ANZ in AI Forum @ Stanford

​​Stanford ANZ Club is excited to host the inaugural ANZ in AI Forum, with panels and short talks featuring prominent Australians and New Zealanders in AI research, frontier labs, startups, and VC. Non-ANZ students are very welcome! 

Our speakers include the founder of the Stanford Natural Language Processing group, CEO of the AI infrastructure unicorn Baseten, one of the Stripe Mafia and now co-founder of Physical Intelligence, a tech lead on reinforcement learning infrastructure at Anthropic, CEO of the exoskeleton robotics company Skip, Unsloth - a startup with 50k+ GitHub stars for fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on LLMs, and folks at frontier labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, Thinking Machines and Reflection!

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Schedule:
10:45–11:05 Mingling
11:05–11:10 Welcome
11:10–11:30 Short Talk — Chris Manning 
11:30–12:20 [Panel: Frontier Labs] — Clare Birch, Tobin South, Tristan Heywood, Casey Flint (M: Saron)
12:30–1:15 [Panel: Startups and Venture] — Saron Berhane, Maxine Minter, Kathryn Zealand (M: Tobin)
1:15–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:45 [Panel: Startups and Venture] — Daniel Han, Tuhin Srivastava, James Alcorn (M: Saron)
2:45–3:05 [Short Talk] — Daniel Han 
3:15–4:05 [Panel: Future of AI] — Sholto Douglas, Chris Manning, Charlie O'Neill, Lachy Groom (M: Tobin)
4:05–4:30 Close & Mingling

This event is organised by the Stanford ANZ Club with help from our friends at Blackbird 💜. We also thank Stanford GSC and the Stanford Speakers Bureau for their support.

As this event is funded by Stanford grants, this event is targeted at Stanford students & partners besides some ANZ guests. Please register with your Stanford email if you have one. Non-ANZ attendees are welcome!