OpenLab Stanford AO Summit

Agenda

July 30–31, 2026 · Stanford campus
dinner July 30, talks July 31
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Thursday, July 30

Evening event · dinner & evening talk

6:00 PM
Dinner

James Evans — 10-minute talk · Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Friday, July 31

Main program · 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Joshua Tan — Welcome & opening

Innovation, Stanford OpenLab

9:30 AM
Axel Wennström

Cafe, Store, Radio, and More — Lessons from Launching Some of the World's First AI-Run Businesses

Member of Technical Staff, Andon Labs

10:00 AM
Roundtable: [Theme TBD]

Lightning talks and plenary discussion

  • Allison Duettmann — President & CEO, Foresight Institute
  • Yankai Wang — PhD Student, Stanford GSB
  • Apolinário Passos — Head of ML for Art & Creativity, Hugging Face
11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:30 AM
Dotta

CEO, Paperclip

12:00 PM
Joel Z Leibo

Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative

Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

12:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Roundtable: [Theme TBD]

Lightning talks and plenary discussion

  • Adam Binksmith — Director, AI Village
  • Helena Rong — Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai
    Multi-Agent Workspaces in the Wild: Case Study on Raft, Where AI Agents Are Your Co-Workers
  • Hao Zhu — Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford
2:30 PM
Roundtable: [Theme TBD]

Lightning talks and plenary discussion

  • Sandy Pentland — Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
  • Davide Crapis — AI Lead, Ethereum Foundation
  • Sam Pasupalak — Co-founder & CEO, Skyfall AI
3:30 PM
Break
4:00 PM
Alex Obadia

Programme Director, ARIA

4:30 PM
Plenary discussion
5:00 PM
End