Futurist Forum
The summit's central forum, where the day's defining conversations happen. Keynotes, panels, and firesides from open to close.
Futurist Forum
The summit's central forum, where the day's defining conversations happen. Keynotes, panels, and firesides from open to close.
Futurist Forum
The summit's central forum, where the day's defining conversations happen. Keynotes, panels, and firesides from open to close.
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligence]
7:30 AM
Welcome & Setting the Stage
Opening address and recorded remarks from the Governor of Massachusetts, framing the day around the summit's theme: Leading in an Intelligent World.
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligence]
7:30 AM
Welcome & Setting the Stage
Opening address and recorded remarks from the Governor of Massachusetts, framing the day around the summit's theme: Leading in an Intelligent World.
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligence]
7:30 AM
Welcome & Setting the Stage
Opening address and recorded remarks from the Governor of Massachusetts, framing the day around the summit's theme: Leading in an Intelligent World.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
8:00 AM
The New Venture Stack: AI, Capital, and Scale
How AI is collapsing the traditional venture stack — where capital meets code, and founders can scale with fewer people and more intelligence than ever before.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
8:00 AM
The New Venture Stack: AI, Capital, and Scale
How AI is collapsing the traditional venture stack — where capital meets code, and founders can scale with fewer people and more intelligence than ever before.
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS Global Wealth
CIO Global Equities
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS Global Wealth
CIO Global Equities
Dave Blundin
Link Ventures
Managing Partner
Dave Blundin
Link Ventures
Managing Partner
Jack Selby
Managing Director at Thiel Capital
Managing Director at Copper Sky
Jack Selby
Managing Director at Thiel Capital
Managing Director at Copper Sky
Adam Valkin
Former Managing Director at General Catalyst
Partner at Vine Ventures
Adam Valkin
Former Managing Director at General Catalyst
Partner at Vine Ventures
[AI Demo]
[Deploying Intelligence]
8:30 AM
Live Demo: AI Tools in Action
A 30-minute live build — turning a raw idea into a working product on stage using today's most cutting edge AI tools.
[AI Demo]
[Deploying Intelligence]
8:30 AM
Live Demo: AI Tools in Action
A 30-minute live build — turning a raw idea into a working product on stage using today's most cutting edge AI tools.
[Fireside]
[Deploying Intelligence]
9:00 AM
Building the Agentic Enterprise
Building agentic systems at enterprise scale — how automation, AI agents, and the future of work are converging inside real organizations.
[Fireside]
[Deploying Intelligence]
9:00 AM
Building the Agentic Enterprise
Building agentic systems at enterprise scale — how automation, AI agents, and the future of work are converging inside real organizations.
[Panel, Video Call]
[Building Intelligence]
9:30 AM
Building the Backbone: Energy, Compute, and the Future of Infrastructure
The physical bottleneck behind AI's exponential growth — who builds the power plants, the data centers, and the compute fabric the frontier depends on?
[Panel, Video Call]
[Building Intelligence]
9:30 AM
Building the Backbone: Energy, Compute, and the Future of Infrastructure
The physical bottleneck behind AI's exponential growth — who builds the power plants, the data centers, and the compute fabric the frontier depends on?
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
[Fireside]
[Building Intelligence]
10:30 AM
World Models and the Inflection Point of Intelligence
Frontier AI research, world models, and the inflection point where machine intelligence begins to reshape scientific discovery.
[Fireside]
[Building Intelligence]
10:30 AM
World Models and the Inflection Point of Intelligence
Frontier AI research, world models, and the inflection point where machine intelligence begins to reshape scientific discovery.
[Keynote]
[Converging Intelligence]
11:00 AM
A Pro Human Future
A keynote on the path toward a future where AI amplifies human agency, creativity, and flourishing — not replaces it.
[Keynote]
[Converging Intelligence]
11:00 AM
A Pro Human Future
A keynote on the path toward a future where AI amplifies human agency, creativity, and flourishing — not replaces it.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
11:30 AM
Built in Boston: Scaling a Global AI Company
How Jellyfish scaled globally by embedding generative AI into creative, media, and data — and what that journey says about building global tech from the MA ecosystem.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
11:30 AM
Built in Boston: Scaling a Global AI Company
How Jellyfish scaled globally by embedding generative AI into creative, media, and data — and what that journey says about building global tech from the MA ecosystem.
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
[Panel]
[Converging Intelligence]
1:00 PM
Intelligence at Scale: Building the Next Era of AI
How artificial intelligence is moving from breakthrough models to systems that shape how we work, communicate, and make decisions.
[Panel]
[Converging Intelligence]
1:00 PM
Intelligence at Scale: Building the Next Era of AI
How artificial intelligence is moving from breakthrough models to systems that shape how we work, communicate, and make decisions.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
1:30 PM
The Architecture of Intelligence
A deep dive into how frontier AI systems are built — from model architecture and reasoning to scaling laws and the path toward more general intelligence.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
1:30 PM
The Architecture of Intelligence
A deep dive into how frontier AI systems are built — from model architecture and reasoning to scaling laws and the path toward more general intelligence.
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
2:00 PM
Autonomy at the Edge: Warfighters, AI, and the Future of Defense
Deploying AI in contested environments — where autonomous systems meet real-world stakes, split-second decisions, and the future of warfighter capability.
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
2:00 PM
Autonomy at the Edge: Warfighters, AI, and the Future of Defense
Deploying AI in contested environments — where autonomous systems meet real-world stakes, split-second decisions, and the future of warfighter capability.
Tucker Hamilton
96th Ops Group Commander
Former DAF, Chief of AI Test & Ops
Tucker Hamilton
96th Ops Group Commander
Former DAF, Chief of AI Test & Ops
Erik Bethel
Mare Liberum
General Partner
Erik Bethel
Mare Liberum
General Partner
Nathan Michael
Shield AI
CTO
Nathan Michael
Shield AI
CTO
Rylan Hamilton
Blue Water Autonomy
CEO & Co-Founder
Rylan Hamilton
Blue Water Autonomy
CEO & Co-Founder
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
2:30 PM
Running the Machine: Leadership in the Age of AI
Executives running large-scale technology organizations on the operational reality of leading through AI transformation.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
2:30 PM
Running the Machine: Leadership in the Age of AI
Executives running large-scale technology organizations on the operational reality of leading through AI transformation.
Robert Blumofe
Akamai Technologies
Executive Vice President & CTO
Robert Blumofe
Akamai Technologies
Executive Vice President & CTO
Denise Lee
Cisco
Vice President of the Engineering Sustainability Office
Denise Lee
Cisco
Vice President of the Engineering Sustainability Office
Sears Merritt
MassMutual
Head of Enterprise Technology & Experience
Sears Merritt
MassMutual
Head of Enterprise Technology & Experience
Rick McDonald
The Clorox Company
SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer
Rick McDonald
The Clorox Company
SVP, Chief Supply Chain Officer
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
3:00 PM
Embodied Intelligence: How Machines Learn, Move, and Decide
How machines learn to move, manipulate, and decide in the physical world — a deep dive into the latest from MIT's robotics research.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
3:00 PM
Embodied Intelligence: How Machines Learn, Move, and Decide
How machines learn to move, manipulate, and decide in the physical world — a deep dive into the latest from MIT's robotics research.
Navid Aghasadeghi
AI & Robotics
Founder & CEO
Navid Aghasadeghi
AI & Robotics
Founder & CEO
Russ Tedrake
MIT CSAIL
Professor
Russ Tedrake
MIT CSAIL
Professor
Leslie Pack Kaelbling
MIT
Professor of CS & Engineering
Leslie Pack Kaelbling
MIT
Professor of CS & Engineering
Josh Gruenstein
Tutor Intelligence
Co-Founder & CEO
Josh Gruenstein
Tutor Intelligence
Co-Founder & CEO
[Panel, Video Call]
[Deploying Intelligence]
3:30 PM
Intelligence at Scale
What changes when AI operates at planetary scale — rebuilding search, enterprise systems, and scientific workflows from the ground up.
[Panel, Video Call]
[Deploying Intelligence]
3:30 PM
Intelligence at Scale
What changes when AI operates at planetary scale — rebuilding search, enterprise systems, and scientific workflows from the ground up.
Break
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Break
4:00 - 4:30 PM
[Fireside, Interview]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
4:30 PM
AI-Powered Music & Creative AI
AI-generated music, creative expression, and what happens when machines become collaborators in the artistic process.
[Fireside, Interview]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
4:30 PM
AI-Powered Music & Creative AI
AI-generated music, creative expression, and what happens when machines become collaborators in the artistic process.
[Video Call, Fireside]
[Converging Intelligence]
5:00 PM
Leading at the Frontier
A fireside on leading an AI-first enterprise — transformation at scale, trust, and what comes next for the world's largest CRM company.
[Video Call, Fireside]
[Converging Intelligence]
5:00 PM
Leading at the Frontier
A fireside on leading an AI-first enterprise — transformation at scale, trust, and what comes next for the world's largest CRM company.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
5:30 PM
Future of Work
The question nobody has a clean answer to yet: which jobs change, which disappear, and what new ones emerge when AI becomes a co-worker, not just a tool?
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
5:30 PM
Future of Work
The question nobody has a clean answer to yet: which jobs change, which disappear, and what new ones emerge when AI becomes a co-worker, not just a tool?
Jhillika Kumar
Mentra
CEO & Founder
Jhillika Kumar
Mentra
CEO & Founder
Paige Fox
Databricks, ex-Google
Solutions Architect & ML Infrastructure Engineer
Paige Fox
Databricks, ex-Google
Solutions Architect & ML Infrastructure Engineer
Aleksandra Przegalinska
Kozminski University
Vice-President
Aleksandra Przegalinska
Kozminski University
Vice-President
Trevor Baum
Klaviyo
Senior IT Technical Business Analyst
Trevor Baum
Klaviyo
Senior IT Technical Business Analyst
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
6:00 PM
Trust in the Intelligent World
Building trust at institutional scale — from international diplomacy to responsible deployment and what defines ethical AI.
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
6:00 PM
Trust in the Intelligent World
Building trust at institutional scale — from international diplomacy to responsible deployment and what defines ethical AI.
[Fireside]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
6:30 PM
AI, Power, and the Global Chessboard
How AI is reshaping global competition. From cloud infrastructure and defense to capital flows across Asia and the shifting balance of power.
[Fireside]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
6:30 PM
AI, Power, and the Global Chessboard
How AI is reshaping global competition. From cloud infrastructure and defense to capital flows across Asia and the shifting balance of power.
Mark Machin
Intrepid Growth Partners
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Mark Machin
Intrepid Growth Partners
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Alvin Graylin
Stanford HAI/DEL
Bestselling Author | Digital-Fellow
Alvin Graylin
Stanford HAI/DEL
Bestselling Author | Digital-Fellow
Sean Batir
AWS
Global Head of Mission Innovation
Sean Batir
AWS
Global Head of Mission Innovation
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligence]
7:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Closing remarks and reflections on the day.
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligence]
7:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Closing remarks and reflections on the day.
Daniela Rus
MIT CSAIL
Director
Daniela Rus
MIT CSAIL
Director
Peter Danenberg
Google DeepMind
Senior Software Engineer
Peter Danenberg
Google DeepMind
Senior Software Engineer
Randall Lane
Forbes
Chief Content Officer
Randall Lane
Forbes
Chief Content Officer
Vanessa Parli
Stanford HAI
Managing Director, External Engagement,
Vanessa Parli
Stanford HAI
Managing Director, External Engagement,
