AI-tonomy Summit Models → Agents
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World-class researchers, engineers, and thought leaders shaping the future of AI & safety.
Featured Speakers
15 Featured
Andy Triedman
Partner · Theory Ventures
Ankur Shah
Co-founder & CEO · Straiker
Bob van Luijt
CEO & Co-Founder · Weaviate
Bret Waters
Professor · Stanford University
Christoph Kohstall, PhD
AI Scientist · 1X
Fengmin Gong
CEO & Co-Founder · Metafoodx
Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Partner · Hitachi Ventures
Ken Elefant
Partner · Sorenson Capital
Le Cong
Associate Professor · Stanford University - CRISPR co-inventor leading CRISPR-GPT and LabOS—autonomous AI agents that design and physically execute gene editing.
Madison Faulkner
Partner · New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Qi Jin
Executive Vice President, Software · Cerebras
Nnamdi Iregbulem
Partner · Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ray Wu
Managing Partner · Alumni Ventures
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder & CEO · Horizon3.ai
Yonggan Fu
Senior Research Scientist, PhD · Nvidia - Redefining AI compute efficiency. Creator of Nemotron-Flash and Hymba, unlocking ultimate latency and scalability for next-gen LLMs.
All Speakers
Andre Elizondo
AI Product Lead · Mezmo
Ankur Saxena
Investment Director · TDK Ventures
Ash Lewis
CEO · Fastino
Ashish Kakran
Managing Partner · Seligman Ventures
Asit Sahoo
AI Product Lead · Iron Mountain
Bill (Qingyun) Sun
Co-Founder · Generative Alpha
Christopher Di Gioia
Executive Director, Head of Product Data Governance · PGIM
Clark Zhang
Cofounder & CTO · Graphon AI
Dan Moskowitz
Partner · Third Point Ventures
Danny Hatfield
Managing Director, Venture Banking · Stifel Bank
Denise Teng
Partner · Gradient Ventures
Dr. Paul Fang
President · Bay Area Founders Club
Dušan Vuksanovic
CEO · Swisscom Outpost Silicon Valley
Enoch Zhu
CEO · Orbifold AI
Eugene Cheah
CEO · Featherless AI
Fan-Yun Sun
CEO · Moonlake AI
Grace Gong
Founder & CEO · Smart Venture Media
Holly Hon
SVP, AI & Operations
Jean Malha
Generative AI Specialist · AWS
Jonathan Chan
ex-CISO/CIO
KJ Jia
Managing Partner · Interval Capital
Kyle McNulty
Investor · I-Q-Tel
Leo Tchourakov
Member of Technical Staff · Factory
Li Yin
Co-founder & CEO · Sylph AI
Mehdi Jamei
CEO and Co-founder · Veris AI
Mike Obolonskyi
Principal · Cortical Ventures
Morgan Kyauk
Managing Director · NightDragon
Nikola Borisov
CEO & Cofounder · Deep Infra Inc
Venkata Sai Kishore Modalavalasa
Founding Engineer · Straiker
Sheridan Gray
Product Manager · Meta
Viren Tellis
Co-Founder and CEO · Uthana
Will Horyn
Principal · Geodesic Capital
Wilson Lin
AI Investment Lead · DCG
Yaron Schneider
CTO · Diagrid
Research Speakers
15 ResearchersPioneering researchers pushing the boundaries of AI — from safety and alignment to novel architectures.
Research
Chongkai Gao
PHD · Stanford University - Fei-Fei Li lab researcher bridging multimodal vision and robotics via Hierarchical Foundation Models and the RLBench framework.
Research
Erran Li
Head Of Science · AWS
Research
Fang Wu
AI Reseacher · Stanford University - Advised by Yejin Choi and Jure Leskovec. Creates multi-agent frameworks with strict cross-verification to eliminate hallucinations in scientific discovery.
Research
Hanchen Li
PhD · University of California, Berkeley - Advised by Ion Stoica. Developed LMCache and Continuum, drastically slashing compute overhead for autonomous agents.
Research
Jiachen Liu
Co-Founder · Stealth Startup - Transforming cutting-edge AI4Science models into production-ready enterprise tools for rapid, autonomous discovery.
Research
Lingfei Wu
Co-Founder & CEO · Anytime AI - Expert in NLP and verifiable reasoning, building hallucination-free legal generative AI.
Research
Pengtao Xie
Associate Professor · UC San Diego - Pioneering continual learning. Developed the scLong model, evolving AI through human-inspired "learning by testing" algorithms.
Research
Ruijie Zhu
PhD · University of California, Santa Cruz - Optimizing foundational systems architecture to unlock massive scaling efficiencies for complex verifiable reasoning models.
Research
Xiangyi Li
Founder · BenchFlow
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Xiaolong Jin
AI Researcher · Microsoft - Setting new paradigms with critical benchmarks for autonomous, zero-shot LLM code generation and dynamic debugging.
Research
Xinpeng Wei
Member of Technical Staff · Amazon - AGI engineer driving massive-scale distributed RLHF optimizations and the open-source veRL framework to power next-gen reasoning models.
Research
Yingcheng Wu
AI Researcher · Stanford University - Driving technical breakthroughs and spearheading industry collaboration via the Stanford AI4Science Catalyst Series.
Research
Yu Chen
Co-founder and VP of Engineering · Anytime AI - Leveraging Graph Neural Networks to build robust, multi-hop reasoning algorithms for strictly grounded legal tech.
Research
Zhangchen Xu
Co-Founder · Stealth Startup - Co-authored Toucan and AutoLab, establishing definitive benchmarks for autonomous AI safety and synthetic data generation.
Research
Zhongzhu Zhou
Senior Research Scientist · Together AI
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