AI Agents, Living Labs & the Future of Society: Inside Edge Cities’ Experiments to Prototype New Ways to Live, Build & Flourish (SF)
Join Light Dao and our community of conscious entrepreneurs and investors for a salon evening filled with connection, deep conversations, and a fireside chat with Timour, Co-founder of Edge Cities and Ruby Yeh, Co-Founder of Light Dao.
Light Dao is a fast-growing "friends of trusted friends" global network of over 7,000+ entrepreneurs, including 1,000 investors, with curated in-person and online gatherings and experiences in LA, NYC, SF, Lisbon and Taipei, with past Retreats to Dominican Republic, Half Moon Bay and Roatan, Honduras.
Our heartfelt mission is to expand the collective consciousness and co-create a thriving regenerative future for humanity.
SPECIAL SALON GUEST: Timour Kosters, Co-founder of Edge Cities.
What happens when hundreds of the most innovative people in AI, science, technology, health, culture and art don’t just meet for a conference—but live and experiment together for a month?
That is the premise behind Edge Cities: living laboratories where founders, researchers, technologists, investors, artists, families and other pioneers test new ideas, technologies and ways of living together.
Edge has created popup villages and expeditions around the world—from Healdsburg to Patagonia, Chiang Mai, Cape Town and more—with each location becoming a laboratory for new possibilities in technology, community and human flourishing.
At the recent Edge City, 2 hours north of the Bay Area, experiments ranged from an Agent Village bringing hundreds of personal AI agents into the community, to health experts testing metabolic health, wearables and bioelectricity, to a Consciousness Cohort exploring neurotech, contemplative technologies and the science of consciousness—alongside tracks on the future of education, cities and governance.
Rather than just talking about the future, Edge Cities gives people a place to prototype it.
In this salon, we’ll explore with Edge City co-founder Timour Kosters:
What happens when hundreds of AI agents become participants in a human community?
Which experiments have produced the most unexpected results?
What helps tech innovation and human flourishing to coexist?
What happens when technology, health, culture, families (and their kids) and community are designed together?
What can these experiments teach us about new ways to live, create and flourish?
What might these experiments inspire you to rethink about the future you want to help create—and the role you might play in making it possible?
About Timour Kosters
Timour's career spans startups, investing, community building and experiential design. Timour has spent 10 years building startups including Artsy, Kama and the social brand Impact, served as a partner at Seed Club Ventures, built multiple large communities, and founded the award-winning experiential agency Excetera.
His unusually multidisciplinary background gives him a rare vantage point on how technology, culture, human connection and experimentation can come together to create entirely new possibilities.
This will be another cutting-edge, signature Light Dao talk you won't want to miss.
SALON AGENDA:
6:00-7:00pm - Welcome and healthy snacks served (no entry after 7:00PM)
7:00-7:30pm - Light Dao's signature Connection Experience
7:30-8:15pm - Fireside chat with Timour and Ruby
8:15-8:30 - 1-liner business intros from each guest
8:30-9:00pm - Hang out & Wrap-up
VENUE DETAILS: SOMA District
GUIDELINES: This is more than your typical, business networking event.
Light Dao is a private membership club for leaders seeking to join a like-valued global tribe and excited to deeply connect with fellow entrepreneurs and investors on a "whole person level," beyond just business networking.
We respectfully ask everyone to arrive before 7:00PM when the door will be closed, for our signature "Connection Experience," which has been a favorite among past guests.
If you are not a Light Dao Member Owner yet, please be thorough with your registration answers to help us understand how you might be valued-aligned with our community as an EXPERIENCED FOUNDER OR INVESTOR, which allows us to quickly approve you.
Please note, friends or Plus 1s must RSVP individually.
JOIN US: We are excited to welcome you to our global community! http://wearelight.one/
Our past San Francisco Salon Guests have included:
Tim Chang, Mayfield Fund with $4B in exits, and a pioneer in human potential
Chris Yeh, Co-author with Reid Hoffman of Blitzscaling, on scaling impactful tech startups|
Tom Chi, GoogleX Founding Team Leader & Founder of $500M+ ClimateTech Funds at AtOne Ventures
Nichol Bradford, Founder of HumanTechWeek & GP of the Niremia Fund .
Adam Gries, Founder of the global VitalistBay conference and the Vitalism Movement.
Matthew Stepka, MP of Machina Ventures & UC Berkley Lecturer. Former Google VP
Nola Masterton, LP & Venture Partner of Portfolio & MD of Science Futures.
Jeremy Nixon, Architect of the famed SF Bay Area AGI Hacker Houses
Ani Chahal Honan, Founder & MP of the $1 Billion "Beneficial AI Fund" IMAGINE Ventures
Vivienne Ming, Co-founder of Socos and an AI and neuroscience visionary and scientist
Ashley Bell, Leading a $500M fund focused on underserved communities
AJ Keller, Founder of Neurosity funded by Adam Draper, at the cutting edge of BCI technology
Agnieszka Pilat, Robotics artist & "artist in residence" at XPrize, Boston Dynamics & Seoul airport exhibition
De Kai, True AI OG with 40 years experience. New AI book endorsed by Geoffrey Hinton & MC Hammer.
Mariane Bekker, Founder of the 200,000 member Founders Bay & Head of Developer Relations for You.com
Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna Robotics & MassRobotics & Chairman of the Founders Guild