Join us for the third annual gathering of leaders driving AI strategies, agendas, and products.

October 1 & 2, 2024
Four Seasons, Seattle
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Featured Speakers

Intelligent and generative applications are defining the next generation of innovation. New GenAI, agentic, and infrastructure stacks are emerging. At the 2024 IA Summit we will hear from founders at the cutting edge and established companies building for the future.

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Yann Lecun
Mustafa Suleyman
CEO of AI
Daphne Koller
Rama Akkiraju
VP of Enterprise AI & Automation
Summit Chauhan
Brad Gerstner
CEO
Marco Argenti
Peter DeSantis
SVP of Utility Computing

Foundation models and GenAI are taking the world by storm. As these technologies mature, the potential they have when deployed in business applications becomes more apparent by the day. It is these applications that will  define the future of software and the next generation of computing.‍

AI Podcasts

Neon Co-founder & CEO Nikita Shamgunov

Neon Co-founder & CEO Nikita Shamgunov
Introducing the 2024 Intelligent Applications 40
Introducing the 2024 Intelligent Applications 40
Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
Temporal Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev
Temporal Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev
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2024 Summit Agenda

October 2
8:30 a.m.
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona
9:05 a.m.
Fireside Chat — Transforming AI Foundations & the Enterprise
Peter DeSantis, SVP of Utility Computing, AWS
Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs
9:30 a.m.
Panel — Navigating the Model Landscape
Suarabh Baji, SVP of Engineering, Cohere
Ali Farhadi, CEO, Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Asha Sharma, CVP, Product, AI Platform, Microsoft
‍Moderated by Eric Newcomer, Founder/Author, Newcomer
10:10 a.m.
Break
10:25 a.m.
Fireside Chat — Market Perspective on AI
Brad Gerstner, Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital
Matt McIlwain, Managing Director, Madrona
10:50 a.m.
IA40 Winner Spotlights — Enablers
Unstructured — Founder & CEO Brian Raymond
Coactive — Co-founder & CEO Cody Coleman
Hex — Co-founder & CEO Barry McCardel
11:25 a.m.
Panel — Models Are Not All You Need
Rama Akkiraju, VP Enterprise AI & Automation, NVIDIA
Christian Kleinerman, EVP Product, Snowflake
Chetan Kapoor, CPO, CoreWeave
‍Moderated by Tom Dotan, Reporter, WSJ
12:00 p.m.
Lunch & Networking
12:45 p.m.
Fireside Chat — Fakes, Deepfakes, and the Search for True
Oren Etzioni, Founder, TrueMedia.org
Tom Standage, Deputy Editor, The Economist
1:15 p.m.
Panel — CIO Enterprise AI Strategy
‍Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs
Michelle Horn, SVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Delta
Swamy Kocherlakota, EVP & Chief Digital Solutions Officer, S&P Global
Lari Hämäläinen, Senior Partner QuantumBlack & Digital, McKinsey & Company
‍Moderated by Ajay Patel, General Manager, Apptio, an IBM company
2:00 p.m.
IA40 Winner Spotlights — Intelligent Applications Part 1
MultiOn — Co-founder & CEO Div Garg
Factory — Co-founder & CEO Matan Grinberg
2:20 p.m.
Panel — Searching for Answers, The New Era of Enterprise Productivity
Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean
‍Mark Mader, President & CEO, Smartsheet
Eleanor Lightbody, CEO, Luminance
‍Moderated by Mark Nelson, Venture Partner, Madrona & former CEO, Tableau Software
2:50 p.m.
IA40 Winner Spotlights — Intelligent Applications Part 2
Read AI — Co-founder & CEO David Shim
Writer — Co-founder & CTO Waseem Alshikh
Anduril — SVP & Chief of Staff Joseph Larson
3:25 p.m.
Break
3:40 p.m.
Discussion Groups
‍Models, Modalities, & Mixing
Discussion Leaders: Pitchbook Senior Research Analyst, AI & Data Brendan Burke & Principal Systems Engineer at NVIDIA Jared Roesch
Data Training, Tuning & Retrieval for AI
Discussion Leader: Madrona Partner Jon Turow & Relational AI CEO Molham Aref
AI Agents
Discussion Leaders: Andreessen Horowitz Partner Guido Appenzeller and Fixie Founders Zach Koch & Justin Uberti
Intelligent Apps for Productivity
Discussion Leader: Radical Ventures Partner Rob Toews & Read AI Co-Founder & CEO David Shim
‍Vertical Intelligent Apps
‍Discussion Leaders: Sapphire Vice President Demi Obayomi and Lexion Co-Founder Gaurav Oberoi
4:20 p.m.
Fireside Chat — From SaaS to Agents
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of AI, Microsoft
Soma Somasegar, Managing Director, Madrona
5:00 p.m.
Cocktails & Reception

2024 Speakers

Summit Agenda

Morning Sessions
8:00 – 8:20am
Networking Breakfast
8:20 – 8:30am
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
4:15 – 4:30pm
Closing Remarks | Matt McIlwain/Madrona
4:30 – 5:30pm
Cocktails/Networking
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