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​Event Schedule

​Schedule subject to change!

​Friday 11/14

​Opening night at The Commons.

​6:00-6:30pm – Doors open: get checked in, check out the space
6:30-7:00pm – Carla Guarnay (The Data of Professional Matchmaking)
7:00-7:30pm – Cody Zervas (Keeper AI - How to Build a Dating App That Actually Works, From First Principles)
7:30-8:00pm – Sasha Chapin (Live Relationship and Dating Advice)
8:00-9:00pm – Lightning Talks (Open Mic)

​Saturday 11/15

​All-day discussion and small group activities at The Commons, plus the following scheduled talks:

​9:30-10:00am – Doors open: get checked in, check out the space
10:00-11:00am – Christine Peterson (Why Men and Women Should Date Differently)
11:00-12:00pm – Clayton Rabideau (The Genetic Basis of Sexual Selection)
12:00-1:00pm – Chris Lakin (Your Chronic Dating Bottleneck Isn't What You Think It Is)
1:00-2:00pm – Break
2:00-3:00pm – Michael Abdo (Human Personality Embeddings from Video)
3:00-4:00pm – Jacob Falkovich (Dating Isn’t a School Assignment, and You Can't Cheat On It with AI)
4:00-5:00pm – Geoffrey Miller (Can Monogamy Survive in the AI Era?)
5:00-5:30pm – Naman Gupta (Engineering Platforms for Lasting Relationships)
5:30-6:00pm – Divya Venn (Relationship Infohazards and Enlightened Matchmaking)
6:00-6:30pm – Christine (Cuties App)
6:30-7:00pm – Mark Kilaghbian (Dataing)
7:00-7:30pm – Matthew Fisher (Relationship Outcome Prediction Tech)
7:30-8:00pm – Adam Gries, Rie Yano (Ambition and Relationships)

​Sunday 11/16

​All-day discussion and small group activities at The Commons, plus the following scheduled talks:

​10:00-11:00am – Margarita Geleta (History of Human Connection)
11:00-12:00pm – Jess and Malcolm Ocean (Learnings From a Metarational Marriage)
12:00-12:30pm – Ann Pierce (Against Couples Therapy)
12:30-2:00pm – Break
2:00-3:00pm – Geneva Bea (Combining Addictive and Numinous Models of Love)
3:00-4:00pm – Stephen Long (What Are You Holding Back? An Individuation Workshop)
4:00-4:30pm – Joshua, Defender of Basic (How to Propagate Love in a War Zone) 
4:30-5:00pm – Jason Yuan (Gossip is Good: A Manifesto for Social Intelligence)
5:00-5:30pm – Isabel (The Only Antidote to Status Games is True Love)
5:30-6:00pm – Lucy Huang, Chris Lakin (How to Matchmake Your Friends)
6:00-6:30pm – Lana Li (The Most Surprising Things I Learned Researching Dating in 2025)
6:30-7:00pm – Dünya Baradari (AI Dating Simulation - Digital Twins for Dating)
7:00-7:30pm – Matthieu Huss (Mosaic AI)
7:30-8:30pm – Lightning Talks/Pitches/Asks (Open Mic)

​6:00-8:00pm Cuties and Bookbear Express Matchmaking Singles Workshop

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​With fortune’s favor, we shall be together at the appointed hour. We await with glad anticipation our meeting.