About · The mission
Built for the operators
already at the ridge.
Most AI conferences are designed for spectators — content fed to people still trying to figure out whether to engage. 10nine is the inverse. Every seat is held for an operator who has already crossed the $25M ridge and is now staring at the next zero.
Why we're building this
The room you can't replicate.
The thesis behind 10nine is that the next wave of billion-scale companies will not be built by founders who learn AI by reading. They will be built by founders who already shipped, already hit their first inflection, and now need a peer set sharp enough to compress the next five years into eighteen months.
Three days. Curated to 550 people. Operator-only. The signal-to-noise of the room is the product. Everything else — speakers, schedule, dinners, intros — is engineered around that.
We don't sell access. We curate the table.
Presented by
Groundforce Capital × Bell Innovation Group.
A joint production by two operating teams that have spent the last decade building, scaling, capitalizing, and selling at every altitude of the consumer + B2B economy.
Capital partner
Groundforce Capital
Operator-led growth capital and founder collective. Hosts the Aspire AI Summit and Consumer AI gatherings for elite founder cohorts. Brings the room — the operators, LPs, and strategic platforms that show up because Groundforce called.
Capital · Network · Operator pipeline
Production + Curation
Bell Innovation Group
Founded by Marcus Bell. Builds operating systems for billion-scale ambition — including the brand intelligence engines used by Fortune 500 marketing teams and the founder programs behind $14B+ in tracked enterprise outcomes.
Production · Curation · Brand · Content
The standard
10⁹ — the next billion.
Not a target. A standard. The mathematical mark we hold the room to. Three days of decisions made and direction locked, with the operators already at — or visibly approaching — that altitude.
November 4 — 6, 2026 · The Parker Palm Springs