Welcome to the Agentic AI Summit 2025, hosted by Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence! Building on the momentum of our popular LLM Agents MOOC series—a rapidly growing global community of over 23,000 registered learners—we are excited to invite you to join us on August 2nd at the beautiful Berkeley campus. The summit will bring together visionary leaders from academia, pioneering entrepreneurs, experts from leading AI organizations, venture capitalists, and policymakers to explore, discuss, and collaboratively shape the exciting future of AI and Agentic AI. This summit aims not merely to showcase the latest advancements, but to build bridges across constituencies and catalyze meaningful conversations and partnerships. Together, we'll navigate the path toward intelligent agents that don't just automate tasks, but actively empower individuals, enrich societies, and amplify human potential—setting the stage for a robust, safe, and transformative AI-powered future.
Join over 1,500 in-person attendees and many thousands of livestream participants as we come together for this landmark event to shape the future of AI and AI Agents.
Date: August 2, 2025
Venue: UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA
Ticketing Update
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There will be no onsite registration or ticket sales. Only registered attendees with a valid confirmation/ticket will be admitted. Thank you for your understanding!
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Main Stage
Workshops
Frontier Stage
Program Schedule
Main Stage
Workshops
Frontier Stage
9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI
Session 1: Building Infrastructure for Agents
9:30 AM
Opening Keynote
Bill Dally
Chief Scientist, NVIDIA
Hardware for AI Agents
9:50 AM
Focus Talks
Ramine Roane
CVP of AI Product Management, AMD
Architecting the Future of Agentic AI at Scale
Chuan Li
Chief Science Officer, Lambda
Building AI Infrastructure as If Agents Were Human
Jared Quincy Davis
Founder/CEO, Foundry
Ember: the inference-time scaling architectures framework
10:10 AM
Panel: Building Infrastructure for Agents
Panelists: Bill Dally, Ramine Roane, Chuan Li, Jared Quincy Davis, Igor Arsovski (Chief Architect / Head of Hardware, Groq)
Moderator: Jared Quincy Davis
10:30 AM
Break
Session 2: Frameworks & Stacks for Agentic Systems
10:45 AM
Keynote
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder, Databricks & Anyscale; Professor of UC Berkeley
11:05 AM
Focus Talks
Matei Zaharia
Co-Founder/CTO, Databricks; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Reflective Optimization of Agents with GEPA and DSPy
Sherwin Wu
Head of Engineering, OpenAI API, OpenAI
The Year of Agents (tm)
Chi Wang
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Visionary Stacks for Agentic Systems: Insights and Innovations Ahead
Jerry Liu
Co-Founder/CEO, LlamaIndex
Context Engineering and MCP for Document Workflows
Matt White
Director, GM of AI at PyTorch/Linux Foundation
No Agents without Standards
Brad Axen
Tech Lead, AI & Data Platform, Block
Goose: an Open Source, Local AI Agent
11:40 AM
Panel: Frameworks & Stacks for Agentic Systems
Panelists: Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Sherwin Wu, Chi Wang, Jerry Liu, Matt White, Brad Axen
Moderator: Chi Wang
12:05 PM
Lunch & Poster Sessions
Session 3: Foundations of Agents
1:00 PM
Keynote
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI
Towards Building Safe and Secure Agentic AI
1:20 PM
Focus Talks
Ed Chi
VP of Research, Google DeepMind
Google Gemini Era: Bringing AI to Universal Assistant and the Real World
Jakub Pachocki
Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Automating Discovery
Sergey Levine
Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for LLM Agents
1:50 PM
Panel: Foundations of Agents
Panelists: Dawn Song, Ed Chi, Jakub Pachocki, Sergey Levine
Moderator: Xinyun Chen (Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind)
Session 4: Next Generation Enterprise Agents
2:15 PM
Focus Talks
Burak Gokturk
VP, ML, Systems and Cloud AI Research, Google
AI Trends and the Moment for Agentic Systems
Arvind Jain
Founder/CEO, Glean
Transforming to an AI-Native Enterprise
May Habib
Co-Founder/CEO, Writer
From execution to supervision: scaling productivity with agents
Richard Socher
Founder/CEO, You.com
Search APIs for Accurate Answers and Agents
2:55 PM
Panel: Next Generation Enterprise Agents
Panelists: Burak Gokturk, Arvind Jain, May Habib, Richard Socher
Moderator: Sharon Goldman (AI Reporter, Fortune)
3:20 PM
Break
Session 5: Agents Transforming Industries
3:35 PM
Focus Talks
Michele Catasta
President, Replit
The breakout year of Coding Agents
Karthik Narasimhan
Head of Research, Sierra; Associate Professor, Princeton
Reliable AI Agents for Tomorrow's World
Adarsh Hiremath
Co-Founder/CTO, Mercor
Future of Work in an AI Economy
Snehal Antani
Co-Founder/CEO, Horizon3
Building Scalable AI Companies
4:05 PM
Panel: Agents Transforming Industries
Panelists: Michele Catasta, Karthik Narasimhan, Adarsh Hiremath, Snehal Antani
Moderator: Vijay Reddy (General Partner, Mayfield)
4:30 PM
Fireside Chat
Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
5:00 PM
Startup Spotlight & Reception
Featured Speakers
10AM
Architecting an Open Agentic Future with Open Source and Open Standards by PyTorch/Linux Foundation
Matt White, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation, GM of AI, Linux Foundation. – "Open Source and Open Standards: Foundations for an Agent-Driven Future"
Michael Goin, Principal Engineer, Redhat – "Accelerating Agents: Scalable and Efficient Inference with vLLM"
Jason Kim, Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic – "MCP as a Foundational Protocol for Agents"
Sumanth Hegde, Software Engineer, Anyscale – "Ray: Scalable Agent Infrastructure"
Daniel Han-Chen, Co-Founder & CEO, Unsloth – "Training agents with reinforcement learning"
Chitra Venkatesh, Product Manager, Google – "A2A: The Future of AI Agent Collaboration"
11AM
Agentic Intelligence in Action with MCP, vLLM and PydanticAI powered by AMD
Mahdi Ghodsi
AI Solution Architect, AMD
12PM
Lunch
1PM
How to 10x AI Agent Price-Performance with Inference-Time Scaling
Jared Quincy Davis
Founder/CEO, Foundry
2PM
Multimodal challenges, neural operating systems, and deploying AI agents by Lambda
Amir Zadeh
Staff Machine Learning Researcher, Lambda
3PM
Vibe Coding with Goose: Building Apps with AI Agents and MCP by Block
Angie Jones
Global Head of Developer Relations, Block
4PM
AI Agents that interact with the world around them by Auth0/Okta
Abhishek Hingnikar
Product Architect, Auth0/Okta
Session 1: Agent Architecture & Systems
9:30 AM
Ranjan Sinha
IBM Fellow, CTO, IBM Research AI, IBM
Natural Language Interaction Protocol: A Universal Application-Level Protocol for the Age of Generative AI
Debo Dutta
Chief AI Officer, Nutanix
The Rise of Agentic AI: Building Secure, Scalable, and Ethical Systems
Chi Wang
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
MassGen: Frontier Multi-Agent Scaling in Open Source
Papi Menon
CPO & VP of Product Management, Outshift by Cisco
Building an Open Infrastructure for the Internet of Agents
Jay Rodge
Senior Developer Advocate, NVIDIA
Building GPU-accelerated Agentic Workflows
Nandi Subhrangshu
Sr. Staff Scientist, Amazon
Evaluating Agents that Automate Complex Industrial SOPs
Pushkar Nandkar
Senior Principal Engineer, SambaNova Systems
SambaNova SN40L: Unleashing Agentic AI with Dataflow
Xifeng Yan
Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara
Transforming Agent-based Customer Service Chatbots with Declarative Programming
Session 2: AI for Science
10:50 AM
Tapan Shah
AI Architect, Innovaccer
Evaluating AI agents for healthcare: scenarios, metrics and stress testing
Samuel Rodriques
Co-Founder/CEO, FutureHouse
Automating Scientific Research with AI Agents
Le Cong
PI / Assistant Professor, Stanford University
From Code to Cell: Building AI Agents for Gene-editing, Stem-Cell Programming, and Beyond
Rose Yu
Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Grounding foundation models for physical sciences
11:30 AM
Lightning Talks
12:00 PM
Lunch
Session 3: Agent Applications
1:00 PM
Adam Kaplan
Senior Staff Engineer, Core AI, LinkedIn
Building Autonomous Agents
Anu Trivedi
Head of GenAI, Oracle Health HDI
Agentic AI in Healthcare: Building Trustworthy Autonomy at Oracle Health
Aashutosh Nema
Consultant, Data Science, Dell Technologies
From Hype to Impact: Bringing Agentic AI to Existing Systems
Michelle Tabart
Principal UX Researcher, Salesforce
Measuring What Matters: Designing AI Agents That Deliver Real-Time Savings ROI
Divy Thakkar
Sr. Program Manager, Google
Evolving Interaction Paradigms for Software Prototyping with LLMs
1:45 PM
AgentX Winners Announcement & Lightning Talks
Featuring Winners from AgentX (Spring'25) and LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon (Fall'24)
Session 4: Foundations of Agents
2:45 PM
Jose Renau
Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Building Hardware Agents
Risto Miikkulainen
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin; VP of AI Research, Cognizant AI Labs
Neuroevolution: Harnessing Creativity in AI Agent Design
Manling Li
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
RAGEN: Training Agents by Reinforcing Reasoning
Roei Herzig
AI Researcher, MIT-IBM Lab / UC Berkeley
Towards Structured Physical Intelligence Models
3:35 PM
Break
Session 5: AI Safety, Alignment & Security
3:45 PM
John Dickerson
CEO, Mozilla AI
Choice and Open Source AI
Bo Li
Associate Professor, UIUC; CEO, Virtue AI
Guarding the Future: Advancing Risk Assessment, Safety Alignment, and Guardrail Systems for AI Agents
Leo Meyerovich
Founder & CEO, Graphistry, Inc
Louie.AI: Speed Running Cybersecurity Analyst Competitions
Nicole Nichols
Distinguished Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Achieving a Secure AI Agent Ecosystem
Akshata Rao
Sr. Principal Researcher, Palo Alto Networks
Enhancing Evaluator Efficacy in Generative AI Red Teaming: Methodologies for Quality Assessment and Improvement
Zifan Wang
Head of SEAL, Scale AI
Agent Safety: From Red Teaming to Oversight
Victor Aranda
Sr. Principal Solutions Architect, Palo Alto Networks
What's Old Is New Again; Familiar Patterns Emerging in the Era of Agents
4:50 PM
Lightning Talks
5:45 PM
Networking & Reception
Featured Speakers
Sponsors
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