Speakers

Richard
Ngo
Philosopher & Researcher
prev. OpenAI, Deepmind
Thinking about possible futures of human civilization in a post-AGI world through AI alignment and coordination research

Andy
Cunningham
Cunningham Collective
Founder
Has over 4 decades at the forefront of compute, bringing the Macintosh, RISC, SaaS, cloud services, and Language Processing Units to market.

Julie
Fredrickson
Chaotic Capital
Managing Partner
Established the first piece of legislation to protect AI from US regulation as a key advisor on Montana's "Right to Compute" Bill.

Mel
Melara
Bridgepointe Technologies
Vice President
Represents over 30 years experience in network and data center infrastructure consulting, overseeing Data Center and Cloud practices and sales for the Western US.

Anton
Troynikov
Chroma
Co-Founder
Working on how to ensure there is enough capacity to build and support the data centers and compute for an AI-powered future.

Nico
Sarian
Eternity Foundation
Executive Director
Examining how AI-assisted translation of religious and philosophical texts accelerates transmission and redefines the role of the scholar.

Matt
Parlmer
General Fabrication
Founder
Building robotic factories to increase domestic advanced manufacturing capacity. Fellow at the Center for Industrial Strategy.

Daniel
Lisi
Network Press
Founder
Bringing insightful, original, and credible perspectives on technology and the future to life, from concept to printed book.

Peter
Hirshberg
City Innovate Foundation
Co-Founder
Launching from prior urban innovation projects like Maker City and Gray Area, he's updating city planning and policy decisions with AI and systems modeling. Fellowships at the USC Annenberg Center and Aspen Institute.

Mark
Atwood
Review Commit
Principal Technologist
With 30 years of software & open source leadership for companies like Amazon and HP, directed projects including Linux's Core Infra, AI & Data, SPDX, and TODO Group. Advised Amazon's LLM training data, AI hosting, and AI modification of OSS, documentation, & data policies.

Evan
Conrad
SF Compute Company
Founder
Focuses on removing the bottlenecks to bringing more compute to market.

Paul
Hainsworth
Silicon.net
Co-Founder
Decentralizing access to compute marketplaces for sellers and buyers.

Andrew
McIntosh
Hypernym.ai
Head of Product
Developed the MLOps practice at Veritone in 2014 helping take them public. Ran several products including workflow tools to orchestrate ML models.

Emma
Kumleben
Leverpoint Labs
Co-Founder
Working on AI tools to facilitate better calibrated policy and more robust decision making in government.

Lauren
Teixiera
Breakthrough Institute
Climate & Energy Analyst
Among other complex dynamics, studying the mix of factors on whether data centers will result in raising or lowering the cost of power for everyone else.

Cormac
Siegfried
TrustFoundry
Head of Product
Building AI for local governments with trusted provenance and inference with the CTO of OpenGov.

Charles Rosenbauer
American Compute Company
Founder
A full-stack, default tolerant approach from compiler to chip fab for processor production resilience and availability.

Pablo
Peniche
Aqua Voice
Head of Growth
Searching for a new architectural language through mechanistic interpretability and Palladian design principles.

Daniel
Keller
ADIN
Partner
Sharing insights on "The New Culture of Sloptimism and Hypergambling" from helping raise money in global online networks and leveraging AI-powered diligence.

Additional Speakers
More to be announced in the coming days
Covering across expertise, topics, and industries from compute, energy, networking, defense, manufacturing, policy, and cultural production.