Berkeley RDI presents

Two days.
Every frontier.

Your field guide to every keynote, talk, panel, and workshop at the Agentic AI Summit — mapped across four stages.

WhenAugust 1–2, 2026
WhereUC Berkeley Campus
TimezonePacific Time
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153speakers & moderators

Profiles, portraits, roles, and organizations sourced from Berkeley RDI.

153 profiles

Ion Stoica
PlenaryCompass

Ion Stoica

Co-Founder · Professor

Databricks and Anyscale · UC Berkeley

Rich Lyons
Plenary

Rich Lyons

Chancellor

UC Berkeley

Dawn Song
Plenary

Dawn Song

Professor · Co-Director · VP of AI Research

UC Berkeley · Berkeley RDI · Meta Superintelligence Labs

Wojciech Zaremba
Plenary

Wojciech Zaremba

Co-Founder

OpenAI

Jerry Tworek
Plenary

Jerry Tworek

CEO; Former VP of Research

Core Automation; OpenAI

Peter Steinberger
Plenary

Peter Steinberger

Creator of OpenClaw

OpenAI

Andrew Ng
Plenary

Andrew Ng

Founder

DeepLearning.AI

Peter DeSantis
Plenary

Peter DeSantis

SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, Quantum Computing

Amazon

Jasjeet Sekhon
Plenary

Jasjeet Sekhon

Chief Strategy Officer

Google DeepMind

Ali Ghodsi
Plenary

Ali Ghodsi

Co-Founder/CEO

Databricks

Sergey Levine
Plenary

Sergey Levine

Co-Founder; Professor

Physical Intelligence; UC Berkeley

Jennifer Chayes
Plenary

Jennifer Chayes

Dean of CDSS

UC Berkeley

Oriol Vinyals
Plenary

Oriol Vinyals

VP of Research

Google DeepMind

Igor Babuschkin
Plenary

Igor Babuschkin

Co-Founder/CEO

River AI

Ed Chi
Plenary

Ed Chi

VP of Research

Google DeepMind

Rao Surapaneni
Plenary

Rao Surapaneni

VP/GM AI Search & Specialized AI

Google Cloud

Jim Fan
Plenary

Jim Fan

Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist

Nvidia

Dan Roth
Plenary

Dan Roth

Chief AI Scientist, Oracle

Professor, UPenn

Weizhu Chen
Plenary

Weizhu Chen

Technical Fellow & CVP

Microsoft AI

Jonathan Cohen
Plenary

Jonathan Cohen

VP of Applied Research · Academy Scientific and Technical Award Winner

Nvidia

Adarsh Hiremath
Plenary

Adarsh Hiremath

Co-CEO

Mercor

Richard Socher
Plenary

Richard Socher

Co-Founder/CEO

Recursive & You.com

Michele Catasta
Plenary

Michele Catasta

President

Replit

Alex Graveley
Plenary

Alex Graveley

Co-Founder · Co-creator, GitHub Copilot & Perplexity Computer

FlyingObject.ai

Michael Spranger
Plenary

Michael Spranger

President

Sony AI

Alfred Lin
Plenary

Alfred Lin

General Partner

Sequoia Capital

Andy Konwinski
Plenary

Andy Konwinski

Co-Founder

Databricks · Perplexity · Laude Ventures

Anjney Midha
Plenary

Anjney Midha

Founder

AMP PBC

Saurabh Tiwary
Plenary

Saurabh Tiwary

Vice President

Google DeepMind

Chuan Li
Plenary

Chuan Li

Chief Scientific Officer

Lambda

Anahita Tafvizi
Plenary

Anahita Tafvizi

Chief Data & AI Officer

Snowflake

Duncan Lennox
Plenary

Duncan Lennox

Chief Product & Technology Officer

HubSpot

Jeff Wecker
Plenary

Jeff Wecker

CTO

Two Sigma

Jen Allum
Plenary

Jen Allum

SVP, Co-Head of GenAI

The D. E. Shaw Group

Li Deng
Plenary

Li Deng

Chief AI Officer, Global Head of ML

Vatic Investments

Ryan Lopopolo
Plenary

Ryan Lopopolo

Principal Engineer

Agentic Google Cloud Platform

Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Plenary

Ekin Dogus Cubuk

Co-Founder

Periodic Labs

Nikhil Chandhok
Plenary

Nikhil Chandhok

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Circle

Milind Naphade
Plenary

Milind Naphade

SVP, AI Foundations

Capital One

Ali Nazari
Plenary

Ali Nazari

Head of Deep Learning Research

Susquehanna International Group

Anastasis Germanidis
Plenary

Anastasis Germanidis

Co-Founder/Co-CEO

Runway

Ivan Burazin
Plenary

Ivan Burazin

Co-Founder/CEO

Daytona

Dima Dmytro Dzhulgakov
Plenary

Dima Dmytro Dzhulgakov

Co-Founder/CTO

Fireworks AI

Wei Zhan
Plenary

Wei Zhan

Chief Scientist

Applied Intuition

Faraz Shafiq
Plenary

Faraz Shafiq

Head of AI

Wells Fargo

Surojit Chatterjee
Plenary

Surojit Chatterjee

Founder/CEO

Ema

Matt White
Plenary

Matt White

Former Global CTO of AI; CTO

Linux Foundation · PyTorch Foundation

Mazin Gilbert
Plenary

Mazin Gilbert

Executive Director

Agentic AI Foundation & Linux Foundation

Maxwell Zeff
Plenary

Maxwell Zeff

Senior Writer

Wired

Bradley Olson
Plenary

Bradley Olson

Technology Editor

WSJ

Aaron Jacobson
Plenary

Aaron Jacobson

GP

NEA

Guru Chahal
Plenary

Guru Chahal

Partner

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Matt Carbonara
Plenary

Matt Carbonara

Investor

Mayfield

Megan Morrone
Plenary

Megan Morrone

Editor of Technology

Axios

Todd Graham
Plenary

Todd Graham

Managing Partner

M12

Jianfeng Gao
Atlas

Jianfeng Gao

Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President

Microsoft Research

Sanja Fidler
Atlas

Sanja Fidler

Associate Professor · Former VP of AI Research

University of Toronto · Nvidia

Peter Stone
Atlas

Peter Stone

Chief Scientist · Professor

Sony AI · UT Austin

Vincent Vanhoucke
Atlas

Vincent Vanhoucke

Distinguished Engineer

Waymo

Philip Rathle
Atlas

Philip Rathle

CTO

Neo4j

Josh Albrecht
Atlas

Josh Albrecht

Co-founder and CTO

Imbue

Woosuk Kwon
Atlas

Woosuk Kwon

Co-Founder & CTO

Inferact

Banghua Zhu
Atlas

Banghua Zhu

Co-Founder

RadixArk

Ranjan Sinha
Atlas

Ranjan Sinha

IBM Fellow, CTO & VP for watsonx, Enterprise AI

IBM

Sunita Verma
Atlas

Sunita Verma

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Ironclad

Ori Goshen
Atlas

Ori Goshen

Co-Founder/CEO

AI21 Labs

Anastasios N Angelopoulos
Atlas

Anastasios N Angelopoulos

Co-Founder/CEO

LLMArena

Sergei Gukov
Atlas

Sergei Gukov

Executive Director · John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics

American Institute of Mathematics · California Institute of Technology

Lijie Chen
Atlas

Lijie Chen

Researcher

OpenAI

Giambattista Parascandolo
Atlas

Giambattista Parascandolo

Research Fellow

OpenAI

Aditya Grover
Atlas

Aditya Grover

Co-Founder/CTO

Inception Labs

Trevor Darrell
Atlas

Trevor Darrell

Professor

UC Berkeley

Manmohan Chandraker
Atlas

Manmohan Chandraker

Professor

University of California, San Diego

Bolei Zhou
Atlas

Bolei Zhou

Associate Professor · Chief AI Scientist

UCLA · Coco Robotics

Rene Pajta
Atlas

Rene Pajta

Chief Architect Cloud & AI

Microsoft

Vincent Sunn Chen
Atlas

Vincent Sunn Chen

VP & Founding Member

Snorkel AI

David Hsu
Atlas

David Hsu

CEO and Founder

Retool

Dan Klein
Atlas

Dan Klein

Professor · Co-founder CTO

UC Berkeley · Scaled Cognition

Michal Shmueli-Scheuer
Atlas

Michal Shmueli-Scheuer

Distinguished Engineer, AI Benchmarking and Evaluation

IBM Research

Priya Ponnapalli
Atlas

Priya Ponnapalli

SVP of Engineering, Enterprise AI

Scale AI

Srijith Rajamohan
Atlas

Srijith Rajamohan

Head of AI Research

Redis

Vijay Ganesh
Atlas

Vijay Ganesh

Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

Lovre Pesut
Atlas

Lovre Pesut

AI Engineer

Daytona

Muhammad Hashmi
Atlas

Muhammad Hashmi

DevRel

Daytona

Devina Jain
Atlas

Devina Jain

Research Engineer

Lambda

Zach Mueller
Atlas

Zach Mueller

Head of Developer Relations

Lambda

Brandon Middleton
Atlas

Brandon Middleton

Head of Education

Replit

Markus J. Buehler
Nexus

Markus J. Buehler

Professor · Founder & CTO

MIT · Unreasonable Labs

Silas Alberti
Nexus

Silas Alberti

SVP of Research

Cognition

Eno Reyes
Nexus

Eno Reyes

Co-Founder / CTO

Factory AI

Jon-Rav Shende
Nexus

Jon-Rav Shende

Chief Technology Officer

Thales Group

James Zou
Nexus

James Zou

Professor

Stanford

Eric Ho
Nexus

Eric Ho

Co-Founder/CEO

Goodfire

Andrew Schoen
Nexus

Andrew Schoen

Partner

NEA

Dhruv Batra
Nexus

Dhruv Batra

Chief Scientist / Co-Founder

Yutori

Krishnaram Kenthapadi
Nexus

Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Chief Scientist

Oracle Health

Venkat Bhat
Nexus

Venkat Bhat

Associate Professor; Director, AI for Mental Health Program

University of Toronto

Eric Wallace
Nexus

Eric Wallace

Researcher

OpenAI

Milad Nasr
Nexus

Milad Nasr

Research Scientist

Anthropic

Bo Li
Nexus

Bo Li

Co-Founder and CEO

Virtue AI · UIUC

Itsik Mantin
Nexus

Itsik Mantin

Head of AI Security Research

Intuit

John A McDermid
Nexus

John A McDermid

Director, Centre for Assuring Autonomy

Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York

Mengdi Wang
Nexus

Mengdi Wang

Professor

Princeton

Rose Yu
Nexus

Rose Yu

Professor; CEO/Co-Founder

UC San Diego; GistFlow

Jonathan Welch
Nexus

Jonathan Welch

Head of AI

Albert Invent

Shamir Abdul Aziz
Nexus

Shamir Abdul Aziz

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Krishnakumar Sharma
Nexus

Krishnakumar Sharma

CEO

Omokai

Shaghayegh Gharghabi
Nexus

Shaghayegh Gharghabi

Deep Learning Scientist

NVIDIA

Mohamed Nabeel
Nexus

Mohamed Nabeel

Senior Principal Researcher

Palo Alto Networks

Chris Bregler
Compass

Chris Bregler

Senior Director / Distinguished Scientist · Academy Scientific and Technical Award Winner

Google DeepMind

Kathy Baxter
Compass

Kathy Baxter

VP / Principal Architect, Responsible AI & Tech

Salesforce

Jeff Price
Compass

Jeff Price

Field CTO of North America

SUSE

Nick Harris
Compass

Nick Harris

Founder/CEO

Lightmatter

Gosia Steinder
Compass

Gosia Steinder

IBM Fellow

IBM Research

Tim Hockin
Compass

Tim Hockin

Distinguished Engineer

Google

Wenbo Guo
Compass

Wenbo Guo

Assistant Professor

UCSB

Ramesh Raskar
Compass

Ramesh Raskar

Professor

MIT

Doga Kerestecioglu
Compass

Doga Kerestecioglu

Principal Applied Scientist

Microsoft Corporation

Ian Fischer
Compass

Ian Fischer

Co-CEO

Poetiq

Yu Su
Compass

Yu Su

CEO · Associate Professor

NeoCognition · OSU

Furong Huang
Compass

Furong Huang

Associate Professor

University of Maryland

Raja Giryes
Compass

Raja Giryes

Professor

Tel Aviv University

Lovedeep Gondara
Compass

Lovedeep Gondara

Head of AI R&D · Adjunct Professor

Vanguard · University of British Columbia

Alex Obadia
Compass

Alex Obadia

Programme Director

Advanced Research & Invention Agency

Jun Yang
Compass

Jun Yang

Senior Director of Compute Architecture

NVIDIA

Ankit Goyal
Compass

Ankit Goyal

Principal Staff Software Engineer

LinkedIn

Debarshi Raha
Compass

Debarshi Raha

VP & Fellow Engineer

DigitalOcean

Yuan (Emily) Xue
Compass

Yuan (Emily) Xue

Head of Enterprise AI

Scale AI

Chenguang Wang
Compass

Chenguang Wang

Assistant Professor · Research Advisor

University of California, Santa Cruz · Scale AI

Shiva Kasiviswanthan
Compass

Shiva Kasiviswanthan

Principal Applied Scientist

Amazon Web Services

Tanya Roosta
Compass

Tanya Roosta

Director of AI

AMD, Berkeley

Denis Akhiyarov
Compass

Denis Akhiyarov

Senior Staff AI Scientist

ServiceNow

Nilou Salehi
Compass

Nilou Salehi

Associate Professor

UC Berkeley

Neil Lawrence
Compass

Neil Lawrence

Chief Scientist and Co-Founder

Trent AI

Huan Sun
Compass

Huan Sun

Associate Professor

The Ohio State University

Navrina Singh
Compass

Navrina Singh

CEO, Founder

Credo AI

Rahul Bakshi
Compass

Rahul Bakshi

Director, Applied Science (Edge AI)

Amazon

John Liu
Compass

John Liu

Principal Product Manager

AWS

Jongryool Kim
Compass

Jongryool Kim

Senior Director / Head of AI System Infrastructure

SK hynix

Ben Athiwaratkun
Compass

Ben Athiwaratkun

Senior Director, Core ML (Turbo)

Together AI

Tushar Krishna
Compass

Tushar Krishna

Associate Professor

Georgia Tech · InfraVana

Daniel Homola
Compass

Daniel Homola

Lead AI Engineer

BMW Research

Christopher Petrillo
Compass

Christopher Petrillo

Principal Product Manager

Wikimedia Foundation

Nayaki Nayyar
Compass

Nayaki Nayyar

CEO

Siteimprove

Surbhi Rathore
Compass

Surbhi Rathore

VP, AI Products & Strategy

Invoca

Daniel Fink
Compass

Daniel Fink

AI Engineering Lead

Cognizant

Rahul Krishna
Compass

Rahul Krishna

Senior Research Scientist

IBM Software Innovation Labs

Grace Tang
Compass

Grace Tang

AI

Hex

Arindam Sett
Compass

Arindam Sett

Principal ML Engineer

Genentech

Scott Clark
Compass

Scott Clark

Co-Founder & CEO

Distributional

Aayush Agrawal
Compass

Aayush Agrawal

Product Lead

Uber

Ankit Sobti
Compass

Ankit Sobti

Co-Founder & CTO

Postman

Zelin Wan, Ph.D.
Compass

Zelin Wan, Ph.D.

Senior AI Engineer

Postman

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46 program blocks · Saturday, August 1

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Plenary Stage
Atlas Stage
Nexus Stage
Compass Stage
Plenary9:15 AM9:30 AM15 minOpening

Opening Remarks

Rich LyonsChancellor, UC Berkeley
Dawn SongProfessor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI; VP of AI Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Plenary9:30 AM9:50 AM20 minKeynote

Session 1 · Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform

Constraint-Driven Innovation: A Look at the AI Systems Problem

Opening keynote

Peter DeSantisSVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, Quantum Computing, Amazon
Plenary9:50 AM10:20 AM30 minTalks

Session 1 · Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform

Featured Talks

From Models to Agents to Discovery: Building the Full Stack of Agentic AI

Saurabh TiwaryVice President, Google DeepMind

Accelerated Computing for Agentic AI

Jonathan CohenVP of Applied Research, Nvidia; Academy Scientific and Technical Award Winner

A Lab Notebook for Agents

Chuan LiChief Scientific Officer, Lambda
Atlas10:00 AM10:30 AM30 minKeynote

Session 1 · Foundational Capabilities

Keynotes

Agentic Modeling via Internalizing Agent Harnesses

Jianfeng GaoTechnical Fellow & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

World Models for Physical AI Simulation

Sanja FidlerAssociate Professor, University of Toronto; Former VP of AI Research, Nvidia
Nexus10:00 AM10:15 AM15 minKeynote

Session 1 · AI for Science

Superintelligence for Scientific Discovery: Multi-Agent Swarms and Large Reasoning Models

Markus J. BuehlerProfessor, MIT; Founder & CTO, Unreasonable Labs
Compass10:00 AM10:15 AM15 minKeynote

Session 1 · AI Systems

The Limits of AI Coding Agents: Two Fundamental Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering

Ion StoicaCo-Founder, Databricks and Anyscale; Professor, UC Berkeley
Nexus10:15 AM11:00 AM45 minTalks

Session 1 · AI for Science

Featured Talks

Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Agents for Science

James ZouProfessor, Stanford

Unlocking Scientific Abundance by Learning from Superhuman AI

Eric HoCo-Founder/CEO, Goodfire

Solving Quantum Science Problems with SMART: A Self-evolving Multi-Agent Research Tree

Andrew SchoenPartner, NEA

LabOS: The AI-XR Co-Scientist That Sees and Works With Humans

Mengdi WangProfessor, Princeton

Towards AI Co-Scientists: Agentic AI for Scientific Discovery

Rose YuProfessor, UC San Diego; CEO/Co-Founder, GistFlow

Building AI for the Physical World: Lessons from Accelerating Discovery for Chemists Across the Globe

Jonathan WelchHead of AI, Albert Invent
Compass10:15 AM10:45 AM30 minTalks

Session 1 · AI Systems

Featured Talks

Photonics Is the Future of Computing

Nick HarrisFounder/CEO, Lightmatter

Beyond Harnesses — Platform Solutions for Agent Reliability, Security, and Efficiency

Gosia SteinderIBM Fellow, IBM Research

Is Kubernetes Good for Agents? Infrastructure Solutions for Agent-Shaped Problems

Tim HockinDistinguished Engineer, Google
Plenary10:20 AM10:45 AM25 minPanel

Session 1 · Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform

Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform

Peter DeSantisSVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, Quantum Computing, Amazon
Saurabh TiwaryVice President, Google DeepMind
Jonathan CohenVP of Applied Research, Nvidia; Academy Scientific and Technical Award Winner
Chuan LiChief Scientific Officer, Lambda
Moderated by
Todd GrahamManaging Partner, M12
Atlas10:30 AM10:50 AM20 minTalks

Session 1 · Foundational Capabilities

Featured Talks

When Language Models Learned to Reason

Giambattista ParascandoloResearch Fellow, OpenAI

Redefining the Token Efficiency Frontier with Diffusion LLMs

Aditya GroverCo-Founder/CTO, Inception Labs
Plenary10:45 AM11:10 AM25 minFireside

RSI: Demystifying the “Foom”

Dawn SongProfessor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI; VP of AI Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Jasjeet SekhonChief Strategy Officer, Google DeepMind
Compass10:45 AM11:45 AM60 minWorkshop

Why Your AI Agent Needs a Wallet: Agentic Commerce on Arc with USDC and Nanopayments

Harshal BhangaleStaff Software Engineer, Circle
Atlas10:50 AM11:50 AM60 minWorkshop

Turning Chatbots into Agents: What Modern RL Looks Like

Presented by Daytona

Lovre PesutAI Engineer, Daytona
Muhammad HashmiDevRel, Daytona
Nexus11:00 AM12:10 PM70 minWorkshop

Building a Token-Efficient OpenClaw Agentic System

Presented by AMD

Mahdi GhodsiAI Solutions Architect, AMD
Satya DevineniProduct Application Engineer, AMD
Eda ZhouSoftware Development Engineer, AMD
Plenary11:10 AM11:35 AM25 minTalks

Session 2 · Future of Software Engineering

Featured Talks

No Doors for Agents

Peter SteinbergerCreator of OpenClaw, OpenAI

Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer and Agents Execute

Ryan LopopoloPrincipal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud Platform; previously led Dark Factory at OpenAI

Continual Learning for Agents

Michele CatastaPresident, Replit

Omniscient Agents

Alex GraveleyCo-Founder, FlyingObject.ai
Plenary11:35 AM12:00 PM25 minPanel

Session 2 · Future of Software Engineering

Future of Software Engineering

Peter SteinbergerCreator of OpenClaw, OpenAI
Ryan LopopoloPrincipal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud Platform; previously led Dark Factory at OpenAI
Michele CatastaPresident, Replit
Alex GraveleyCo-Founder, FlyingObject.ai
Moderated by
Anjney MidhaFounder, AMP PBC
Compass11:45 AM1:30 PM105 minCommunity

Lunch & Poster Presentations

Atlas11:50 AM1:30 PM100 minCommunity

Lunch & Poster Presentations

Plenary12:00 PM1:30 PM90 minCommunity

Lunch & Poster Presentations

Nexus12:10 PM1:30 PM80 minCommunity

Lunch & Poster Presentations

Plenary1:30 PM1:50 PM20 minKeynote

Session 3 · Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities

Towards Building Safe and Secure Agentic AI

Dawn SongProfessor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI; VP of AI Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Atlas1:30 PM2:00 PM30 minKeynote

Session 2 · Robotics & World Models

Keynotes

Outplaying Elite Table Tennis Players with an Autonomous Robot

Peter StoneChief Scientist, Sony AI; Professor, UT Austin

Trustworthy Agents in the Real World: Physical Autonomy Lessons for the Agentic AI Era

Vincent VanhouckeDistinguished Engineer, Waymo
Nexus1:30 PM2:05 PM35 minTalks

Session 2 · Coding & Web Agents

Featured Talks

Scaling RL for Coding Agents — Lessons from Training SWE-1.7

Silas AlbertiSVP of Research, Cognition

Computer-Use Models Will Agentify the Web, Not APIs

Dhruv BatraChief Scientist / Co-Founder, Yutori

Zero Ops — Agents Operate, Humans Govern

Shamir Abdul AzizPrincipal Product Manager, Microsoft

Agentic Coding, the Boring Way

Krishnakumar SharmaCEO, Omokai
Compass1:30 PM2:20 PM50 minTalks

Session 2 · Frameworks & Dev Platforms

Featured Talks

OpenSage: Next Generation of Agentic AI

Wenbo GuoAssistant Professor, UCSB

The Agentic Web and the Bazaar Era of AI

Ramesh RaskarProfessor, MIT

Toward Adaptive Agent Frameworks

Shiva KasiviswanthanPrincipal Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services

Information Retrieval in the Age of Agentic AI

Tanya RoostaDirector of AI, AMD, Berkeley

Are Small LLMs Ready for Coding Agents?

Denis AkhiyarovSenior Staff AI Scientist, ServiceNow

Agent Learning Requires Compressing Information into an Executable Reasoning Structure

Nilou SalehiAssociate Professor, UC Berkeley

Systems Foundations for Agentic AI

Johann Schleier-SmithSenior Staff Engineer, Temporal
Plenary1:50 PM2:35 PM45 minTalks

Session 3 · Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities

Featured Talks

Building Resilience for the Intelligence Age

Wojciech ZarembaCo-Founder, OpenAI

Opportunities and Challenges for Long-Horizon Agents

Jerry TworekCEO, Core Automation; Former VP of Research at OpenAI

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Oriol VinyalsVP of Research, Google DeepMind

AI for Data and Data for AI

Dan RothChief AI Scientist, Oracle; Professor, UPenn

Continuous Model Improvement

Weizhu ChenTechnical Fellow & CVP, Microsoft AI
Atlas2:00 PM2:30 PM30 minTalks

Session 2 · Robotics & World Models

Featured Talks

Real-World Reasoning Agents

Trevor DarrellProfessor, UC Berkeley

Making Autonomy Autonomous: Toward Mental Models for Discovery and Intuition

Manmohan ChandrakerProfessor, University of California, San Diego

Scaling Sidewalk Autonomy with World Models

Bolei ZhouAssociate Professor, UCLA; Chief AI Scientist, Coco Robotics
Nexus2:05 PM3:05 PM60 minWorkshop

Quantitative Decision Agents

Presented by Fetcherr

Keynote

Market Models: The Missing Foundation for Quantitative Decision Agents

Uri YerushalmiChief AI Officer, Fetcherr
Workshop

Architecting Quantitative Decision Agents

Hadar SharvitDirector of Deep Learning, Fetcherr
Compass2:20 PM3:20 PM60 minWorkshop

Build AI Agents That Survive Failure

Presented by Temporal

Nikolay AdvolodkinSenior Staff Developer Advocate, Temporal
Atlas2:30 PM3:30 PM60 minWorkshop

Open-Source Agent Investigations: Security Arena, Distilled Traces, and Auto-Optimization

Presented by Lambda

Devina JainResearch Engineer, Lambda
Zach MuellerHead of Developer Relations, Lambda
Chuan LiChief Scientific Officer, Lambda
Plenary2:35 PM3:10 PM35 minPanel

Session 3 · Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities

Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities

Dawn SongProfessor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI; VP of AI Research, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Wojciech ZarembaCo-Founder, OpenAI
Jerry TworekCEO, Core Automation; Former VP of Research at OpenAI
Oriol VinyalsVP of Research, Google DeepMind
Dan RothChief AI Scientist, Oracle; Professor, UPenn
Weizhu ChenTechnical Fellow & CVP, Microsoft AI
Moderated by
Maxwell ZeffSenior Writer, Wired
Nexus3:05 PM3:30 PM25 minTalks

Session 3 · Agentic AI in Finance & Healthcare

Featured Talks

Trustworthy Multi-Agent AI Systems for Healthcare: Challenges & Lessons Learned

Krishnaram KenthapadiChief Scientist, Oracle Health

Agentic AI Applications for Mental Health: From Chatbots to Clinical Orchestration

Venkat BhatAssociate Professor; Director, AI for Mental Health Program, University of Toronto

One Environment, Whole Lifecycle: Agentic Post-Training for Nemotron in Finance

Shaghayegh GharghabiDeep Learning Scientist, NVIDIA
Plenary3:10 PM3:55 PM45 minTalks

Session 4 · Robotics & World Models

Featured Talks

Robot Foundation Models

Sergey LevineCo-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Professor, UC Berkeley

Robotics: Endgame

Jim FanDirector of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist, Nvidia

From Games to the Real World: How Reinforcement Learning Is Powering Performance and Fun

Michael SprangerPresident, Sony AI

Real-World Superintelligence

Anastasis GermanidisCo-Founder/Co-CEO, Runway

E2E Autonomy Without Imitation

Wei ZhanChief Scientist, Applied Intuition
Compass3:20 PM4:10 PM50 minTalks

Session 3 · Foundational Capabilities

Featured Talks

Mindful Agents: Human-Inspired Memories for Long-Horizon Tasks

Doga KeresteciogluPrincipal Applied Scientist, Microsoft

An Optimization Perspective on Recursive Self-Improvement

Ian FischerCo-CEO, Poetiq

Intelligence + Continual Learning = Expertise

Yu SuCEO, NeoCognition; Associate Professor, OSU

Reasoning as Control: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for Planning Agents

Furong HuangAssociate Professor, University of Maryland

On the Visual Capabilities of Multimodal Models

Raja GiryesProfessor, Tel Aviv University
Atlas3:30 PM4:30 PM60 minWorkshop

Building Agentic Apps End-to-End with Replit Agent

Brandon MiddletonHead of Education, Replit
Nexus3:30 PM4:45 PM75 minTalks

Session 4 · Secure Agentic AI

Featured Talks

Observability Is Not Governance: Building a Runtime Trust Plane for Agentic AI

Jon-Rav ShendeChief Technology Officer, Thales Group

Securing AI Agents: From Risk Assessment and Runtime Guardrails to Self-Improvement and Certification

Bo LiCo-Founder and CEO, Virtue AI; UIUC

Training Robust Agents

Eric WallaceResearcher, OpenAI

End-to-End Security Research with a Language Model

Milad NasrResearch Scientist, Anthropic

When Good Agents Go Rogue

Itsik MantinHead of AI Security Research, Intuit

Safety and Security of Agentic AI

John A McDermidDirector, Centre for Assuring Autonomy, Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York

Ghost in the Web Store: Preempting LLM-Hallucinated Browser Extension Supply Chain Attacks

Mohamed NabeelSenior Principal Researcher, Palo Alto Networks
Plenary3:55 PM4:20 PM25 minPanel

Session 4 · Robotics & World Models

Robotics & World Models

Sergey LevineCo-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Professor, UC Berkeley
Jim FanDirector of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist, Nvidia
Michael SprangerPresident, Sony AI
Anastasis GermanidisCo-Founder/Co-CEO, Runway
Wei ZhanChief Scientist, Applied Intuition
Moderated by
Guru ChahalPartner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Compass4:10 PM5:10 PM60 minWorkshop

The Open Agentic Stack: Open Source, Open Standards and Composability

Presented by Linux Foundation

Open Source Agentic RL Environment

Ben BurtenshawCommunity Engineer, Hugging Face

Making Open Models Not Suck

Daniel-Han ChenCo-Founder, Unsloth

Miles: An Intro to Enterprise-Facing RL

Shang YangRadixArk

AI Needs an Open Compute Layer

Romil BhardwajCo-Founder and CPO, SkyPilot
Matt WhiteFormer Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation; CTO, PyTorch Foundation
Plenary4:20 PM4:30 PM10 minCommunity

Break

Plenary4:30 PM5:00 PM30 minPanel

Session 5 · Agentic AI in Capital Markets

Agentic AI in Capital Markets

Jeff WeckerCTO, Two Sigma
Jen AllumSVP, Co-Head of GenAI, The D. E. Shaw Group
Ali NazariHead of Deep Learning Research, Susquehanna International Group
Li DengChief AI Officer, Vatic Investments; Former Chief AI Officer, Citadel
Moderated by
Bradley OlsonTechnology Editor, WSJ
Atlas4:30 PM5:45 PM75 minTalks

Session 3 · Frameworks & Dev Platforms

Featured Talks

Graphs Are the Knowledge Layer for Agentic AI

Philip RathleCTO, Neo4j

Building Punk Software: An Open Agent Stack

Josh AlbrechtCo-Founder and CTO, Imbue

vLLM: Building Open and Efficient Inference for Agents

Woosuk KwonCo-Founder & CTO, Inferact

Building Frontier Inference and Training Infra for Agent: A Case Study of SGLang and Miles

Banghua ZhuCo-Founder, RadixArk

Speaking the Same Language: NLIP for Agent Interoperability

Ranjan SinhaIBM Fellow, CTO & VP for watsonx, Enterprise AI, IBM
Nexus4:45 PM5:45 PM60 minWorkshop

Future of Agent Evaluation

Plenary5:00 PM5:30 PM30 minFireside

Fireside Chat

Andrew NgFounder, DeepLearning.AI
Alfred LinGeneral Partner, Sequoia Capital
Compass5:10 PM5:55 PM45 minCommunity

Reception & Poster Presentations

Plenary5:30 PM6:15 PM45 minCommunity

Reception & Poster Presentations

Atlas5:45 PM6:30 PM45 minCommunity

Reception & Poster Presentations

Nexus5:45 PM6:30 PM45 minCommunity

Reception & Poster Presentations