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:

• 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!

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