This Time It's Different: AI Startups Across Three Generations

There's no denying we're living through an AI boom. But, despite the hype, AI is far from an overnight success. The story of AI is a rollercoaster of both booms and busts stretching back many decades.

What You'll Experience:

Veteran tech author and journalist John Markoff will lead a conversation with three pioneers who have each navigated??"and helped shape??"distinct eras of AI innovation, exploring the hype and disappointment that has characterized AI's history and offering lessons for today.

The AI Entrepreneurs:

Jerry Kaplan, cofounder of Teknowledge, the publicly traded AI company that helped ignite the 1980s expert systems boom. He wrote Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure about his next company, pioneering mobile maker GO Corporation.
Adam Cheyer, cofounder of Siri, the groundbreaking intelligent assistant later acquired by Apple, and Viv Labs, acquired by Samsung. Cheyer's work has been instrumental in bringing what is now called agentic AI to mainstream consumers. He currently serves as VP of AI Experience at Airbnb.
Daniela Rus is a robotics luminary and cofounder of Liquid AI. In 2023 she began building products around a potentially more flexible AI approach called liquid neural networks. She is Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and has cofounded three other companies.

Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights from leading figures who have witnessed and influenced AI's evolution firsthand. Join us for an engaging evening bridging the past, present, and future of AI.