Sponsors & Partners

The Imagining Summit would not be possible without the support of the Artificiality community. We are especially grateful for the support we have received from our Sponsors and Partners.

Sponsors

We are thrilled to be supported by our hometown university, OSU-Cascades, and two exciting AI startups, Bast and Wiqi.ai. OSU-Cascades extends the academic and research excellence of OSU to Central Oregon, providing a vibrant university with a growth plan of supporting 5,000 students. The Bast platform empowers businesses to create accurate, transparent, and explainable AI. And we will all learn more about the stealth-stage Wiqi.ai at The Imagining Summit.

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Oregon State University was founded more than 150 years ago as a land grant institution, building on the idea that everybody deserves access to education. When it opened in 2016, the OSU-Cascades campus fulfilled a 30-year quest for higher education in what had been the largest region in the state without a four-year university. Bend and Central Oregon form Oregon’s fastest growing region and one of its most vibrant economies. Yet the region lags behind the rest of Oregon in higher educational attainment. We are growing for Central Oregon and beyond.

At Bast, we designed an innovative explainable AI (xAI) engine that transfers and keeps knowledge within a company's unique culture and context. Our vision is to build trust in every digital interaction and insight, empowering businesses to create their own explainable AI. Our platform enables organizations and developers to leverage proprietary and other trusted data to build and deploy explainable artificial intelligence.

Partners

We are especially grateful for the support we've received from our partners. Extending our multi-year partnership, The House of Beautiful Business is our guiding light for amazing events and community. Founded by friends we've known for nearly 30 years, DXM is delivering an exciting art project to The Imagining Summit which leverages the company's AI-powered design service. And the Bend Entrepreneur Lab is building a new community for startup founders in Bend.

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The House is the global network for the life-centered economy, and connects over 50,000 professionals who want to get more out of business and out of life. Community-powered, thought leadership-driven, and experience-based, we bring together business leaders, innovators, technology experts, strategists, communication specialists, artists, scientists, and activists with the mission to create a new kind of business that is more purposeful, inclusive, and sustainable. Through consulting projects, thought leadership content, and transformative experiences, we inspire and equip organizations and individuals to shape an economy that honors all forms of life and living systems.

DXM is the first generative AI platform for creative design. DXM’s platform enables our customers to produce world-class quality media (images, animations, videos, copywriting, mood boards, mock-ups, product ideation, etc.) in a matter of hours and days vs months or even years. We demonstrate the value of creating consistent generative assets for brands, from startup to enterprise. We provide everything your business needs to generate mind-blowing, on-brand creative today and stay up to date going forward.

The Bend Entrepreneur Lab (BEL) is a new initiative providing direct support to early-stage tech entrepreneurs in Central Oregon from inception to the close of a successful seed round. With the recent influx of tech talent and private capital into Central Oregon, BEL contributes to the development of a vibrant tech-enabled ecosystem by offering a wide range of tailored services to each entrepreneur, enabling them to move at startup speed, avoid common pitfalls, and accelerate market success. Our vision is to put Bend on the map as a place where aspiring tech entrepreneurs, including talent from underrepresented communities, can start & grow their tech company for the benefit of all. BEL: We act as your co-founder.