Bloomberg Technology Summit

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What promise does AI hold for addressing critical challenges that we face? We present VC perspectives on how AI can be leveraged for social benefit and how government should prepare for the future of AI, including proposals it should avoid.

This session was programmed by our marketing partner National Venture Capital Association and not by Bloomberg editorial staff.

• Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner, A16Z
• Malvika Bhagwat, Partner and Head of Outcomes, Owl Ventures
• Tripp Jones, Partner, Uncork Capital
• Abe Yokell, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Congruent Ventures
• Moderator: Justin Field, Chief Strategy Officer, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)

8:40 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals
• Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

8:45 AM Fireside Chat: Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI 

The explosive rise of OpenAI and its products, ChatGPT and Dall-E, has demonstrated that AI can be a significant part of everyday life and work.  But what does an AI-laced future look like?  Can it be harnessed and used – or will it evolve into something unmanageable and dangerous?  Sam Altman is one of the most provocative thinkers about AI and will answer the most pressing questions at this critical turning point.

• Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals

9:05 AM Panel: The Acceleration and Proliferation of Artificial Intelligence 

Reid Hoffman and Mustafa Suleyman are two architects of the current explosion of attention and anxiety surrounding generative AI. Hoffman was an early investor and board member at OpenAI and last year started Inflection AI, an “AI-first company redefining human-computer interaction,” with Suleyman, co-founder of Google’s DeepMind division. In this wide-ranging discussion, they’ll discuss accelerating advancements in the field, the implications for workers and companies, and the high-profile campaign by some technologists to pause AI experiments before they profoundly change the course of humanity.

• Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Partner
• Mustafa Suleyman, CEO & Co-Founder, Inflection AI
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals
• Moderator: Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

9:25 AM Fireside Chat: Adam Selipsky, CEO, Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is guiding one of Amazon’s fastest-growing divisions through a time of disruption and upheaval caused by the emergence of generative AI. In this fireside discussion, we’ll talk about AWS’s strategic reaction to the AI boom, the opportunity for customers who can use AWS services to build their own AI tools, and AI’s broader economic implications for workers, customers – and for services like Amazon’s own Alexa.

• Adam Selipsky, CEO, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Moderator: Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

9:45 AM Fireside Chat: Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm 

Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous. It will transform industries, re-design smart homes and cities, and create new mobile XR experiences. As the maker of the hardware that enables the IoT economy, Qualcomm plays a key role in the AI evolution. Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm joins us to share some of the ways that AI is being applied and some of the changes we will all experience in our work and homes in the near future.

• Cristiano Amon, President & CEO, Qualcomm
• Moderator: Ed Ludlow, Co-Anchor, Bloomberg Technology

10:00 AM Panel Discussion: AI Art: New Masterpieces

New generative AI services allow users to create prose, art, or video by describing it in text. The capabilities of AI are ever-expanding and impacting the creative world.  What are the uses of AI-generated art and prose? What are the ethical implications? Will generative AI decimate the creative community or become another tool in the creative toolkit?  These panelists will discuss how they see these new capabilities being used, and the possible social and artistic outcomes.

• Alexandru Costin, VP, Generative AI and Sensei, Adobe
• Hilary Krane, Chief Legal Officer, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
• Moderator: Rachel Metz, AI Reporter, Bloomberg

10:20 AM In Conversation with Emad Mostaque

Generative AI is a cause of wonder, ethical concerns, and controversy. Emad Mostaque will take a realistic look at how this technology has developed in a short time, and share his thoughts on what guardrails should be in place. What can be done with generative AI and what are the risks / benefits to artists and society in general?

• Emad Mostaque, Founder & CEO, Stability AI
• Moderator: Rachel Metz, AI Reporter, Bloomberg

10:35 AM Morning Networking Break

10:55 AM The Future of the Web: How Chrome Enterprise is Shaping the Way We Work Presented By Chrome Enterprise

• Lauren Miskelly, Managing Director & GTM Lead, Chrome Browser Enterprise
• Moderator: James Cham, Partner, Bloomberg Beta

11:05 AM Advances in Social Media 

As major platforms face layoffs and ownership changes, the competitive landscape of social media is evolving. Could this be an opportunity for emerging social platforms to advance?

Twitch 

In his first on-stage interview since becoming CEO of Twitch, Dan Clancy will share his vision for the platform’s future under parent Amazon and discuss the challenges of moderating hundreds of thousands of hours of live content that are being streamed to more than 2.4 million viewers at any given moment.

• Dan Clancy, CEO, Twitch
• Moderator: Sarah Frier, Team Leader, Big Tech, Bloomberg

Discord

The CEO of Discord, Jason Citron, joins us to explain the rapid growth of the voice, video and text app among teens and beyond. From gaming to homework to workplace collaboration, he’ll discuss the expanding use cases and how he’s handled recent challenges.

• Jason Citron, CEO, Discord
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals

11:35 AM Fireside Chat: London Breed, Mayor, City and County of San Francisco 

San Francisco is the city where the next big thing is supposed to be around the corner. Yet in 2023, with tech slumping, banks shaking, office buildings vacant, housing still out of reach and urgent concerns around crime and public safety, the once-glittering hub of the innovation economy is struggling to reinvent itself. Mayor London Breed joins to share her plans for revitalizing the City.

• London Breed, Mayor, City and County of San Francisco
• Moderator: Karen Breslau, California Bureau Chief, Bloomberg

11:50 AM Fireside Chat: Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO, Airbnb 

Airbnb has been a front runner in utilizing technology to create an optimal customer experience. From learning guests’ preferences to helping hosts with offerings, AI helps match guests and hosts with the right situations, at the right time and at the right price. Brian Chesky joins us to share some history of the founding of Airbnb, the innovations that have been incorporated since the 2008 founding, and further plans to leverage AI to create seamless experiences for guests and hosts.

• Brian Chesky, Co-Founder & CEO, Airbnb
• Moderator: Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

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By invitation only. Attendance is limited.

Join Brad Stone, Tom Giles, Sarah Frier and Jillian Ward for a special Q&A style lunch to discuss highlights from the morning’s program and what we can look forward to from the afternoon’s mainstage sessions.

1:30 PM Fireside Chat: The Journey to Driverless Cars

Zoox produces fully autonomous electric cars. While we have all been hearing about this for years, not many people have actually seen them on the road. Aicha Evans, CEO, Zoox joins us to share where we are in the development of driverless cars and when she expects to see mass adoption. Ms. Evans will also address safety and regulatory issues.

• Aicha Evans, CEO, Zoox
• Moderator: Tom Giles, Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

1:50 PM Panel Discussion: AI Ethics  

As tech companies race to create powerful new AI tools, they’re grappling with a broad range of ethical quandaries. How do they reap and spread the benefits of AI without unleashing a host of unintended consequences or worse, creating something that is ultimately destructive? This panel of AI deep thinkers will ponder the guardrails needed to protect humanity and who must have a seat at the table as decisions are made over what to build and when to deploy it.

• Dr. Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
• Navrina Singh, Founder & CEO, Credo AI
• Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal Foundation
• Moderator: Sarah Frier, Team Leader, Big Tech, Bloomberg

2:15 PM Panel Discussion: The New Space Age 

The Long Beach, Calif.-based Rocket Lab is one of the companies that represent the future of space travel: cheap, reusable rockets and private-public partnerships to advance the exploration of space. This discussion will will cover U.S. competitiveness in space, breakthroughs in satellite technology and space-imaging, and the future of humanity on the Moon, Mars and beyond.

• Peter Beck, CEO, Rocket Lab
• Moderator: Ashlee Vance, Senior Writer & Host, Hello World

2:35 PM Fireside Chat: Palmer Luckey, Founder, Anduril Industries

Anduril is a defense tech startup best known for supplying autonomous weaponry & AI systems to military agencies and for deployment on the US Mexican border. Led by Palmer Luckey, the Oculus founder who sports Hawaiian shirts and trademark flip flops, the company is shaking up the traditional model of defense contracting, with an eye toward helping the west in conflicts like the Ukraine War and China-Taiwan. Luckey joins us to share his viewpoint from the frontlines and why he’s forging a stronger partnership between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon.

• Palmer Luckey, Founder, Anduril Industries
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals

2:55 PM Afternoon Break

3:15 PM TONOMUS  Sponsor Spotlight: The Singular Reality; Unifying Virtual & Physical Worlds

• Joseph Bradley, CEO, TONOMUS

3:25PM Panel Discussion: AI and Media

While artificial intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images and text, the next frontier is AI-generated audio and video. Users submit a few words of prompts and can generate in a few seconds remarkably realistic voices and video. We’ll talk to Runway’s CEO and the Founder of Conviction, an AI VC firm, about the implications for filmmaking, media, creators, advertising, and the alarming possibilities of misinformation and deep fakes.

• Sarah Guo, Founder, Conviction
• Cristóbal Valenzuela, Co-Founder & CEO, Runway
• Moderator: Lucas Shaw, Managing Editor, Screentime

3:50 PM Silicon Valley Bank Aftershocks

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sent shockwaves across the tech landscape. It served as a stark reminder of the close and sometimes fragile ties between startups and their lenders, while giving fintech innovators a chance to present themselves as an alternative to traditional banks. This panel examines the impact of the early 2023 banking crisis on the tech-founder ecosystem, surveys new companies that are upending banking and explores how financial services companies are adapting to the upheaval.

• Henrique Dubugras, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Brex
• Wendy Cai-Lee, Founder & CEO, Piermont Bank
• Moderator: Tom Giles, Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

4:10 PM Panel Discussion: Where Does Silicon Valley Go from Here?

It’s been a confusing, contradictory year in Silicon Valley. Layoffs, big tech retrenchment, and the spectacular demise of Silicon Valley Bank are set against the optimism over the AI boom and the lingering availability of venture capital. Two renowned venture capitalists join us to chart where we are in tech’s perpetual cycle of boom and bust and the subtle turning points between them.

• Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
• Alfred Lin, Partner, Sequoia Capital
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals

4:35 PM Panel Discussion: Advancing Health Scientifically 

The probiotics industry is exploding, sized at $60B. And yet, there has not been a new, evidence-backed probiotic product in over 50 years. Pendulum is disrupting the probiotics industry and pioneering ways for people to transform their health and wellness by unlocking metabolic health using the power of the gut microbiome. The novel anaerobic strains are rigorously tested, DNA-sequenced, and actively fermented in their facility using an innovative method that mirrors the conditions of your gut. Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe and Halle Berry join us to discuss the technology that was used to develop Pendulum Therapeutics, share the scientific research, and their personal experiences.

• Halle Berry, Actor, Director, Producer & Chief Communications Officer, Pendulum Therapeutics
• Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe , Co-Founder & CEO, Pendulum Therapeutics
• Moderator: Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals
• Moderator: Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

4:55 PM Closing Remarks

• Emily Chang, Host & Executive Producer, Bloomberg Originals
• Brad Stone, Senior Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg

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Pre-registration is required for this invitation-only session. Attendance is limited.

Proudly Sponsored By Chrome Enterprise

An increasing number of corporations rely on web browsers as a cornerstone for connection and accessing information, so sophisticated, multi-layered protection is essential. Cybersecurity threats targeting users as they work on the web are on the rise, especially as technological innovation prevails. Expanding on cyber solutions and integrating new functionality is imperative to maintaining secure environments.

Can a network ever be perfectly secure? As cyber threats advance, security solutions that protect workers must evolve alongside them. From crisis preparedness and resiliency plans, to core data strategy, an evolving cybersecurity model must remain a priority to organizations across sectors. To effectively manage cyber-attacks and network threats, organizations must assess their potential vulnerabilities and deploy a layered, ongoing proactive strategy.

This dinner briefing gathers cybersecurity experts and decision makers to discuss ways to detect, protect and recover from cyber threats in 2023.

6:00 PM – Welcome Remarks by Bloomberg

• Diksha Gera, Senior Analyst, Fintech & Payments, Bloomberg Intelligence

6:05 PM – Opening Remarks by Chrome Enterprise

• Lauren Miskelly, Managing Director & GTM Lead, Chrome Browser Enterprise

6:10 PM – In Conversation with PayPal CTO Sri Shivananda

• Sri Shivananda, EVP, Chief Technology Officer, PayPal
• Moderator: Ed Ludlow, Co-Anchor, Bloomberg Technology

6:30 PM – Strategies for Effective Cybersecurity

How have threat prevention techniques evolved over recent years in the cybersecurity product landscape? We discuss the current state of cybersecurity and offer strategies for preventing vulnerabilities and recovering from cyber-attacks.

• Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah, Deputy Chief Security Officer & Senior Vice President, Mastercard
• Geoff Belknap, Chief Information Security Officer, LinkedIn
• Moderator: Diksha Gera, Senior Analyst, Fintech & Payments, Bloomberg Intelligence

6:55 PM – Closing Remarks

7:00 PM – 7:30 PM – Networking