
Marcelo Chaman Mallqui
I'm Building
Canada's largest undergrad conference on AI (CUCAI) at 18 & 19.
Bio
Marcelo is a young technical builder based in Canada, who received funding from the Canada National Research Council to work on Canada's largest undergrad conference on AI, CUCAI, during his teenage years. He has served as the President of CUCAI 2024, where he played a key role in its success by expanding the Student Partner program and bringing international students to the event. Previously, Marcelo shared insights into AI systems, including writing about ChatGPT, and has been involved in various roles such as being a founding design engineer at Gumloop and the founder of Intuitive Labs.",.
Milestones
Founding design engineer at Gumloop (YC25, 20M raised @ >100M val)
Bootstrapped venture studio with his brother, clients sold to PE & raised millions
Ran canada's largest student ai conference and ai consultancy
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