​AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents
📍 Plug and Play Tech Center, Silicon Valley
📅 June 5, 2026

​The AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents is a curated, high-signal full-day conference bringing together 500+ founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and investors to explore how the next generation of AI systems is being built and deployed.

​Speakers

​Featured Speakers
Andy Triedman Partner · Theory Ventures
Ankur Shah CEO & Co-founder · Straiker
Bob van Luijt CEO & Co-Founder · Weaviate
Gayathri Radhakrishnan Partner · Hitachi Ventures
Ken Elefant Partner · Sorenson Capital
Le Cong Associate Professor · Stanford University
Madison Faulkner Partner · New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Qi Jin Executive Vice President, Software · Cerebras
Pengtao Xie Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Snehal Antani Co-Founder & CEO · Horizon3.ai

​More Speakers
Andi Partoli CTO · Veris AI
Asit Sohoo AI Product Lead · Iron Mountain
Ashish Kakran Managing Partner · Seligman Ventures
Brett Liu Investment Lead · Sixty Degree Capital
Christopher Di Gioia Vice President · PGIM
Christoph Kohstall AI Scientist · 1X
Dan Hatfield Managing Director · Stifel Bank
Dan Moskowitz Partner · Third Point Ventures
Clark Zhang Co-Founder & CTO· Graphon AI
Deepak Prasad Vice President · Qualcomm Ventures
Denise Teng Partner · Gradient Ventures
Dušan Vuksanovic Executive · Swisscom Ventures
Enoch Zhu Co-Founder & CEO · Orbifold AI
Etienne Dilocker CTO & Co-Founder · Weaviate
Erran Li Head of AI • AWS
Eugene Cheah CEO & Co-Founder · Featherless AI
Fan-Yun Sun Co-Founder · Moonlake AI
Grace Gong Founder · Smart Venture Media
Holly Hon SVP, AI & Operation
Jean Malta Senior AI Architect · AWS
Jonathan Chan Former CIO · Episource
Li Yin CEO · Sylph AI
Morgan Kyauk Managing Director · NightDragon
Nikola Borisov Co-Founder & CEO · deepinfra
Nnamdi Iregbulem Partner · Lightspeed Venture
Paul Fang Founder · Bay Area Founders Club
Pramanya Guda Developer & Community Lead · Founders Bay
Sophie Ren Founder · ChatSlide
Wilson Lin AI Investment Lead · DCG
Viren Tellis Co-Founder & CEO · uthana
Yaron Schneider CTO & Co-Founder · Diagrid

​And more exciting speakers and researchers to be announced. Follow us to get updated here
www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers

​Agenda

​10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | AI Researcher Forum
Deep technical sessions led by researchers from leading labs and universities (NVIDIA, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, and more), covering:

• ​Toward Autonomous AI Scientists

• ​Scaling Agentic RL & Verified Reasoning

• ​Continual Learning & Self Evolving Agents

​12:10 PM – 12:50 PM | Networking Lunch + Lightning Pitch
Curated connections across founders, researchers, and investors.
Lightning Pitch is a fast-paced showcase featuring early-stage AI founders building at the frontier of agents, infrastructure, and autonomous systems. Each team delivers a concise 3–4 minute pitch to a curated audience of investors, operators, and AI researchers.

​1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panels, Demos & Founder Sessions

​7 high-density panels across several focused tracks (3 Models + 3 Agents + 1 Agentic Application + 1 GTM for Agents):

​Model Tracks

• ​Compute & Inference Optimization

• ​Physical AI & World Models

• ​Agent Runtime Environment

​Agent Tracks

• ​Agent Security & Safety

• ​Data Infrastructure for Agent

• ​Agent Production Readiness (Eval&Observability)

​Speakers include senior industry practitioners such CISO, CIO and SVP/VP from large enterprises and government organizations, senior VCs such as Partners/Managing Directors of NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital, Thoery Ventures, Nightdragon, Gradiant Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, as well as co-founder and leaders from Straiker AI, Fastino Labs, Veris AI, Weaviate, Skild AI, Orbifold AI, Featherless AI, Mooklake AI, Diagrid, Mezmo, Cerebras, Dagger, Graphon AI and other emerging AI-native startups.

​5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Cocktail Reception
Unwind and connect with founders, investors, and operators in a more relaxed setting, designed for deeper conversations and relationship building.

​Live Demos & Exhibition

​A dedicated demo and exhibition area will run throughout the day, featuring:

• ​Live product demos from AI infrastructure and agent startups

• ​Interactive sessions with builders

• ​Lightning pitches from emerging companies founded by AI researcher

​If you are interesting in demo and pitching your startup, please apply: https://forms.gle/RA8rwAPrgdowsS8p6
For selected startups, we will contact you in the week of 5/25. Onsite exhibition booth may be available for deep startup discount.

​Why Attend

• ​Explore the intersection of models, agents, and real-world deployment

• ​Learn directly from frontier AI researchers and builders

• ​Connect with a curated group of high-quality founders and investors

• ​Discover new tools, startups, and ideas shaping the AI ecosystem

​The summit will bring together 100+ CONFIRMED investors and strategic partners from leading venture capital firms, corporate venture arms, and global technology organizations, including Acrew Capital, Amazon, Backcountry Ventures, BAM Cornerpoint, BHP Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, BuildTech VC, Canapi Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Cathay Innovation, CCV Capital, Citi Ventures, Cisco, Clear Ventures, Conductive Ventures, Crosspoint Capital, Databricks, Datadog, DCG (Digital Currency Group), Defined VC, Defy Ventures, DTCP, EnvisionX Capital, Fin Capital, First Rays Venture Partners, Foothill Ventures, Forgepoint Capital, Geodesic Capital, Glynn Capital, Gradient Ventures, GS Futures, Headline, HOF Capital, Hico Ventures, In-Q-Tel (IQT), Insight Partners, Intel Capital, J-Ventures, Kingstar Capital, Laude Ventures, Lenovo, LG Tech Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Mercedes-Benz, Montage Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, MVP Ventures, N47, NGP Capital, NEA, NTT, Oakseed VC, Okta Ventures, Palo Alto Networks, Premji Invest, Presidio Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Prosus, Qualcomm Ventures, Race Capital, Radical Ventures, RPS Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung, SAIC, Scale Venture Partners, Scrum Ventures, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, Sony Ventures, Sierra Ventures, SignalFire, Singtel Innov8, SK Telecom Ventures, SoftBank, Sorenson Capital, Swisscom Ventures, Theory Ventures, Touring Capital, TSVC, Translink Capital, True Ventures, TGVP, Union Labs, Vertex Ventures, WestBridge Capital, Wells Fargo, Wipro Ventures, Webb Investment Network, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Woven Capital, Yamaha Motor Ventures, among others.

​For more information on participating investors, please also visit: www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers