sept 25 - 26, 2025
menlo park
This is our third event, and it gets better every year.
Traction is all you need. We only feature AI companies with proven traction — and this year, we have more than 50 represented at the conference.
Alex Ren
Fellows Fund
Day 1
Day 1 is packed with investor insights, product showcases, and networking. Don't miss fireside chats from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nebius. Catch panels on LLMs, app frameworks, and scaling AI with industry giants like Microsoft and Snowflake.
Day 1 September 25, 2025
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Registration
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9:00 – 9:10 AM
Opening Remarks: The AI Revolution in 2025
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Alex Ren
Fellows Fund
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9:10 – 9:45 AM
Fireside Chat: From Reasoning to Agent – Building Claude’s Hybrid Brain
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Scott White
Anthropic
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Charles Elkan
Fellows Fund
9:45 – 10:30 AM
Panel: LLMs at the Crossroads: Advances, Security Challenges, and Safety
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Dawn Song
UC Berkeley / Virtue AI
Andrew Mauboussin
Surge AI
Artemis Seaford
ElevenLabs
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Bo Li
Virtue AI
10:30 – 11:05 AM
Fireside Chat: Fueling the AI Ecosystem
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Sherwin Wu
OpenAI
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JC Mao
Fellows Fund
11:05 – 11:45 AM
Fireside Chat: Frameworks, Platforms & Future of AI App Development
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Michele Catasta
Replit
Julia Schottenstein
LangChain
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Mu Han
Zoom
11:45 – 12:15 PM
Fireside Chat: Building the AI Supercloud
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Roman Chernin
Nebius
Moderator
Vijay Narayanan
Fellows Fund
12:15 – 1:00 PM
Lunch Break & Social
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1:00 – 1:45 PM
Panel: AI Investing Reimagined
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Jennifer Li
A16z
Alex Ren
Fellows Fund
Dan Levine
Accel
JP Sanday
Menlo Ventures
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Adam Coccari
Hubspot Ventures
1:45 – 2:15 PM
Fireside Chat: AI as Your Teammate – Inside Atlassian’s Product Vision
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Jamil Valliani
Atlassian
Moderator
Nick Chong
Fellows Fund
2:15 – 2:45 PM
Fireside Chat: Beyond Copilots – ServiceNow’s AI Enterprise Vision
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Amit Zavery
ServiceNow
Moderator
JC Mao
Fellows Fund
2:50 – 3:35 PM
Panel: Human+Agent – Designing Platforms for Collaborative AI
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David Hoang
Atlassian
Harry Qi
Motion
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Hemal Shah
OpenAI
Vasudevan Sundarababu
Centific
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Vijay Narayanan
Fellows Fund
3:40 – 4:25 PM
Panel: AI Stacks Unlocked: Scaling & Governing Next-Gen Models
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Baris Gultekin
Snowflake
Robert Nishihara
Anyscale
Jithendra Veeramachaneni
Microsoft
Zhe Zhang
Nvidia
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Ali Golshan
Nvidia
4:20 – 4:45 PM
Lessons from Agent Deployments & Scaling GTM
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Ben Budde
ElevenLabs
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Day 2
Choose from 4 Breakout Tracks
In each track, experts will lead focused discussions, workshops, and demos addressing the unique opportunities and challenges in that sector.
We've crafted these parallel sessions to allow you to tailor your experience and engage directly with the content that is most relevant to your interests.
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