The Cerebral Valley AI Summit is an invite-only event for AI founders and investors.

We just wrapped our summit in San Francisco. We'll be back with two events in 2025.

Read our recap of the Nov. 20, 2024 summit in the Newcomer newsletter here (or watch video recordings of everything that happened on-stage here).

Hosted By
Eric Newcomer

Co-hosted by Volley

"A well-organized and authentic conference focused on things that actually matter.I came away with some practical ideas and met some great people."

Cristobal Valenzuela
CEO, Runway

"Of any event, the Cerebral Valley conference brings together the highest caliber minds building in AI."

Amy Wu
Partner, Menlo Ventures


Apply to Attend Future Events

We're now accepting applications to attend the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in 2025. While dates aren't confirmed, you can apply now and we'll send you an invite when we're ready.


Speakers At Our Last Summit Included

Ali Ghodsi
Founder & CEO, Databricks

Dario Amodei
Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic

Alexandr Wang
Founder & CEO, Scale

Marissa Mayer
Founder & CEO, Sunshine

Vipul Ved Prakash
Founder & CEO, Together AI

Martin Casado
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Arvind Jain
Founder & CEO, Glean

Michael Intrator
Founder & CEO, CoreWeave

Erin Teague
Chief Product Officer, Character.AI

Karan Goel
Co-founder & CEO, Cartesia

Scott Stephenson
Co-founder & CEO, Deepgram

Tim Tully
Partner, Menlo Ventures

Jonathan Hurst
Co-founder & Chief Robot Officer, Agility Robotics

Srikanth Thirumalai
VP of Engineering, Waymo

Tessa Lau
Founder & CEO, Dusty Robotics

Raphael Townshend
Founder & CEO, Atomic AI

Ashley Zehnder
Co-founder & CEO, Fauna Bio

Alex Rives
Co-founder & CEO, EvolutionaryScale


Past Discussion Leaders Include

Bill Gross
Founder & CEO, ProRata.ai

Navin Chaddha
Managing Partner, Mayfield

Erica Brescia
Managing Director, Redpoint

Josh Albrecht
Co-founder & CTO, Imbue

Elias Torres
Founder & CEO, Agency

Kahini Shah
Partner, Obvious Ventures

Arash Afrakhteh
Partner, Pear VC

Barry McCardel
Co-founder & CEO, Hex

Jon Turow
Partner, Madrona

Jai Das
President & Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Kanu Gulati
Partner, Khosla Ventures

Aaref Hilaly
Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Jeff Huber
Founder & CEO, Chroma

Michelle Zhou
Founder & CEO, Juji

David Lee
Head of Samsung Next

Kacper Nowicki
Founder & CEO, Nomagic

Anoop Dawar
Chief Strategy Officer, Deepgram

Troy Astorino
Co-founder & CTO, Picnic Health

George Fraser
Co-founder & CEO, Fivetran


Hosted By

Eric Newcomer
is an independent journalist and writer of Newcomer, one of the top outlets covering the business of startups and venture capital.

Max Child
is co-founder and CEO of Volley, leading creator of AI-powered games for smart TVs and Amazon Alexa devices.

James Wilsterman
is co-founder and CTO of Volley, leading creator of AI-powered games for smart TVs and Amazon Alexa devices.


Agenda for the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on Nov. 20

Agenda

10:00am

Doors Open

Check-in and welcome coffee

Presented by

11:00am

First Panel Session

11:00am - 11:05am

Opening Remarks

Featuring Eric Newcomer, Max Child, & James Wilsterman


11:05am - 11:25am

Data: The Raw Material for Intelligence

Alexandr Wang (Scale) in conversation with Eric Newcomer


11:25am - 11:40am

Lessons from This Year's $14B in Generative AI Enterprise Spending

A presentation from Tim Tully (Menlo Ventures)


11:40am - 12:00pm

The Safest Stuff We've Ever Made

Martin Casado (Andreessen Horowitz) in conversation with Eric Newcomer

12:00pm

Curated Discussion Groups

12:00pm - 12:40pm

Discussion Groups

Attendees will be split into groups to meet with each other and discuss timely topics with other AI experts.

12:45pm

Lunch

Lunch and networking

Presented by

1:45pm

Second Panel Session

1:45pm - 2:00pm

Building a Data Business in the AI Era

Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) in conversation with Deirdre Bosa


2:00pm - 2:20pm

Encoding Life: Biology Applications of AI

Raphael Townshend (Atomic AI), Alex Rives (EvolutionaryScale), and Ashley Zehnder (Fauna Bio), moderated by Madeline Renbarger


2:20pm - 2:40pm

Train, Tune, or Turnkey?

Arvind Jain (Glean), Vipul Ved Prakash (Together), and Mike Intrator (CoreWeave), moderated by James Wilsterman


2:40pm - 3:00pm

Speak Easy: Voice Applications of AI

Scott Stephenson (Deepgram), Erin Teague (Character.AI), and Karan Goel (Cartesia), moderated by Max Child

3:00pm

Product Demos

3:00pm - 3:45pm

Emergent Behavior: Cutting-Edge AI Product Demos

Check out the latest and greatest in AI tech with demos and product releases from Physical Intelligence, Useful Sensors, Infinity AI, and Writer.

3:45pm

Closing Conversations


3:45pm - 4:05pm

How to Train Your Robot

Srikanth Thirumalai (Waymo), Tessa Lau (Dusty Robotics), and Jonathan Hurst (Agility Robotics), moderated by James Wilsterman


4:05pm - 4:20pm

Searching for Consumer AI

Marissa Mayer (Sunshine) in conversation with Max Child


4:20pm - 4:45pm

The State of Machine Intelligence

Dario Amodei in conversation with Eric Newcomer

4:45pm

Happy Hour

Reception & Open Bar

Presented by

7:00pm

Event closes


Sponsors Include


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Past Speakers Include

Daniela Amodei
President, Anthropic

Watch Daniela's Panel

Ali Ghodsi
Founder & CEO, Databricks

Watch Ali's Interview

Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures

Watch Vinod's Interview

Sarah Guo
Founder, Conviction

Watch Sarah's Panel

Mustafa Suleyman
Founder & CEO, Inflection

Watch Mustafa's Interview

Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock

Watch Reid's Interview

Kanjun Qiu
Founder & CEO, Imbue

Watch Kanjun's Panel

Marco Argenti
CIO, Goldman Sachs

Watch Marco's Interview

Olivier Pomel
Co-founder & CEO, Datadog

Watch Olivier's Interview

Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO, Snowflake

Watch Sridhar's Interview

Clara Shih
CEO, Salesforce AI

Watch Clara's Interview

Pat Grady
Partner, Sequoia Capital

Watch Pat's Interview

Amjad Masad
Founder & CEO, Replit

Watch Amjad's Panel

Eric Glyman
Co-founder & CEO, Ramp

Watch Eric's Panel

Cristóbal Valenzuela
Founder & CEO, Runway

Watch Cristóbal's Interview