It's snowballing.
The AI Summit @Stanford gets better every day. And today, we just dropped a new wave of speakers. NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, StartX, and more.
July 30 to August 1. Third year on campus.
Early bird ends in a few hours. Tick tock.
The 2026 lineup so far:
Jonathan Levin. President of Stanford University.
John Hennessy. Former President of Stanford University, Former Dean of Engineering, Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program. Chairman, Alphabet.
Igor Babuschkin. Co-Founder, xAI.
Juju Chang. Co-Anchor, ABC News.
David Hefter. AI Investments, BlackRock.
Max Gokhman. Head of AI & Digital Asset Solutions, Franklin Templeton.
Aditya Naganath. Partner, Kleiner Perkins. (*new)
Alex Morgan. Partner, Khosla Ventures. (*new)
Cameron Teitelman. Founder & Chairman, StartX. (*new)
Jen Hoskins. Startups Global Head of Partnerships, NVIDIA. (*new)
Yasmina Benkhoui. Sr. Manager, Agentic AI, NVIDIA. (*new)
Jeremiah Owyang. GP, Blitzscaling Ventures.
Isabelle Hau. Executive Director, Stanford Accelerator for Learning.
Ahmad Rushdi. Director of Partnerships, Stanford HAI.
Alvin Wang Graylin. Digital Fellow, Stanford HAI. Author, Our Next Reality.
Bridget Hylak. AI Implementation Consultant, TongueTek Consulting. Co-author of federal AI guidance. (*new)
John Whaley. Stanford CS PhD. Founder, Inception Studio.
Alexis Gauba. Founder, RainDrop.
Sungwon Lim. Founder, ImpriMed.
Kayvan Baroumand. Founder, SignalRank.
Jason Ma. CEO, ThreeEQ.
More coming.
Three days on one of the most iconic campuses in the world. Government, finance, academia, and the companies actually building AI, all in the same place.
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What's happening in tech this week
Pulled live from evion.app/events, where we track 160+ Bay Area events this week alone across 100+ platforms.
Today
Voice AI Goes Global: A Panel on Multilingual & Multiregional Deployment — San Francisco
ClawCamp Campfire: Get Your Agent Running — San Francisco
Compile 2026 Opening Party — San Francisco
Nebius x Escalon CEO Dinner — San Francisco
Nordic Founders Showcase — Palo Alto
Tomorrow
AgentForge: Build & Ship Production-Ready AI Agents — San Francisco
The Agent Stack: Lightning Talks + Happy Hour with Pioneer & Exa — SoMa
Stripe Startups Build Day featuring Genspark Co-Founder — South San Francisco
AI for Science Summit — San Francisco
Watts at Stake: Silicon Valley's Energy Crossroads — Palo Alto
Codex Community Meetup — San Francisco
This week
Agents & Bagels: Weekly Breakfast for Agent Builders — San Francisco, June 17
Preseed and Seed Venture Capital Networking Event — San Francisco, June 17
Legal AI Vibe Lab: Agents, Workflows, and the Future of Legal Work — San Francisco, June 17
Agentic Engineering Summit — San Francisco, June 18
Founding PM Circle — San Francisco, June 17
AI Happy Hour @ Thriller Social Club — San Francisco, June 17
And this is just a taste. There are 160+ events happening in the Bay Area this week alone, across AI, startups, venture, and tech. Dinners, hackathons, summits, pitch nights, and community gatherings you won't find anywhere else in one place.
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Warmly,
Nabila
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