the AI Rabbit Hole 2026

The AI Rabbit Hole 2026 - AI Bubble Tea Party 🎩🤖 Drink some AI Bubble Tea with us on June 5th! Join us in San Francisco for a tea party of innovation, where algorithms dance, machines chatter, and ideas twirl in a curious mix. For Founders, Engineers, Researchers, Investors and Corporate Leaders Watch 2024 Recap Watch 2025 Recap 2026 Speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Founder and Managing Director at Future Ventures Roman Chernin, Co-founder and Growth at Nebius Lydia Hallie, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic Alex Mashrabov, Founder and CEO at Higgsfield Joscha Bach, Executive Director at California Institute for Machine Consciousness Stefano Ermon, Professor at Stanford University, Founder at Inception Nikita Shamgunov, Vice President at Databricks Andrew Wooten, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, CFO at Rhoda Naveen Rao, Founder at Unconventional AI Samo Burja, Founder and President at Bismarck Analysis Jagdeep Singh, CEO and Co-Founder at Rhoda Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains Oleg Koverznev, VP, Head of Agent Systems at JetBrains Eugenia Kuyda, Founder and CEO at Wabi Keli Callaghan, Partner at Arrington Capital Anna Klepchukova, Chief Medical Officer at Flo Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC Timur Bekmambetov, Director, Producer at Bazelevs David and Daniil Liberman, Co-creators at Gonka.ai Sergey Gonchar and Eugene Nevgen, Co-Founders at Animation Inc Founders and top researchers from AI Labs and Startups And many more pending! A sneak peek into topics (full agenda TBA): ARC I: State of AI Year in Review The Research Frontier AI Geopolitics + Regulation Infrastructure + Energy ARC II: The silicon wars NVIDIA and beyond: Three Bets on AI Open vs Closed: DeepSeek, Llama, and the Model Wars Inference Economics / Jevons Paradox ARC III: Agents The Agentic Landscape: Real vs Hype The Builders When Agents Go Rogue Agent Economics: Payments, Protocols, Crypto ARC IV: The Real world 0 to Unicorn ChatGPT Moment: Where Next? Robotics: What's Real Now AI and Labor: Who's Actually Getting Replaced? ARC V: Bubble or bubble tea? VCs take AI Labs as the New Empires Building After OpenAI (get-or-skip) This is an invite-only event and requires approval from the organizers. Organized by DVC and Madhats