TEDAI
October 22
Day 2

Panels & Interaction Sessions

Panels and interactive sessions, designed to engage the audience in dialogue, debate, and discovery.

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Panels and Interactive Sessions

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Track 1 — Technical Deep Dives

For engineers, researchers, and technical leaders who want to explore the cutting edge of AI systems and science.

Frontiers of Multimodal AI

How the integration of text, image, video, audio, and sensor data is creating models with broader context, richer reasoning, and new applications and what challenges remain in training, scaling, and evaluation.

Agentic AI Architectures

Beyond single-shot LLM outputs: the design patterns, orchestration frameworks, and memory systems behind autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents.

Frontier AI and preparing for the Next Leap

A deep dive into post-transformer architectures, multimodal foundation models, and AI agents. What's coming after today's dominant systems, and how it will reshape industries.

Efficient AI and Compute, Chips, and Sustainability

Advances in model compression, hardware acceleration, and distributed training that reduce costs and carbon footprint while expanding capabilities.

AI Safety, Alignment, Interpretability and Trust

Cutting-edge methods to make AI more transparent, steerable, and reliable, from mechanistic interpretability to real-time guardrails.

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Track 2 — Business, Society & Applications

For leaders, investors, policymakers, and innovators focused on AI's impact and adoption.

AI in the Enterprise: From Pilots to Production

Lessons from organizations that have successfully embedded AI into core workflows, covering ROI, change management, and scaling strategies.

AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences

How AI is reshaping drug discovery, diagnostics, patient care, and operational efficiency and the regulatory and ethical considerations.

The AI Workforce: Skills for the Next Decade

AI is transforming every job, from the boardroom to the front line. This panel brings together industry leaders, educators, labor experts, and AI technologists to explore the future of work in the age of intelligent systems.

Governing AI in a Global Landscape

How governments, institutions, and industry are shaping rules for governing AI, and what this means for organizations.

Fueling the Next Wave: Funding AI Startups in 2025

From seed-stage breakthroughs to multi-billion dollar valuations, AI startups are attracting unprecedented capital but the funding landscape is shifting. This panel brings together top founders, venture capitalists, corporate investors, and accelerators to discuss how to secure funding, build a competitive moat, and navigate today's tighter market conditions.

Program

October 18-19

Hackathon at SHACK15

48 Hours

(All Weekend)

October 21

Day 1 at OPERA HERBST THEATER

1–7 PM | TED Talks

7–10 PM | After Party

October 22

Day 2 at SHACK15

1–7 PM | Panels & Interactive Sessions

7–10 PM | After Party