AI-tonomy Summit: Models and Agents June 5, 2026 | Plug and Play Tech Center, Silicon Valley

AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents
📍 Plug and Play Tech Center, Silicon Valley
📅 June 5, 2026
The AI-tonomy Summit: Models & Agents is a curated, high-signal full-day conference bringing together 500+ founders, researchers, enterprise leaders, and investors to explore how the next generation of AI systems is being built and deployed.

Speakers
Featured Speakers
Andy Triedman Partner · Theory Ventures
Ankur Shah CEO & Co-founder · Straiker
Bob van Luijt CEO & Co-Founder · Weaviate
Gayathri Radhakrishnan Partner · Hitachi Ventures
Ken Elefant Partner · Sorenson Capital
Le Cong Associate Professor · Stanford University
Madison Faulkner Partner · New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Qi Jin Executive Vice President, Software · Cerebras
Pengtao Xie Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Snehal Antani Co-Founder & CEO · Horizon3.ai
More Speakers
Andi Partoli CTO · Veris AI
Asit Sohoo AI Product Lead · Iron Mountain
Ashish Kakran Managing Partner · Seligman Ventures
Brett Liu Investment Lead · Sixty Degree Capital
Christopher Di Gioia Vice President · PGIM
Christoph Kohstall AI Scientist · 1X
Dan Hatfield Managing Director · Stifel Bank
Dan Moskowitz Partner · Third Point Ventures
Deepak Mishra Co-Founder · Graphon AI
Deepak Prasad Vice President · Qualcomm Ventures
Denise Teng Partner · Gradient Ventures
Dušan Vuksanovic Executive · Swisscom Ventures
Enoch Zhu Co-Founder & CEO · Orbifold AI
Etienne Dilocker CTO & Co-Founder · Weaviate
Erran Li Founder · ReasonBio
Eugene Cheah CEO & Co-Founder · Featherless AI
Fan-Yun Sun Co-Founder · Moonlake AI
Grace Gong Founder · Smart Venture Media
Holly Hon SVP, AI & Operation
Jean Malta Senior AI Architect · AWS
Jonathan Chan Former CIO · Episource
Li Yin CEO · Sylph AI
Morgan Kyauk Managing Director · NightDragon
Nnamdi Iregbulem Partner · Lightspeed Venture
Shikhar Bahl Founding Engineer · Skild AI
Wilson Lin AI Investment Lead · DCG
Yaron Schneider CTO & Co-Founder · Diagrid
And more exciting speakers and researchers to be announced. Follow us to get updated here
www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers

Agenda
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | AI Researcher Forum
Deep technical sessions led by researchers from leading labs and universities (NVIDIA, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Toronto, and more), covering:
Toward Autonomous AI Scientists
Scaling Agentic RL & Verified Reasoning
Continual Learning & Self Evolving Agents
Physical & Multimodal Intelligence

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Networking Lunch
Curated connections across founders, researchers, and investors.

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Panels, Demos & Founder Sessions
7 high-density panels across several focused tracks (3 Models + 3 Agents + 1 Agentic Application):
Model Tracks
Compute & Inference Optimization
Physical AI & World Models
Agent Runtime Environment
Agent Tracks
Agent Security & Safety
Data Infrastructure for Agent
Agent Production Readiness (Eval&Observability)
Speakers include senior industry practitioners such CISO, CIO and SVP/VP from large enterprises and government organizations, senior VCs such as Partners/Managing Directors of NEA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sorenson Capital, Thoery Ventures, Nightdragon, Gradiant Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, as well as co-founder and leaders from Straiker AI, Fastino Labs, Veris AI, Weaviate, Skild AI, Orbifold AI, Featherless AI, Mooklake AI, Diagrid, Mezmo, Cerebras, Dagger, Graphon AI and other emerging AI-native startups.

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Cocktail Reception
Unwind and connect with founders, investors, and operators in a more relaxed setting, designed for deeper conversations and relationship building.

Live Demos & Exhibition
A dedicated demo and exhibition area will run throughout the day, featuring:
Live product demos from AI infrastructure and agent startups
Interactive sessions with builders
Lightning pitches from emerging companies founded by AI researchers

Why Attend
Explore the intersection of models, agents, and real-world deployment
Learn directly from frontier AI researchers and builders
Connect with a curated group of high-quality founders and investors
Discover new tools, startups, and ideas shaping the AI ecosystem
The summit will bring together 100+ CONFIRMED investors and strategic partners from leading venture capital firms, corporate venture arms, and global technology organizations, including Acrew Capital, Amazon, Backcountry Ventures, BAM Cornerpoint, BHP Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Brookfield Asset Management, BuildTech VC, Canapi Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Cathay Innovation, CCV Capital, Citi Ventures, Cisco, Clear Ventures, Conductive Ventures, Crosspoint Capital, Databricks, Datadog, DCG (Digital Currency Group), Defined VC, Defy Ventures, DTCP, EnvisionX Capital, Fin Capital, First Rays Venture Partners, Foothill Ventures, Forgepoint Capital, Geodesic Capital, Glynn Capital, Gradient Ventures, GS Futures, Headline, HOF Capital, Hico Ventures, In-Q-Tel (IQT), Insight Partners, Intel Capital, J-Ventures, Kingstar Capital, Laude Ventures, Lenovo, LG Tech Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Mercedes-Benz, Montage Ventures, Munich Re Ventures, MVP Ventures, N47, NGP Capital, NEA, NTT, Oakseed VC, Okta Ventures, Palo Alto Networks, Premji Invest, Presidio Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Prosus, Qualcomm Ventures, Race Capital, Radical Ventures, RPS Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung, SAIC, Scale Venture Partners, Scrum Ventures, SentinelOne, ServiceNow, Sony Ventures, Sierra Ventures, SignalFire, Singtel Innov8, SK Telecom Ventures, SoftBank, Sorenson Capital, Swisscom Ventures, Theory Ventures, Touring Capital, TSVC, Translink Capital, True Ventures, TGVP, Union Labs, Vertex Ventures, WestBridge Capital, Wells Fargo, Wipro Ventures, Webb Investment Network, World Innovation Lab (WiL), Woven Capital, Yamaha Motor Ventures, among others.
For more information on participating investors, please also visit: www.aitonomysummit.com/speakers