On Oct. 12, 2023, we brought together thought leaders, founders, and experts from the intelligent and generative application community for the second annual IA Summit.
Intelligent and generative applications are defining the next generation of innovation. A new GenAI stack is emerging. At the 2023 Summit we heard from founders at the cutting edge and established companies building for the future.
Fireside Chat: Going From POC to Production Matt Garman/AWS Ian Cook/Slalom Build Moderated by Matt McIlwain/Madrona Session recording
9:50 a.m.
Keynote: The State of Open-Source Models & The Path to Foundation Models at the Edge Ali Farhadi/Allen Institute for AI Session recording
10:25 a.m.
Break
10:40 a.m.
IA40 Winner Enabler Company Spotlights Harrison Chase/LangChain Nikita Shamgunov/Neon Bob Wiederhold/Pinecone
11:20 a.m.
Panel: Emerging Architectures for Building Intelligent & Generative Applications Harrison Chase/Langchain Brian Raymond/Unstructured Luis Ceze/OctoML Moderated by Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec/AWS Session recording
12:00 p.m.
Lunch & Networking
12:30 p.m.
Vertical-Specific Applications
Aamer Baig/McKinsey & Company Daphne Koller/Insitro Marco Argenti/Goldman Sachs
Followed by Q & A moderated by Aamer Baig/McKinsey & Company Session recording
1:30 p.m.
Keynote: Introducing a New Era of Copilots Sumit Chauhan/Microsoft
Followed by a moderated discussion with Dina Bass/Bloomberg Session recording
2:10 p.m.
Breakout Sessions (Choose 1)
Consumer & AI | Julie Bornstein/THE YES | Tony Small/HeyLibby! | Anna Bofa/Crate Moderated by Scott Jacobson/Madrona
Intersections of Life Sciences & AI | Jacob Berlin/Terray | Gary Glick/Odyseey Therapeutics | David Younger/A-Alpha | Laksh Aithani/CharmTx Moderated by Kelly Lisbakken/Wedbush
Data is the Driver — Data & AI | Cody Coleman/Coactive | Zaheera Valani/Databricks | Ines Chami/Numbers Station Moderated by Brendan Burke/PitchBook & Jon Turow/Madrona Session recording
2:55 p.m.
Break
3:05 p.m.
Panel: Public & Private Market Perpective in Evolving GenAI Ecosystem Brad Gerstner/Altimeter Asheem Chandna/Greylock S. Somasegar/Madrona Moderated by Michael Harris/NYSE Group Session recording
3:45 p.m.
IA40 Winner Application Company Spotlights Arvind Jain/Glean Jason Warner/Poolside Travis Addair/Predibase Session recording
4:15 p.m.
Panel:Gen-native vs. Gen-enhanced Applications Abhay Parasnis/Typeface James Phillips/Google Adam Caplan/Salesforce Vijaye Raji/Statsig Moderated by Mark Nelson/Madrona
Introduction to Intelligent Applications | Matt McIlwain/Madrona
8:30 – 9:15am
Fireside chat | Data is the Driver | Matt Garman/AWS & Matt McIlwain/Madrona
9:15 – 10:00am
Intelligent Application Company Spotlights | WhyLabs, SeekOut, Cresta
10:00 – 10:30am
Break & Networking
10:30 – 10:50am
Keynote | Peter Lee/Microsoft
10:50 – 11:30am
Enablers Panel | What Enables Application Intelligence | Justin Borgman/Starburst, Anu Sharma/Statsig, and Alex Ratner/Snorkel | Moderated by Peter Lee
11:30 - 12:00pm
Lunch Break & Networking
Afternoon Sessions
2:00 – 12:40pm
Fireside chat | Emerging Trends that Matter in AI & ML (Foundation Models, Transformers, and Stable Diffusion) | Oren Etzioni/AI2 and Carlos Guestrin/Stanford | Moderated by Luis Ceze/OctoML
12:45 – 1:30pm
Breakout Sessions
Session A
Intersections of Life Sciences and Innovation | Maddison Maseli/Deepcell, Lucas Nivon/Cyrus Biotechnology, and Jonathan Carlson/Microsoft | Moderated by Charlotte Hubbert/Nanostring
Session B
Applying AI/ML in Robotics | Leo Dirac/Groundlight.ai, UW Professor/Siddhartha Srinivasa, Amanda Marrs/AMP Robotics | Moderated by Tim Porter/MadronaSession C: Sales Enablement | Craig Hanson/Gong, Prasad Raje/Outreach, Kyle Coleman/Clari | Moderated by Zoe Hillenmeyer/Peak.ai
1:30 – 1:45pm
Break
1:45 – 2:45pm
Keynote | Why we believe the next generation of applications will be intelligent | Charles Lamanna/Microsoft
2:45 – 3:05pm
Fireside chat | Intersections of ML & Life Sciences Applied in Healthcare | Yinhan Liu /Birch AI and Jon Turow/Madrona
3:05 – 3:35pm
Keynote | Intersections of Biology and Technology | Geoff von Maltzahn/Flagship Pioneering
3:35 – 3:45pm
Announce 2022 IA40 winners & PitchBook partnership | Sabrina Wu/ Madrona and Dan Cook/Pitchbook
3:45 – 4:15pm
IA40 2022 Winner Spotlights | Luis Ceze/OctoML and Cristóbal Valenzuela/RunwayML