The Marketing Team of One | The Future of AI Marketing
About this Event
Join San Diego founders, small business owners, attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, and marketers for an evening on the future of AI marketing. Three 15-minute talks cover AI-powered video content, AI "employees" for content and lead generation, and adopting AI responsibly in a small business — followed by open Q&A and networking at Venture X Scripps Ranch.
Practical details block (add near the bottom — Eventbrite audiences expect it):
- 📍 Venture X San Diego – Scripps Ranch, 10089 Willow Creek Rd, Suite 200
- 🅿️ Free parking on site · Doors 5:30 PM, talks start 6:00 sharp
- 🍕 Food & drinks provided
- 🎟️ Limited seats — going fast
Tags: AI, Marketing, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Startups, San Diego, Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Content Marketing, Video Marketing, Professional Services, Legal Marketing
If you run a small business, you're already in a marketing arms race — whether you signed up for it or not.
Your next client researches you online before they ever call, and your competitors are raising their marketing budgets this year. Meanwhile, the tools have changed what one person can do: 58% of small businesses used generative AI last year, and the ones running AI-native operations are pulling ahead fast.
Marketing used to take a team you don't have. One evening, three operators, and the AI playbook that lets one person do the publishing, the outreach, and the follow-up — consistently, without burning nights on it.
The evening:
- 5:30 — Doors, drinks & networking
- 6:00 — Welcome
- 6:10 — Your AI content team — Saad Durrani
- 6:30 — Your first AI hires — Jesus Malo
- 6:50 — AI without the overwhelm — Hilda Soto
- 7:10 — Open Q&A with all three speakers
- 7:30 — Networking & live demos until 8:30
Speakers:
Saad Durrani — Founder, HyperWav · CEO, HyperGrowth · Ex-Uber. Saad has spent a decade inside the marketing machine: AdTech and MarTech at Dentsu and Index Exchange (revenue optimization for 140+ publishers across 11 countries), then Uber, where he built the global business intelligence function for Uber Ads — a $1B+ advertising business. Today he runs HyperGrowth, San Diego's AI product & automation studio, leads the Applied AI Association's SD chapter (200+ members), and is building HyperWav.
Jesus Malo — CMO, Marblism (YC). Jesus leads end-to-end marketing at Marblism as a founding marketing leader alongside the CEO — owning strategy, execution, and scale across brand, growth, and revenue, with full accountability for outcomes, not just activities. He manages $4–5M+ in annual marketing spend across paid media, lifecycle, outbound, affiliates, partnerships, content, and product-led growth, focused on building repeatable acquisition engines and turning signal into momentum, fast.
Hilda Soto — Peaceful AI Solutions · Ex-Mozilla. Hilda helps small businesses adopt AI the right way: what to automate first, how to keep customer trust, and how to avoid the expensive false starts.
Who should come: solo founders, startup teams, attorneys, CPAs, financial advisors, consultants, realtors, and small firm owners. If your expertise is the product and your time is the constraint, this evening was designed for you.
Limited seats — going fast. Food & drinks provided. Free parking on site.
Presented by HyperGrowth · HyperWav · Peaceful AI Solutions
Agenda
🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Doors, Drinks and Networking
🕑: 06:00 PM
Welcome
🕑: 06:30 PM
Dominating Short Form Video | Your AI Content Team
🕑: 07:00 PM
Your first AI hires
🕑: 07:30 PM
Networking and Live Demos
Where is it happening?
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