Thank you for joining us at Cerebral Valley New York
We just wrapped our first east-coast AI summit on June 27 in Manhattan.Our next AI summit will be this November in San Francisco. Subscribe to Newcomer to hear about it first.
The one-day event will feature conversations with the brightest minds in AI and offer an opportunity for the people building the next generation of AI to meet each other.
Hosted By
Eric Newcomer
Co-hosted by Volley
Speakers in New York Included
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO, Snowflake
Eric Glyman
Co-founder & CEO, Ramp
Pat Grady
Partner, Sequoia Capital
Sarah Guo
Founder, Conviction
Marco Argenti
CIO, Goldman Sachs
Olivier Pomel
Co-founder & CEO, Datadog
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-founder & CTO, Runway
Teresa Carlson
Advisor, General Catalyst
Jonathan Frankle
Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Scott Belsky
Chief Strategy Officer, Adobe
Josh Wolfe
Founding Partner & Managing Director, Lux Capital
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder & CEO, Lambda
Zoe Weinberg
Founder & Managing Partner, ex/ante
Eoghan McCabe
Founder & CEO, Intercom
Ali Farhadi
CEO, Allen Institute for AI
Amr Awadallah
Founder & CEO, Vectara
Anna Veronika Dorogush
Founder & CEO, Recraft
Erik Bernhardsson
Founder & CEO, Modal
Jon Turow
Partner, Madrona
Mikey Shulman
Founder & CEO, Suno
Vince Hankes
Partner, Thrive Capital
Laurens van der Maaten
Distinguished Research Scientist, Meta
Shardul Shah
Partner, Index Ventures
George Arison
CEO, Grindr
Discussion Leaders in New York Included
Luis Ceze
Co-founder & CEO, OctoAI
Grace Isford
Partner, Lux Capital
Amy Wu
Partner, Menlo Ventures
Seth Rosenberg
General Partner, Greylock
Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder & CEO, Crusoe
Jacob Effron
Partner, Redpoint
Gavin Uberti
Co-founder & CEO, Etched
Casber Wang
Partner, Sapphire Ventures
Zavain Dar
Founder, Dimension
Matan Grinberg
Founder & CEO, Factory
George Matthew
Managing Director, Insight Partners
Dan Shipper
Founder & CEO, Every
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, the #1 AI voice gaming company, with hits like Song Quiz, Jeopardy, and Question of the Day.
James Wilsterman
is co-founder and CTO of Volley, the #1 AI voice gaming company, with hits like Song Quiz, Jeopardy, and Question of the Day.
Agenda for Cerebral Valley New York
9:30am
First Panel Session
9:30am - 9:35am
Opening Remarks
Featuring Eric Newcomer, Max Child, & James Wilsterman
9:35am - 9:55am
The State of Generative AI
Featuring Vince Hankes (Thrive Capital), Sarah Guo (Conviction), & Shardul Shah (Index Ventures) in conversation with Eric Newcomer
9:55am - 10:15am
Layers of Abstraction — Where is the Value?
Featuring Amr Awadallah (Vectara), Stephen Balaban (Lambda), & Erik Bernhardsson (Modal Labs) in conversation with James Wilsterman
10:15am - 10:35am
The Geopolitical Stakes for LLMs
Featuring Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) & Teresa Carlson (General Catalyst) in conversation with Zoe Weinberg (ex/ante)
10:45am
Curated Discussion Groups
10:45am - 11:20am
Discussion Groups
Attendees will be split into groups to met each other and discuss timely topics with other AI experts
11:20am - 11:45am
Break
11:45am
Second Panel Session
11:45am - 12:05pm
AI at Goldman and the Enterprise
Featuring Marco Argenti (Goldman Sachs) in conversation with Eric Newcomer
12:05pm - 12:25pm
The Future of Creativity
Featuring Mikey Shulman (Suno) & Anna Veronika Dorogush (Recraft) in conversation with James Wilsterman
12:25pm - 12:45pm
Love Language Models
Featuring George Arison (Grindr) in conversation with Madeline Renbarger
12:45pm
Lunch
Served in The Terrace at SECOND
1:45pm
Third Panel Session
1:45pm - 2:05pm
Built in NYC
Featuring Olivier Pomel (Datadog) in conversation with Madeline Renbarger
2:05pm - 2:25pm
Lessons from Past Technology Waves
Featuring Pat Grady (Sequoia) in conversation with Eric Newcomer
2:25pm - 2:45pm
Machine-Invented Worlds
Featuring Anastasis Germanidis (Runway) in conversation with Max Child
2:45pm - 3:10pm
The Android Moment of Open Source AI
Featuring Jonathan Frankle (Databricks), Ali Farhadi (Allen Institute for AI) & Laurens van der Maaten (Meta) in conversation with Jon Turow (Madrona)
3:10pm - 3:30pm
The Future of Creators in the Age of AI
Featuring Scott Belsky (Adobe) in conversation with Max Child
3:30pm
Break
Short break before our closing talks
4:00pm
Final Panel Session
4:00pm - 4:30pm
Change Is the Only Constant
Featuring Eric Glyman (Ramp) & Eoghan McCabe (Intercom) in conversation with Eric Newcomer
4:30pm - 5:00pm
AI Where the Data Is
Featuring Sridhar Ramaswamy (Snowflake) in conversation with Eric Newcomer
7:00pm
Event ends
Sponsors Include
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Past Speakers Include
Reid Hoffman
Partner, Greylock
Kanjun Qiu
Founder & CEO, Imbue
Amjad Masad
Founder & CEO, Replit
Dmitri Dolgov
Co-CEO, Waymo
Deep Nishar
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Raquel Urtasun
Founder & CEO, Waabi
Meng Ru Kuok
CEO & Co-founder, BandLab
Ali Ghodsi
Founder & CEO, Databricks
Mustafa Suleyman
Founder & CEO, Inflection
Clara Shih
CEO, Salesforce AI
Adam D'Angelo
CEO, Quora
May Habib
Founder & CEO, Writer
Chase Lochmiller
Founder & CEO, Crusoe
Nedim Fresko
Vice President, Alexa Devices, Amazon
Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures
Daniela Amodei
President, Anthropic
Cristóbal Valenzuela
Founder & CEO, Runway
Chris Lattner
Founder & CEO, Modular AI
David Luan
CEO, Adept
Emad Mostaque
Founder & CEO, Stability AI
Holden Karnofsky
Director of AI Strategy, Open Philanthropy