Meetup Friday 5 June 2026 · 08:30 · MadHats
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
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2026 Speakers:
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Steve Jurvetson, Founder and Managing Director at Future Ventures
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Roman Chernin, Co-founder and Growth at Nebius
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Lydia Hallie, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
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Alex Mashrabov, Founder and CEO at Higgsfield
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Joscha Bach, Executive Director at California Institute for Machine Consciousness
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Stefano Ermon, Professor at Stanford University, Founder at Inception
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Nikita Shamgunov, Vice President at Databricks
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Andrew Wooten, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, CFO at Rhoda
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Naveen Rao, Founder at Unconventional AI
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Samo Burja, Founder and President at Bismarck Analysis
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Jagdeep Singh, CEO and Co-Founder at Rhoda
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Anastasia Zemskova, VP of Strategy at JetBrains
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Oleg Koverznev, VP, Head of Agent Systems at JetBrains
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Eugenia Kuyda, Founder and CEO at Wabi
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Keli Callaghan, Partner at Arrington Capital
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Anna Klepchukova, Chief Medical Officer at Flo
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Charles Ferguson, Filmmaker and Angel Investor, Partner at DVC
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Timur Bekmambetov, Director, Producer at Bazelevs
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David and Daniil Liberman, Co-creators at Gonka.ai
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Sergey Gonchar and Eugene Nevgen, Co-Founders at Animation Inc
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Founders and top researchers from AI Labs and Startups
And many more pending!
Agenda:
8:30AM - Doors open
9:00AM - Women in AI breakfast panel | Marina Davidova, Anastasia Zemskova, Jenny Kay Pollock, TBA
10:00AM - Opening words by organizers
10:05AM - State of AI Report by DVC | Nick Davidov, Marina Davidova
10:25AM - The State of AI: Beyond the Hype | Vanessa Parli
10:40AM - AI Infra Evolution | Roman Chernin, Nick Davidov
11:00AM - Decentralized Compute | Daniil and David Liberman
11:15AM - TBA
11:30AM - How Anthropic team use Claude Code internally | Lydia Hallie
11:45AM - TBA
12:00PM - Lunch Break
12:40PM - $300m+ ARR in a year | Alex Mashrabov
12:55PM - Physical AI Frontier | Andrew Wooten
1:10PM - Why Enterprise AI Stalls Between the Pilot and the P&L | Oleg Koverznev
1:35PM - TBA | Eugeniya Kuyda
1:50PM - AI: The responsibility to 80 million users | Anna Klepchukova
2:05PM - Beyond the Token: Stefano Ermon on the Architecture That Replaces Autoregressive AI | Stefano Ermon, Ash Kumra
2:20PM - World Models | Anton Kaplanyan
2:35PM - Smal and Medium Business Adoption | Dr. David Yang, Kuzma Ledenev
3:00PM - Coffee Break
3:20PM - AI & Geopolitics | Samo Burja
3:45PM - AI filmmaking direction | Timur Bekmambetov, Charles Ferguson
4:00PM - Is there AGI? | Joscha Bach
4:20PM - AI Bubble Tea with VCs | Ann Bordetsky, Serik Kaldykulov, Anu Maheshwari, Michael Stewart, Marina Davidova
4:45PM - Next big thing or two | Steve Jurvetson, Nick Davidov
5:15PM - Reception
This is an invite-only event and requires approval from the organizers.
Organized by DVC and Madhats
- When
- Friday 5 June 2026 08:30
- Where
- Skyline Events SF Skyline Events SF, 601 Avenue of the Palms, San Francisco, CA 94130, USA
- Organizer
- MadHats
- Price
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- City
- San Francisco us