The people shaping what comes next.
We want to hear from founders building ambitious companies, leaders making consequential decisions, and leading AI researchers expanding what these systems can do. We want them in conversation with people who are still finding their questions, testing their ideas, and deciding what to build.
Through lectures, interviews, live demonstrations, and smaller discussions, we want to get close to the work: the assumptions behind a research direction, the judgment behind a product, the failures that changed someone’s mind. There should be room to ask a basic question, challenge an established view, or bring an idea from another discipline.
The schools of thought we remember grew through people sharing, testing, and developing ideas together. A good gathering can begin that process. Someone explains what they have learned; someone else sees a possibility they missed. The conversation becomes work that neither would have arrived at alone.
AI should widen who gets to build.
AI could give far more people the ability to build, discover, and create. It could also concentrate knowledge, ownership, and influence among those who already have them. We do not want a permanent underclass of people whose lives are reshaped by systems they have little opportunity to understand or influence.
People need the knowledge to use these tools, the judgment to question them, and the relationships that help an idea become real. Hearing directly from researchers and founders can make unfamiliar work intelligible. Sharing ideas with peers can give someone the confidence, criticism, or collaborator they need to begin.
That is why we plan to livestream and freely archive our educational sessions, and reserve most in-person places for emerging builders to attend at no cost. The ideas should reach people who cannot travel, cannot afford a ticket, or have never had an invitation into these circles.
An event is a beginning. Its value is in the questions people keep pursuing, the work they start together, and the opportunities they open for others. We want more people to have a hand in what comes next.