We brought together builders, founders, educators, and AI experts from around the world to Greenville, South Carolina. We heard from industry experts like Stripe and Google, business leaders in agencies and schools, and the Chipp team. We launched new features...and ate lots of barbeque.
The barbeque isn't on video but the rest is!
Catch up on all the highlights below 👇🏻
Creator Power. Structural Support. AI ENABLED.
by Alfredo Narez, The PMF Academy
Alfredo Narez, founder of PMF Academy, shows how AI can turn anyone into an unstoppable creator. He demonstrates how his AI agents work like IP attorneys and business advisors, shares how he went from begging for LinkedIn likes to top 4% in the world in 90 days, and introduces Eva, an AI travel assistant.
AI Agency
by Scott Meyer, Chipp
We were thrilled to launch five new features in the Chipp Builder as we shared that we are in the year of agency. We have the power to take action if we are bold enough to take the first step. See the new features in this keynote.
Usage-Based Billing
by Kimberly Hou & Nick Dowse, Stripe
Why does a $20 monthly subscription stop making sense when one user costs you $1 in AI usage and another costs you $100? Kimberly and Nick from Stripe's Experimental Projects team explain how LLMs fundamentally changed software pricing and walk through their solution: token billing that lets you set up usage-based pricing in 5 minutes. They demo how Chipp integrated it to give users complete transparency on what each query costs.
Google's Vertex AI Platform Partnership with Chipp
by Jen Diffenderfer, Google
Jen Diffenderfer from Google explains how the Vertex AI platform powers Chipp's infrastructure, giving builders access to scalable, flexible AI with zero data retention. She shares how Google's Veo created NBA Finals commercials for $2,000 in 2-3 days and addresses the constant pressure founders face to innovate and keep up. Her talk covers the three pillars for choosing a technology partner: scale, choice and flexibility, and building on trust with full control over your data.
Global AI Intelligence Hub for Modern Businesses
by Amit Vyas & Andrew Thomas, NEXA AI Lab
Amit Vyas and Andrew Thomas run the NEXA AI Lab in Dubai, where they're using Chipp to replace hotel booking forms with WhatsApp conversations. After just 3 weeks live with Rove Hotel, they've seen 1,000 chats, 20 bookings, and $12,000 in revenue with 6-second response times. They're applying the same conversational approach to travel insurance quotes and e-commerce, proving that nobody wants to fill out forms anymore - they just want to have a conversation and get what they need.
Owning Your AI
by Don Barger, International Mission Board
Don Barger is the Director of Innovation and AI at the International Mission Board, where he's built hundreds of AI chatbots including Faithbo, a tool with nearly 200,000 users across 35+ languages. He monitors sensitive conversations in real-time to ensure ethical AI responses and created a system that replaces education's worst busy work with AI tutors that won't let students finish until they prove they actually did the readings. His students prefer chatting with AI over writing 500-word responses, and he's offering to help educators set up similar systems for free.
AI Tutor for Engineering
by David Grewell, NIU
David Grewell is the Dean of Engineering at Northern Illinois University, where only 40% of students graduate with engineering degrees, mostly because of calculus. He partnered with Scott to build an AI tutor that behaves like a human tutor, asking questions and encouraging students instead of just giving answers, with 84% accuracy compared to 80% for human tutors. His goal is to use AI to increase the graduation rate from 40% to 70%, and he demonstrates the tutor live by walking through a calculus limit problem step-by-step.
From Grocery Lists to Strategy
by Justin Ahrens & Sarah Ahrens, Rule29 and (Re)Genesis
What happens when a CEO meets an "AI resistor" who just wants help with grocery shopping? Justin and Sarah Ahrens share their honest journey of integrating AI into their 30-year marriage, 25-year creative agency, and chaotic family life. They increased their agency efficiency by 40%, turned proposals from 3-day projects into 3-hour wins, and built a side hustle helping small businesses - starting with real pain points instead of chasing tech trends.
Leading in the Age of AI
by Bob Gower, rippleIQ
Bob Gower spent years blasting angry emails to newsrooms, convinced he was making things better until he realized people hated him and nothing improved. Twenty years of organization design work later, he's figured out why most AI implementations fail: they're adding automation to broken systems, which just amplifies the problems. He shares the neuroscience of decision-making, introduces the Dutch healthcare company that destroyed efficiency metrics by giving nurses complete control, and demos rippleIQ.
Agents Need to Talk
by Lia Passaglia & Christopher Penny
Lia Passaglia and Christopher Penny are AI specialists with Google who introduced Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A) - an open-source standard for how AI agents communicate with each other. Instead of building one all-knowing agent, A2A lets you plug in specialized agents that are really good at specific tasks, creating an "agent mesh" where agents discover each other, share what they can do, and collaborate.
Google developed it, open-sourced it, and donated it to the Linux Foundation to create interoperability between different agents and turn isolated agents into Lego pieces that plug into any A2A system.
AI for Development: A Hands-on Tutorial
by Hunter Hodnett
Hunter Hodnett is Chipp's CTO who runs three laptops at once, each with its own AI coding agent, to build features in parallel with a four-person team. He breaks down big features into smaller steps and creates summary documents that he feeds to the AI one step at a time, keeping things focused so the AI doesn't get overwhelmed. This is how Chipp ships so much with such a small team - they took bigger risks on AI development because they're fighting to survive in the market every day.
Transforming Art Education
by Detria Graham
Detria Graham is an elementary art teacher in South Carolina using Chipp AI to manage lesson planning, gifted and talented testing, and parent communication for her second graders. She creates art lessons in the style of famous artists, builds literacy skills, and keeps everything organized in one place, which helped her win a grant from the American Folklore Society. Her work shows how educators can use AI to spend less time on paperwork and more time actually teaching.
The Origin of the Chipp HQ
by Valentina Valverde
Valentina Valverde is Chipp's UI designer who built the HQ feature from front to back and refactored it twice as user needs evolved. What started as a simple way to display apps became a full marketplace where builders can share publicly, control workspace access, and monetize app bundles with Stripe. She walks through the complexity hiding behind the feature and demos how HQ works across different access modes.
From AI Bot to Investment Call in 24 Hours
by Vinay Gupta
Vinay Gupta created a Palmer Luckey bot by feeding 10 hours of interviews into Chipp, which his friend used to get a defense tech investment deal in front of one of the world's hottest founders all within 24 hours. His talk shows the real text thread and proves that AI doesn't pull people apart when you focus on building solutions for real problems and people.
Homebuilt Aircraft - Building the RV14
by Andrew Poland, Chipp
Andrew Poland is Chipp's backend engineer who spends his weekends building an RV-14 airplane in his 1940s one-car garage. He walks through the process of turning 250-pound crates of sheet metal and 800 pages of CAD plans into a high-performance aircraft that goes 200 miles an hour - faster than any certified plane you can buy at this price point.