AI-tonomy Summit: Models and Agents June 5, 2026 | Plug and Play Tech Center, Silicon Valley

AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents 📍 Plug and Play Tech Center, Silicon Valley 📅 June 5, 2026 The AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents is a curated, high-signal full-day conference bringing together 500+ founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and investors to explore how the next generation of AI systems is being built and deployed. Speakers Featured Speakers Andy Triedman Partner · Theory Ventures Ankur Shah CEO & Co-founder · Straiker Bob van Luijt CEO & Co-Founder · Weaviate Gayathri Radhakrishnan Partner · Hitachi Ventures Ken Elefant Partner · Sorenson Capital Le Cong Associate Professor · Stanford University Madison Faulkner Partner · New Enterprise Associates (NEA) Qi Jin Executive Vice President, Software · Cerebras Pengtao Xie Associate Professor · UC San Diego Snehal Antani Co-Founder & CEO · Horizon3.ai More Speakers Andi Partoli CTO · Veris AI Asit Sohoo AI Product Lead · Iron Mountain Ashish Kakran Managing Partner · Seligman Ventures Brett Liu Investment Lead · Sixty Degree Capital Christopher Di Gioia Vice President · PGIM Christoph Kohstall AI Scientist · 1X Dan Hatfield Managing Director · Stifel Bank Dan Moskowitz Partner · Third Point Ventures Deepak Mishra Co-Founder · Graphon AI Deepak Prasad Vice President · Qualcomm Ventures Denise Teng Partner · Gradient Ventures Dušan Vuksanovic Executive · Swisscom Ventures Enoch Zhu Co-Founder & CEO · Orbifold AI Etienne Dilocker CTO & Co-Founder · Weaviate Erran Li Head of AI • AWS Eugene Cheah CEO & Co-Founder · Featherless AI Fan-Yun Sun Co-Founder · Moonlake AI Grace Gong Founder · Smart Venture Media Holly Hon SVP, AI & Operation Jean Malta Senior AI Architect · AWS Jonathan Chan Former CIO · Episource Li Yin CEO · Sylph AI Morgan Kyauk Managing Director · NightDragon Nikola Borisov Co-Founder & CEO · deepinfra Nnamdi Iregbulem Partner · Lightspeed Venture Pramanya Guda Developer & Community Lead · Founders Bay Shikhar Bahl Founding Engineer · Skild AI Sophie Ren Founder · ChatSlide Wilson Lin AI Investment Lead · DCG Viren Tellis Co-Founder & CEO · uthana Yaron Schneider CTO & Co-Founder · Diagrid And more exciting speakers and researchers to be announced. Follow us to get updated here www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers Agenda 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | AI Researcher Forum Deep technical sessions led by researchers from leading labs and universities (NVIDIA, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, and more), covering: Toward Autonomous AI Scientists Scaling Agentic RL & Verified Reasoning Continual Learning & Self Evolving Agents 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM | Networking Lunch + Lightning Pitch Curated connections across founders, researchers, and investors. Lightning Pitch is a fast-paced showcase featuring early-stage AI founders building at the frontier of agents, infrastructure, and autonomous systems. Each team delivers a concise 3–4 minute pitch to a curated audience of investors, operators, and AI researchers. 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panels, Demos & Founder Sessions 7 high-density panels across several focused tracks (3 Models + 3 Agents + 1 Agentic Application + 1 GTM for Agents): Model Tracks Compute & Inference Optimization Physical AI & World Models Agent Runtime Environment Agent Tracks Agent Security & Safety Data Infrastructure for Agent Agent Production Readiness (Eval&Observability) Speakers include senior industry practitioners such CISO, CIO and SVP/VP from large enterprises and government organizations, senior VCs such as Partners/Managing Directors of NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital, Thoery Ventures, Nightdragon, Gradiant Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, as well as co-founder and leaders from Straiker AI, Fastino Labs, Veris AI, Weaviate, Skild AI, Orbifold AI, Featherless AI, Mooklake AI, Diagrid, Mezmo, Cerebras, Dagger, Graphon AI and other emerging AI-native startups. 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Cocktail Reception Unwind and connect with founders, investors, and operators in a more relaxed setting, designed for deeper conversations and relationship building. Live Demos & Exhibition A dedicated demo and exhibition area will run throughout the day, featuring: Live product demos from AI infrastructure and agent startups Interactive sessions with builders Lightning pitches from emerging companies founded by AI researcher If you are interesting in demo and pitching your startup, please apply: https://forms.gle/RA8rwAPrgdowsS8p6 For selected startups, we will contact you in the week of 5/25. Onsite exhibition booth may be available for deep startup discount. Why Attend Explore the intersection of models, agents, and real-world deployment Learn directly from frontier AI researchers and builders Connect with a curated group of high-quality founders and investors Discover new tools, startups, and ideas shaping the AI ecosystem The summit will bring together 100+ CONFIRMED investors and strategic partners from leading venture capital firms, corporate venture arms, and global technology organizations, including Acrew Capital, Amazon, Backcountry Ventures, BAM Cornerpoint, BHP Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, BuildTech VC, Canapi Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Cathay Innovation, CCV Capital, Citi Ventures, Cisco, Clear Ventures, Conductive Ventures, Crosspoint Capital, Databricks, Datadog, DCG (Digital Currency Group), Defined VC, Defy Ventures, DTCP, EnvisionX Capital, Fin Capital, First Rays Venture Partners, Foothill Ventures, Forgepoint Capital, Geodesic Capital, Glynn Capital, Gradient Ventures, GS Futures, Headline, HOF Capital, Hico Ventures, In-Q-Tel (IQT), Insight Partners, Intel Capital, J-Ventures, Kingstar Capital, Laude Ventures, Lenovo, LG Tech Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Mercedes-Benz, Montage Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, MVP Ventures, N47, NGP Capital, NEA, NTT, Oakseed VC, Okta Ventures, Palo Alto Networks, Premji Invest, Presidio Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Prosus, Qualcomm Ventures, Race Capital, Radical Ventures, RPS Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung, SAIC, Scale Venture Partners, Scrum Ventures, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, Sony Ventures, Sierra Ventures, SignalFire, Singtel Innov8, SK Telecom Ventures, SoftBank, Sorenson Capital, Swisscom Ventures, Theory Ventures, Touring Capital, TSVC, Translink Capital, True Ventures, TGVP, Union Labs, Vertex Ventures, WestBridge Capital, Wells Fargo, Wipro Ventures, Webb Investment Network, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Woven Capital, Yamaha Motor Ventures, among others. For more information on participating investors, please also visit: www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers