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<Title>Talk: Using AI to Launch and Scale Your Startup</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Starting a new venture is hard work! Have you wondered how AI can help you launch your startup? Modern advances in AI have produced tools and technologies that can make you smarter, faster, and more innovative.</div><div><br></div><div>UMBC CSEE Professor <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-ai/posts/156321/a6c/1b9cbd479c62dc53ad8131ceba175020/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.csee.umbc.edu%2Fnews-events%2Fpost%2F20080%2F" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Tim Oates</strong></a> will explore several ways that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be used as force multipliers in startups, from ideation to marketing to customer acquisition and more. Hear about the lessons Dr. Oates learned while using AI to scale his own data science company, <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-ai/posts/156321/a6c/4df628a3f16452420ee81dc8dac68f8b/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.synaptiq.ai%2F" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Synaptiq</strong></a>.</div><div><br></div><div>The talk will be held from 12-1pm on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 on the third floor of the UMBC University Center in the Ballroom Lounge.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p>Sponsored by the <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-ai/posts/156321/a6c/0624e8c306e8b4772c4d2395da8ab95f/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fentrepreneurship.umbc.edu%2F" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation</a>.</p> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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