Online Event
How to Turn an AI Career Shift Into Your Own Company
Turn years of industry experience into an AI company, even if your role is changing under you.
Date
Oct 01, 2026
Time
12:00 am - 01:00 am
Address
Online Event
AI is changing what a lot of experienced professionals do all day. Some roles are shrinking, others are being redesigned, and many people are waiting to see where they will land.
This session looks at another option: using the years you spent in your industry to start a company. Jonathan Greechan, Co-Founder and CIO of the Founder Institute, shows which problems AI makes solvable for the first time, how people with no startup background turned that knowledge into a first product, and what to test before you change anything.
Register now and bring the problem you know best.
What You'll Learn:
- Which problems in your industry AI makes solvable today that were too expensive to fix two years ago;
- How to turn the issues you see at work every week into a startup idea worth testing;
- What professionals without a startup background did in their first months as founders;
- How to test demand for an idea before you change anything about your job;
- What to do in the week after the session to take a first step.
Featured Speaker:
- Jonathan Greechan - Co-Founder & CIO @ Founder Institute: Jonathan Greechan is the Co-Founder, Chief Innovation Officer, and former CEO of the Founder Institute, the world's largest agentic company builder. Since 2009, he has grown and scaled the organization to chapters in over 200 cities and over 100 countries, which have produced over 9,000 portfolio companies with nearly $2BN with an estimated value of $20BN. He also serves as an Advisor to Oxford Entrepreneurs (Oxford University), Horasis, and the USC Incubator (University of Southern California).
Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with 5 to 15 years in one industry whose role is changing because of AI;
- People who were recently laid off or expect their role to change soon;
- Domain experts who have been saying they will start something someday;
- Career changers weighing a startup against the next job.
Additional Resources: For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in San Francisco, see our list of Startup Resources. Want to check whether your idea holds up? Try our AI Skills for founders for idea validation and go-to-market plans. Looking for more sessions like this one? Browse upcoming Startup Events.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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