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NEX-T Summit 2026
Next Tech. Next Investment.
A Global Summit on Frontier Technology & Investment
Investor-First. Technology-Driven. Future-Focused.
December 5, 2026 | Stanford University, Silicon Valley
NEX-T is a global technology and investment summit dedicated to exploring how breakthrough innovations reshape industries, transform economies, and create the next generation of investment opportunities.
NEX-T 2026 is an invitation-only summit taking place at Stanford University on December 5, 2026. It brings together pioneering scientists & AI researchers, visionary entrepreneurs, institutional & individual investors, global business & technology leaders, policymakers, and highly selected young pioneers from high schools for meaningful conversations about what comes next and to explore how emerging technologies, capital, and policy are shaping the future.
Unlike conventional technology conferences focused on product launches and industry trends, or traditional investment forums centered on financial markets and asset performance, NEX-T connects the two worlds.
We believe the most valuable investment insights often begin long before they appear in earnings reports, analyst forecasts, or market valuations. They emerge from scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, entrepreneurial decisions, and fundamental shifts in how industries operate.
That is why NEX-T puts the people building the future in direct conversation with the people investing in it.
Our discussions go beyond what technology can do to explore what it will change, who will benefit, which industries may be disrupted, and where long-term value may be created.
Designed for a highly curated community of individual and institutional investors, scientists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, NEX-T emphasizes in-depth conversations, candid debates, and meaningful small-group exchanges rather than conventional speeches and predictable panels.
Our mission is to bridge frontier innovation and investment intelligence — helping investors see beyond today's market narratives, understand tomorrow's technological shifts, evaluate long-term risks, and make more informed decisions about the future.
A Different Kind of Summit
Rather than a conventional conference of scripted speeches and predictable panels, NEX-T is built around deep conversations, candid debates, and meaningful small-group exchanges among a highly curated community.
The summit combines thought-provoking main-stage conversations with intimate, invitation-only discussions, investor roundtables, technology demonstrations, and curated networking opportunities.
We encourage speakers to challenge conventional thinking, explore difficult questions, and share perspectives that go beyond prepared talking points.
At NEX-T, scientific curiosity meets entrepreneurial ambition, and technological vision meets investment discipline.
Our Community and Distinguished Speakers
Our inaugural NEX-T Summit, held at Stanford University in September 2025, brought together an exceptional group of leaders, including John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet and former President of Stanford University; Gary Gensler, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Tianqiao Chen, Founder and Chairman of Shanda Group; renowned Stanford scientists Michael Snyder and Zhenan Bao; Adi Ignatius, Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Business Review…….
NEX-T 2026 Distinguished Speakers (PART)
Sebastian Thrun — Founder of Google X and Co-founder of Udacity. A pioneering AI researcher and entrepreneur whose work has helped advance autonomous driving, robotics, and online education.
Ruchir Sharma — Chairman of Rockefeller International; Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Breakout Capital. A global investor and author known for his insights into macroeconomic trends, emerging markets, and global investment opportunities.
Steve Jurvetson — Co-founder of Future Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. A leading venture capitalist focused on transformative technologies and an early investor in Tesla and SpaceX, X AI, and a longtime backer of Elon Musk’s ventures..
Dean Ball — Head of Strategic Futures at OpenAI. Previously a senior AI policy adviser at the White House, where he served as the primary staff drafter of America’s AI Action Plan.
Xuedong “X.D.” Huang — Chief Technology Officer of Zoom; Former Azure AI CTO and Technical Fellow at Microsoft. A pioneering AI and speech recognition expert who leads Zoom’s AI strategy and services, and an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kevin Roose — Contributing Writer at The Atlantic and Co-host of Machine Gods. An award-winning technology journalist and author, formerly a technology columnist at The New York Times and co-host of Hard Fork.
Lu Zhang — Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund. A Silicon Valley investor, serial entrepreneur, and Stanford Engineering alumna focused on backing companies built on technological innovation.
Demi Guo — Co-founder and CEO of Pika. An AI entrepreneur building a generative video platform, with a background in computer science at Harvard and AI research at Stanford.
Holly Zheng — Founding and Managing Partner of EnvisionX Capital. A technology investor and business leader with experience spanning semiconductors, global brand building, and venture capital.
Xiaodi Hou — Founder and CEO of Bot Auto; Co-founder and Former CEO and CTO of TuSimple. An autonomous driving pioneer and AI expert with a Ph.D. from Caltech, focused on bringing autonomous trucking into commercial operation.
Yuandong Tian — Co-founder of Recursive Superintelligence; Former Research Scientist Director at Meta FAIR. A leading AI researcher whose work spans reinforcement learning, planning, and large language model reasoning and efficiency. He co-led Llama 4 reasoning efforts at Meta and holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute.
Additional distinguished speakers will be announced. Through mainstage conversations, JanyTalk Live, candid debates, Demo Show and closed-door discussions. NEX-T creates space for substantive exchanges and meaningful connections across research, industry, investment, and policy.
NEX-T is not simply about predicting the future. It is about bringing together the people building it and the people investing in it.
PROGRAM
The questions shaping what’s next.
Days of keynotes, deep-dive conversations, roundtables, and live demonstrations — exploring how AI, technology, capital, and policy are converging to shape what comes next.
Sponsorship & Partnerships
Put your brand at the intersection of technology, capital, and innovation. NEX-T 2026 offers opportunities to engage with a curated community of investors, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and leading AI researchers through exhibition booths, product demos, event sponsorships, networking experiences, media partnerships, and customized collaborations.
Whether you’re showcasing a breakthrough product, building brand awareness, or developing strategic relationships, we’d love to explore a partnership tailored to your goals. Opportunities are limited and subject to review. Contact [email protected] to learn more.
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