Soroush Mirzaee
President, AI Club at California State University, Long Beach
Soroush is 24 and a senior computer science student at CSULB, with four years of experience shipping products, leading projects, and teaching software development. He is the co-founder and lead machine learning engineer at GoavSoft.
Talks
Data Con LA 2026
No Permission Required: Turning a Data Problem Into a Product
You do not need permission to build. Whether inside a company or outside one, start with what you have: data, tools, curiosity, insights into customer / stakeholder pain, and the ability to create useful artifacts. Build from means, not permission. Treat new ideas as searches. Make AI the accelerator. Balance exploration with guardrails. Hear from five founders and operators on landing on a problem worth solving, getting from idea to a first version, reaching the right audience, and what AI has changed about all of it. For anyone who is inspired to build and has been waiting on a title, a budget, or someone else's green light.