Speakers
Stanford University speakers
Speakers and schedule are subject to change.
Aditya Bhasin
VP Software & Chief of Web Systems
Stanford Medicine
Anurang Revri
Chief Enterprise Architect
Stanford Healthcare
Andreas Tolias
Stanford Professor, NeuroAI Scientist,
Co-founding Director of Enigma Project
Christian Lindmark
VP, CTO
Stanford Health Care
Dan Boneh
Professor, CS & EE, Applied
Cryptography Group &
Codirector, Computer Security Lab,
Stanford University
Dan Yamins
Associate Professor, Psychology and CS, Computer Scientist and
Computational Cognitive
Neuroscientist
Stanford University
Diyi Yang
Assistant Professor of
Computer Science,
Stanford University
Ernestine Fu Mak
Co-Director of Stanford FTL
(Frontier Technology Lab)
Erik Brynjolfsson
Professor,
Stanford University
Gordon Wetzstein
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford
Gunnar Carlsson
Professor, Department of
Mathematics
Stanford University
James Landay
Co-Director, Stanford HAI, Professor & Senior Fellow at Stanford University
Col. Jason Hansberger
Dir. Air Force
AI and Autonomy
Research Center
Stanford University
Jeff Hancock
Professor of Communications, Director
Stanford Social
Media Lab
Karen Liu
Professor, Computer
Science
Stanford University
Marco Pavone
Associate Professor
Aeronautics and
Astronautics,
Stanford University
Michael Pfeffer
CIDO, Stanford Health & Medicine, Assoc. Dean, Stanford
Nigam Shah
Professor, Medicine,
Stanford; Chief Data
Scientist
Stanford Health Care
Nikesh Kotecha
Head of Data Science
Stanford Healthcare
Percy Liang
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Stanford University
Rob Reich
Professor of Social
Ethics of Science and
Technology
Stanford University
Russell Wald
Executive Director
Stanford HAI
Sandy (Alex) Pentland
Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor, MIT
Sanmi Koyejo
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Stanford University
Sean Follmer
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
and Computer Science
Stanford University
Steve Cousins
Executive Director
Stanford Robotics Center
Stefano Ermon
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Stanford University
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor, Applied Physics. Stanford (AI, Neuro, Physics);
Venture Partner A16z
Tengyu Ma
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Statistics
Stanford University
Tobin South
Lead Authentication,
Security, and Privacy
Stanford University
Topher Sharp
Clinical Prof., Medicine -
Care and Population
Health
Stanford Health Care
Vanessa Parli
Director of Research
Programs, HAI, Stanford
University
Zhenan Bao
Professor, Chemical Engineering, Senior Fellow,
Precourt Institute for Energy,
Stanford University
Enterprise Speakers
Amin Vahdat
VP & GM, Machine
Learning, Systems,
Cloud AI,
Google
Alexis Bjorlin
VP/GM
DGX Cloud
NVIDIA
Andi Peng
Research Scientist
Anthropic
Anirudh Devgan
President & CEO
Cadence
Arisa Kuo
MP
PlanX AI Consulting
& Labs
Ayush Khandelwal
Software Engineer
Google Core Security
Avijit Sinha
Senior Vice President,
Strategy and Global
Business Development,
Wind River
Babak Hodjat
CTO, AI
Cognizant
Beena Ammanath
Global AI Institute Leader
Deloitte
Ben Moskowitz
VP of Innovation
Consumer Reports
Brian Solis
Head of Global
Innovation
ServiceNow
Charles Fan
Founder and CEO
MemVerge
Chase Lochmiller
CEO
Crusoe
Chris Lehane
Chief Global Affairs
Officer
Open AI
Clara Shih
Head of Business AI, Meta
Danny Cohen
President
Access Entertainment
David Cushman
Executive Research
Leader
HFS Research
Dinesh Maheshwari
Advisor - Groq, Zinite,
Prospera, Alt-r; ex-CTO -
Groq, Cypress
Drago Anguelov
Vice President, Head of
AI Foundations Team,
Waymo
Eric Shamlin
Founder, Gov., Advisor,
Academy of TV Arts &
Sciences; 3x Emmy-
Winner; AI Studio Head
Garrett Lord
CEO
Handshake
Gideon Mann
Global Head of AI,
Technology
Millennium
Harry Mendell
Data Architect
Federal Reserve Bank of
NY
Helen Pan
General Manager &
Board of Directors,
Apollo Autonomous
Driving USA
Hira Dangol
Enterprise AI Leadership
Analog Devices
Ion Stoica
CoFounder
Databricks
Jason Anderson
Managing Director & CEO
Quire
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Cofounder & Chief
Software and Architect
Cerebras
John Plansky
Executive Vice President
Head of State Street
Alpha
Jim Rowan
Head of AI
Deloitte
Julie Choi
SVP and CMO
Cerebras
Jim Fan
Senior Research
Scientist Lead of AI
Agents
NVIDIA AI
Joe Betts-LaCroix
CEO
Retro Biosciences
Johnny Ho
Cofounder &
Chief Strategy Officer
Perplexity
Joseph Chapa
Dir. of Innovation at the
Strategic Studies Group,
US Air Force
Karl Zhao
GEN AI Consultant
DeepSeek AI
Sicore AI
Madhavi Sewak
Technical Director,
Research
Google Deepmind
Maher Hanafi
SVP Engineering
BetterWorks
Nancy Xu
VP,
AgentForce
Manuel Birke
CTO ADAS Development
@ CARIAD
Manish Chandra
Founder & CEO
Poshmark
Manuela Veloso
Head of AI Research
J.P. Morgan
Matei Zaharia
CTO
Databricks
Michael James
Cofounder & Chief
Architect of Advance
Tech
Cerebras
Michael Wise
Former SVP & CTO
Universal Pictures
Miquel Noguer i Alonso
Founder
Artificial Intelligence
Finance Institute
Mudit Garg
SVP, Strategy, AI
Partnerships
Yello.ai
Natalie Glance
Chief Engineering Officer
Duolingo
Naveen Zutshi
CIO
Databricks
Neda Razavi
CEO & Chairwomen of
the Board
iSono Health
Nina Edwards
VP, Emerging Tech
Prudential
Page Crahan
General Manager,
Tapestry at X, the
moonshot factory
Peter Danenberg
Senior Software Engineer
DeepMind
Peter H. Diamandis
CEO
PhD
Pradeep Sindhu
Ex Founder and Chairman/
CTO
Juniper Networks
Rachel Joy Victor
Cofounder
FBRC.AI
Radhika Malpani
Former Senior Eng
Director
Google
Raluca Ada Popa
Head of Security &
Privacy Research +
Gemini Security Lead at
Google DeepMind
Ramin Hasani
CEO
Liquid AI
Richard V. Rothenberg
CEO
Global AI
Stephen (Steffin) Harris
Chief Data and AI
Officer
Thoughtspot
Silvio Sangineto
Human AI
Microsoft
Simon Parmeggiani
Product Design Director
at Superintelligence Labs
at Meta
Vik Pattabi
Head of Mission
Software
Anduril
Vishal Bhagwati
Head of Corporate
Development
NVIDA
Yossi Matias
VP, Google; Head,
Google Research
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn, Manas AI & Inflection AI
Startup speakers
Abhijit Mitra
CEO
Outreach
Adam Lewis
Head of Innovation
AISim
SandboxAQ
Adarsh Hiremath
Cofounder
CTO
Mercor
Anna Kazlauskas
Creator
Vana
Anna Patterson
CEO
Ceramic.ai.
ex-VP Google, AI &
MP Gradient
Ayna Arora
CEO
MorphoAI
YC X25
Ben Rhodes-Kropf
Founder
SalesPatriot
YC W25
Bratin Saha
Chief Product and
Technology Officer
DigitalOcean
Brian Elliott
CEO
Blitzy AI
Christian Ferreira
CEO
Procurement Sciences
Cyrus Roepers-Chamlou
Founder
Andiron AI
Dheeraj Pandey
CEO
DevRev
Erick Tseng
CEO
Next Chapter
Former Product Exec,
Meta
Vipul Ved Prakash
CEO
Together AI
Faraj Aalaei
CEO
Cognichip
Gou Rao
Cofounder
NeuBird.ai
Howard Wright
VP, Startup Ecosystem
NVIDIA
Jacob Rodriguez
CEO
Oligo
Thiel Fellow 2024
Mathieu Rihet
Founder
Novoflow
YC X25
Max Nadeau
PA,
Technical AI Safety
Open Philanthropy
Michael Andregg
Founder
Eon Systems
Rehan Jalil
President & CEO
Securiti
Riccardo Giraldi
Product Design
Executive - Ex -
Deepmind, Google, Zoox,
Microsoft
Rishi Nair
CEO
Diddo
Rob Bearden
CEO
Sema4.ai
Rodney Brooks
Founder & CTO
Robust.AI
Cofounder & CTO, iRobot
Rony Abovitz
CEO
SnythBee
Ryan Christensen
Cofounder
Nom Development
Sacha Servan-Schreiber
Co-founder
Tinfoil
YC X25
Sameer Agarwal
CEO
Deductive
Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief
Science Officer of
HuggingFace
Tuhin Srivastava
CEO
Baseten
Vanessa Heppner
CEO & Founder
ALTAS AI
Yaniv Altshuler
CEO
Alphabiome.ai
Zipiao (Cas) Wan
CTO
Kolect AI
Investor speakers
Amjad Alhumaidi
Investor
Plug & Play
Anand V Lalwani
Cofounder
Cardinal Robotics
Ashton Scordo
Managing Director
BCI
Bing Gordon
Advisor to
founders/Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Boaz Fachler
Managing Director
Link Ventures
Carl Page
President
Anthropocene Institute
Christian Grunt
Senior Principle
BCI
Dave Blundin
Managing Partner
Link Ventures
David Siegel
Cofounder
Two Sigma
Deep Nishar
Managing Partner
General Catalyst
Franzer Anderson
Managing Director
Link Venture
James Detweiler
Partner
Felicis
Jeremiah Owyang
General Partner
Blitzscaling Ventures
Julien Barber
Associate Director
Venture Capital
Emerson Collective
Kush Bavaria
Investor
Link Ventures
Lisa Dolan
Managing Director
Link Ventures
Mamoon Hamid
Partner
Kleiner Perkins
Marcie Vu
Partner
Greycoft
Mark Machin
Co-Founder and Managing
Partner
Intrepid Growth Partners
Mark Gorenberg
Chair,
MIT Corporation;
MD, Zetta Ventures
Mark Pincus
Founder
Zynga
Mohamed (Sid) Siddeek
Corporate VP, Head of
NVentures
NVIDIA
Navin Chaddha
Managing Partner
Mayfield
Nico Enriquez
Principal
Future Ventures
Ryan Isono
Managing Director
Maverick Ventures
Sandesh Patnam
Managing Partner
Premji Invest
Sri Pangulur
Partner
Mayfield
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director &
Founder
Future Ventures
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
CIO Global Equities
UBS Global Wealth
Ursheet Parikh
Partner
Mayfield
Vedant Agrawal
VP
Premji Invest
Vijay Reddy
Investor
Mayfield AI start Fund
Moderators/Media speakers
Alex Wissner-Gross
award winning computer
scientist, entrepreneur
Alison Sander
Futurist
Ed Ludlow
co-host
Bloomberg Technology
John Werner
Founder & CEO
Imagination in Action
Krystal Hu
VC & Startups Reporter
Reuters News
MacKenzie Sigalos
Business & Tech
Correspondent
CNBC
Nina Gregory
Award-winning Journalist
Randall Lane
Chief Content Officer
Forbes
Will Knight
Senior Writer
WIRED
Katherine Taylor
Documentary
Photographer
Neal Stephenson
Author, Speculative Fiction
(science fiction, historical fiction,
cyberpunk, and baroque)