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The New Moat: Why Subject-Matter Expertise Wins in Vertical AI

November 05, 2026 • 11:20 AM – 12:00 PM

Room 213

Moderator

Stuart MacDonald

Stuart MacDonald

Venture Capital Narrative.Fund

Panelists

Naomi Goldapple

Naomi Goldapple

Senior Vice President Data & Intelligence AlayaCare

Eugenia Kondratova

Eugenia Kondratova

Senior Technical Manager, AI Solink

Nazar Ponochevnyi

Nazar Ponochevnyi

Founder & CEO Harmix Proactive AI Manager

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Builders & Disruptors Product & Strategy

General-purpose AI is a commodity. The real edge in vertical AI isn’t the model, it’s the domain knowledge baked into how it’s built, trained, and applied. This session explores why deep subject-matter expertise, not technical differentiation, is becoming the defensible moat for AI products, and what that means for founders, product teams, and anyone building AI for a specific industry.

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