AI Pioneers Summit by Decibel & Latent Space

​Decibel Partners (decibel.vc) and Latent Space (latent.space) are excited to host the 3rd edition of our AI Pioneers Summit!

​We will bring together 200 product and engineering leaders working with AI in production. This is an invite-only event.

​Agenda

• ​3pm: Doors open for networking

• ​3:50pm: Content starts

• ​4-5pm: Lightning Talks

  • ​“The Battle for Data Ownership” with Arvind Jain (CEO, Glean)

  • ​“Building a Lean AI Team" with Eric Simons (CEO, Bolt.new)

  • ​"Multimodal AI: What's Real, What's Not?" with Laura Burkhauser (CEO, Descript)

  • ​“The AI-Powered Science Renaissance" by Behnam Neyshabur (Principal Research Scientist and co-lead Discovery Team, Anthropic)

• ​5-6pm: Breakouts

  • ​Context Engineering

    • ​Moderated by Jeff Huber (Chroma) and Jason Liu (Instructor)

    • ​Bring your hot takes on memory for AI, Context Rot, and whether RAG is dead or not!

  • ​Building Effective Agents

    • ​Moderated by Kay Zhu (CTO, GenSpark) Edward Wu (CEO, Dropzone), Andi Partovi (CTO, Veris.ai)

    • ​Are MCPs the real deal? How much autonomy should you give the agent? How do you deploy them successfully

  • ​Unlocking Multimodality At Scale

    • ​Moderated by Anurag Beniwal (Head of Agents, ElevenLabs), and Philipp Kandall (CPO, Grab)

    • ​Is the voice hype justified? How does vision change AI apps, and how do you manage its context?

  • ​Off the Rails: The Inconvenient Truth of Deploying AI

    • ​Moderated by Arvind Sundararajan (Founder and CTO, Abacus AI), Lou Manousos (Founder of Risk IQ Microsoft), Anand Raghavan (Founder of Armorblox Cisco)

    • ​Are chatbots just like tech bros? Are models finally commoditizing? Is memory the only moat? Come stir the pot as we take the guardrails off!

  • ​Bring-your-own-topic

    • ​If you’d like to host a discussion about a different topic, please ping us! The lower floor will be open for smaller groups or 1:1 networking.

• ​6-8pm: Music + Food / Drinks