Tech Talks
Circle up in an amphitheatre setting. Tiered seating, closer to the conversation.
Tech Talks
Circle up in an amphitheatre setting. Tiered seating, closer to the conversation.
Tech Talks
Circle up in an amphitheatre setting. Tiered seating, closer to the conversation.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
9:00 AM
Your AI Strategy Is a People Strategy
How AI is reshaping work, leadership, and the HR function at modern companies.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
9:00 AM
Your AI Strategy Is a People Strategy
How AI is reshaping work, leadership, and the HR function at modern companies.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
9:00 AM
Your AI Strategy Is a People Strategy
How AI is reshaping work, leadership, and the HR function at modern companies.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
9:30 AM
The AI Startup Landscape
The early-stage AI landscape — what founders are building, what investors are funding, and what the next generation of AI startups looks like.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
9:30 AM
The AI Startup Landscape
The early-stage AI landscape — what founders are building, what investors are funding, and what the next generation of AI startups looks like.
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Break
10:00 - 10:30 AM
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
10:30 AM
Fintech: Decoding Global Change
How AI is rewriting the rules of financial services — from risk modeling and compliance to cross-border payments and emerging market access.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
10:30 AM
Fintech: Decoding Global Change
How AI is rewriting the rules of financial services — from risk modeling and compliance to cross-border payments and emerging market access.
Nina Edwards
Prudential Financial
Vice President, Emerging Technology & Applied Innovation
Nina Edwards
Prudential Financial
Vice President, Emerging Technology & Applied Innovation
Kush Bavaria
Ornn Compute Exchange
Co-founder & CEO
Kush Bavaria
Ornn Compute Exchange
Co-founder & CEO
Miquel Noguer
Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI)
CEO
Miquel Noguer
Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI)
CEO
Celestino Amore
LQDX.AI
CEO
Celestino Amore
LQDX.AI
CEO
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
11:00 AM
Governance in the Age of AI
The governance gap: as AI capabilities accelerate, are institutions, frameworks, and enforcement mechanisms keeping pace?
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
11:00 AM
Governance in the Age of AI
The governance gap: as AI capabilities accelerate, are institutions, frameworks, and enforcement mechanisms keeping pace?
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
11:30 AM
Women in AI
The leadership, inclusion, and structural changes needed to ensure women shape the intelligence economy — not just participate in it.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
11:30 AM
Women in AI
The leadership, inclusion, and structural changes needed to ensure women shape the intelligence economy — not just participate in it.
Nina Araujo
Aras Corporation
Manager Learning & Development
Nina Araujo
Aras Corporation
Manager Learning & Development
Nina Huntemann
EDT&Partners
Senior Consultant
Nina Huntemann
EDT&Partners
Senior Consultant
Beth McKeon
Rally Social
CEO & Founder
Beth McKeon
Rally Social
CEO & Founder
Dilyana Ocetova
Liaison
Senior Director, Data Engineering & Analytics
Dilyana Ocetova
Liaison
Senior Director, Data Engineering & Analytics
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
[Interview]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
1:00 PM
Human-centered AI
Designing AI systems that serve human needs first — the frameworks, trade-offs, and design principles that keep people at the center when systems are built for scale.
[Interview]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
1:00 PM
Human-centered AI
Designing AI systems that serve human needs first — the frameworks, trade-offs, and design principles that keep people at the center when systems are built for scale.
Tim White
NuVert
Founder & CEO
Tim White
NuVert
Founder & CEO
Keyun Ruan
Co-Director, Harvard AI & Flourishing
Founder & Chair, Happiness Foundation
Keyun Ruan
Co-Director, Harvard AI & Flourishing
Founder & Chair, Happiness Foundation
Rumman Chowdhury
Humane Intelligence
CEO
Rumman Chowdhury
Humane Intelligence
CEO
Stephen Casper
MIT
PhD Student in Computer Science
Stephen Casper
MIT
PhD Student in Computer Science
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
1:30 PM
AI & Law
The legal frontier of AI — from IP and liability to international arbitration and the regulatory frameworks being written in real time.
[Panel]
[Governing Intelligence]
1:30 PM
AI & Law
The legal frontier of AI — from IP and liability to international arbitration and the regulatory frameworks being written in real time.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
2:00 PM
HBS Startups
Building AI companies from idea to traction — founders on what the HBS network uniquely enables in the current landscape.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
2:00 PM
HBS Startups
Building AI companies from idea to traction — founders on what the HBS network uniquely enables in the current landscape.
[Keynote, Video Call]
[Converging Intelligence]
2:30 PM
AI's Biggest Questions: Economy and Planet
Two back-to-back conversations, one stage. How AI is transforming the global economy, and how it's being deployed to tackle sustainability.
[Keynote, Video Call]
[Converging Intelligence]
2:30 PM
AI's Biggest Questions: Economy and Planet
Two back-to-back conversations, one stage. How AI is transforming the global economy, and how it's being deployed to tackle sustainability.
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
3:00 PM
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
What neuroscience reveals about how intelligence actually works — and how those insights are informing the next generation of AI architectures.
[Panel]
[Sustaining Intelligence]
3:00 PM
The Neuroscience of Intelligence
What neuroscience reveals about how intelligence actually works — and how those insights are informing the next generation of AI architectures.
David Rock
NeuroLeadership Institute
Founder & CEO
David Rock
NeuroLeadership Institute
Founder & CEO
Simran Chana
University of Cambridge
Director of Frontier Technologies Laboratory
Simran Chana
University of Cambridge
Director of Frontier Technologies Laboratory
Manolis Kellis
MIT and Broad Institute
Professor
Manolis Kellis
MIT and Broad Institute
Professor
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
3:30 PM
The One-Day Startup: Agentic Founders and the New Playbook
A new generation of founders is building companies where AI agents handle core operations from day one — not as a feature, but as the foundation.
[Panel]
[Deploying Intelligence]
3:30 PM
The One-Day Startup: Agentic Founders and the New Playbook
A new generation of founders is building companies where AI agents handle core operations from day one — not as a feature, but as the foundation.
Nikolay Vyahhi
Egbe
Founder & CEO
Nikolay Vyahhi
Egbe
Founder & CEO
Andrew Mead
Vector Lab
Founder
Andrew Mead
Vector Lab
Founder
Maria Gorskikh
Co-Founder of Maritime
Researcher at Project NANDA & Visiting Lecturer at MIT
Maria Gorskikh
Co-Founder of Maritime
Researcher at Project NANDA & Visiting Lecturer at MIT
Artem Lukoianov
Co-Founder, Sundai
PhD candidate, MIT
Artem Lukoianov
Co-Founder, Sundai
PhD candidate, MIT
Break
4:00 - 4:30 PM
Break
4:00 - 4:30 PM
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
4:30 PM
The Price of Compute
How GPU markets, datacenter capacity, and infrastructure investment are becoming the defining constraint — and the defining opportunity — of the AI era.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
4:30 PM
The Price of Compute
How GPU markets, datacenter capacity, and infrastructure investment are becoming the defining constraint — and the defining opportunity — of the AI era.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
5:00 PM
Voice AI: Models, Infrastructure, and the Stack
What it takes to build voice AI that actually works — the models, the latency challenges, the infrastructure, and the engineering decisions behind deploying real-time conversational systems at enterprise scale.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
5:00 PM
Voice AI: Models, Infrastructure, and the Stack
What it takes to build voice AI that actually works — the models, the latency challenges, the infrastructure, and the engineering decisions behind deploying real-time conversational systems at enterprise scale.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
5:30 PM
The Road to General Intelligence
Where AGI research stands today — from frontier labs to the AI-native products already putting general capabilities into the hands of users.
[Panel]
[Building Intelligence]
5:30 PM
The Road to General Intelligence
Where AGI research stands today — from frontier labs to the AI-native products already putting general capabilities into the hands of users.
