​The AI Rabbit Hole 2025 - Through the Looking Glass.

​🎩🤖 Venture through the looking glass and into the whimsical world of AI Wonderland!

​Join us in San Francisco for a tea party of innovation, where algorithms dance, machines chatter, and ideas twirl in a curious mix.

​For Founders, Engineers, Investors and Corporate Leaders

​2024 AI Rabbit Hole video

​2025 Speakers:

• ​Aravind Srinivas, Founder and CEO at Perplexity.ai (Remote)

• ​Denis Yarats, Co-Founder and CTO at Perplexity.ai

• ​Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark

• ​Shane Zide, Vice President of Sales, Americas at Nebius

• ​Erik Schluntz, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

• ​Idan Gazit, Head at GitHub Next

• ​Vanessa Parli, Director at HAI, Stanford

• ​Caitlin Kalinowski, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

• ​Maryanna Saenko, Co-Founder and Partner at Future Ventures

• ​Adam Brown, Stanford

• ​Shishir Mehrotra, CEO at Grammarly

• ​Teddy Lee, Startups GTM Staff at OpenAI

• ​Dave Deriso, Founder at Skim.ai

• ​Yann Ledger, CEO and co-founder at Koyeb

• ​Melissa Valentine, Senior Fellow at HAI, Stanford

• ​Olga Megorskaya, CEO at Toloka

• ​Caroline Ingeborn, COO at Luma

• ​Nuno Campos, Founding Engineer at LangChain

• ​Jason Cornelius, Aerospace Engineer at NASA

• ​Anna Tong, Technology Correspondent at Reuters

• ​Josh Constine, Venture Partner for consumer at SignalFire

• ​Kevin Tsai, Director, Applied AI Engineering at Google

• ​Hassaan Raza, Co-Founder & CEO at Tavus

• ​Henry Yin, CTO at AGI House

• ​Alex Mashrabov, Founder at Higgsfield

• ​Raghu Banda, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect Advisor & AI Strategy at SAP

• ​Nick Davidov, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

• ​Marina Davidov, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

• ​Anto Patrex, CEO & Co-Founder at CosmicBrain AI

• ​Ash Kumra, Head of Events & Community at GenAI Collective

• ​Supriya Gupta, GenAI Collective

• ​Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12

• ​Radhika Malik, Partner at Dell Technology Capital

• ​Anastasia Sartan, CEO and Co-founder at GetGenAI

• ​Elena Lenena, Growee Founder, ML PhD, Forbes 30u30

​A sneak peek into topics (full agenda TBA):

​8:00AM - Doors Open, Breakfast & Networking

​8:55AM - Opening Words from MadHats and DVC
9:00AM - Annual State of AI Report  

• ​Vanessa Parli, Director of Research at HAI, Stanford 

• ​Melissa Valentine, Senior Fellow at HAI, Stanford

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9:30AM - Engineering organizations for relentless shipping in AI 

• ​Denis Yarats, Co-Founder & CTO at Perplexity

• ​Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC

​9:50AM - Quantum Computing and AI 

• ​Adam Brown, Theoretical Physicist at Stanford

• ​Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC

​10:05AM - Nebius: GPU Rocketship, from Hopper to Blackwell 

• ​Shane Zide, Vice President of Sales, Americas at Nebius AI

​10:25AM - Agents and Claude Code 

• ​Erik Schluntz, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

• ​Henry Yin, CTO at AGI House

​10:45AM - Agents and How They Will Transform Data Production in AI 

• ​Olga Megorskaya, CEO at Toloka

​11:00AM - Coffee & Networking Break

​11:30AM - AI and the Future of Work

• ​Shishir Mehrotra, CEO at Grammarly

• ​Josh Constine, Venture Partner for Consumer at SignalFire

​11:50AM - Lessons from building a $100M ARR business in under 2 years

• ​Aravind Srinivas (remote), Founder & CEO at Perplexity

• ​Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC

​12:10PM - Early-Stage Investing in the Rapidly Evolving AI Landscape 

• ​Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark

• ​Anna Tong, Tech Correspondent at Reuters

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12:30PM - B2B AI Startup Landscape and Investing 

• ​Eugenio Gonzalez, Partner at Plug and Play Ventures

• ​Radhika Malik, Partner at Dell Tech Capital

• ​Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12

• ​Supriya Gupta, Advisor & Head of Collective Investments at GenAI Collective

• ​moderated by Ash Kumra, GenAI Collective

​12:55PM - NASA Supercomputers and Simulating the Next Generation of Robotics

• ​Jason Cornelius, Aerospace Engineer at NASA

• ​Anto Patrex, Founder & CEO at CosmicBrain AI

• ​moderated by Margarita Geleta, Researcher at BAIR/Stanford

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1:15PM - Spatial AI and Robotics 

• ​Maryanna Saenko, Co-Founder & Partner at Future Ventures

• ​Caitlin Kalinowski, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

​1:30PM - Lunch Break & Networking

​2:15PM - Future of Software Development 

• ​Idan Gazit, Head at GitHub Next

• ​Teddy Lee, Startups GTM Staff at OpenAI

• ​Nuno Campos, Founding Engineer at LangChain

• ​Andrew Filev, Founder & CEO at Zencoder

• ​moderated by Henry Yin, CTO at AGI House

​2:45PM - AI Video and Consumer 

• ​Caroline Ingeborn, COO at Luma AI

• ​Josh Constine, Venture Partner for Consumer at SignalFire

​3:00PM - The Art of Conversation: Teaching AI to Interact Like Us

• ​Hassaan Raza, Co-Founder & CEO at Tavus

​3:10PM - AI Enterprise Applications at Scale 

• ​Kevin Tsai, Director of Applied AI Engineering at Google

• ​Raghu Banda, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect Advisor & AI Strategy at SAP

• ​Yann Leger, CEO & Co-Founder at Koyeb

• ​moderated by Anastasia Sartan, CEO & Co-Founder at GetGenAI

​3:35PM - AI Agents Benchmarking - from Sales to Healthcare Compliance"

• ​Dmitry Karpov, CEO at WorkDone
  

​3:45PM - Success Indicators for Current Early Stage AI Startups

• ​Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC

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4:00PM - Agents Monetization 

• ​Jan Čurn, Founder & CEO at Apify

​4:10PM - The Next Cut: How Higgsfield Is Changing Social Media Production

• ​Alex Mashrabov, Founder at Higgsfield AI

​4:20PM - HCI for AI 

• ​Dave Deriso, Founder at Skim.ai

​4:30PM - The Next Wave of AI Investments

• ​Peter Deng, General Partner at Felicis

• ​Ilya Fushman, Partner at Kleiner Perkins

• ​Ann Bordetsky, Partner at NEA

• ​Moderated by Marina Davidova, Co-Founder at DVC

​4:50PM - Stand-up Show by Acoustica x DVC

• ​Alex Ivanov, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

• ​Daniel Kivatinos, CEO and Co-Founder at JustPaid

• ​Elena Lenena, Growee Founder, ML PhD,
  Forbes 30u30

• ​Marina Davidova, Partner at DVC

• ​Nick Davidov, Partner at DVC

• ​Julia Sedova, Сomedian, producer, organizer of TEDxVerinAntarainWomen

​5:30PM - End of the Conference

​6:00PM - Afterparty at Temple SF (included in conference tickets)

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​Conference ticket includes access to the After Party by Founders Bay - https://lu.ma/gjtpkqe1

​Don't be late! Seats are limited! 🐰🤖🌟