AI in Practice | Building The Future

Los Angeles

Santa Monica, CA

Wednesday, November 18

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

WithCoverage

Host

Speakers

Zach Rash

Co-Founder & CEO @ Coco Robotics

Adam Goldston

Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ APL

Ryan Goldston

Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ APL

Dennis Cho

CLO & Corporate Secretary @ Twist Bioscience

Space is limited. RSVP is required.

Join a curated group of 75+ CEOs, founders, executives, and investors from across Los Angeles for a private dinner on how AI is changing the way companies build, operate, and scale. The group spans industries, from robotics and autonomy to consumer brands, life sciences, and beyond. We’ll hear how operators are putting AI to work and how investors are rethinking where value is being created.

Evening Agenda:

6:30–7:00 PM | Welcome Reception
7:00 PM onward | Speaker Spotlights + Seated dinner - We’ll hear founder perspectives from Zach Rash, CEO of Coco Robotics, Adam & Ryan Goldston, Co-Founders & Co-CEOs of APL, alongside other leaders across robotics, autonomy, advanced manufacturing, and physical AI.

Attendees: 75+ senior founders, operators, and investors. We’ll share the RSVP list ahead of time so you can see who’s joining and let us know who you’d especially like to meet or sit with.

Space is limited. RSVP required.

Speakers

Zach Rash

Zach Rash is the CEO and co-founder of Coco Robotics, a company advancing both human-operated and autonomous delivery vehicles designed to transport meals, groceries, and everyday goods in urban settings. Coco’s system utilizes robotic units overseen by human operators to efficiently manage last-mile deliveries across cities. Zach and his co-founder, Brad Squicciarini, began developing the concept and early prototypes of Coco while they were undergraduate students at UCLA. Since then, the company has become a leading force in the transformation of local delivery through robotics and intelligent logistics.

Adam Goldston

Adam Goldston is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of APL (Athletic Propulsion Labs), the Los Angeles brand that combines luxury and performance footwear. He and his twin brother, Ryan, founded APL in 2009 at age 22. Its first shoe, the Concept 1 with patented Load ‘N Launch technology, became the first shoe the NBA banned for giving players an “undue competitive advantage.” Today APL is carried at more than 300 luxury retailers, including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks, Net-A-Porter and Selfridges. A former basketball and football player at USC, Adam has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and WWD 40 Under 40. He and Ryan were also the first athletic brand founders inducted into the CFDA.

Ryan Goldston

Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ APL

Ryan Goldston

Ryan Goldston is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of APL (Athletic Propulsion Labs), the Los Angeles footwear brand that combines performance technology with luxury design. He and his twin brother, Adam, started the company in 2009, drawing on their years as two-sport athletes at USC. APL’s first shoe, the Concept 1, made headlines when the NBA banned it for giving players an “undue competitive advantage.” Since then, Ryan has helped expand APL into running, training and lifestyle footwear sold at more than 300 luxury retailers worldwide, with partners including American Airlines, F45 and Williams Racing. His honors include Forbes 30 Under 30 and WWD 40 Under 40, and he was inducted into the CFDA.

Dennis Cho

Dennis Cho is a seasoned in-house business attorney with a proven track record of agile strategic guidance and practical problem solving. Prior to Twist, he served as assistant general counsel at CytomX Therapeutics, where he was department head for all deals and contracts as well as day-to-day lead on compliance and numerous other legal subject matters. Prior to CytomX, Mr. Cho was the lead transactional attorney on antibody-related licenses and collaborations, major commercial agreements, and combination trials at Seattle Genetics. Before that, he spent nine years at Celgene as the lead West Coast attorney supervising over 100 business transactions, including in- and out- licenses, options, collaborations and M&A agreements, and held primary legal responsibility for Celgene's alliances, equity investments and "big data" machine learning initiative. Prior to Celgene, Mr. Cho served as general counsel for four private and public companies. He earned his J.D. and a B.A. in Molecular Cell Biology (Genetics) from University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel Farahi

Daniel Farahi is a real estate developer and venture investor with deep roots in hospitality and gaming. He served as Director of Development at Monarch Casino & Resort. Monarch Casino & Resort, Inc. is a publicly traded regional gaming company operating two major casino-resort properties in the United States, alongside a workforce of approximately 2,740 employees and a trailing 12-month revenue of over $562 million. Today Daniel invests across commercial real estate and venture capital, including as a venture partner at Timber Grove Ventures, backing companies that bring technology and AI to legacy industries.

Max Brenner

Max is the Co-founder & CEO of WithCoverage, a modern insurance and risk platform backed by Sequoia and Khosla Ventures ($42M+ raised). Previously he disrupted the financial advisory industry and built Compound into a $3B+ AUM digital family office platform.

What To Expect From The Evening

Invite-only group of experienced leaders

75+ CEOs, founders, executives, and investors using AI to build, operate, and scale across industries

Operator-led perspectives

Brief, practical insights from executives currently deploying AI—focused on where they’re seeing real impact, what’s working, and where they’re investing

Curated seating & targeted connections

Attendees will receive the RSVP list ahead of the event and can indicate who they’d like to meet. Dinner tables are intentionally curated to facilitate relevant, peer-level conversations

Grounded, real-world focus

Discussion centered on how AI is being applied across operationally complex, asset-heavy businesses—not abstract use cases or early-stage experimentation

Have Questions?

The Circle is an invite-only community of founders, operators, and investors, hosted by WithCoverage. We bring together small groups of leaders throughout the year for curated dinners at top restaurants across the U.S. There’s no membership fee or formal commitment - just the opportunity to join future gatherings and connect with peers you’d value most. In addition to the core community, we host both focused groups (e.g., consumer, hospitality, tech, investor) and broader gatherings - like AI in Practice - to bring together leaders navigating shared themes across industries.

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