Your One-Stop Guide to GenAI Week 2025 Speakers & Agenda
From Stanford professors to OpenAI scientists, unicorn founders to quantum-tech pioneers, the future of AI is gathering in one place — and you’re invited.
One of the biggest AI gatherings I’ve seen is coming up — GenAI Week Silicon Valley 2025, happening July 13–17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
It’s co-hosted by GPTDAO , Microsoft , Generative.AI, Stanford Entrepreneurs ,Stanford Founders , and more.
This is not just another conference.
🚀 From Stanford professors to OpenAI scientists, unicorn founders to quantum-tech pioneers, the future of AI is gathering in one place — and you’re invited.
💥 Why this one’s different:
🧠 30,000+ attendees — it’s massive
💡 300+ GenAI startups & live AGI demos
🎤 Speakers from OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, Stanford, DeepMind, IBM, Google
💬 100+ tactical sessions — from agent frameworks to monetization
🤝 Top investors from a16z, Sequoia, OpenAI Startup Fund, BlackRock, Pear VC
🎯 Founder pitch stage — for startups from pre-seed to Series A
🌍 With attendees from over 30 countries, it’ll be buzzing with energy, ideas, and opportunities.
And yes — all present. Expect live demos like Tesla Robotaxi and Meta’s newest AI hardware on-site.
This is your front-row seat to what’s next.
💡 Founders — ready to pitch your startup on the big stage? Apply now through the Founder’s Pitch Package for a shot at presenting in front of global investors and decision-makers.
📅 July 13–17, 2025 📍 Santa Clara Convention Center 🎟️ Tickets & Info
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📚 Still deciding which day(s) to attend? 👉 Full Speaker Lineup (One-Stop Guide)
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Your One-Stop Guide to GenAI Week 2025 Speakers (with All LinkedIn Links) is as follows:
🔹 Jason Wei, OpenAI scientist behind CoT & GPT-3Soumya Batra, core author of Llama 2 & 3
🔹 Arvind Jain ,CEO of Glean ($7.2B valuation)
🔹 Shannon McClenaghan, CEO of StartX ($40B community)
🔹 Rob Ferguson, Head of AI Startups @ Microsoft
🔹 Deon Nicholas, CEO of Forethought ($100M+ raised)
🔹 Steve Nouri , CEO of geniWorks (12M+ followers)
🔹 Edward Oates, Co-Founder of Oracle
🔹 Soumya Batra , Author of Llama2 and Llama3
🔹 Michael Stewart, Managing Partner @ M12 (Microsoft VC)
🔹 Jason Lopatecki, Founder&CEO of Arize AI
🔹 Nikhil Krishnan , CTO @ C3.ai ($3.5B)
🔹 Todd Graham , Managing Partner of Microsoft's Venture Capital
🔹 Shravan N. Partner of IVP($7.25B + Under Management)
🔹 Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten ($825M)Zihan Wang, Creator of DeepSeek V2
🔹 Zihan Wang, Author of DeepSeek V2
🔹Vanessa Larco,former Partner @ NEA
🔹 Richard Socher, CEO of You.com ($90M)
🔹 Jeff Lu, CEO of Akool ($40M ARR) ,
🔹 Sophie R. , CEO of ChatSlide , Forbes 30 Under 30
🔹 Swapnil Jain, CEO of Observe.AI ($800M)
🔹 Jay Allardyce, President @ Generative AI (10M+ community)
🔹 Megh Guatam, CPO Crunchbase
🔹 Sharon Zhou, PhD, VP of AI AMD
🔹 Ajay Vashee General Partner of IVP, CFO of Dropbox through IPO
🔹 Jack J. McCauley, Co-Founder of Oculus VR
🔹 Saanya Ojha,Partner @ BCV ($10B+ fund)
🔹 Ben Morss, Developer Evangelist @ DeepL
🔹 Shaun Johnson, GP @ AIX Ventures (Perplexity, Hugging Face)
🔹 Admit Jain, CTO Personify Health (Valuation $3B)
🔹 Balaji Ganesan, CEO @ Privacera ($380M)
🔹 Tim Shi , CTO @ Cresta ($1.6B)
🔹 Peter Coats, SVP Wildcat Discovery Technologies ($7.5B AUM)
🔹 Xenia Strunnikova , Head of CX, Fraud&Safety Strategy DoorDash
🔹 Chandrakant D. Patel, PE , Chief Engineer of HP
🔹 Shub Agarwal, Management and Gen AI of U.S. Bank
🔹 Lenjoy Lin, Co-founder Genspark
🔹 Mengdi Wang, Princeton Prof., Donald P. Eckman Awardee
🔹 Jia Li, Chief AI Officer @ LiveX.AI, IEEE Fellow
🔹 Miha Kralj, Global Partner @ IBM
🔹 Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight ($1.1B)
🔹 Kahini Shah, Partner @ Ovious
🔹 Vijay Chandrasekhar, CEO of COSMOS ($27.8M raised)
🔹 Stefan Leichenauer, VP @ SandboxAQ ($5B quantum-tech)
🔹 Timothy Young, CEO of Jasper ($1.2B)
🔹 Daniel Wagner, CEO of Rezolve ($55M)
🔹 Filip Kozera, CEO of Wordware ($30M raised)
🔹 Tengyu Ma, Chief AI Scientist Voyage AI by MongoDB
🔹 Arthur Qin, Founder&CEO of AC Future
🔹 Monica Bajaj, VP of Engineering @ Okta ($18B)
🔹 Xi Chen, Professor @ NYU Stern
🔹 Jim Dukhovny,CEO of Alef Aeronautics (flying cars!)
🔹 Charles Xie, CEO of Zilliz ($40M raised)
🔹 Cindi Howson, Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer @ ThoughtSpot ($1.25B)
🔹 Ali Khodaei — VP of AI Product at SandboxAQ （Valuation: $5B）
🔹 David Hefter — Director at BlackRock （World's Largest Asset Manager）
🔹 Byung-Gon Chun — Co-Founder & CEO at FriendliAI （LLM Inference Accelerator）
🔹 Gunveer Gujral — Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta （Pioneered Scalable AI Infrastructure）
🔹 Chandni Dhanjal — Senior Product Director at Expedia Group （Market Cap: $20B+）
🔹 Satya Nitta — Co-founder & CEO at Emergence （Innovated Recursive Autonomous AI）
🔹 Drew Dennison — Co-Founder & CTO at Semgrep （Funding: $193M）
🔹 Ashish Agrawal — CTO at Eudia
🔹 Zhou Yu — Founder at Arklex.ai （Forbes 30 under 30, 2018）
🔹 Sebastien Jean — CTO at Phison （Market Cap: $100B+）
🔹 Steven Hoffman — Chairman & CEO at Founders Space （World's leading Incubator & Accelerator）
🔹 Vaibhavi Gangwar — Co-Founder & CEO at Maxim （Revolutionizing AI Evaluation Standards）
🔹 Bret Waters — Instructor at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
🔹 Jenny Xiao — Partner at Leonis Capital （Research-driven, AI-first and seed-stage VC）
🔹 Junchen Jiang — Assistant Professor at UChicago （Pioneered Video Quality Optimization）
🔹 Andrew Mayne — Founder & Ex-OpenAI at Interdimensional （Shaped Early AI Prompting）
🔹 Ang Li — Founder & CEO at Simular （Pioneered Continual Learning Agents）
🔹 Vic Bhatia — Technical Founder & CEO at Fixpliance.AI （Automated Compliance Engineering Leader）
🔹 Gagan Reen — Advisor at GenAI Works （AI Community with 10M Followers）
🔹 Anu Shukla — Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Botco AI （Generative AI Marketing）
🔹 Dan Sahar — Co-Founder at Guidde （Raised $30M Funding）
🔹 Dan Thomson — CEO at Sensay （Invented AI Replicas for Memory Care）
🔹 Michael Dimler — SVP, Support Operations at Asurion
🔹 Matthew Phillips — Director of AI Strategy at Asurion
🔹 Itamar Novick — Founder & General Partner at Recursive Ventures （Scaled Life360 to IPO）
🔹 Lu Zhang — Founder & Managing Partner at Fusion Fund （Fund Size: $500M+）
🔹 Ryan Wang — Co-Founder & CEO at Assembled （AI-Driven Support Operations）
🔹 Anant Bhardwaj — CEO at Instabase （$2B AI Platform Instabase）
🔹 Jeremiah Owyang — Investor at Blitzscaling Ventures （Fund Size: $50M）
🔹 Hassan Sawaf — Founder & CEO at aiXplain （Democratized AI $16.5B-backed Platform）
🔹 Manisha Raisinghani — CEO at sifthub （Revolutionized Logistics With AI）
🔹 Rocky Yu — Founder & CEO at API House Ventures （Built Collaborative AI Innovation Hub）
🔹 Alon Talmor — Founder & CEO at Ask-AI （Enterprise AI NLP Pioneer）
🔹 Gurudutta Ramanathaiah — Engineering Lead at Infinitus Systems （AI-Driven Healthcare）
🔹 Ivan Lee — Founder & CEO at Datasaur （Stanford-Educated Product Leader）
🔹 Kyle Corbitt — Founder at OpenPipe （Democratizes Fine-Tuned AI Models）
🔹 Rohit Valia — Founder & CEO at Tumeryk （Built Tumeryk's AI TrustScore System）
🔹 Scott Clark — Co-Founder & CEO at Distributional （Transformed Enterprise AI Reliability Testing）
🔹 Stephen Delaporte — Founder & CEO at Avar Robotics （Powering Practical, People-Centered Robotics）
🔹 Vanja Josifovski — CEO at Kumo AI （Democratized Predictive AI Globally）
🔹 Sumeet Agrawal — VP of Product Management at Informatica （Led Enterprise AI Integration）
🔹 Daniel Svonava — Co-Founder & CEO at Superlinked （Redefining Vector Search Infrastructure）
🔹 Vidya Narayanan — Co-Founder & CEO at FinalLayer （Automating Personal Branding with AI）
🔹 Andy Singh — Founder & CEO at Teqfocus Consulting LLC （Built $35M Tech Firm）
🔹 Oussama Elachqar — Co-Founder at Oumi （TBD）
🔹 Tedi Papajorgji — VP of Engineering at Resemble AI （Led Netflix Voice Innovation）
🔹 Munish Gandhi — Founder & CEO at Statisfy （Agentic Customer Success Platform）
🔹 Matt Butcher — CEO at Fermyon （WebAssembly Cloud Computing Engineer）
🔹 Ray Wu — Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures （Venture Capital in Blockchain）
🔹 Jugal Anchalia — Co-Founder & CEO at Cobalt （Healthtech and Devtools Innovator）
🔹 Jeremiah Stone - CTO of SnapLogic
🔹 Bo Li ,CEO of Virtue AI(Funding:$30M)
🔹 Ben Lerner , Co-Founder&CEO of Espresso.AI
🔹 John Koeter , Senior VP IP Group of Synopsys Inc
🔹 Hemant Joshi, CTO of FloTorch
🔹Kaycee Lai, Founder&CEO of Promethium
🔹 Ken Osborn ,VP of Marketing of Teqfocus
🔹 Suman Kanuganti , Co-founder&CEO of Personal.ai (Funding: $30M)
🔹 Erol Guney, Chief Software Architect Avalara
🔹 Joseph Johnson , CEO of LedgerUp
🔹 Junyu Huang , COO of Novita
🔹 Claude Zdanow , Chairman &CEO of Onar
🔹 Alvin Xiao , Founding Partner of NYX Ventures
🔹 Xinyi Cao , Co-founder @ Flowgen
🔹 Michael Kravec , CSO BlueYeti
🔹 Basel Salahieh , CEO of Vimmerse
🔹 James Gambale , AI, ML, and Patent Attorney OneSource Cloud
🔹 Sankalp Arora , Co-founder & CEO of Gather AI
🔹 Geraldine Woloch-Addamine Founder & CEO of Good4work
🔹 Ryan Starks Head of Marketing of Rising Team
🔹 Elaine L. Founder&CEO of Prosgrow.ai
🔹 VS Joshi , Global Head of Product Marketing, Digitate
🔹 Vache Moroyan Chief Product Officer of Observe.AI
🔹 Sean E. Mitchell VP of Customer Success Gather AI
🔹 Chandini Jain, Founder&CEO of Auquan
🔹 Sana Wajid Chief Development Officer & Senior Vice President Fetch.ai
🔹 Natalia Bielczyk, PhD , Founder & CEO Ontology of Value®
🔹 Paul Fang, Ph.D. President of Bay Area Founders Club
🔹 Joseph Pigato President of Stanford Entrepreneurs
I am thrilled to be giving a keynote at GenAI Week Silicon Valley 2025 — the largest Generative AI event of the year, too!
I'll be diving into a topic close to my heart: ✨ Turning Knowledge into Real-World Value — whether that means revenue, long-term assets, or meaningful impact.
💥 Whether you're building, investing, researching, or just insanely curious — this is the week that defines where AI is headed next.
Just sharing because I know some of you are quietly building the next wave of magic 🪄
🌱 Also — if you’re a community builder in the Bay Area, or an early-stage founder navigating tight budgets, feel free to reach out. Always happy to support however I can.
Let’s meet there — and if you see me around, come say hi! I’d genuinely love that.
– Sophie R🌱 Founder, Chatslide.AI
#GenAIWeek #AIRevolution #SVTechWeek #Founders #Investors #AGI
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