Meeting Title: Brainforge x Talisma Q2 Event Planning Date: 2026-01-29 Meeting participants: RohitKhera, Rico Rejoso, Holly Condos, Aaron Schwarzberg, Santhosh R
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1 00:00:29.980 ⇒ 00:00:31.410 Holly Condos: Good morning!
2 00:00:32.630 ⇒ 00:00:35.139 RohitKhera: Hi, Holly, good evening, good morning, how are you?
3 00:00:35.200 ⇒ 00:00:37.500 Holly Condos: I’m good, thanks. How are you?
4 00:00:37.500 ⇒ 00:00:38.930 RohitKhera: All good, thank you.
5 00:00:40.350 ⇒ 00:00:42.620 Holly Condos: I can’t hear you very well, Rohit.
6 00:00:43.020 ⇒ 00:00:44.400 RohitKhera: Sorry, is this better?
7 00:00:45.570 ⇒ 00:00:47.660 Holly Condos: You know, it’s better.
8 00:00:48.570 ⇒ 00:00:49.680 Holly Condos: Hey, Erin!
9 00:00:54.270 ⇒ 00:00:55.630 RohitKhera: Hi, Aaron, Rico.
10 00:00:56.180 ⇒ 00:00:59.559 RohitKhera: You know, it just feels like the year started yesterday. There you go.
11 00:01:02.080 ⇒ 00:01:08.729 Aaron Schwarzberg: Hey, everyone. Hey, Holly. Sorry, for some reason, mute was stuck, and I was trying to say hi, and I couldn’t. I apologize. Hi, how are you?
12 00:01:09.670 ⇒ 00:01:10.860 Holly Condos: Good, thanks.
13 00:01:11.620 ⇒ 00:01:12.730 Holly Condos: How are you?
14 00:01:12.920 ⇒ 00:01:14.220 Aaron Schwarzberg: Good, good, good.
15 00:01:14.520 ⇒ 00:01:18.360 Aaron Schwarzberg: Doing well, thank you. Hey, Rico. Hey, Rohit. Hey, everyone.
16 00:01:18.710 ⇒ 00:01:19.600 Rico Rejoso: Hey guys.
17 00:01:20.910 ⇒ 00:01:21.830 Aaron Schwarzberg: Hi, hi.
18 00:01:22.150 ⇒ 00:01:26.950 Holly Condos: So, guys, our biggest update… sorry, my camera’s being weird here.
19 00:01:27.780 ⇒ 00:01:28.580 Holly Condos: Alrighty.
20 00:01:28.580 ⇒ 00:01:29.370 Aaron Schwarzberg: It’s alright.
21 00:01:29.670 ⇒ 00:01:31.499 Holly Condos: There you go.
22 00:01:32.330 ⇒ 00:01:37.659 Holly Condos: I think the biggest message I have for you today is that we need to push
23 00:01:37.760 ⇒ 00:01:43.770 Holly Condos: everything out to Key 2. You’ve just got too many things going at once, and with Hannah.
24 00:01:44.070 ⇒ 00:01:51.629 Holly Condos: Being out sick, We just are not going to be able to get the event ready for Q1.
25 00:01:52.790 ⇒ 00:01:53.640 Aaron Schwarzberg: Okay?
26 00:01:53.640 ⇒ 00:01:54.130 Holly Condos: Definitely.
27 00:01:54.130 ⇒ 00:02:06.799 Aaron Schwarzberg: Okay, so we’ll… sorry, so we’ll plan for a Q2 event. Do you still want to couple, an announcement with the event? Do you want to now do it differently? How are you thinking about everything?
28 00:02:07.910 ⇒ 00:02:13.810 Holly Condos: Well, I hadn’t really gone that far. Do you have an opinion there?
29 00:02:15.010 ⇒ 00:02:32.299 Aaron Schwarzberg: I think so. I’m thinking in real time, but I think the rationale behind the announcement and the event was because it was kind of coming up soon, and it made sense to drum up more interest in the event, because it was kind of coupled with an announcement, so that made sense.
30 00:02:32.300 ⇒ 00:02:50.910 Aaron Schwarzberg: if we’re gonna push out the event for another 2-3 months, I don’t want that to stifle any other progress we could make with the announcement of a partnership. For example, our clients reaching out to us and saying, hey, tell us more about this Brainport group, or your client reaching out and saying, hey, tell us more about this Teleisma group. So,
31 00:02:50.910 ⇒ 00:03:01.490 Aaron Schwarzberg: as I’m thinking about it, and I may not be thinking about it perfectly, but just off the cuff, I think it probably does make sense to announce before the event, just because we might be able to drum up business otherwise.
32 00:03:02.950 ⇒ 00:03:06.230 Holly Condos: And I agree with that, I think that makes sense.
33 00:03:08.110 ⇒ 00:03:17.379 Holly Condos: Okay, so I had, after our meeting last week, I basically, gathered our next steps from
34 00:03:17.800 ⇒ 00:03:28.770 Holly Condos: the call, and I asked Hannah to put together the event planning calendar and action items. So she’s at that.
35 00:03:29.310 ⇒ 00:03:34.630 Holly Condos: on her plate, but I think… Our go-to-market team.
36 00:03:35.190 ⇒ 00:03:45.330 Holly Condos: is probably… I probably should pull Luke in. We have a new, manager there in the go-to-market space for the company. He’s great, you’ll love him.
37 00:03:45.600 ⇒ 00:03:49.689 Holly Condos: He’s based in LA, and his name is Luke.
38 00:03:50.160 ⇒ 00:03:52.709 Holly Condos: So I think maybe…
39 00:03:52.820 ⇒ 00:04:00.519 Holly Condos: you know, either in our next sync, or before that, perhaps just in async, I’ll intro you guys on Teams.
40 00:04:00.750 ⇒ 00:04:01.750 Aaron Schwarzberg: Right.
41 00:04:01.850 ⇒ 00:04:11.170 Holly Condos: And then he can work this announcement into the other… because they also have, as you can imagine, a campaign schedule.
42 00:04:11.320 ⇒ 00:04:13.270 Holly Condos: So we can work…
43 00:04:13.570 ⇒ 00:04:25.329 Holly Condos: the Teleisma partner announcement into that campaign schedule, and I know Luke is looking to kind of highlight, you know, just little things about partners.
44 00:04:25.470 ⇒ 00:04:30.259 Holly Condos: So I think once we do the announcement, we can also then…
45 00:04:30.760 ⇒ 00:04:44.340 Holly Condos: be, you know, if you guys are having a new feature, or… right? If you’ve got something on your end, or we’ve got something on our end that we can kind of say, hey, we’re looking at this together, even if it’s…
46 00:04:44.700 ⇒ 00:04:50.989 Holly Condos: and these little updates are, like, little bullet points, right? Like, it’s not a major thing, but at least we can…
47 00:04:51.250 ⇒ 00:04:59.989 Holly Condos: promote the fact that we have the partnership before the event, right? We can utilize that… that time slice
48 00:05:00.710 ⇒ 00:05:08.999 Holly Condos: between Q1 and Q2, and until we launch the event, we can still be, you know, pushing the partnership and
49 00:05:09.420 ⇒ 00:05:16.489 Holly Condos: like you said, exchanging leads, etc. So… Yeah, I think…
50 00:05:18.010 ⇒ 00:05:20.609 Holly Condos: I think that’s probably the best path forward.
51 00:05:21.350 ⇒ 00:05:24.989 Aaron Schwarzberg: Great. Okay, that makes sense. Rohit, Santosh, what do you think?
52 00:05:27.470 ⇒ 00:05:36.170 Holly Condos: Hey, hey Aaron, sorry, I just joined, a minute now, so I actually couldn’t catch up what we said. I think Rohit could… Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah.
53 00:05:36.900 ⇒ 00:05:40.020 Aaron Schwarzberg: Rohit, what are your thoughts? What do you think? That makes sense to me, what do you think?
54 00:05:40.650 ⇒ 00:05:47.569 RohitKhera: No, I, you know, and the two points, the earlier one that you talked about in terms of doing the press release, I think…
55 00:05:48.140 ⇒ 00:05:51.700 RohitKhera: As you said, because they were close together, it made sense to couple it.
56 00:05:51.870 ⇒ 00:05:58.660 RohitKhera: But let’s not lose momentum, and let’s decouple it, and then, you know, let each run its own… on its own merit.
57 00:05:58.890 ⇒ 00:06:03.799 RohitKhera: But I’m, you know, broadly just 100% aligned, Aaron, with what you were saying.
58 00:06:04.940 ⇒ 00:06:05.620 Holly Condos: Okay.
59 00:06:05.620 ⇒ 00:06:06.180 Aaron Schwarzberg: Perfect.
60 00:06:06.350 ⇒ 00:06:06.860 Aaron Schwarzberg: Perfect.
61 00:06:06.860 ⇒ 00:06:08.720 Holly Condos: Thank you, that’s helpful.
62 00:06:10.380 ⇒ 00:06:27.100 Holly Condos: So, alright, so I don’t really have much to share other than that today, because as I said, I don’t have a lot of artifact traction back from the team. So, I think next steps, then, I will just,
63 00:06:27.230 ⇒ 00:06:28.670 Holly Condos: intro you to Luke.
64 00:06:29.580 ⇒ 00:06:32.730 Holly Condos: And… then,
65 00:06:32.920 ⇒ 00:06:40.329 Holly Condos: I think… I think what would be helpful is if we have Luke and Hannah on our next sync, and we can just kind of talk about
66 00:06:40.790 ⇒ 00:06:47.750 Holly Condos: The announcement, and some of the options, at least, for the partner updates.
67 00:06:48.790 ⇒ 00:06:57.379 Holly Condos: And then, you know, if Hannah’s ready with the Q2, or sorry, with the event planning, I think she will be by next week.
68 00:06:57.560 ⇒ 00:07:05.270 Holly Condos: you know, we can… we should start talking about it anyway. I mean, we need to just keep pressing forward, so we’re still doing it, it’s just a matter of putting it out.
69 00:07:05.980 ⇒ 00:07:09.879 Aaron Schwarzberg: Agreed. Yeah, no, I think that makes sense from a Next Steps perspective, Holly.
70 00:07:10.010 ⇒ 00:07:12.010 Aaron Schwarzberg: I know… excuse me.
71 00:07:12.580 ⇒ 00:07:21.560 Aaron Schwarzberg: Sorry about that. I know at one point we talked about moving, to bi-weekly, for these calls. Do we want to do that, given that we’re…
72 00:07:21.560 ⇒ 00:07:23.889 Holly Condos: That also makes sense, Erin, yeah.
73 00:07:24.750 ⇒ 00:07:40.089 Holly Condos: And then as we get closer, and we have more stakes in the ground, with regard to the partnership announcement and the event, right, we can always bring that back to weekly as we see fit, but I think going forward for right now, let’s do every other.
74 00:07:40.630 ⇒ 00:07:57.980 Aaron Schwarzberg: Agreed. I think that’ll make sense. So let’s do that. So, Rico, I know you own the meeting cadence. If you could adjust that to, you know, meeting every other week, that would be great. And then, Tali’s point, as we get closer to events, as we get closer to announcement, then we can adjust if we feel like we need to at that point.
75 00:07:58.390 ⇒ 00:07:59.850 Aaron Schwarzberg: Gotcha. Thank you, Rico.
76 00:08:00.200 ⇒ 00:08:01.350 Aaron Schwarzberg: Thank you so much.
77 00:08:01.590 ⇒ 00:08:09.450 Aaron Schwarzberg: Okay, alright, that’s super helpful. Anything else, Holly, that you could think of? I think that covers most, if not everything.
78 00:08:10.170 ⇒ 00:08:23.209 Holly Condos: Well, and I’ll just… I think we talked about this last week, but just to reiterate and follow up slightly, so myself and one of, another engineer who used to be a professor.
79 00:08:23.710 ⇒ 00:08:42.309 Holly Condos: at Brainforge, he and I have put together a working reach-out list to our contacts. So, again, right, I know people at the University of Denver, at Brown, at the University of North Carolina, so we’re working
80 00:08:42.330 ⇒ 00:08:47.180 Holly Condos: Also, in the background on… making some…
81 00:08:47.340 ⇒ 00:08:51.690 Holly Condos: connection, or introductions, I guess, is the best way to put it.
82 00:08:51.690 ⇒ 00:08:52.240 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yep.
83 00:08:52.720 ⇒ 00:08:53.520 Holly Condos: Perfect.
84 00:08:53.700 ⇒ 00:09:09.809 Holly Condos: And then, what I’d like to do is just, once we get those intros, see if we can leverage some leads out of it as well for you. So, I don’t want you to think that we’ve forgotten the connection or the lead piece. We are… that is still top of mind.
85 00:09:09.910 ⇒ 00:09:13.900 Holly Condos: We just don’t have anything at the moment, right, today to share.
86 00:09:14.570 ⇒ 00:09:27.410 Aaron Schwarzberg: Amazing. That’s great. So, thank you for that. That’s exciting. And, you know, we would, you know, be happy to, you know, connect with whomever you think would be benefited through, you know, what we’re doing.
87 00:09:27.410 ⇒ 00:09:27.920 Holly Condos: Now.
88 00:09:27.920 ⇒ 00:09:45.600 Aaron Schwarzberg: Obviously, we’re still, you know, obviously very happy to continue to make introductions. How are things… have things progressed with, BayPath? Have you guys set up your subsequent phone call? Or, I think the last I remember, Frank said his new Director of AI was coming in, like, first week in February, so is that the next step, is meeting with that person then?
89 00:09:46.040 ⇒ 00:09:48.730 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yes, that is the next step.
90 00:09:48.880 ⇒ 00:09:52.150 Holly Condos: I don’t think that we have a date
91 00:09:52.250 ⇒ 00:09:58.430 Holly Condos: set yet, but we were kind of leaving that to Frank to let his new guy get settled.
92 00:09:58.710 ⇒ 00:10:08.150 Holly Condos: Right? I think if we don’t hear from Frank by, say, the end of next week, then Utam or I will probably ping him.
93 00:10:08.600 ⇒ 00:10:18.190 Aaron Schwarzberg: That makes sense. I think that from a timeline, that makes sense. You said first week, and so maybe, maybe it starts on the 2nd, so maybe, you know, outreach on the 5th or 6th probably makes sense.
94 00:10:18.590 ⇒ 00:10:22.989 Holly Condos: Yeah, but we’ll definitely… I’ll let you know how that progresses.
95 00:10:23.190 ⇒ 00:10:27.040 Aaron Schwarzberg: Amazing, great, great, great, great. I mean, he was definitely receptive.
96 00:10:27.040 ⇒ 00:10:27.490 Holly Condos: Very.
97 00:10:27.490 ⇒ 00:10:29.059 Aaron Schwarzberg: conversation, so I think.
98 00:10:29.060 ⇒ 00:10:29.650 Holly Condos: Thank God.
99 00:10:30.160 ⇒ 00:10:45.629 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yeah, he’s wonderful. So I think the next conversation you guys have with them will be productive. Of course, I don’t know anything about this Director of AI, but hopefully, you know, if they’re, you know, rolling up to Frank, I’m sure they’re great as well, and they’ll be receptive, so we’ll see how that.
100 00:10:45.630 ⇒ 00:10:48.900 Holly Condos: Now, had you guys done work for them before?
101 00:10:49.410 ⇒ 00:10:58.650 Holly Condos: Frank and I worked together at a company called Global Health Education and Training about, 10 or 11 years ago.
102 00:10:58.700 ⇒ 00:11:02.269 Aaron Schwarzberg: So we worked together, so I… we have not done work for BayPath.
103 00:11:02.270 ⇒ 00:11:19.969 Aaron Schwarzberg: But, when I joined Talism, I reached out to Frank, because he had recently joined Baypath, and we connected that way, and I think where they were at the time was they were dipping their toe in, but they didn’t know where they wanted to go, which is why I thought that an introduction to you guys made sense, because you guys can help with that roadmap and that blueprint.
104 00:11:21.130 ⇒ 00:11:26.719 Aaron Schwarzberg: I think the relationship will be very fruitful for you, and I think you guys can be very helpful to them.
105 00:11:27.670 ⇒ 00:11:33.260 Holly Condos: Yeah, that’s great, and we, again, appreciate the… the intro there. But, yeah, I mean, I think…
106 00:11:33.420 ⇒ 00:11:38.000 Holly Condos: Depending on the new guy, I think there’s definitely some potential, but we’ll see.
107 00:11:38.000 ⇒ 00:11:39.170 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yeah, for sure.
108 00:11:39.170 ⇒ 00:11:48.370 Holly Condos: Do you guys have anything coming up, event-wise, or are you gonna be attending any conferences, or what does your roadmap look like for the first quarter?
109 00:11:48.810 ⇒ 00:12:04.389 Aaron Schwarzberg: I don’t think we have anything in Q1 from an event perspective on the US side. There are a lot of events, that I think the team’s focused on in India, but from a U.S. perspective, I think we’re going to be very heavy Q2 and Q3 specifically.
110 00:12:04.590 ⇒ 00:12:11.360 Aaron Schwarzberg: so we have all, conferences, higher ed conferences that we’re looking at, and I think we just need to figure out what, what the…
111 00:12:11.440 ⇒ 00:12:27.929 Aaron Schwarzberg: structure’s gonna be figuring out which ones are gonna… we’re gonna get the most bang for the buck on. We went to some last year that were, you know, very, supportive and helpful to what we’re doing, and really got the word out, and so I think we’re gonna repeat on a couple of those, and then try to bring in some new ones as well.
112 00:12:28.900 ⇒ 00:12:30.050 Holly Condos: That sounds great.
113 00:12:30.300 ⇒ 00:12:42.640 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yeah. Well, we’ll keep you posted as we figure out which ones we’re gonna go to. We’ll send them over to you, and maybe if there’s any common interest, then you guys can meet us at 1 or 2, and maybe there’s some co-branding, co-marketing opportunities for those as well.
114 00:12:43.000 ⇒ 00:12:45.850 Holly Condos: Absolutely, yeah, that sounds good.
115 00:12:46.730 ⇒ 00:12:47.900 Aaron Schwarzberg: Alright.
116 00:12:47.900 ⇒ 00:12:59.100 Holly Condos: Great, so I will, like I said, I will just get Luke, intro’d, and then… so we won’t talk next week, but the week after, is that what you want to do?
117 00:13:01.860 ⇒ 00:13:18.920 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yes, that would be great, and I think Rico already updated the invite, if I see correctly. So I think, yeah, so not next week, but the following week, and then if you want to introduce Luke on the call coming up in two weeks, or if you want to do it in two… whatever works for you, I think, you know, whatever makes the most sense.
118 00:13:19.170 ⇒ 00:13:24.510 Holly Condos: I’ll bring him over to Teams, because, you know, at least we have him established there.
119 00:13:24.640 ⇒ 00:13:31.839 Holly Condos: And we can… we can be talking there, right? I mean, we certainly don’t need to be dark until we talk again, but…
120 00:13:31.990 ⇒ 00:13:37.180 Holly Condos: But yeah, I think that looks like a good plan, and we appreciate your patience.
121 00:13:37.580 ⇒ 00:13:53.109 Aaron Schwarzberg: Yeah, of course. No problem. We’d rather do it the right way, rather than just squeezing it in. So, we’ll talk, we’ll keep conversations going on the announcement, we’ll figure out, you know, with Hannah, what the Q2 event now will look like, and we’ll keep everything moving.
122 00:13:53.820 ⇒ 00:13:54.940 Holly Condos: That sounds great.
123 00:13:55.440 ⇒ 00:14:01.959 Aaron Schwarzberg: Awesome. Holly, thank you so much. Rico, thank you. Rohit, Santosh, thank you guys very much, and we’ll all talk soon.
124 00:14:02.410 ⇒ 00:14:02.920 RohitKhera: Thank you so much.
125 00:14:02.920 ⇒ 00:14:08.910 Santhosh R: Great, and we hope you all have a good rest of your day. You too. Take care. Thank you, Emily. Thank you, Anna.
126 00:14:09.580 ⇒ 00:14:09.970 Holly Condos: Bye-bye.