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Trust by Design: Building AI Startups People Can Trust
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, and general corporate audiences.
Khalia Padilla, CEO & Co-Founder of Startup Factory Hub and Managing Partner of Decahedron Ventures, shows how founders can build AI startups people can trust. The session covers trustworthy AI, governing AI agents, and building startups with AI. Participants leave with a clear, practical approach to trustworthy AI they can apply in their own work.
- A practical approach to building AI startups people can trust
- How to design trustworthy AI into a product from the start
- What founders should govern before AI agents ship
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Governing AI Agents Before They Ship
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, and general corporate audiences.
Khalia Padilla, CEO & Co-Founder of Startup Factory Hub and Managing Partner of Decahedron Ventures, explains how to govern AI agents before they ship. Drawing on her work building AI startups and investing in AI, software and SaaS at pre-seed and seed, she covers trustworthy AI and the controls founders need. Participants leave with practical steps to govern AI agents in their own organizations.
- What to govern before AI agents ship
- How to keep humans in charge of AI agents
- Practical checks for trustworthy AI agents
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Building Startups With AI Agents — Where Humans Must Stay in Charge
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, and general corporate audiences.
Khalia Padilla, CEO & Co-Founder of Startup Factory Hub and Managing Partner of Decahedron Ventures, shows how founders can build startups with AI agents — and where humans must stay in charge. She draws on building an AI-powered venture builder and accelerator platform and investing in AI, software and SaaS at pre-seed and seed. Participants leave with a practical approach to using AI agents while keeping human judgment in charge.
- How to build startups with AI agents
- Where humans must stay in charge
- Practical steps for founders using AI agents
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Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: None.
About Khalia
Khalia Padilla is CEO & Co-Founder of Startup Factory Hub, an AI-powered venture builder and accelerator platform with 270+ users live, 50+ strategic partners, and a feature at Nasdaq Tower in Times Square (twice in 2025). She is Managing Partner of Decahedron Ventures alongside Ricardo Font, investing in AI, software and SaaS at pre-seed and seed, and a technical founder who writes code. She speaks on trustworthy AI, governing AI agents, building startups with AI, and women building in AI.
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