AMA-Style Talk with VC Investor and ML Engineer Oana Olteanu

Title: AMA-Style Talk with VC Investor and ML Engineer Oana Olteanu Date: August 19, 2026 Duration: 1HR ABSTRACT This AMA (“Ask Me Anything”)-style talk with Oana Olteanu will focus on what becomes possible when the primitives change: new interfaces, new abstractions, AI, software infrastructure, and especially the strange or unfinished things people are building before they have obvious categories. We recommend these pre-reads before attending the talk: Against Usefulness (https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness) What I Learned at the First Conference Built for Agentic AI (https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/what-i-learned-at-the-first-conference) Since AMAs are driven by questions from the audience, here are a few prompts that may help frame your questions for Oana: -What has recently become technically possible that still lacks the right interface or abstraction? -What are you building or experimenting with that doesn't quite have a category yet? -What assumption about how software works do you think we no longer need to make? -What are you seeing in your own field that feels important but isn't yet obvious? -Unfinished ideas and half-formed questions are particularly welcome. SPEAKER Oana Olteanu Founder, Motive Force