Practitioners who built
what they teach.
The 2026 program runs five workshop days, and each day follows what a practitioner has taught. Some days feature two or three of them speaking together, so the work one practitioner introduces builds directly on what another covered that same day.
Stephen Punzak, MD
- Founder of One Medical Passport, a patented, cloud-based platform used by over 750 medical facilities and 3 million patients per year
- Medical degree from the University of Connecticut
- Anesthesiologist in practice for more than 20 years (Westwood, Massachusetts)
- Subspecialties: general anesthesiology and pain medicine
Stephen Punzak, MD: medical degree, University of Connecticut; anesthesiologist in practice for more than 20 years; founder of One Medical Passport, a cloud-based platform used by over 750 medical facilities and 3 million patients per year. The session covers demand testing before product build, trust acquisition in a credential-driven industry, and the distinction between a market that appears large and one that is accessible. Each team interviews target users about a specific daily problem and produces a validated problem statement that defines the venture built for the remainder of the program.
Distinguishing a validated problem from an unvalidated idea, and acquiring trust in a credential-driven industry.
Each team interviews target users about a specific daily problem and produces a validated problem statement that defines the venture built for the remainder of the program.
Alex DeAquino DaSilva, PhD
- Holds a PhD in Finance
- Began postsecondary studies at a community college
- Leadership role at a U.S. fixed-income firm
- Day-to-day work centers on financial statements, risk, and pricing
Alex DeAquino DaSilva, PhD: PhD; leadership role at a U.S. fixed-income firm; daily work in financial statements, risk, and pricing. The session covers line-by-line reading of a profit and loss statement, construction of a cash flow model from scratch, separation of one-time and recurring costs, and product pricing that preserves margin. Each team builds a working financial model for its venture using AI tooling and tests its margins against cost shocks.
Reading a profit and loss statement, constructing a cash flow model, and pricing a product to preserve margin.
Each team builds a financial model for its venture using AI tooling.
Andrew Glen Brown
- CEO of London Bradley Enterprises
- Leads a firm currently directing a nine-figure expansion into housing and real estate across the Philippines
- Background in capital structure and long-term strategy
- Designs and operates the large-scale systems organizations run inside
Andrew Glen Brown: leads a firm directing a nine-figure expansion into housing and real estate across the Philippines; background in capital structure and long-term strategy. The session covers how investors evaluate market size, team credibility, and the durability of an advantage, and the difference between operating inside an existing system and designing one. Each team reframes its pitch around investor concerns, defends its assumptions under direct questioning, and rewrites its deck in the session.
How investors actually evaluate whether an idea is worth backing, and the difference between operating inside a system someone else built and designing the system itself.
Each team's pitch is tested against investor questions and rewritten in the session.
Anthony Almeida
- Founder and CEO of CROW Vision
- Five years working with students worldwide on research, modeling, writing, and building with AI
- Currently majoring in Business and Cybersecurity
Anthony Almeida: founder and CEO of CROW Vision; five years working with students worldwide on research, modeling, writing, and building with AI; majoring in Business and Cybersecurity. The session covers precise prompting, verification of AI output, and use of Claude for market research, financial modeling, copywriting, and prototyping. Each team ships a published landing page or one-page pitch deck for its venture by the end of the day.
Using Claude for market research, financial modeling, copywriting, and prototyping.
Each team ships an actual landing page or one-page pitch deck for their venture.
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