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

Marina Davidova, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains

Meg Mcwilliams, Co Founder, Mixies

Shub Shrivastava, AI Infra & Agentic AI at Google | Ex-AWS, JPMC

Jenny Kay Pollock, Co-Founder at WOMEN x AI

10:00AM

Opening Words

10:05AM

The state of AI: beyond the hype

Marina Davidova, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

Nick Davidov, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

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

10:35AM

AI infra evolution

Roman Chernin, Co-founder and Growth at Nebius

Nick Davidov, Co-Founder and Partner at DVC

11:00AM

Rethinking Search as Code Generation

Alexandr Yarats, Head of Search at Perplexity

11:15AM

Agentic Data in Enterprise

Stas Kelvich, Co-founder at Neon (Acquired by Databricks)

Nick Davidov, Co-Founder and Partner at DVC

11:30AM

How Anthropic uses Claude Code internally

Lydia Hallie, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Marina Davidov, Co-Founder and Partner at DVC

11:45AM

AI without gatekeepers: breaking the compute monopoly

Daniil and David Liberman, Co-creators of the Gonka protocol

Keli Callaghan, Partner at Arrington Captial

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

1:10PM

Why enterprise AI stalls between
the pilot and the P&L

Oleg Koverznev, VP, Head of Agents Systems at JetBrains

VenkataRaghu Banda, Enterprise Architect AI Advisor at SAP Americas

Tarun Raisoni, CEO & Co-Founder at Gruve

Kevin Tsai, Engineering Director, Applied AI Engineering at Google

Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains

1:35PM

Agentic apps for normies

Eugeniya Kuyda, Founder and CEO of Wabi

1:50PM

AI: The responsibility to 80 million users

Anna Klepchukova, Chief Medical Officer at Flo

2:05PM

Beyond autoregressive: Stefano Ermon on where diffusion LLMs win

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

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

2:20PM

World Models

Anton Kaplanyan, CEO, Caryatid AI

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

Samo Burja, Founder at Bismarck Analysis

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 at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund

Marina Davidova, Co-founder and Partner at DVC

4:50PM

Next big thing or two

Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director & Founder of Future Ventures

Marina Mogilko, Creator of Silicon Valley Girl, Entrepreneur and Educator

5:00PM