AI NeoRenaissance Festival - Uniting Global Leaders, Innovators & Investors to Build a Future that Serves Life
👉 AI NeoRenaissance Festival Website
✨ VIP Penthouse RSVP & approval are handled separately → VIP Access
Go to website now for important information (https://aineorenaissance.co/)
NEWSFLASH: Lunch is being reimagined as an Unconference space for the community to connect and lead. Scroll down for Unconference discussion topics.
Your AI NeoRenaissance Experience
Not your typical tech conference.
A bold, immersive gathering for founders, investors, and innovators shaping a future where AI serves human and planetary well-being — at the edge of deep technology and real-world impact.
Engage with six world-class luminary speakers across Beneficial AGI, future medicine, new venture models and more — leaders who have for decades influenced how AI, capital, and innovation converge.
Feel that future come alive through encounters with Desdemona, a humanoid rock-band lead singer exploring creative intelligence, and Little Codey, a child-sized learning companion pioneering emotional AI.
This is a Festival — not a conference — designed for conversation, curiosity, and real connection, with AI-powered matching, curated introductions, and intimate, guest-led “Unconferences.”
Two Festivals. One Purpose.
To Celebrate the New Era of Human-Centered Innovation
Experience the AI NeoRenaissance Day Festival at STAK Ventures’ luxury 39-story tower and the Night Festival at San Francisco’s legendary Temple Nightclub — two extraordinary gatherings uniting 200 global leaders, creators, and technologists building a future that serves life.
Festival by Day & Night
A full-day journey through AI breakthroughs, robots, and radical ideas — flowing into an electrifying evening with a robot-led rock band and a high-energy DJ dance party to move both minds and bodies.
Desdemona the rock star + Codey the learning companion robot
You'll also meet Little Codey the three foot tall child educational robot. And Desdemona, the lead singer, will be rocking it out with her band during the Night Festival.
Luminary Speakers
Speaker List & BIO Stories - Go to Website
DAY & NIGHT FESTIVAL Venues
Day Festival — STAK Ventures
Time: 8:30AM - 6:00pm
Address: 1900 Broadway, Downtown Oakland
15 minutes from downtown SF BART
Night Festival — Temple Nightclub
Time: 9PM - 1AM
Address: 540 Howard, SF (SOMA)
Desdemona's Dream robot-led rock band + immersive DJ dance sets
FESTIVAL TICKETS
ALL DAY PASS: $45 - $80
DAY FESTIVAL TICKET: $25 - $50
NIGHT FESTIVAL TICKET: $25 - $50
Looking for the VIP Penthouse Ticket - go here.
AI NeoRenaissance Festival — Day Program (Main Stage)
📍 STAK Ventures, Downtown Oakland
🕣 Doors open 8:30 AM
9:30 – 10:00
Ruby Yeh & Payam Safa — Welcome & Orientation
10:00 – 10:30
Tom Chi — Future of Planetary Regeneration
10:30 – 11:00
Payam Safa — Light DAO Connection Experience
11:15 – 11:45
Julie Castro Abrams — Women, Leadership & Capital
11:45 – 12:30
Payam Safa & Dr Pavel Vinitsky - AI Matching Experience
(Intro + guided matching time)
12:30 – 1:15
Dr. Ben Goertzel — Beneficial AGI & Open Source Intelligence
(Includes intro to Little Codey robot)
1:15 – 2:45
Lunch + Unconference Conversations
Speaker & guest-led small groups
We recommend bringing lunch — few options nearby
3:00 – 3:30
Mariane Bekker — Agentic AI: Why It Matters and How Everyone Can Use It
3:30 – 4:00
Dr. Daniel Kraft — Future Medicine & Longevity
4:15 – 4:45
Tiffany Joy Basse — Rewiring the Brain for Calm & Clarity
4:45 – 5:15
Adeo Ressi — New Venture Models
5:15 – 6:00
Open Connection & Closing Conversations
Night Festival
📍 Temple Nightclub, San Francisco
VIP Floor available for upgrade for all Ticket Holders - See Ticket section of this Luma page.
(Included already for VIP Penthouse Ticket holders)
9:30 – 11:00 PM
Desdemona’s Dream — Robot Rock Band
11:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Two DJ Sets
VIP Floor (Quiet Space)
(Little Codey interactions 11:00–12:00)
Unconference Discussion Topics
Session 1: 2pm - 2:30pm
Responsible AI Starts Within
When working with AI, what is our responsibility for inner work and healing to create a future of human flourishing? Led by Carissa Karban of Astrapuffs
Authenticity in the Age of AI
When should we disclose that AI helped craft an apology, love note, or heartfelt message? Led by Cigdem Oztabak of Shift+Create
Ask and Offer: Your Best Vibe Coding Practices
Sharing how I vibe coded to win three hackathons. Come share how you vibe code! Led by Allie Jones of AllThrive.ai
Connecting People IRL
How can we use technology to facilitate bringing people together in-person, rather than online? Led by Alexander Cheney of Sevenn
The Next Era of Brain Health
How will AI and systems thinking change how we understand brain health. Led by Michael Brotherton of Dragonfly 44 Capital
Session 2: 2:30pm - 3:00pm
Using AI to Empower Marginalized Communities
AI is helping people rebuild their lives after prison. How can we expand this to homelessness, addiction, and local employment, and scale this globally starting in Oakland. Led by Gerald Cypert of Options Recovery Services
AI and Thriving Futures
What are the ways that AI can be used to empower humanity to bring about a thriving future? Led by Christopher Pitcher of Arcadia
Moving the Needle on Positive Technology
How can we help promote technologies that are in line with individual and social wellbeing, sovereignty and abundance? Karina Alexanya of Humanication
AI Companions: Healing or dangerous?
Let's discuss the AI Companion debate. Led by Deva Temple of Noeix
Embodiment: What do you think it is?
What does it mean to not just know something, but live it in your body? And what does this reveal about consciousness? Led by Andrea B Saliba of Mindfully Fit