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

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

9:50 AM

Focus Talks

Ramine Roane

CVP of AI Product Management, AMD

Chuan Li

Chief Science Officer, Lambda

Jared Quincy Davis

Founder/CEO, Foundry

10:10 AM

Panel: Building Infrastructure for Agents

Panelists: Bill Dally, Ramine Roane, Chuan Li, Jared Quincy Davis

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

Sherwin Wu

Head of Engineering, OpenAI API, OpenAI

Chi Wang

Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Jerry Liu

Co-Founder/CEO, LlamaIndex

Matt White

Director, GM of AI at PyTorch/Linux Foundation

Brad Axen

Tech Lead, AI & Data Platform, Block

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

1:20 PM

Focus Talks

Ed Chi

VP of Research, Google DeepMind

Jakub Pachocki

Chief Scientist, OpenAI

Sergey Levine

Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

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

Denis Yarats

Co-Founder/CTO, Perplexity

Arvind Jain

Founder/CEO, Glean

May Habib

Co-Founder/CEO, Writer

Richard Socher

Founder/CEO, You.com

2:55 PM

Panel: Next Generation Enterprise Agents

Panelists: Burak Gokturk, Denis Yarats, 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

Eric Simons

Founder/CEO, Bolt

Karthik Narasimhan

Head of Research, Sierra; Associate Professor, Princeton

Adarsh Hiremath

Co-Founder/CTO, Mercor

Snehal Antani

Co-Founder/CEO, Horizon3

4:05 PM

Panel: Agents Transforming Industries

Panelists: Michele Catasta, Eric Simons, Karthik Narasimhan, Adarsh Hiremath, Snehal Antani

4:30 PM

Fireside Chat

Vinod Khosla

Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures

5:00 PM

Startup Spotlight & Reception

10AM

Architecting an Open Agentic Future with Open Source and Open Standards by PyTorch/Linux Foundation

Matt White

Director, GM of AI at PyTorch/Linux Foundation

11AM

Agentic Intelligence in Action with MCP, vLLM and PydanticAI powered by AMD

Mahdi Ghodsi

AI Solution Architect, AMD

12PM

Lunch

1PM

Foundry Workshop

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

Specialist Solutions Engineer, 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

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 Federated Agents

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

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

Deepak Agarwal

Chief AI Officer, LinkedIn

Joe Spisak

AI Product Director, Meta

Anu Trivedi

Head of GenAI, Oracle Health HDI

Aashutosh Nema

Consultant, Data Science, Dell Technologies

From Hype to Impact: Bringing Agentic AI to Existing Systems (Poster Topic - MODP: Multi Objective Directional Prompting)

Michelle Tabart

Principal UX Researcher, Salesforce

Measuring What Matters: Designing AI Agents That Deliver Real-Time Savings ROI

2:10 PM

Lightning Talks

Session 4: Foundations of Agents

2:45 PM

Shunyu Yao

Research Scientist, OpenAI

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

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

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