IA40 Summit 2024

2024 Summit Agenda & Recordings

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

Saurabh 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

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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