AI for Business Panel: Starting Your AI Startup
AI startups are no longer just being built by venture-backed teams in Silicon Valley. Founders, consultants, small business owners, and local builders are now using AI tools to test ideas, prototype products, automate services, and launch new companies faster than ever.
Join us at Roseville Venture Lab for a practical panel discussion on Starting Your AI Startup, part of the AI for Business series. This session will feature entrepreneurs and business leaders discussing how founders can identify real AI opportunities, validate ideas, build early prototypes, and avoid common mistakes when launching an AI-enabled business. The panelist include Strived Co-founder, Shweta Gandhi, Humaxa Co-founder Carolyn Peer, and Core Envision Founder Mauro Sica.
The free monthly AI for Business series is supported by the City of Roseville. Food and beverages are provided.
Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 PM — Networking, food, and beverages
6:30 – 7:30 PM — Panel discussion
7:30 – 8:00 PM — Audience Q&A + startup idea wrap-up
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Roseville Venture Lab, 316 Vernon Street, Ste #110
Cost: Free
Registration: Eventbrite
The Panelists
About Shweta Gandhi
Shweta Gandhi is currently the CEO and co-founder of Strived; an academic data platform aiming to augment teacher decision making through the use of AI and is a serial entrepreneur. Previously, she co-founded and led Jetpacked, an edtech data aggregation platform designed to boost edtech product usage fidelity and efficacy for students, teachers, and parents.
Additionally, Shweta managed teams of over 100 people at AT&T, a Fortune 10 company, and founded a nonprofit in India that provided assessment-based scholarships to high-school students.
About Carolyn Peer
Carolyn Peer (CEO and Cofounder of Humaxa) is an award-winning Human Capital Management industry leader with an MA in Instructional Technology and a BA in Cognitive Neuroscience. Carolyn started her career as the Lead Instructional Designer at an early stage startup called ProBusiness. ProBusiness was acquired by ADP in 2003. Carolyn left ADP in 2017 to join forces with two associates and to found Humaxa, a Generative AI platform that that pulls data from internal and external sources and provides immediate insights.
About Mauro Sica
Mauro Sica is a passionate and innovative professional with a degree in Architecture and more than a decade of experience in the construction industry. He is known for exceptional problem-solving skills and specializes in driving advancements that improve traditional building practices. His work has focused on developing cost-effective prefabrication systems that enable projects to be completed significantly faster and at a fraction of the cost of both traditional construction and conventional prefabrication methods. He is dedicated to raising industry standards through solutions that balance efficiency, sustainability, and design excellence.
About the Roseville Venture Lab
The Roseville Venture Lab is open to the public and dedicated to strengthening local startup businesses, spurring job growth, and fostering a community of entrepreneurs through programs, events, partnerships, workforce development, and coworking space. For more information vist them at roseville.ca.us/VentureLab.