🧠996 v. 4-Day Work Week: The Future of Work
​AI is forcing a choice between two futures of work.
​In one, automation supercharges 996 hustle culture – shorter cycles, borderless teams, relentless ambition.
In the other, the same technology returns time – 4-day weeks, deeper creativity, and purpose-led work.
​Join leading CEOs, researchers, and builders for a high-signal debate on how intelligent systems are reshaping productivity, culture, and the human contract with work. We’ll move past hot takes to examine what the next era truly looks like – and who it benefits.
​What We’ll Tackle
​Work-life “balance” in an AI-first world – myth, upgrade, or obsolete?
​996 vs. 4-Day Week: which model wins when agents do more of the work?
​The end of the physical office: AI-native collaboration and borderless teams
​Economic & cultural shifts: coworker agents, global productivity, new labor contracts
​Ambition × Automation × Abundance: what we gain – and what we risk
​Expert Panel
​Nick Bloom (Stanford): Global authority on remote work & productivity.
​Mario Vasilescu – CEO & Co-founder, Readocracy (“a Fitbit for knowledge”); Founding Partner, Thinking Through AI; Brain Trust member at XPRIZE and World in 2050; Salzburg Global Fellow.
​Aristia Kinis – Director of Strategy & Partnerships, OpenResearch; social-impact leader focused on UBI, the future of social-science research, and the future of work in AI.
​Wen Sang – Co-founder & COO, Genspark.ai (scaled from 0 → $50M ARR in five months; ex-Smarking/YC & Khosla).
​Moderator: Chappy Asel (The AI Collective): Founder & Executive Director at The AI Collective.
​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 100,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.
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