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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