September 15
Day two lets the luminaries set the agenda: scientific discovery, foundational breakthroughs, and what the intelligent age asks of us next. Keynotes and luminary dialogues run in parallel from 8:30 AM. Filter by stage. Scroll by time.
September 15
Day two lets the luminaries set the agenda: scientific discovery, foundational breakthroughs, and what the intelligent age asks of us next. Keynotes and luminary dialogues run in parallel from 8:30 AM. Filter by stage. Scroll by time.
September 15
Day two lets the luminaries set the agenda: scientific discovery, foundational breakthroughs, and what the intelligent age asks of us next. Keynotes and luminary dialogues run in parallel from 8:30 AM. Filter by stage. Scroll by time.
[Fireside]
[Human Stack]
The Human Threshold
As machines cross more of what used to be uniquely ours, the question shifts from what AI can do to what we become alongside it. This conversation opens Day 2 on that ground.
[Fireside]
[Human Stack]
The Human Threshold
As machines cross more of what used to be uniquely ours, the question shifts from what AI can do to what we become alongside it. This conversation opens Day 2 on that ground.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
AI as a Scientific Engine
Models are changing how hypotheses get generated and tested across biology, materials and medicine. This panel covers where discovery is genuinely accelerating.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
AI as a Scientific Engine
Models are changing how hypotheses get generated and tested across biology, materials and medicine. This panel covers where discovery is genuinely accelerating.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
From Reasoning to Action
Long-chain reasoning is only useful if it ends in something happening. This panel covers what it takes for a model to move from thinking to reliably doing.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
From Reasoning to Action
Long-chain reasoning is only useful if it ends in something happening. This panel covers what it takes for a model to move from thinking to reliably doing.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Startups: Frontier and Foundation
Founders building directly on frontier models present what they have shipped.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Startups: Frontier and Foundation
Founders building directly on frontier models present what they have shipped.
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
AI Inside the Health System
Running AI inside a hospital means governance, integration and safety before it means capability. Health system operators discuss what it takes to move from pilot to standard of care.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
AI Inside the Health System
Running AI inside a hospital means governance, integration and safety before it means capability. Health system operators discuss what it takes to move from pilot to standard of care.
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Founder & Investor
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Founder & Investor
Simran Chana
University of Cambridge
Director of Frontier Technologies Laboratory
Simran Chana
University of Cambridge
Director of Frontier Technologies Laboratory
Vivek Natarajan
Google DeepMind
AI Researcher
Vivek Natarajan
Google DeepMind
AI Researcher
Aditya Sharma
Stanford Health Care
Sr Mgr Engineering - Data Science
Aditya Sharma
Stanford Health Care
Sr Mgr Engineering - Data Science
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
Securing the Agentic Enterprise
Agents that write code and take actions create attack surface that did not exist before. This panel covers how security teams are adapting to systems that act on their own.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
Securing the Agentic Enterprise
Agents that write code and take actions create attack surface that did not exist before. This panel covers how security teams are adapting to systems that act on their own.
[Technical Talk]
[Innovation Stack]
Robotics Spotlight
A close look at robots built for commercial deployment rather than research. The session covers what it takes to run a fleet against real customers.
[Technical Talk]
[Innovation Stack]
Robotics Spotlight
A close look at robots built for commercial deployment rather than research. The session covers what it takes to run a fleet against real customers.
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
The Future of Agentic AI
Coding agents have moved fastest from demo to daily use, and they show what the rest of the category will face. This panel covers what has held up in production.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
The Future of Agentic AI
Coding agents have moved fastest from demo to daily use, and they show what the rest of the category will face. This panel covers what has held up in production.
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
CEO & Co-Founder
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
CEO & Co-Founder
Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Silas Alberti
Cognition
Head of Research & Founding Team
Silas Alberti
Cognition
Head of Research & Founding Team
Michele Catasta
Replit
President & Head of AI
Michele Catasta
Replit
President & Head of AI
[Keynote]
[Innovation Stack]
The Intelligence to Go Anywhere
Autonomy has to work on roads, in warehouses and eventually off the planet. This talk covers what generalizes across those environments and what does not.
[Keynote]
[Innovation Stack]
The Intelligence to Go Anywhere
Autonomy has to work on roads, in warehouses and eventually off the planet. This talk covers what generalizes across those environments and what does not.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
AI-Native Platforms for Industries Software Forgot
Whole sectors never got usable software and are skipping straight to AI. Founders working in those markets discuss what building for them is actually like.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
AI-Native Platforms for Industries Software Forgot
Whole sectors never got usable software and are skipping straight to AI. Founders working in those markets discuss what building for them is actually like.
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
Silicon Valley Davos Forum
Silicon Valley Davos Forum
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Agentic AI Safety
Agents that act on our behalf raise questions of control, accountability and recourse that answering questions never did. This panel covers who is responsible when a delegated system gets it wrong.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Agentic AI Safety
Agents that act on our behalf raise questions of control, accountability and recourse that answering questions never did. This panel covers who is responsible when a delegated system gets it wrong.
Sandy Pentland
Stanford HAI
Professor MIT & Digital Economy Fellow
Sandy Pentland
Stanford HAI
Professor MIT & Digital Economy Fellow
Zubin Irani
Glean
VP Partnerships
Zubin Irani
Glean
VP Partnerships
Raluca Ada Popa
Google DeepMind
Head of Security & Privacy Research
Raluca Ada Popa
Google DeepMind
Head of Security & Privacy Research
Zohaib Ahmed
Resemble AI
Founder & CEO
Zohaib Ahmed
Resemble AI
Founder & CEO
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
Machines That Do Science
Autonomous systems are running experiments, proposing molecules and checking their own work. This panel covers how far the loop closes without a person in it.
[Panel]
[Intelligence Stack]
Machines That Do Science
Autonomous systems are running experiments, proposing molecules and checking their own work. This panel covers how far the loop closes without a person in it.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
From Lab to Clinic
Research results and clinical practice are separated by regulation, workflow and trust. This panel covers what it takes to move an AI finding into patient care.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
From Lab to Clinic
Research results and clinical practice are separated by regulation, workflow and trust. This panel covers what it takes to move an AI finding into patient care.
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
[Interview]
Reuters with Krystal Hu
Silicon Valley Davos Forum
Silicon Valley Davos Forum
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
The Future of Work
AI is changing the economics of expertise and where productivity gains actually land. This panel covers who captures the value and who absorbs the disruption.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
The Future of Work
AI is changing the economics of expertise and where productivity gains actually land. This panel covers who captures the value and who absorbs the disruption.
[Keynote]
[Innovation Stack]
[Keynote]
[Innovation Stack]
[Keynote]
[Human Stack]
What Makes AI for Good Partnerships Work
New research maps why most AI-for-good partnerships stall and what the successful ones do differently. The session offers a practical roadmap rather than a set of principles.
[Keynote]
[Human Stack]
What Makes AI for Good Partnerships Work
New research maps why most AI-for-good partnerships stall and what the successful ones do differently. The session offers a practical roadmap rather than a set of principles.
[Interview]
Axios with Bradley Olson
[Interview]
Axios with Bradley Olson
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
What We Fail to Count
GDP was built for an economy of physical goods and paid work. This panel covers what it misses now, from the value AI creates for free to the ecological cost it never records, and what a better measure would change.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
What We Fail to Count
GDP was built for an economy of physical goods and paid work. This panel covers what it misses now, from the value AI creates for free to the ecological cost it never records, and what a better measure would change.
[Fireside]
[Human Stack]
The Workforce Rebuilt
AI is changing which skills matter and how quickly people can acquire them. This panel covers what organizations are doing about it beyond announcing training programs.
[Fireside]
[Human Stack]
The Workforce Rebuilt
AI is changing which skills matter and how quickly people can acquire them. This panel covers what organizations are doing about it beyond announcing training programs.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
A Global Future, Built Together
AI development is concentrated in a handful of places while its effects are not. This panel covers what international cooperation on AI would need to look like to work.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
A Global Future, Built Together
AI development is concentrated in a handful of places while its effects are not. This panel covers what international cooperation on AI would need to look like to work.
[Interview]
Axios with Bradley Olson
[Interview]
Axios with Bradley Olson
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 PM
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
The Foundations of Physical Intelligence
Robots that work outside controlled environments need a different kind of model than the ones that write text. This panel covers what physical intelligence actually requires.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
The Foundations of Physical Intelligence
Robots that work outside controlled environments need a different kind of model than the ones that write text. This panel covers what physical intelligence actually requires.
Marco Pavone
Associate Professor at Stanford
Senior Director of AI at NVIDIA
Marco Pavone
Associate Professor at Stanford
Senior Director of AI at NVIDIA
Daniela Rus
MIT CSAIL
Director
Daniela Rus
MIT CSAIL
Director
Gordon Wetzstein
Co-Founder at Rhoda AI
Professor at Stanford University
Gordon Wetzstein
Co-Founder at Rhoda AI
Professor at Stanford University
[Keynote]
[Intelligence Stack]
Reading the Code of Life
Genomics produced more data than anyone could interpret, and models are now doing the interpreting. This conversation covers what that changes about how biology gets done.
[Keynote]
[Intelligence Stack]
Reading the Code of Life
Genomics produced more data than anyone could interpret, and models are now doing the interpreting. This conversation covers what that changes about how biology gets done.
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Real-World Data Labeling & Robotics
Robots learn from data that has to be captured and labeled in the physical world, which is slower, messier and more expensive than scraping text. This conversation covers where that data comes from, who produces it, and what the supply chain behind embodied AI actually looks like.
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Real-World Data Labeling & Robotics
Robots learn from data that has to be captured and labeled in the physical world, which is slower, messier and more expensive than scraping text. This conversation covers where that data comes from, who produces it, and what the supply chain behind embodied AI actually looks like.
Axios with Bradley Olson
Axios with Bradley Olson
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Fireside]
[Converging Intelligences]
The Geopolitics of Intelligence
AI capability is now a matter of statecraft, tangled up with export controls, alliances and who gets access to compute. This conversation covers how the technology is reshaping the balance of power, and what governments can actually control.
[Fireside]
[Converging Intelligences]
The Geopolitics of Intelligence
AI capability is now a matter of statecraft, tangled up with export controls, alliances and who gets access to compute. This conversation covers how the technology is reshaping the balance of power, and what governments can actually control.
[Technical Talk]
[Human Stack]
Teaching in the Age of Machines
Students arrive already using the tools faculty are still arguing about. This talk covers what computer science education becomes when the models can already write the code.
[Technical Talk]
[Human Stack]
Teaching in the Age of Machines
Students arrive already using the tools faculty are still arguing about. This talk covers what computer science education becomes when the models can already write the code.
[Startups]
[Human Stack]
Intelligence at the Edge of the Body
Wearables and neural interfaces are turning movement and cognition into continuous data. Founders present what becomes measurable and what that data is good for.
[Startups]
[Human Stack]
Intelligence at the Edge of the Body
Wearables and neural interfaces are turning movement and cognition into continuous data. Founders present what becomes measurable and what that data is good for.
[Interview]
IIA
[Interview]
IIA
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Physical Intelligence Around Us
Humanoids and mobile robots are moving from demonstration into deployment. This panel covers where they are genuinely useful and how long the last mile takes.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Physical Intelligence Around Us
Humanoids and mobile robots are moving from demonstration into deployment. This panel covers where they are genuinely useful and how long the last mile takes.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Building AI People Can Live With
Responsible deployment is now a product problem rather than a policy statement. This panel covers what teams actually change when they take it seriously.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Building AI People Can Live With
Responsible deployment is now a product problem rather than a policy statement. This panel covers what teams actually change when they take it seriously.
Keyun Ruan
Co-Director, Harvard AI & Flourishing
Founder & Chair, Happiness Foundation
Keyun Ruan
Co-Director, Harvard AI & Flourishing
Founder & Chair, Happiness Foundation
Noelle Russell
AI Leadership Institute
Founder & CEO
Noelle Russell
AI Leadership Institute
Founder & CEO
Caroline Yap
Sovereign AI
Founder & CTO
Caroline Yap
Sovereign AI
Founder & CTO
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
What Runs Without You
Software that used to need a person at every step now runs on its own, in markets, in labs and inside companies. This panel covers what small teams are building when the system does the work, and where a human still has to stay in the loop.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
What Runs Without You
Software that used to need a person at every step now runs on its own, in markets, in labs and inside companies. This panel covers what small teams are building when the system does the work, and where a human still has to stay in the loop.
[Interview]
IIA
[Interview]
IIA
Gemini workshop
Gemini workshop
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
AI: Airborne
Autonomy is moving into airspace and orbit, where there is no one to take over. This panel covers what changes when a system has to be right the first time.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
AI: Airborne
Autonomy is moving into airspace and orbit, where there is no one to take over. This panel covers what changes when a system has to be right the first time.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Accesibility in AI
Chief accessibility officers discuss what it takes to build products that work for everyone from the start. The session covers what changes when accessibility is a design constraint rather than a remediation.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Accesibility in AI
Chief accessibility officers discuss what it takes to build products that work for everyone from the start. The session covers what changes when accessibility is a design constraint rather than a remediation.
Catherine Nichols
Salesforce
Chief Accessibility Officer
Catherine Nichols
Salesforce
Chief Accessibility Officer
Hari Srinivasan
Vanderbilt
PhD Candidate Neuroscience
Hari Srinivasan
Vanderbilt
PhD Candidate Neuroscience
Neil Barnett
Microsoft
Chief Accessibility Officer
Neil Barnett
Microsoft
Chief Accessibility Officer
Andrew Holbrook
Wells Fargo
Chief Accessibility Officer
Andrew Holbrook
Wells Fargo
Chief Accessibility Officer
[Technical Talk]
[Human Stack]
Two Views of the Interface
Two founders each take fifteen minutes on the hardware and interfaces that sit between people and machines, with a host framing the through-line. Both join for questions at the end.
[Technical Talk]
[Human Stack]
Two Views of the Interface
Two founders each take fifteen minutes on the hardware and interfaces that sit between people and machines, with a host framing the through-line. Both join for questions at the end.
[Interview]
IIA
[Interview]
IIA
Gemini workshop
Gemini workshop
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Panel]
[Converging Intelligences]
The AI Bottleneck
Capability is outrunning the systems that have to carry it, from regulation and geopolitics to energy and supply chains. This panel covers which bottleneck binds first.
[Panel]
[Converging Intelligences]
The AI Bottleneck
Capability is outrunning the systems that have to carry it, from regulation and geopolitics to energy and supply chains. This panel covers which bottleneck binds first.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
The Performance Frontier
Neuroscience and body sensing are making human performance measurable, from restoring movement after injury to sharpening focus at work. This panel covers what those signals show, and who gets to define the baseline they are measured against.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
The Performance Frontier
Neuroscience and body sensing are making human performance measurable, from restoring movement after injury to sharpening focus at work. This panel covers what those signals show, and who gets to define the baseline they are measured against.
Paul Nuyujukian
Stanford
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Neurosurgery
Paul Nuyujukian
Stanford
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and of Neurosurgery
Samuel Taylor
Core Impact
Founder & CEO
Samuel Taylor
Core Impact
Founder & CEO
David Rock
NeuroLeadership Institute
Founder & CEO
David Rock
NeuroLeadership Institute
Founder & CEO
Kerri ONeill
Ipsos
Chief People Officer
Kerri ONeill
Ipsos
Chief People Officer
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Building on Someone Else's Models
Most AI companies are built on foundation models they do not own, cannot see inside, and cannot stop from changing. This panel covers what you actually own in that position, and what happens to your product when the layer underneath ships an update.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Building on Someone Else's Models
Most AI companies are built on foundation models they do not own, cannot see inside, and cannot stop from changing. This panel covers what you actually own in that position, and what happens to your product when the layer underneath ships an update.
[Interview]
Forbes
[Interview]
Forbes
Gemini workshop
Gemini workshop
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Keynote]
[Converging Intelligences]
Moonshots
The largest bets in technology are made by people who assume the constraint will move. This session covers how to think at that scale and what it takes to fund it.
[Keynote]
[Converging Intelligences]
Moonshots
The largest bets in technology are made by people who assume the constraint will move. This session covers how to think at that scale and what it takes to fund it.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Rebooting the News
Local newsrooms are being squeezed by the same models that could rebuild them. Editors and operators discuss what AI takes from journalism and what it might give back.
[Panel]
[Human Stack]
Rebooting the News
Local newsrooms are being squeezed by the same models that could rebuild them. Editors and operators discuss what AI takes from journalism and what it might give back.
Ashley Harmon
Lookout Local
Chief of Staff
Ashley Harmon
Lookout Local
Chief of Staff
Gabriel Sama
Bay Area News Group
Managing Editor for Audience
Gabriel Sama
Bay Area News Group
Managing Editor for Audience
Ken Doctor
Lookout Local
CEO
Ken Doctor
Lookout Local
CEO
Queena Kim
KQED
Audio Journalist
Queena Kim
KQED
Audio Journalist
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Autonomy Where It's Hard
Autonomous systems fail differently in open water, on a pipeline and in a warehouse, but the hard part is the same: no map, no signal, no operator. This panel covers what it takes to keep machines working where nobody can intervene.
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Autonomy Where It's Hard
Autonomous systems fail differently in open water, on a pipeline and in a warehouse, but the hard part is the same: no map, no signal, no operator. This panel covers what it takes to keep machines working where nobody can intervene.
[Interview]
Forbes
[Interview]
Forbes
Gemini workshop
Gemini workshop
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Fireside]
[Converging Intelligences]
The Next Endeavor: Horizons of Intelligence
Three of the field's most senior voices close the main stage on where intelligence goes next. The session looks past the two-year horizon the rest of the program covers.
[Fireside]
[Converging Intelligences]
The Next Endeavor: Horizons of Intelligence
Three of the field's most senior voices close the main stage on where intelligence goes next. The session looks past the two-year horizon the rest of the program covers.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Where Venture Goes Next
Investors discuss which AI theses they are still underwriting and which they have quietly dropped. The session covers what has changed in the last twelve months.
[Panel]
[Innovation Stack]
Where Venture Goes Next
Investors discuss which AI theses they are still underwriting and which they have quietly dropped. The session covers what has changed in the last twelve months.
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Life Science and Bio
Founders and operators discuss where AI is compressing drug discovery timelines. The session covers what has reached the clinic and what remains a promise.
[Fireside]
[Innovation Stack]
Life Science and Bio
Founders and operators discuss where AI is compressing drug discovery timelines. The session covers what has reached the clinic and what remains a promise.
[Interview]
Forbes
[Interview]
Forbes
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligences]
Closing
The hosts close two days of programming and name what changed. The session asks where the work goes from here.
[Hosts]
[Converging Intelligences]
Closing
The hosts close two days of programming and name what changed. The session asks where the work goes from here.
Vanessa Parli
Stanford HAI
Managing Director, External Engagement,
Vanessa Parli
Stanford HAI
Managing Director, External Engagement,
Peter Danenberg
Google DeepMind
Senior Software Engineer
Peter Danenberg
Google DeepMind
Senior Software Engineer
Arisa Kuo
planX AI Consulting & Lab; IIA Innovation Leadership
Managing Partner
Arisa Kuo
planX AI Consulting & Lab; IIA Innovation Leadership
Managing Partner
[Interview]
Forbes
[Interview]
Forbes
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
[AI Demo]
[Innovation Stack]
Demo Stations
End of Summit
5:00 PM
End of Summit
5:00 PM
