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.

Andrew
McIntosh
Hypernym.ai
Head of Product
Exploring media & content in the AI age, drawing from experiences in animation, building MLOps at Veritone (media buying), & Hypernym's tunable eval and compression layer for foundation models, agents, and platforms.

Mark
Atwood
Review Commit
Principal Technologist
Advised Amazon's policies on training data, AI hosting, & AI modification of OSS, documentation, & data. Through open source leadership at Amazon & HP, directed projects like Linux's Core Infra, AI & Data, SPDX, & TODO Group.

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.

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

Lauren
Teixeira
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.

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

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

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.

York
Westenhaver
AlphaFund
CEO
Exploring a paradigm shift from Large Language Models to Large Economic Models and what that implies about the future of automation.

Jake
Hamilton
Nockbox
Founder
Building distributed infrastructure for Zero-Knowledge Proof of Useful Work.

Sunny
Aggarwal
Osmosis Labs
Co-Founder
Examining historical patterns of revolution from "The Crown and the Commons" and how AI-powered digital organizations play their part.

Adrian
Kilian
Mango Medical
Founder
Building AI for objective, surgeon independent ortho-pedic planning, and paving the way to autonomous robotic surgery.
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Katherine
Dee
Default.blog
Internet Culture Reporter
Exploring how the collapse of truth invites a return to narrative, symbolism, and mythmaking as primary tools for meaning-making in our new era.

Harvey Michael
Pratt
Simcluster
CEO
Sharing Lessons on "Slop: The Only Way Out is Through" from building an AI game focused on game design to Scroll, Like, Obey, & Post.

Clayton
Rabideau
Syntensor
Co-Founder & CEO
Building foundation models and assessing novel dataset opportunities in computational biology.

Omar
Shams
Google Gemini
AI Researcher
Drawing from experience as a physicist and exited AI founder on how to hyper-scale compute beyond Earth's energy capacity and aiming for the Moon.

Brooke
Martin
Friends Know Best
CEO & Founder
A startup founder from a very young age, Brooke's latest company is focused on using AI to build a "taste & trust" graph for engendering new kinds of human connection.