We. Ain’t. Seen. Nothing. Yet.

A TED Conference Exploring the Power and Impact of AI

Join us to connect with pioneers, trailblazers, doers, builders, dreamers and leaders to better understand where AI is headed and its profound impact on our civilization, industries, communities, institutions and culture.

Attend live TED talks, meet the speakers, participate in panels and fireside chats. Engage with the community and discuss opportunities and challenges driven by the acceleration of technology and the explosion of modalities unfolding before us.

Get ready to immerse yourself in deep, thoughtful and practical conversations about how AI is changing our view of the world and our social fabric across disciplines and industries.

First Speakers Announced

Jakob Uszkoreit - GenAI and Biology

CEO and Co-Founder of Inceptive Nucleics Co-Author of seminal paper “Attention is all you need”

Joelle Pineau - GenAI and Open Source

Vice President AI research Meta Professor at McGill University

Harvey Mason Jr. - GenAI and Creativity in Music

CEO of The Recording Academy GRAMMY Awards®

Carlo Rovelli - GenAI and Theoretical Physics

Theoretical Physicist World’s 50 Top Thinkers

Noam Brown - GenAI and Multistep Reasoning Agents

Research Scientist at OpenAI Building AI With Human-Level Strategic Reasoning

Jessica Coon - GenAI and Language

Professor of Linguistics at McGill University Linguistics Consultant for the 2016 film "Arrival"

Tri Dao - GenAI and How Models Scale

Chief Scientist of Together AI Creator of Flash Attention - Stanford, Princeton University

Paul Scharre - GenAI and Defense

Executive Vice President at Center for a New American Security Author of "Army of None" and "Four Battlegrounds"

Aravind Srinivas - GenAI and Information

CEO & Co-Founder of Perplexity

Illia Polosukhin - GenAI and Blockchain

Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol Co-Author of Seminal Paper “Attention is All You Need”

Guillaume Verdon - GenAI and Acceleration

Founder & CEO Extropic Creator of TensorFlow Quantum

Stephanie Zhan - GenAI and Venture Capital

Partner, Sequoia Capital

Angela Dunning - GenAI and Copyright

Litigation Partner at Cleary Gotlieb Generative AI in copyright and IP

Surya Ganguli - GenAI and Neuroscience

Professor of Applied Physics, Associate Director of HAI Institute at Stanford and Venture Partner at a16z Andreessen Horowitz

Ethan Mollick - GenAI and Work

Co-Director, Generative AI Lab at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Emilia Gomez - GenAI and Algorithmic Transparency

Lead the tech and scientific team to support EU AI policies, notably the AI Act

Karan Goel - GenAI and Multimodal Intelligence

Founder & CEO of Cartesia

Pratyusha Sharma - GenAI and Animal Communication Systems

Researcher at MIT

Eugenia Kuyda - GenAI and Loneliness

Founder and CEO of Replika

Pedro Domingos - GenAI and Human Ambition

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

AyseDeniz Gokcin - GenAI and Music

Pianist and AI Composer

Ben Zhao - GenAI and Cybersecurity

Neubauer Professor at University of Chicago

DAY 1 TED Talks

DAY 2: Panels / Interactive Sessions

Cocktails & Parties

Hackathon

You want to learn more, you want to connect with others, you want to know how and why it is transforming society, your personal and professional life and you want to have a glimpse of our shared vision of the future?
This event is for you.

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TEDAI San Francisco is curated and organized by Sam & Walter De Brouwer, in collaboration with TED.

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