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Next Revolution of AI: Impact Summit Schedule
Speakers and schedule are subject to change.
Event Locations
Luminary Stage
McCaw Hall, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez Street, Stanford, Ca
Future Stage
SIEPR 130, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building
366 Galvez, Stanford, Ca
Frontier Salon
SIEPR 120, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building
366 Galvez, Stanford, Ca
7:30am-8:00am
Breakfast & check-in, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Luminary Stage
Opening Remarks: Welcome to Stanford and the Next Revolution of AI
- Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford University
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
- Anurang Revri | Chief Enterprise Architect, Stanford Healthcare
- James Landay | Co-Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
8:30 AM - 9:00AM
Luminary Stage: When Imagination Shapes Intelligence
- Reid Hoffman | Co-Founder, LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI
- Bing Gordon | Advisor to Founder Partners, Kleiner Perkins
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Luminary Stage: The Lay of the Land and Future Direction of AI
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
- Erik Brynjolfsson | Professor, Stanford University
- Anna Makanju | VP, Global Impact, Open AI
Future Stage: Disrupting Leadership in the Age of AI
- Murray Newlands | Partner, FoundersX
- Sivio Sangineto | Human AI, Microsoft
- Si Parmeggiani | Director, Product Design, Superintelligence Labs, Meta
- Riccardo Giraldi | Product Design Executive - Ex- DeepMind, Google, Zoox, Microsoft
- Ted Shelton | Former COO, Inflection
Frontier Salon: Empathy and AI: Shaping Human-Centered Intelligence
- Sandy (Alex) Pentland | Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor MIT, Faculty lead digital platforms and society
- Diyi Yang | Assistant Professor, CS, Stanford University
- Laura Shact | Principal at Deloitte | AI Leader
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Luminary Stage: Intelligent Machines: AI, Autonomy & Robotics
- Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford University
- Samir Menon | CEO, Dexterity
- Karen Liu | Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
- Steve Cousins | Executive Director, Stanford Robotics Center, Stanford University
- Beena Ammanath | Global AI Institute Leader, Deloitte
Future Stage: Unlocking AI at Scale: The CIO Perspective
- Gamiel Gran | Chief Commercial Officer, Mayfield
- Sharon Mandell | CIO, Juniper Networks
- Naveen Zutshi | CIO, Databricks
- Saket Srivastava | CIO, Asana
Frontier Salon: AI and the Law
- Julie Choi | SVP and CMO, Cerebras
- Megan Jones | Partner, CoChair, Anti-Trust Group, Hausfeld
- Belinda Lee | Partner, Latham & Watkins
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Luminary Stage: AI and Future of Society
- David Siegel | Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Two Sigma
- Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures
Future Stage: Future of Mobility: AI Foundations and the Road Ahead
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
- Vincent Vanhoucke | Waymo's Distinguished Engineer
Frontier Salon: AI Agents at the Frontier: From Research to Startups
- Tobin South | Lead Authentication, Security, and Privacy, Stanford University
- Steven Huang | CEO, Kolect AI
- Jags Kandasamy | CEO, Latent AI
- Ayna Arora | CEO, MorphoAI, YC X25
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Luminary Stage: Moonshots in AI and Space
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
- Steve Jurvetson | Managing Director & Founder, Future Ventures
Future Stage: Defending the Digital Future: Security, Trust, and AI
- Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
- Dan Boneh | Professor, CS & EE, Applied Cryptography Group & Co-director, Stanford University
- Jeff Hancock | Professor, Communications and Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, Stanford University
- Moinul Khan | CEO, Aurascape
Frontier Salon: Reinventing Discovery: AI & Data as Collaborator
- Christian Bailey | Founder, Squawk AI
- Gunnar Carlsson | Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Founder at BluelightAI
- Yaniv Altshuler | CEO, Alphblome.ai
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Luminary Stage: AI for Discovery
- Julien Barber | Associate Director, Venture Capital Emerson Collective
- William (Liam) Fedus | CEO, Periodic Labs (former VP of Post-Training, Open AI
Future Stage: The Capital Shift: Investing in AI's Next Wave
- Krystal Hu | VC & Startups Reporter, Reuters News
- Sandesh Patnam | Managing Partner, Premji Invest
- Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi | CIO Global Equities, UBS Global Wealth
- Mark Machin | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Intrepid Growth Partners
Frontier Salon: Enterprise AI: Accelerating Productivity and Innovation
- Paul Baier | CEO, GAI Insights
- Tarun Raisoni | CEO, Gruve Inc
- Maher Hanafi | SVP Engineering, BetterWorks
- Ursheet Parikh | Partner, Mayfield
- Brian Solis I Head of Global Innovation, ServiceNow
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Luminary Stage: AI and the Architecture of Human Connection with Meta
- Shirin Ghaffary | Reporter at Bloomberg News
- Clara Shih | Head of Business AI, Meta
Future Stage: Embodied Intelligence: Wearables, Voice, and Vision
- Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford University
- Zhenan Bao | Professor, Chemical Engineering, Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
- Sean Follmer | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and CS, Stanford University
- Erick Tseng | CEO, Next Chapter & Former Product Exec, Meta
12:00pm-1:00pm
Lunch Break, boxed lunches provided
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Luminary Stage: Coding the Future: How AI is Rewriting Innovation
- Peter H. Diamandis | Executive Chairman, XPRIZE
- Amjad Masad | CEO, Replit
- Salim Ismail | Ex-Yahoo VP
- Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures
Future Stage: AI and the Future of Media and Entertainment
- Michael Wise | Former SVP & CTO Universal Pictures
- Rachel Joy Victor | Founder, FBRC. AI, Professor, USC
- Danny Cohen | President, Access Entertainment
- Eric Shamlin | Founder, Governor, Academy of TV Arts & Sciences; 3x Emmy-Winner; AI Studio Head
- Jason Anderson | MD & CEO, Quire
- Ali Albazaz | CEO, Inkitt
Frontier Salon: Powering the Next Energy Frontier with AI
- Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
- Carl Page | President, Anthropocene Institute
- Tamanna Sait | VP, Cloud Engineering, Crusoe
- Vijay N. Gadepally | Co-founder, Bay Compute
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Luminary Stage: Coding the Future: How AI is Rewriting Innovation (Session Continues)
- Peter H. Diamandis | Executive Chairman, XPRIZE
- Amjad Masad | CEO, Replit
- Salim Ismail | Ex-Yahoo VP
- Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures
Future Stage: AI at the Frontlines: Defense, Security, and Strategy
- Alison Sander | Futurist
- Col. Jason Hansberger | Dir. Air Force, AI and autonomy research center, Stanford University
- Scott Hellman | Supervisory Special Agent, The FBI, San Francisco Division
- Joseph Chapa | Director of Innovation at the Strategic Studies Group, US Air Force
- Vik Pattabi | Head of Mission Software, Anduril
- Marco Pavone | Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
Frontier Salon: From Gaming to Global Classrooms: Building Intelligent Experiences
- Bing Gordon | Advisor to Founder Partners, Kleiner Perkins
- Natalie Glance | Chief Engineering Officer, Duolingo
- Kylan Gibbs | CEO, Inworld AI
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Luminary Stage: Scaling Intelligence: AI and the Future of Data Infrastructure
- Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures
- Chase Lochmiller | CEO, Crusoe
Future Stage: Building The Next Era of AI & Robotics
- Nico Enriquez | Principal, Future Ventures
- Rodney Brooks | Founder & CTO, Robust. AI, Cofounder, iRobot
- Anand V. Lalwani | Cofounder, Cardinal Robotics
- Ashish Kumar | Tesla, humanoid robot (Optimus)
Frontier Salon: Future of Agentic Security
- Ayush Khandelwal | Software Engineer, Google
- Heather Adkins | VP, Security Engineering, Google
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Luminary Stage: From Vision to Practice: Role of Gen AI in a learning Health System I
- Nigam Shah | Professor, Medicine, Stanford; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare
- Anurang Revri | Chief Enterprise Architect, Stanford Healthcare
- Topher Sharp | Clinical Prof., Medicine - Care and Population Health, Stanford Healthcare
- Jarrod Helzer | Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Stanford Healthcare
- Christian Lindmark | VP, CTO, Stanford Healthcare
- Nikesh Kotecha | Head of Data Science, Stanford Healthcare
Future Stage: NeuroAI: Bridging Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
- Dan Yamins | Computer Scientist and computational cognitive neuroscientist, Stanford University
- Surya Ganguli | Professor, Stanford (AI, Neuro, Physics); Venture Partner A16z
- Andreas Tolias | Professor, Computer Scientist, Computational cognitive neuroscientist, Stanford University
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Luminary Stage: From Vision to Practice: Role of Gen AI in a learning Health System II
- Nigam Shah | Professor, Medicine, Stanford; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare
- Anurang Revri | Chief Enterprise Architect, Stanford Healthcare
- Topher Sharp | Clinical Professor, Medicine - Care and Population Health, Stanford Healthcare
- Jarrod Helzer | Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Stanford Healthcare
- Christian Lindmark | VP, CTO, Stanford Healthcare
- Nikesh Kotecha | Head of Data Science, Stanford Healthcare
Future Stage: TBD
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Luminary Stage: Rise of Agents in Consumer and Business
- Navin Chaddha I Managing Partner, Mayfield
- Manish Chandra I Founder & CEO, Poshmark
- Rob Bearden I CEO, Sema4.ai, Ex-Cloudera CEO
Future Stage: Autonomous AI Agents in Software
- Randall Lane | Chief Content Officer, Forbes
- Brian Elliott | CEO, Blitzy AI
- Tom Jackson | CTO, RSM
- Kartikesh Herur | EVP, CIO Investment Services Technology, State Street
- Raj Basu | CEO, Galatea
Frontier Salon: AI for Longevity: Accelerating Medical Discovery
- Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
- Joe Betts-LaCroix | DEO, Retro Biosciences
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Luminary Stage: The Imagination Engine: AI in Games, Worlds, and Beyond
- Bing Gordon | Advisors to founders Partner, Kleiner Perkins
- Mark Pincus | Founder, Zynga & CEO, Erth.AI
- Nitin Khanna | CTO, Erth.AI
Future Stage: Rise of Agents in Consumer and Business
- Navin Chaddha | Managing Partner, Mayfield
- Manish Chandra | Founder & CEO, Poshmark
- Rob Bearden | CEO, Serna4.ai; Ex-Cloudera CEO
Frontier Salon: Rewriting the Rules: AI's Strategic Edge in Finance
- Randell Lane | Chief Content Officer, Forbes
- Rishi Nair | CEO, Diddo
- David Cushman | Executive Research Leader, HFS Research
- Bella Liu | CEO, Orby
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Luminary Stage: AI and the Future of Work: Economic Shifts & Workforce Innovation
- Erik Brynjolfsson | Professor, Stanford University
- Beena Ammanath | Global AI Institute Leader, Deloitte
- Noreena Hertz | Global Bestselling Author
- Nancy Xu | VP, Agentforce, Salesforce; Time AI100
- Rohan Vora | Product, Glean
Future Stage: Governing AI: Ethics, Policy & Global Standard
- Krystal Hu | VC & Startups Reporter Reuters News
- Russell Wald | Executive Director, Stanford HIA
- Sanmi Koyejo | Assistant Professor, Stanford University
- Max Nadeau | PA, Technical AI Safety Open Philanthropy
- Rehan Jalil | CEO, Securiti
Frontier Salon: The Agent Era: Engineering Trust at Scale
- Vedant Agrawal | VP, Premji Invest
- Vikram Chatterji | CEO, Galileo
- Sameer Agrawal | CEO, Deductive
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Luminary Stage: The Data Engine Powering Frontier AI
- Navin Chaddha | Managing Partner, Mayfield
- Matei Zaharia | CTO, Databricks
- Ion Stoica | Chairman & cofounder, Databricks
Future Stage: The Future in Motion: AI, Sustainability, and Mobility
- Marco Pavone | Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
- Ernestine Fu Mak | Co-Director of Stanford FTL (Frontier Technology Lab), Founder of Brave Capital
- Sampriti Bhattacharyya | Founder & CEO, Navier
- Evgeni Gousev I Senior Director, Qualcomm
Frontier Salon: Frontiers of AI Learning Systems: Research, Models, and Methods
- Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
- Madhavi Sewak | Distinguished Research Engineer, Deepmind
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Luminary Stage: Frontier AI Models: Powering the Next Leap in AI
- Tengyu Ma | Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Statistics, Stanford University
- Ramin Hasani | CEO, Liquid AI
- Andi Peng | Research Scientist, Anthropic
- Carina Hong | CEO, Axion
- Ramesh Raskar | Professor, MIT
Future Stage: How Foundation Models are Reshaping Quantitative Finance
- Richard V. Rothenberg | CEO, Global AI
- Miquel Noguer i Alonso | Founder, AI Finance Institute
- Gideon Mann | Global Head of AI, Technology, Millennium
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Luminary Stage: Closing Reflections: The Next Revolution of AI
- Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action