Spring Summit: Schedule

08:40-09:20: Registration & Coffee

09:20 - 09:40: Introductory Remarks

Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard / MIT / Thinking About Thinking)

09:40 - 10:20: Keynote

Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford / DeepMind)

10:20 - 11:00: Panel: New Landscapes for AI Research

Chair - Christian Shewmake (UC Berkeley)

Academia / Tech - Professor Jay McClelland (Stanford / DeepMind)

FRO - Anastasia Gamick (Convergent Research)

FRO - Dr Samuel Rodriques (Future House)

Start-up - Dr John Whaley (Inception Studio)

VC - Scott Phoenix (50 years)

11:20 - 12:00: Panel: New Professional Pathways

Chair - Felix Sosa (Harvard / MIT / DeepMind / Adavita)

Academia/Tech - Professor Robert Glushko (UC Berkeley)

Academia/Tech - Dr Skyler Wang (McGill/ Meta)

Tech - Dr Ishita Dasgupta (DeepMind)

Tech - Dr David Landy (Netflix)

Start-up - Dr Mayank Agrawal (RoundTable)

12:00 - 12:40: Longevity and Optimization Lunch from BASIS Health

Start-up: Julius Ritter

12:40 - 13:20: Keynote

Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)

13:20 - 14:00: Panel: Challenges for AI in Biomedicine

Chair - Professor Dan V. Nicolau Jr (Kings College London / Presentient Technologies)

Academia - Professor Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)

Academia - Dr Clara-Lea Bonzel (Harvard)

Medicine - Dr Alex Oshmyansky (Mark Cuban’s Cost Price Drugs)

Start-up - Danny Gray (Jaaq)

14:20 - 15:00: Keynote

Professor Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley)

15:00 - 15:40: Keynote

Professor Diyi Yang (Stanford)

15:40 - 16:20: Final Panel: Fundamental Challenges

Chair - Dr Ruairidh McLennan Battleday (Harvard / MIT / Thinking About Thinking)

Academia / VC - Professor Surya Ganguli (Stanford / Andreessen)

Academia - Professor Azalia Mirhoseini (Stanford)

Academia / Tech - Eliza Kosoy (UC Berkeley / Google)

VC - Gayatri Sarkar (Adavita)

16:20 - 16:30: Closing remarks (Thinking About Thinking Team)

16:30 - 18:00: Reception at Computer History Museum