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You're invited
Come for dinner.
Details
When and where.
The Program
A summer of building, on both coasts.
Around the grill
Around the grill.
Everyone here tonight, at a glance.
Founder and CIO at Tiara Capital | Entrepreneur | Quantitative Trader
MIT professor and Media Lab pioneer, one of the most-cited computational social scientists; founder of multiple AI and data ventures.
Co-founder and President of Decagon, the AI customer-support agent platform valued around $4.5B; earlier built Helia (sold to Scale AI), ex-Palantir, Stanford CS.
Former President and COO of AMD and a veteran SF semiconductor operator; TekTrek host for the June 26 dinner.
AI and security software engineer at Google and a core organizer of MIT's Imagination in Action; hackathon builder.
Founder and CEO of Axiom Math, an AI mathematician startup ($64M seed); MIT '22 in math and physics, Rhodes Scholar.
President of the Anthropocene Institute & Co-Founder of eGroups.
Co-founder of SmugMug, which acquired Flickr; earlier co-founded Fatbrain (sold to Barnes & Noble) and worked at NeXT with Steve Jobs.
Co-founder and CEO of Godela, an AI physics engine (YC X25); Stanford MechE and Forbes 250 innovator.
Principal Engineer @ Google DeepMind
TekTrek founding funder; founder and Managing Partner of Link Ventures, serial entrepreneur and MIT alum.
Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.
TekTrek co-founder and Managing Director at Link Ventures.
Stanford EE PhD working on energy-optimal LLM inference and sustainable computing; Churchill Scholar.
Princeton '27, Co-President of the E-Club and founder of Gradient.
Princeton '76, Berkeley professor and founder of GLIDR.
TekTrek co-founder, Chief Architect and Dean; MIT lecturer, founder of TEDxMIT and the IIA AI Summits, Forbes AI columnist.
SVP and CMO at Cerebras; previously MosaicML (sold to Databricks for $1.3B) and Intel AI; MIT and Stanford.
Partner on the a16z crypto investment team; ex-founding engineer at Corsali/Vana, Facebook and NASA JPL; MIT physics and CS.
Distinguished Researcher and Technical Director at Google DeepMind, working on Gemini.
Maura Blundin
Electrical engineer.
Founder & CEO of Borderless.
Nandini Raza
Jewellery designer.
Stanford math and CS, incoming PhD at the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab; AI safety and decision-making under uncertainty.
Stanford CS PhD and Knight-Hennessy Scholar working on AI for scientific discovery; ex-Harvard Medical School.
Senior software engineer at Google DeepMind; built the computer-use feature that became Gemini Agent and the rendering system behind Gemini Canvas.
Former Senior Engineering Director at Google who founded Google Images and scaled it past 1B queries a day; now advises mission-driven startups.
Principal Design Manager at Microsoft leading design for Copilot; Silicon Valley human-AI product leader.
Stanford CS PhD researching RLHF, alignment and AI safety.
Engineer working across healthcare and sustainability; co-founder of Abroadening, Stanford GSB.
Calendar
More to come.
QUESTIONS
Anything you need before the night, reach out:
John Werner — Chief Architect — jwerner@mit.edu
Theo Ehrmann — Ops Lead — theo@ehrmann.haus
See you Thursday.