Artificial Intelligence
& the New Frontier
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · Grow House, Trinity Place, Denver
The afternoon
Five practitioners. One host. Two hours on what AI is actually doing to how we work in Denver.
Session No. 03 of the Founder Series brought a full room to the fifth floor of Trinity Place for a working conversation on AI. Not a keynote. Not a hype reel. A room of founders, operators, and investors listening to five people with real deployments in the field.
Ryan Estes hosted. He runs the AI For Founders podcast, newsletter, and workshops, and he knows every builder on the panel by first name. He kept the conversation moving between what is real, what is noise, and what founders should actually do on Monday morning.
The panel covered the ground that mattered. How AI is reshaping design and culture. Where corporate strategy is bending. What voice agents, custom AI agents, and Private GPT deployments look like once they leave the demo. Where context-graph AI and Graph RAG are earning their keep in production. What it takes to build durable companies while the technology moves faster than any playbook.
The room stayed for the networking. That is the whole point of the series.
A moment from the afternoon
In the room
The host
Ryan Estes
Creator of the AI For Founders podcast, newsletter, and workshops. Co-founder of Kitcaster (acquired by Moburst in April 2025) and Wildcast.
The panel
Anthony Chavez
Founder and CEO of codelab303. Twenty years shipping custom AI, Web3, and IoT into production out of Boulder.
Jason Katz
Founder of Kindling Solutions. Built, led, and exited companies from $50M to $2B. Builds AI systems grounded in how businesses actually run.
Shawn Kercher
Co-Founder and CTO of HummingAgent AI in Denver. 13 years at Comcast Labs, 8 US patents. Voice agents, custom AI agents, and Private GPT deployments running in the wild.
Danny Newman
Denver tech entrepreneur, investor, and builder pairing AI with the preservation of iconic Denver institutions.
Owen Robertson
Principal at Data Technology & Services. Context-graph AI and Graph RAG solutions running real business workflows in production. Patented ML for patient archetypes in healthcare, years before the AI wave.
The next Founder Series is in the works.
New sessions are announced here. If you are a founder with a story to tell, we would like to hear it.