The AI Rabbit Hole 2026

Agenda

08:00AM

Doors open, breakfast & networking

Kick off the conference with an energizing opening ceremony featuring live performances and an inspiring welcome address.

9:00AM

Women in AI breakfast

10:05AM

State of AI by DVC

Marina Davidova, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

Nick Davidov, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

10:25AM

The State of AI: Beyond the Hype

Vanessa Parli, Managing Director, Programs and External Engagement at Stanford

10:40AM

AI Infra evolution

Roman Chernin, Co-founder and Growth at Nebius

Nick Davidov, Co-Founder and Partner at DVC

12:00PM

Lunch & networking break

12:40PM

$300m+ ARR in a year

Alex Mashrabov, Founder & CEO at Higgsfield AI

12:55PM

Physical AI Frontieer

Andrew Wooten, Co-founder and CPO at Rhoda AI

Marina Davidova, Co-Founder and Partner at DVC

2:05PM

Beyond the Token: Stefano Ermon on the Architecture That Replaces Autoregressive AI

Stefano Ermon, Co-founder and Key Researcher at Inception Labs

Ash Kumra, Founder, BusinessTechCulture.comSF Chapter Leader, The AI Collective

2:20PM

World Models

TBD

2:35PM

Small and Medium Business AI Adoption

Dr. David Yang, Co-founder and CPO at Newo.ai

Kuzma Ledenev, Founder and CEO at Madhats

3:00PM

Coffee Break & Networking

3:20PM

AI & Geopolitics

Anna Tong, Tech Correspondent at Reuters

3:45PM

AI filmmaking direction

Timur Bekmambetov, Director, Producer at Bazelevs | Television Directing

Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC

4:00PM

Is there AGI?

Joscha Bach, Executive Director at California Institute for Machine Consciousness

4:20PM

AI Bubble Tea with VCs

Ann Bordetsky, Founder & GP at Elora Capital

Serik Kaldykulov, Founder & Managing Partner at Elefund

Anu Maheshwari, Head of Venture Ecosystem

Michael Stewart, Partner of M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund

Marina Davidova, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

4:45PM

Next big thing or two

Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director & Founder of Future Ventures

Marina Mogilko, Creator behind Silicon Valley Girl, an entrepreneur and educator with 18M+ followers across platforms

5:00PM