the AI Rabbit Hole 2026
The AI Rabbit Hole 2026 - AI Bubble Tea Party
🎩🤖 Drink some AI Bubble Tea with us on June 5th!
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, Researchers, Investors and Corporate Leaders
2026 Speakers:
Steve Jurvetson, Founder and Managing Director at Future Ventures
Roman Chernin, Co-founder and Growth at Nebius
Lydia Hallie, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Alex Mashrabov, Founder and CEO at Higgsfield
Joscha Bach, Executive Director at California Institute for Machine Consciousness
Stefano Ermon, Professor at Stanford University, Founder at Inception
Nikita Shamgunov, Vice President at Databricks
Andrew Wooten, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, CFO at Rhoda
Naveen Rao, Founder at Unconventional AI
Samo Burja, Founder and President at Bismarck Analysis
Jagdeep Singh, CEO and Co-Founder at Rhoda
Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains
Oleg Koverznev, VP, Head of Agent Systems at JetBrains
Eugenia Kuyda, Founder and CEO at Wabi
Keli Callaghan, Partner at Arrington Capital
Anna Klepchukova, Chief Medical Officer at Flo
Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC
Timur Bekmambetov, Director, Producer at Bazelevs
David and Daniil Liberman, Co-creators at Gonka.ai
Sergey Gonchar and Eugene Nevgen, Co-Founders at Animation Inc
Founders and top researchers from AI Labs and Startups
And many more pending!
Agenda:
8:30AM - Doors open
9:00AM - Women in AI breakfast panel | Marina Davidova, Anastasia Zemskova, Jenny Kay Pollock, TBA
10:00AM - Opening words by organizers
10:05AM - State of AI Report by DVC | Nick Davidov, Marina Davidova
10:25AM - The State of AI: Beyond the Hype | Vanessa Parli
10:40AM - AI Infra Evolution | Roman Chernin, Nick Davidov
11:00AM - Decentralized Compute | Daniil and David Liberman
11:15AM - TBA
11:30AM - How Anthropic team use Claude Code internally | Lydia Hallie
11:45AM - TBA
12:00PM - Lunch Break
12:40PM - $300m+ ARR in a year | Alex Mashrabov
12:55PM - Physical AI Frontier | Andrew Wooten
1:10PM - Why Enterprise AI Stalls Between the Pilot and the P&L | Oleg Koverznev
1:35PM - TBA | Eugeniya Kuyda
1:50PM - AI: The responsibility to 80 million users | Anna Klepchukova
2:05PM - Beyond the Token: Stefano Ermon on the Architecture That Replaces Autoregressive AI | Stefano Ermon, Ash Kumra
2:20PM - World Models | Anton Kaplanyan
2:35PM - Smal and Medium Business Adoption | Dr. David Yang, Kuzma Ledenev
3:00PM - Coffee Break
3:20PM - AI & Geopolitics | Samo Burja
3:45PM - AI filmmaking direction | Timur Bekmambetov, Charles Ferguson
4:00PM - Is there AGI? | Joscha Bach
4:20PM - AI Bubble Tea with VCs | Ann Bordetsky, Serik Kaldykulov, Anu Maheshwari, Michael Stewart, Marina Davidova
4:45PM - Next big thing or two | Steve Jurvetson, Nick Davidov
5:15PM - Reception
This is an invite-only event and requires approval from the organizers.