From AI to Access: Where Builders Get Better Together

The more powerful AI gets, the thinner the line between innovation and exposure. Every new tool creates two opportunities: one to build, another to exploit.

That’s why the smartest founders right now aren’t just racing to adopt AI. They’re learning how to build safely, lead ethically, and stay ahead of risks most people don’t see yet.

This month’s conversations go deep into that tension: where ambition meets responsibility.

TL;DR: What’s worth your time

• Must join: AI Product Salon at UXReactor

• For aspiring VCs: Break into Venture Capital | Ongoing online and in-person

• Focused frontiers: AI Privacy Forum | ‘Experiment like your life depends on it’ with Prof. David Reiley

• For builders & operators: Apply for the Accelerator 2026 Batch | Join the Charter Circle | Share your expertise at upcoming events

AI Product Salon at UXReactor

Theme: “Protecting Your Identity, Your Money & Your Privacy”
Friday, November 14 | 5:00–7:00 PM PDT | UXReactor, CA
Limited seats left: Sign up here

Every click, login, and transaction is now part of a global AI system: powerful, efficient, and increasingly vulnerable.

At this AI Product Salon,  Jocelyn King, the Queen of Online Safety, the CEO of Smarter Online Safety and Top 10 Woman in Cybersecurity — breaks down how founders and product leaders can stay one step ahead of the next generation of AI-powered threats.

Expect practical takeaways and candid discussions:

• Learn how to protect your money, data, and identity from AI-driven scams.

• Get hands-on frameworks from Jocelyn’s SAFER Method: Stop, Assess, Focus, Execute, Reinforce.

• Understand how to design trust and security into your systems.

• Connect with peers who are building with both speed and responsibility.

If you’re building anything online, you’re building on risk.

This session is about how to do it smarter. Sign up here.

For aspiring investors: Break into Venture Capital

These sessions with Mala Ramakrishnan are for people who’ve been operators and founders and now want to learn how to invest in them.

Upcoming:

Focused frontiers: Where deep work happens

Not everything meaningful happens in public. Progress often starts in smaller circles: people sharing frameworks, swapping notes, and solving hard problems together.

A few to mark your calendar for:

Shape, Share, Scale with our AI Community

• For Founders: Apply to the next batch of our Accelerator, starting early 2026, for mentorship, seed funding access, and $50K+ in credits.

• For Tech Leaders: Join a vetted community (50% women representation) with year-round access to Leadership Circles, Monthly Salons, Quarterly Socials, and priority Summit invites. Waitlist now open for 2026.

• For AI Domain Experts: Share your insights at upcoming high-impact events. Apply here to speak.

Every founder wants to move faster, but the ones who last learn to move wiser. They build not just for growth, but for resilience.

That’s what these rooms are for: conversations that stretch how we think, not just what we know. If you’re building something that matters, you’ll fit right in.

See you at the next event,
The Founders Creative Team

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