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IA40 Summit 2026

September 29 – 30, 2026 · Four Seasons, Seattle

Our exclusive annual gathering for AI founders, researchers, and leaders building at the forefront of the industry. Join the leaders driving the AI innovations, strategies, and products of tomorrow.

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IA Summit 2026, presented by Madrona
Fireside chat and audience at the 2025 IA40 Summit

2026 Speakers

Founders at the cutting edge.

Intelligent and generative applications are defining the next generation of innovation. New GenAI, agentic, and infrastructure stacks are emerging. At the 2026 IA40 Summit, we'll hear from founders at the cutting edge and established companies building for the future.

  • Charles Lamanna

    EVP, Copilot, Agents & Platform

    Microsoft

  • Carina Hong

    Founder & CEO

    Axiom

  • Rahul Patil

    CTO

    Anthropic

  • Jeanne Grosser

    COO

    Vercel

  • Amar Maletira

    COO

    Glean

  • Jamin Ball

    Partner

    Altimeter

  • Maia Josebachvili

    CRO of AI

    Stripe

  • Paul Klein

    CEO

    Browserbase

  • Rahul Auradkar

    President & GM, Data 360

    Salesforce

  • Raphaëlle D’Ornano

    Founder and CEO

    Decoding Discontinuity

  • Ryan Daniels

    Cofounder & CEO

    Crosby

  • Swami Sivasubramanian

    VP, AWS Agentic AI & Emerging Technologies

    AWS

  • Taroon Mandhana

    CTO, AI & Teamwork

    Atlassian

  • Will Bryk

    CEO

    Exa

  • Zico Kolter

    Chief Scientist

    Gray Swan

You could see your end customer was about to change completely because an AI was going to sit between you and them.
Parag Agrawal Founder & CEO Parallel Web Systems

A preview

2026 IA40 Summit Working Agenda

Sept 30

Sept 30 · 8:30 am

Registration & Breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:10 am

Keynote: Agency in the Agentic Era — Super Apps to Super Agency

9:40 am

Panel: Data Enabling the Agentic World

10:05 am

I40 Winner Spotlights

10:40 am

Break

10:55 am

Panel: Harnessing the Value of Harnesses

11:25 am

Fireside: Enabling Collaborative Agents

11:50 am

Panel: Pilots, Production, and the Accountability Gap

12:15 pm

Lunch & Networking

1:00 pm

Fireside Chat: When Models Go Rogue: Building AI Systems You Can Actually Trust

1:25 pm

Panel: The First Frontier — How Verifiable Software Leads to Agentic Innovation

1:50 pm

VC Panel: Betting on Agency

2:15 pm

Panel: Agency for the Web

2:45 pm

Break

3:00 pm

IA40 Winner Spotlights – Enablers

3:35 pm

Panel: Reinventing Domains — Function-Specific Agentic AI

4:25 pm

Keynote: The Next Generation of Autonomous Systems

4:50 pm

Closing Remarks

5:00 pm

Reception

Where the list meets in person.

September 29 – 30, 2026 · Four Seasons, Seattle · Invite only

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