A live GenAI build. Honest founder conversations. AWS and Rapyder experts in the room. One day with WeHub for women founders ready to move from idea to execution. Friday, September 18 | Hyderabad
Every founder remembers the first time someone took their idea seriously instead of politely nodding through it.
For many women building in AI and cloud, that moment has taken longer than it should. Not because the ideas are missing, but because the right rooms have not always been open, honest, or useful.
On September 18th, Rapyder, AWS, and WeHub are building one that is all three.
Her (AI) Story is a one-day GenAI event hosted by Rapyder in collaboration with WeHub, created for founders from the WeHub portfolio, from idea-stage builders to startups already chasing customers, revenue, and funding.
No recycled panel talk. No motivational fluff with nothing to take back to the product roadmap. Just a room full of builders, operators, cloud and AI experts, and founders who are ready to make real progress.
The plot: you build something real
Rapyder’s Ramaiah Chidambaram, Solutions Director – AI/ML, leads a live GenAI build session split across two tracks.
Idea to Prototype walks founders through the journey from a raw concept to a working GenAI proof of concept, including tools, costs, early decisions, and the mistakes teams often make the first time.
Cool Demo. Now What? looks at the harder part: what happens after the demo works. This track focuses on what it takes to turn a promising build into something customers can use, trust, and pay for.
Founders will not leave with only notes. They will leave with a clearer view of what to build, how to build it, and what decisions matter next.
Meet the cast
Every good founder day needs people who can speak from the work, not around it.
Sneha Setty opens the day with the question behind the event: why this, why now?
Gunjan Agrawal, Head-BDR at Rapyder, sets the tone early and returns later for the fireside conversation many founders will have marked on their agenda.
Surbhi Saimbi, Partner Development Manager at AWS, joins Rapyder CMO Vamsi Krishna Yevvari for a keynote conversation on where cloud, GenAI, and the startup ecosystem go next.
Sita Pallacholla, CEO of WeHub, brings the ecosystem lens: what it takes to back women founders consistently, not only when the spotlight is convenient.
Murugan Arjunan, CTO of HerKey, joins for a guest session on the engineering and leadership realities of scaling a product and a team at the same time.
And Neha Makdey, founder of Nesta Toys, joins the fireside chat with the kind of founder experience that is most useful when it gets specific.
The session we cannot stop talking about
“Why Some Startups Scale While Most Don’t.”
Gunjan Agrawal and Neha Makdey sit down for a practical conversation on the choices that quietly decide how far a startup can go.
The early architecture calls. The difference between talking about AI and actually executing with it. The mindset, process, or decision that can change a founder’s trajectory.
This is not a highlight reel. It is the part of the founder journey that usually happens offstage, where the useful lessons tend to live.
Then it gets loud
Five founders take the stage for live pitches: real ideas, real builds, judged live, with the top three winning prizes.
No pre-recorded polish. Just founders making the case for what they are building.
And for those who want to go deeper, the day closes with 1:1 expert clinics, where founders can sit down with AWS and Rapyder AI and cloud experts to work through the technical questions inside their own products, from architecture and GenAI readiness to cost, scalability, and next-step planning.
This is chapter one, not the whole book
Here is the part Rapyder cares about most: Her (AI) Story is not designed as a one-off event.
It is the first chapter of a larger collective for women in AI, cloud, and technology, backed by the same AWS Premier Tier Partner expertise Rapyder brings to customers building for scale.
September 18th is the first room. It will not be the last.
If you are a WeHub portfolio founder, bring the idea you are still shaping, the architecture decision you are stuck on, or the question you are not sure how to ask yet.
There will be people in the room whose work is to help you move it forward.
Hyderabad | Friday, September 18 | Registration opens 9:30 AM Spots are limited. Reserve yours today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Her (AI) Story is a one-day GenAI event hosted by Rapyder, an AWS Premier Tier Partner, in collaboration with WeHub. It combines a live GenAI build session, founder-led fireside conversations, a startup pitch session, and 1:1 expert clinics, designed specifically for women founders.
Her (AI) Story takes place on Friday, September 18th, in Hyderabad. Registration opens at 9:30 AM, with sessions running through the afternoon.
Speakers include Sneha Setty, Gunjan Agrawal (Head-BDR, Rapyder), Surbhi Saimbi (Partner Development Manager, AWS), Vamsi Krishna Yevvari (CMO, Rapyder), Sita Pallacholla (CEO, WeHub), Ramaiah Chidambaram (Solutions Director – AI/ML, Rapyder), Murugan Arjunan (CTO, HerKey), and founder Neha Makdey (Nesta Toys).
The fireside chat, "Why Some Startups Scale While Most Don't," features Rapyder's Gunjan Agrawal in conversation with founder Neha Makdey, unpacking the early decisions, execution signals, and mindset shifts that determine whether a startup actually scales.
No. Her (AI) Story is the first event in a larger collective Rapyder is building for women in AI, cloud, and technology, backed by its AWS Premier Tier Partner expertise.
