The AI Conference 2025 took center stage in San Francisco this week, gathering engineers, researchers, founders, and executives for two engaging days of expert-led demos, industry panels, networking, a startup showdown, hacking workshop, and more. The event even sold out, a truly impressive feat!
Speakers were high tier, including top names from companies driving AI progress like NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Writer, baseten, and more. Content was organized by four tracks—AI Frontiers, AI Developers, AI Strategy, and Applied AI—making it easy for attendees to fit all most relevant content into their schedules.
A few session highllights:
Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit and Mark Sullivan, Senior Writer at Fast Company sat down for an in-depth conversation on the promise and challenges of agentic AI—from innovation to real-world impact.
Dr. Shelby Heinecke, Senior AI Research Manager at Salesforce, outlined the next era of enterprise AI, highlighting that speed and reliability are most important for what’s next.
Tris Warkentin, Director of Product Management at Google DeepMind, gave insight into the future of on-device intelligence.
We were really impressed by their Hack Day, hosted as an opportunity for developers to connect and compete with their peers. Attendees benefitted from lightning talks, demos, QuickStart challenges, and of course, prizes!
We always love to note the creative swag events feature—how perfect is this Hack Day-branded energy drink?
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