The AI Rabbit Hole 2025

Agenda

08:00AM

Doors open, breakfast & networking

Kick off the conference with an energizing opening ceremony featuring live performances and an inspiring welcome address.

8:55AM

Opening words from MadHats and DVC

9:00AM

Annual state of AI report

Vanessa Parli, Director of Research at HAI, Stanford
Melissa Valentine, Senior Fellow at HAI, Stanford
9:30AM

Engineering organizations for relentless shipping in AI

Denis Yarats, Co-Founder and CTO at Perplexity
Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC
9:50AM

Quantum computing and AI

Adam Brown, Theoretical Physicist at Stanford
Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC
10:05AM

Nebius: GPU Rocketship,
from Hopper to Blackwell

Shane Zide, Vice President of Sales, Americas at Nebius AI
10:25AM

Agents and Claude Code

Erik Schluntz, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Henry Yin, CTO at AGI House
10:45AM

Agents and how they will transform
data production in AI

Olga Megorskaya, CEO at Toloka
11:00AM

Coffee & networking break

11:30AM

AI and the future of work

Shishir Mehrotra, CEO at Grammarly
Josh Constine, Venture Partner for Consumer at SignalFire
11:50AM

Lessons from building a $100M ARR business in under 2 years

Aravind Srinivas (remote), Founder & CEO at Perplexity
Nick Davidov, Co-Founder at DVC
12:10PM

Early-stage investing in the
rapidly evolving AI landscape

Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark
Anna Tong, Tech Correspondent at Reuters
12:30PM

Emerging trends in B2B AI
venture capital investments

Eugenio Gonzalez, Partner at Plug and Play Ventures
Radhika Malik, Partner at Dell Tech Capital
Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12
Supriya Gupta, GenAI Collective
Ash Kumra, GenAI Collective
12:55PM

NASA supercomputers and simulating the next generation of robotics

Jason Cornelius, Aerospace Engineer at NASA
Anto Patrex, Founder & CEO at CosmicBrain AI
Margarita Geleta, Researcher at BAIR/Stanford
1:10PM

Spatial AI and robotics

Maryanna Saenko, Co-Founder & Partner at Future Ventures
Caitlin Kalinowski, Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
1:30PM

Lunch break & networking

2:15PM

Future of software development

Idan Gazit, Head of GitHub Next
Teddy Lee, Startups GTM Staff at OpenAI
Nuno Campos, Founding Engineer at LangChain
Andrew Filev, Founder & CEO at Zencoder
Henry Yin, CTO at AGI House
2:45PM

AI video and consumer

Caroline Ingeborn, COO at Luma AI
Josh Constine, Venture Partner for Consumer at SignalFire
3:00PM

The art of conversation:
teaching AI to interact like us

Hassaan Raza, Co-Founder & CEO at Tavus
3:10PM

AI enterprise applications at scale

Kevin Tsai, Director of Applied AI Engineering at Google
Raghu Banda, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architect Advisor & AI Strategy at SAP
Yann Leger, CEO & Co-Founder at Koyeb
Anastasia Sartan, CEO & Co-Founder at GetGenAI
3:35PM

AI agents benchmarking -
from sales to healthcare compliance

Dmitry Karpov, CEO at WorkDone
3:45PM

Success indicators for
current early stage AI startups

Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC
4:00PM

Agents monetization

Jan Curn, Founder & CEO of Apify
4:10PM

The next cut: How Higgsfield is
changing social media production

Alex Mashrabov, Founder at Higgsfield AI
4:20PM

HCI for AI

Dave Deriso, Founder at Skim.ai
4:30PM

The next wave of AI investments  

Peter Deng, General Partner at Felicis
Ilya Fushman, Partner at Kleiner Perkins
Ann Bordetsky, Partner at NEA
Marina Davidova, Partner at DVC
4:50PM

Tech comedy show

Alex Ivanov, Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI
Daniel Kivatinos, CEO and Co-Founder at JustPaid
Elena Lenena, Growee Founder, ML PhD,
Forbes 30u30
Marina Davidova, Partner at DVC
Nick Davidov, Partner at DVC
Julia Sedova, Comedian, producer, organizer of TEDxVerinAntarainWomen
5:30PM

End of the conference

6:00PM

Afterparty at Temple SF

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The AI Rabbit Hole,
dear traveler.
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