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Welcome to the Agentic AI Summit 2026, hosted by Berkeley RDI and Responsible Decentralized Intelligence Foundation.

Building on the momentum of our popular Agentic AI MOOC series—now a rapidly growing global community of almost 40,000 learners—and the success of the 2025 Agentic AI Summit, which brought together 2,000+ in-person attendees and 40,000+ virtual participants, we're excited to invite you to join us on August 1–2, 2026 for a two-day summit on the beautiful UC Berkeley campus.

If 2025 was widely recognized as the "Year of Agents," 2026 is poised to mark an even more explosive phase of growth for Agentic AI—across research, infrastructure, and industry deployment. The 2026 summit will continue and expand the vision of 2025: bringing together visionary leaders from academia, pioneering entrepreneurs, experts from leading AI organizations, venture capitalists, and policymakers to explore, discuss, and collaboratively shape the future of AI and Agentic AI.

This year, we anticipate an even broader and more deeply engaged gathering: 5,000+ in-person attendees, alongside a significantly expanded global livestream audience.

The 2026 Summit is designed to be the largest and most comprehensive event dedicated to Agentic AI—bringing together leaders across the full stack, from foundation models and agent frameworks to evaluation, infrastructure, and real-world deployment. The program will span cutting-edge research, wide-ranging applications across industries, and critical safety and security challenges—advancing the frontier of responsible and secure agentic AI systems.

Our goal is not merely to showcase the latest advancements, but to build bridges across communities and catalyze meaningful conversations and partnerships. Together, we'll navigate the path toward Agentic AI that doesn't just automate tasks, but actively empower individuals, enrich societies, and amplify human potential—helping lay the groundwork for a robust, safe, and transformative AI-powered future.

Dates:   August 1–2, 2026

Venue:   UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA

Tickets

  • Standard Ticket: $499

Capacity is limited, so we encourage you to register ASAP. We look forward to welcoming you to Berkeley this August.

Join Us Virtually

Can't attend the Summit in person? Join us virtually—register for the livestream to access all sessions from anywhere in the world.

Startup Spotlight

Building something exciting in Agentic AI? Apply to pitch directly to 5,000+ decision-makers, investors, and practitioners in the room and hundreds of thousands watching worldwide.

Side Events

Community-hosted meetups, workshops, and gatherings are happening all around the Summit, from July 30 through August 4. Take a look at what is on.



Program Schedule

Plenary - Saturday
Plenary - Sunday
Atlas - Saturday
Atlas - Sunday
Nexus - Saturday
Compass - Saturday
Compass - Sunday
9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
Rich Lyons
Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI
9:30 AM
Session 1: Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform
9:30 AM
Focus Talks
Peter DeSantis
SVP, Foundational AI Models, Custom Silicon, Quantum Computing, Amazon
Saurabh Tiwary
VP & GM, Google Cloud AI
Jonathan Cohen
VP of Applied Research, Nvidia
Chuan Li
Chief Scientific Officer, Lambda
10:25 AM
Panel: Agentic AI Infrastructure & Platform
Panelists: Peter DeSantis, Saurabh Tiwary, Jonathan Cohen, Chuan Li
10:45 AM
Fireside Chat
10:45 AM
Martin Casado
General Partner, a16z
Jasjeet Sekhon
Chief Strategy Officer, Google DeepMind
11:10 AM
Session 2: Future of Software Development
11:10 AM
Focus Talks
Andrej Karpathy
Anthropic; Co-Founder of OpenAI
Peter Steinberger
Creator of OpenClaw, OpenAI
Ryan Lopopolo
Principal Engineer, Agentic Google Cloud Platform
Michele Catasta
President, Replit
Alex Graveley
Director, Comet, Perplexity AI
11:55 AM
Panel: Future of Software Development
Panelists: Andrej Karpathy, Peter Steinberger, Ryan Lopopolo, Michele Catasta, Alex Graveley
Moderator: Anjney Midha (Founder, AMP PBC)
12:20 PM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:30 PM
Session 3: Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities
1:30 PM
Focus Talks
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI
Wojciech Zaremba
Co-Founder, OpenAI
Pushmeet Kohli
VP of Science, Google DeepMind
Dan Roth
Chief AI Scientist, Oracle
Weizhu Chen
Technical Fellow & CVP, Microsoft AI
2:35 PM
Panel: Agentic AI Foundational Capabilities
Panelists: Dawn Song, Wojciech Zaremba, Pushmeet Kohli, Dan Roth, Weizhu Chen
Moderator: Will Knight (Senior Writer, Wired)
3:00 PM
Session 4: Robotics & World Models
3:00 PM
Focus Talks
Sergey Levine
Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence; Professor, UC Berkeley
Jim Fan
Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist, Nvidia
Michael Spranger
President, Sony AI
Anastasis Germanidis
Co-Founder/Co-CEO, Runway
Wei Zhan
Chief Scientist, Applied Intuition
3:45 PM
Panel: Robotics & World Models
Panelists: Sergey Levine, Jim Fan, Michael Spranger, Anastasis Germanidis, Wei Zhan
Moderator: Guru Chahal (Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners)
4:10 PM
Break
4:30 PM
Session 5: Agentic AI in Capital Markets
4:30 PM
Panel: Agentic AI in Capital Markets
Jeff Wecker
CTO, Two Sigma
Jen Allum
SVP, Co-Head of GenAI, The D. E. Shaw Group
Ali Nazari
Head of Deep Learning Research, Susquehanna International Group
Li Deng
Chief AI Officer, Global Head of ML, Vatic Investments
Moderator: Bradley Olson (Technology Editor, WSJ)
5:00 PM
Fireside Chat
5:00 PM
Andrew Ng
Founder, DeepLearning.AI
Alfred Lin
General Partner, Sequoia Capital
5:30 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
9:30 AM
Opening Remarks
Jennifer Chayes
Dean of CDSS, UC Berkeley
Dawn Song
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-Director, Berkeley RDI
9:40 AM
Session 1: Enterprise AI
9:40 AM
Focus Talks
Rao Surapaneni
VP/GM AI Search & Specialized AI, Google Cloud
Adarsh Hiremath
Co-Founder/CTO, Mercor
Duncan Lennox
Chief Product & Technology Officer, HubSpot
Anahita Tafvizi
Chief Data & AI Officer, Snowflake
10:35 AM
Panel: Enterprise AI
Panelists: Rao Surapaneni, Adarsh Hiremath, Duncan Lennox, Anahita Tafvizi, Surojit Chatterjee (Founder/CEO, Ema)
Moderator: Aaron Jacobson (GP, NEA)
11:05 AM
Fireside Chat
11:05 AM
Ali Ghodsi
Co-Founder/CEO, Databricks
Andy Konwinski
Co-Founder, Databricks; Perplexity; Laude Ventures
11:30 AM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: Frontier Research
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Richard Socher
Founder/CEO, Recursive Superintelligence
Ed Chi
VP of Research, Google DeepMind
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
Co-Founder, Periodic Labs
Krithik Puthalath
CEO, Zyphra
Andi Peng
Co-Founder, Humans&
1:35 PM
Panel: Frontier Research
Panelists: Richard Socher, Ed Chi, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Krithik Puthalath, Andi Peng
Moderator: Igor Babuschkin (Co-Founder, xAI)
2:05 PM
Session 3: Agentic AI Developer Platforms
2:05 PM
Focus Talks
Matt White
Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation; CTO, PyTorch Foundation
2:20 PM
Panel: Agentic AI Developer Platforms
Panelists: Matt White, Dima Dmytro Dzhulgakov (Co-Founder/CTO, Fireworks AI), Ivan Burazin (Co-Founder/CEO, Daytona)
Moderator: Megan Morrone (Editor of Technology, Axios)
2:50 PM
Session 4: Agentic AI in Finance & Legal
2:50 PM
Focus Talks
Nikhil Chandhok
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Circle
Gabe Pereyra
Co-Founder/President, Harvey AI
Milind Naphade
SVP, AI Foundations, Capital One
Faraz Shafiq
Head of AI, Wells Fargo
3:20 PM
Panel: Agentic AI in Finance & Legal
Panelists: Nikhil Chandhok, Gabe Pereyra, Milind Naphade, Faraz Shafiq
Moderator: Sri Pangulur (Partner, Mayfield Fund)
3:45 PM
Startup Spotlight
5:00 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
10:00 AM
Session 1: Foundational Capabilities
10:00 AM
Focus Talks
Jianfeng Gao
Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research
Sanja Fidler
VP of AI Research, Nvidia
Giambattista Parascandolo
leading reasoning research team, OpenAI
Aditya Grover
Co-Founder/CTO, Inception Labs
11:05 AM
Workshop: Turning Chatbots into Agents: What Modern RL Looks Like by Daytona
Lovre Pesut
AI Engineer, Daytona
Muhammad Hashmi
DevRel, Daytona
12:05 PM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: Robotics & World Models
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Peter Stone
Chief Scientist, Sony AI; Professor, UT Austin
Vincent Vanhoucke
Distinguished Engineer, Waymo
Trevor Darrell
Professor, UC Berkeley
Manmohan Chandraker
Professor, University of California, San Diego
Bolei Zhou
Associate Professor, UCLA; Chief AI Scientist, Coco Robotics
2:00 PM
Workshop: Open-Source Agent Investigations: Security Arena, Distilled Traces, and Auto-Optimization by Lambda
Devina Jain
Research Engineer, Lambda
Zach Mueller
Head of Developer Relations, Lambda
Chuan Li
Chief Science Officer, Lambda
3:00 PM
Workshop: Building Agentic Apps End-to-End with Replit Agent
Brandon Middleton
Head of Education, Replit
4:00 PM
Session 3: Frameworks & Dev Platforms
4:00 PM
Focus Talks
Philip Rathle
CTO, Neo4j
Josh Albrecht
Co-founder and CTO, Imbue
Woosuk Kwon
Co-Founder & CTO, Inferact
Banghua Zhu
Co-Founder, RadixArk
Ranjan Sinha
IBM Fellow, CTO & VP for watsonx, Enterprise AI, IBM
Raj De Datta
CEO & Co-Founder, Bloomreach
5:30 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
10:00 AM
Session 1: Enterprise AI
10:00 AM
Focus Talks
Sunita Verma
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Ironclad
Ori Goshen
Co-Founder/CEO, AI21 Labs
Rene Pajta
Chief Architect Cloud & AI, Microsoft
Vincent Sunn Chen
VP & Founding Member, Snorkel AI
David Hsu
CEO and founder, Retool
Michel Tricot
CEO & Co-Founder, Airbyte
Dan Klein
Professor, UC Berkeley; Co-founder CTO, Scaled Cognition
11:20 AM
Workshop: From Assistants to AI Employees: Designing Agents That Own a Role, Not a Task by Ema
Anushka Pathak
Product Manager, Ema
Soham Shah
ML Engineer, Ema
Eric Victorson
Software Engineer, Ema
12:20 PM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: Agent Evaluation & Benchmarks
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Anastasios N Angelopoulos
Co-Founder/CEO, LLMArena
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer
Distinguished Engineer, AI Benchmarking and Evaluation, IBM Research
Priya Ponnapalli
SVP of Engineering, Enterprise AI, Scale AI
Srijith Rajamohan
Head of AI Research, Redis
1:45 PM
Workshop
2:45 PM
Session 3: AI for Math
2:45 PM
Focus Talks
Sergei Gukov
Executive Director, American Institute of Mathematics; John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Tudor Achim
Co-Founder / CEO, Harmonic
Abhradeep Guha Thakurta
Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Vijay Ganesh
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
3:30 PM
Workshop
4:30 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
10:00 AM
Session 1: AI for Science
10:00 AM
Focus Talks
Markus J. Buehler
Professor, MIT; Founder & CTO, Unreasonable Labs
James Zou
Professor, Stanford
Eric Ho
Co-Founder/CEO, Goodfire
Mengdi Wang
Professor, Princeton
Rose Yu
Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Nick Talken
CEO & Cofounder, Albert Invent
10:50 AM
Workshop
11:50 AM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: Coding & Web Agents
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Silas Alberti
SVP of Research, Cognition
Dhruv Batra
Chief Scientist / co-founder, Yutori
Shamir Abdul Aziz
Prinicipal Product Manager, Microsoft
Krishnakumar Sharma
CEO, Omokai
1:50 PM
Workshop
2:50 PM
Session 3: Agentic AI in Finance & Healthcare
2:50 PM
Focus Talks
Donghao Huang
Vice President of R&D, Mastercard
Venkat Bhat
Associate Professor; Director, AI for Mental Health (AI-M) Program, University of Toronto
Kira Radinsky
CTO and Founder, Diagnostic Robotics
Shaghayegh Gharghabi
Deep Learning Scientists, NVIDIA
3:25 PM
Session 4: Secure Agentic AI
3:25 PM
Focus Talks
Jon-Rav Shende
Chief Technology Officer, Thales Group
Bo Li
Co-Founder and CEO, Virtue AI; UIUC
Itsik Mantin
Head of AI Security Research, Intuit
John A McDermid
Director, Centre for Assuring Autonomy, Institute for Safe Autonomy, University of York
Geng Sng
Co-founder and CTO, Cogent Security
Mohamed Nabeel
Senior Principal Researcher, Palo Alto Networks
Vaishnavi Gudur
Senior AI Security Engineer, Microsoft
4:30 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
10:00 AM
Session 1: AI Systems
10:00 AM
Focus Talks
Ion Stoica
Co-Founder, Databricks and Anyscale; Professor, UC Berkeley
Nick Harris
Founder/CEO, Lightmatter
Gosia Steinder
IBM Fellow, IBM Research
Tim Hockin
Distinguished Engineer, Google
10:45 AM
Workshop: Why Your AI Agent Needs a Wallet: Agentic commerce on Arc with USDC and Nanopayments
Harshal Bhangale
Staff Software Engineer, Circle
11:45 AM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: Frameworks & Dev Platforms
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Haishi Bai
Principal Architect, Microsoft
Wenbo Guo
Assistant Professor, UCSB
Ramesh Raskar
Professor, MIT
Karen Ullrich
Senior Research Scientist, Meta AI
Shiva Kasiviswanthan
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
Saurabh Gupta
Sr. Director, AI/ML, Cisco
Tanya Roosta
Director of AI, AMD, Berkeley
Denis Akhiyarov
Senior Staff AI Scientist, ServiceNow
Nilou Salehi
Associate professor, UC, Berkeley
2:00 PM
Workshop
3:00 PM
Session 3: Foundational Capabilities
3:00 PM
Focus Talks
Danqi Chen
Associate Professor, Princeton
Doga Kerestecioglu
Principal Applied Scientist, Microsoft Corporation
Yu Su
CEO, NeoCognition; Associate Professor, OSU
Furong Huang
Associate Professor, University of Maryland
Raja Giryes
Professor, Tel Aviv University
3:50 PM
Workshop: The Open Agentic Stack: Building the Future of AI Systems with Open Source, Open Standards and Composability by Linux Foundation
Matt White
Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation; CTO, PyTorch Foundation
4:50 PM
Reception & Poster Presentations
10:00 AM
Session 1: AI Safety
10:00 AM
Focus Talks
Chris Bregler
Senior Director / Distinguished Scientist, Google DeepMind
Lovedeep Gondara
Head of AI R&D, Vanguard; Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia
Alex Obadia
Programme Director, Advanced Research & Invention Agency
Neil Lawrence
Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Trent AI
Jordan Jindong Gu
Senior Research Scientist, Google; University of Oxford
Huan Sun
Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
Navrina Singh
CEO, Founder, Credo AI
Rishi Bommasani
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
11:10 AM
Workshop
12:10 PM
Lunch & Poster Presentations
1:00 PM
Session 2: AI Systems
1:00 PM
Focus Talks
Jun Yang
Senior Director of Compute Architecture, NVIDIA
Rahul Bakshi
Director, Applied Science (Edge AI), Amazon
John Liu
Principal Product Manager, AWS
Jongryool Kim
Senior Director / Head of AI System Infra., SK hynix
Dr. Dan Fu
VP of Kernels, Together AI
Ben Athiwaratkun
Senior Director, Core ML (Turbo), Together AI
Tushar Krishna
Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
1:40 PM
Session 3: Enterprise AI
1:40 PM
Focus Talks
Eno Reyes
Co-Founder / CTO, Factory AI
Merve Unuvar
Director, IBM Research AI, IBM
Ankit Goyal
Principal Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
Daniel Homola
Lead AI Engineer, BMW Research
Christopher Petrillo
Principal Product Manager, The Wikimedia Foundation
Nayaki Nayyar
CEO, Siteimprove
Surbhi Rathore
VP, AI Products & Strategy, Invoca
Daniel Fink
AI Engineering Lead, Cognizant
2:20 PM
Session 4: Agent Evaluation & Benchmarks
2:20 PM
Focus Talks
S. Joy Mountford
Vice President, Innovation Lab, S.A.P.
Yuan (Emily) Xue
Head of Enterprise AI, Scale AI
Chenguang Wang
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz; Research Advisor, Scale AI
Rahul Krishna
Senior Research Scientist, IBM Software Innovation Labs
Izzy Miller
AI Research Lead, Hex
Arindam Sett
Principal ML Engineer, Genentech
Barr Moses
CEO and co-founder, Monte Carlo AI
Gideon Mendels
CEO and Co-founder, Comet
Scott Clark
Co-Founder & CEO, Distributional
Aayush Agrawal
Product Lead, Uber


Featured Speakers

Agentic AI Summit 2026 brings together leading researchers, founders, and industry leaders shaping the future of Agentic AI.

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Plenary
Atlas
Nexus
Compass

More to be announced soon!



Our Sponsors

The Agentic AI Summit 2026 is made possible by the generous support of our sponsors.

Platinum
Daytona Ema Lambda MongoDB Replit
Gold
AMD Circle Databricks DigitalOcean Linux / PyTorch Snorkel AI SUSE
Silver
McKinsey Nutanix OutSystems Samsung NEXT VESSL AI Vijil
Bronze
Alice Elastic Kite AI Neo4j Novita Pioneer
VC Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners Mayfield Fund NEA

More sponsors to be announced soon...


Side Events

Independently organized meetups and gatherings happening around the Summit.

JUL
30
AI & Science Happy Hour
Valency · 5:30 PM · Berkeley
Invite-only
JUL
31
Controls for the Agentic Enterprise
SafeAlign AI & COHUMAIN Labs, with USF · 4:30 PM · San Francisco
Free
AUG
1
Agent Infrastructure Roundtable 2026
ARAMAS AI & Berkeley Gateway Accelerator · 6:30 to 9:00 PM · Berkeley
Invite-only
AUG
4
Socratic Agentic AI Summit, Berkeley
AI Socratic · 6:00 to 9:00 PM · Berkeley
Ticketed

More side events to be announced soon...

Side events are independently organized and not officially hosted by Berkeley RDI or RDI Foundation.


Our Community Partners

UC Berkeley CDSS UC Berkeley Engineering Sutardja Center CITRIS Simons Institute

More partners to be announced soon...

Hosting a Side Event?

Planning a meetup, workshop, dinner, or hackathon around the Summit? Submit your event to be considered for listing on the Summit website.

Side events are independently organized and not officially hosted by Berkeley RDI or RDI Foundation. Submission does not guarantee inclusion.

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