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What Should You Build Next? A Live AI Experience
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Sat, Apr 4, 2026
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM CDT (GMT-5)
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Russell Foltz-Smith has been building AI for 25 years. He helped build one of the first AI answer engines, took a data company public on NASDAQ, deployed machine learning models aboard the International Space Station, and currently leads tech at SmarterSorting and advises Ema, a women's health AI company. He's a UChicago Math alum ('99) and he's coming back to build something with you, live, in real time.
Everyone in the room will be part of the experience, simulating possible futures across careers, products, and industries using a live AI platform. This isn't a talk you sit through. It's something you do.
Whether you're in product, healthcare, AI, or just trying to figure out what's next, this is worth your Saturday.
Bring your laptop. Lunch provided with ticket.
Optional pre-read here: https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews
Co-hosted by BPMC, Booth Healthcare Club, Booth Tech Group, and AI Club
Speakers
Russ Foltz-Smith
Human Advisor to AI
https://www.linkedin.com/in/russfoltzsmith/
Russ is a leading business development, technology, and product innovator. Over a 25+ year career he has worked on internet-scale knowledge platforms delivering innovation and a few exits — from acquisitions to IPOs. His experience includes key leadership roles at SmarterSorting, TrueCar, WolframAlpha, Citysearch/IAC, Business.com, AlphaMediaGroup, and a variety of other ventures. He currently serves as Head of Tech at SmarterSorting, a 10-year-old AI data platform for retail supply chain decision making, and advises Ema, an AI company focused on women's health that won the 2025 Femtech World AI Innovation Award.
Russell actively mentors startups, was a 2024–2025 Microsoft MVP, and served as an OpenAI Developer Ambassador from 2020–2025. He was also Managing Director of the Computational Thinking Initiative in 2017.
He studied Mathematics and Theater at UChicago ('99) — his wife is a Public Policy alum ('96), and together they also happen to run a K–12 school. He currently lives in Marina Del Rey, CA, where you can find him painting, coding, writing, and watching the waves roll in. He loves to entertain audiences in ways that covertly educate them.
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Co-hosted with: Booth Healthcare Club (E/W), Booth Technology Group (E/W), Artificial Intelligence [AI] Club (E/W)