The AI Rabbit Hole 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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 30u30Marina 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)