, marketing, and business strategy across industries ranging from healthcare and consumer goods to technology and startups, Jodi brings a rare blend of business acumen and creative innovation to her work. In addition to her entrepreneurial leadership, she has taught business and marketing at HACC and Penn State University, and holds an MBA from Penn State.

Jodi's mission-driven approach to AI focuses on practical applications that amplify human connection, improve efficiency, and drive meaningful impact at the systems level.

Using AI to Reduce Development Costs

Discover how the Culineer team integrates AI tools to accelerate product development, automate communication, and efficiently deliver value to grassroots food communities.

Creating Intelligent Agents to Enhance Customer Experience

See how Culineer uses AI agents to strengthen connections between farmers and home cooks, elevating engagement and bringing the farm-to-table experience to life.

Brandon Teller

Founder, Bindr & ColdStart

Brandon Teller is a seasoned technology founder and technical lead behind Bindr, the inclusive dating app, and ColdStart, an AI-powered content generation and LLM ranking startup. Brandon specializes in solving the "cold start" challenge for companies, using advanced AI-driven strategies to rapidly create, tailor, and optimize content for today's AI-powered discovery platforms.

With over a decade of experience scaling digital ventures, he's helped launch and grow communities from scratch, earning national recognition for innovation in AI content and user acquisition.

AI only ranks relevant content, SEO as we know it is dead

Brandon will demonstrate practical approaches for building AIO (AI-optimized) targeted content that perform well in conversational AI and search ecosystems. Drawing from ColdStart and Bindr, he'll share actionable insights on adapting your content for improved visibility, organic growth, and user engagement in the age of AI-driven discovery and the importance of being everywhere that your customers are asking for your product or services.

Bryan Speece

Founder, Vamp & CEO, Speece Technologies

Bryan Speece is the founder of Vamp and CEO of Speece Technologies, a growing software development and integration firm. He is a Founder Institute alum with nearly two decades of industry experience. As a committed tech and startup community member, Bryan has a passion for developing innovative technology solutions.

Vamp: AI-Driven Research Interviews

Bryan Speece will present Vamp, a web application for conducting AI-driven research interviews. Vamp AI — built with Amazon Bedrock and OpenAI's Whisper — is guided by standardized research procedures and guardrails to conduct interviews like a PhD-level qualitative researcher. With minimal prompting, Vamp's AI can conduct an interview about virtually anything. Use Vamp for customer intelligence, employee outreach, academic research, and more.

Ken Richard

Engineering Leader, Okaya

Ken Richard is the Head of Engineering at Okaya, a startup using AI to help high-stakes professionals—like pilots, firefighters, and healthcare workers—monitor and improve mental readiness. With over a decade of experience leading software and product teams, Ken has guided organizations through digital transformations, from EdTech to live streaming to AI-driven wellness platforms. He's passionate about bridging the gap between technical innovation and human trust, and about building products that are both responsible and impactful.

AI to Improve Mental Readiness for High-Impact Careers

AI can help professionals in high-stakes roles—like pilots, firefighters, and healthcare workers—better understand and manage their mental readiness. In this talk, Ken Richard shares how his team at Okaya built and validated a custom model for mental-health insights, balancing technical design with trust, guardrails, and human oversight. The session highlights what it takes to move AI from concept to real-world use in sensitive, high-impact environments.

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