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
Alexandr Yarats, Head of Search at Perplexity
Samo Burja, Founder and President at Bismarck Analysis
Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains
Oleg Koverznev, VP, Head of Agent Systems at JetBrains
Dr. David Yang, Co-Founder at Newo.ai
Eugenia Kuyda, Founder and CEO at Wabi
Keli Callaghan, Partner at Arrington Capital
Anna Klepchukova, Chief Medical Officer at Flo
Tarun Raisoni, CEO & Co-Founder at Gruve.ai
Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC
Anton Kaplanyan, Founder, ex-Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, Crytek
David and Daniil Liberman, Co-creators at Gonka.ai
Shub Shrivastava, AI Infra & Agentic AI at Google
Meg McWilliams, Co-Founder at Mixies
Serik Kaldykulov, Founder & Managing Partner at Elefund
Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder at WOMEN x AI
Michael Stewart, Partner at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund
Ash Kumra, Founder, BusinessTechCulture.com, SF Chapter Leader, The AI Collective
Kuzma Ledenev, Founder at madhats.ai
And many more pending!
Agenda:
8:30AM - Doors open
9:00AM - Women in AI breakfast panel | Marina Davidova, Anastasia Zemskova, Shub Shrivastava, Meg McWilliams Jenny Kay Pollock
10:00AM - Opening words by organizers
10:05AM - The State of AI: Beyond the Hype | Vanessa Parli, Nick Davidov, Marina Davidova
10:35AM - AI Infra Evolution | Roman Chernin, Nick Davidov
11:00AM - Rethinking Search as Code Generation | Alexandr Yarats
11:15AM - Agentic Data in Enterprise | Stas Kelvich
11:30AM - How Anthropic team use Claude Code internally | Lydia Hallie
11:45AM - AI Without Gatekeepers: Breaking the Compute Monopoly | Daniil and David Liberman
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, VenkataRaghu Banda, Tarun Raisoni, Kevin Tsai, Anastasia Zemskova
1:35PM - Agentic Apps for Normies | 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 - Small and Medium Business Adoption | Dr. David Yang, Kuzma Ledenev
3:00PM - Coffee Break
3:20PM - AI & Geopolitics | Samo Burja
3:45PM - TBA
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.
All conference attendees are welcome at the reception which starts right after the sessions end - same location.