Index AI Summit
Agenda
Wednesday Jan 19th
Beyond Words: What’s Next with NLP
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Kevin Scott
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Technology & Research, Microsoft
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Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
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Bryan Walsh
Editor of Future Perfect, Vox
AI and the Physical World
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Pieter Abbeel
Chief Scientist, Co-founder, Covariant
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Daniela Rus
Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL); and Deputy Dean of Research for Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT
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Bryan Offutt
Principal, Index Ventures
AI and Ethics
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Mehran Sahami
James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in Engineering, Stanford University
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Adam Wenchel
CEO & Co-Founder, Arthur
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Jonathan Vanian
Technology writer & Brainstorm A.I. Co-Chair, Fortune
Thursday, Jan 20
Fireside Chat with Cade Metz
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Cade Metz
Technology Correspondent, The New York Times
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Mike Volpi
Partner, Index Ventures
Practical Applications of AI in Businesses Today
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Alexandr Wang
CEO & Founder, Scale AI
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Anima Anandkumar
Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research, NVIDIA
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R.Martin Chavez
Partner & Vice Chairman, Sixth Street Partners
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Erin Price-Wright
Principal, Index Ventures
Fireside Chat with Amit Bendov
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Amit Bendov
CEO & Co-Founder, Gong
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Nina Achadjian
Partner, Index Ventures
The Robocalypse: Will the Machines Take Over?
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Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock Partners
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Mike Volpi
Partner, Index Ventures