The Next Revolution of AI: Impact Summit

On September 9, 2025, the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN) hosted The Next Revolution of AI: Impact Summit at Stanford University. Organized in collaboration with Stanford Data Science, Stanford Health Care, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, and Imagination in Action, the event brought together leaders from academia and industry for in-depth discussions on the evolving role of AI in research, business, and society.

Below are video recordings of the sessions from that day, followed by a list of speakers with links to more information about their work.

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Luminary Stage: The Lay of the Land and Future Direction of AI

John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
Erik Brynjolfsson | Professor, Stanford University
Anna Makanju | VP, Global Impact, Open AI

Future Stage: Disrupting Leadership in the Age of AI

Murray Newlands | Partner, FoundersX
Sivio Sangineto | Human AI, Microsoft
Si Parmeggiani | Director, Product Design, Superintelligence Labs, Meta
Riccardo Giraldi | Product Design Executive - Ex- DeepMind, Google, Zoox, Microsoft
Ted Shelton | Former COO, Inflection

Frontier Salon: Empathy and AI: Shaping Human-Centered Intelligence

Sandy (Alex) Pentland | Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor MIT, Faculty lead digital platforms and society
Diyi Yang | Assistant Professor, CS, Stanford University
Laura Shact | Principal at Deloitte | AI Leader

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Luminary Stage: Intelligent Machines: AI, Autonomy & Robotics

Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford University
Samir Menon | CEO, Dexterity
Karen Liu | Professor, Computer Science, Stanford University
Steve Cousins | Executive Director, Stanford Robotics Center, Stanford University
Beena Ammanath | Global AI Institute Leader, Deloitte

Future Stage: Unlocking AI at Scale: The CIO Perspective

Gamiel Gran | Chief Commercial Officer, Mayfield
Sharon Mandell | CIO, Juniper Networks
Naveen Zutshi | CIO, Databricks
Saket Srivastava | CIO, Asana

Frontier Salon: AI and the Law

Julie Choi | SVP and CMO, Cerebras
Megan Jones | Partner, CoChair, Anti-Trust Group, Hausfeld
Belinda Lee | Partner, Latham & Watkins

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Luminary Stage: AI and Future of Society

David Siegel | Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Two Sigma
Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures

Future Stage: Future of Mobility: AI Foundations and the Road Ahead

John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
Vincent Vanhoucke | Waymo's Distinguished Engineer

Frontier Salon: AI Agents at the Frontier: From Research to Startups

Tobin South | Lead Authentication, Security, and Privacy, Stanford University
Steven Huang | CEO, Kolect AI
Jags Kandasamy | CEO, Latent AI
Ayna Arora | CEO, MorphoAI, YC X25

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Luminary Stage: Moonshots in AI and Space

John Werner | Founder & CEO, Imagination in Action
Steve Jurvetson | Managing Director & Founder, Future Ventures

Future Stage: Defending the Digital Future: Security, Trust, and AI

Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
Dan Boneh | Professor, CS & EE, Applied Cryptography Group & Co-director, Stanford University
Jeff Hancock | Professor, Communications and Director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, Stanford University
Moinul Khan | CEO, Aurascape

Frontier Salon: Reinventing Discovery: AI & Data as Collaborator

Christian Bailey | Founder, Squawk AI
Gunnar Carlsson | Professor, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Founder at BluelightAI
Yaniv Altshuler | CEO, Alphblome.ai

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Luminary Stage: AI for Discovery

Julien Barber | Associate Director, Venture Capital Emerson Collective
William (Liam) Fedus | CEO, Periodic Labs (former VP of Post-Training, Open AI

Future Stage: The Capital Shift: Investing in AI's Next Wave

Krystal Hu | VC & Startups Reporter, Reuters News
Sandesh Patnam | Managing Partner, Premji Invest
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi | CIO Global Equities, UBS Global Wealth
Mark Machin | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Intrepid Growth Partners

Frontier Salon: Enterprise AI: Accelerating Productivity and Innovation

Paul Baier | CEO, GAI Insights
Tarun Raisoni | CEO, Gruve Inc
Maher Hanafi | SVP Engineering, BetterWorks
Ursheet Parikh | Partner, Mayfield
Brian Solis I Head of Global Innovation, ServiceNow

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Luminary Stage: AI and the Architecture of Human Connection with Meta

Shirin Ghaffary | Reporter at Bloomberg News
Clara Shih | Head of Business AI, Meta

Future Stage: Embodied Intelligence: Wearables, Voice, and Vision

Gordon Wetzstein | Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Faculty Director, SCIEN, Stanford University
Zhenan Bao | Professor, Chemical Engineering, Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Sean Follmer | Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and CS, Stanford University
Erick Tseng | CEO, Next Chapter & Former Product Exec, Meta

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Luminary Stage: Coding the Future: How AI is Rewriting Innovation

Peter H. Diamandis | Executive Chairman, XPRIZE
Amjad Masad | CEO, Replit
Salim Ismail | Ex-Yahoo VP
Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures

Future Stage: AI and the Future of Media and Entertainment

Michael Wise | Former SVP & CTO Universal Pictures
Rachel Joy Victor | Founder, FBRC. AI, Professor, USC
Danny Cohen | President, Access Entertainment
Eric Shamlin | Founder, Governor, Academy of TV Arts & Sciences; 3x Emmy-Winner; AI Studio Head
Jason Anderson | MD & CEO, Quire
Ali Albazaz | CEO, Inkitt

Frontier Salon: Powering the Next Energy Frontier with AI

Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
Carl Page | President, Anthropocene Institute
Tamanna Sait | VP, Cloud Engineering, Crusoe
Vijay N. Gadepally | Co-founder, Bay Compute

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Luminary Stage: Coding the Future: How AI is Rewriting Innovation (Session Continues)

Peter H. Diamandis | Executive Chairman, XPRIZE
Amjad Masad | CEO, Replit
Salim Ismail | Ex-Yahoo VP
Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures

Future Stage: AI at the Frontlines: Defense, Security, and Strategy

Alison Sander | Futurist
Col. Jason Hansberger | Dir. Air Force, AI and autonomy research center, Stanford University
Scott Hellman | Supervisory Special Agent, The FBI, San Francisco Division
Joseph Chapa | Director of Innovation at the Strategic Studies Group, US Air Force
Vik Pattabi | Head of Mission Software, Anduril
Marco Pavone | Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

Frontier Salon: From Gaming to Global Classrooms: Building Intelligent Experiences

Bing Gordon | Advisor to Founder Partners, Kleiner Perkins
Natalie Glance | Chief Engineering Officer, Duolingo
Kylan Gibbs | CEO, Inworld AI

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Luminary Stage: Scaling Intelligence: AI and the Future of Data Infrastructure

Dave Blundin | Managing Partner, Link Ventures
Chase Lochmiller | CEO, Crusoe

Future Stage: Building The Next Era of AI & Robotics

Nico Enriquez | Principal, Future Ventures
Rodney Brooks | Founder & CTO, Robust. AI, Cofounder, iRobot
Anand V. Lalwani | Cofounder, Cardinal Robotics
Ashish Kumar | Tesla, humanoid robot (Optimus)

Frontier Salon: Future of Agentic Security

Ayush Khandelwal | Software Engineer, Google
Heather Adkins | VP, Security Engineering, Google

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Luminary Stage: From Vision to Practice: Role of Gen AI in a learning Health System I

Nigam Shah | Professor, Medicine, Stanford; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare
Anurang Revri | Chief Enterprise Architect, Stanford Healthcare
Topher Sharp | Clinical Prof., Medicine - Care and Population Health, Stanford Healthcare
Jarrod Helzer | Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Stanford Healthcare
Christian Lindmark | VP, CTO, Stanford Healthcare
Nikesh Kotecha | Head of Data Science, Stanford Healthcare

Future Stage: NeuroAI: Bridging Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence

Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
Dan Yamins | Computer Scientist and computational cognitive neuroscientist, Stanford University
Surya Ganguli | Professor, Stanford (AI, Neuro, Physics); Venture Partner A16z
Andreas Tolias | Professor, Computer Scientist, Computational cognitive neuroscientist, Stanford University

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Luminary Stage: From Vision to Practice: Role of Gen AI in a learning Health System II

Nigam Shah | Professor, Medicine, Stanford; Chief Data Scientist, Stanford Healthcare
Anurang Revri | Chief Enterprise Architect, Stanford Healthcare
Topher Sharp | Clinical Professor, Medicine - Care and Population Health, Stanford Healthcare
Jarrod Helzer | Director, Infrastructure Engineering, Stanford Healthcare
Christian Lindmark | VP, CTO, Stanford Healthcare
Nikesh Kotecha | Head of Data Science, Stanford Healthcare

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Luminary Stage: Rise of Agents in Consumer and Business

Navin Chaddha I Managing Partner, Mayfield
Manish Chandra I Founder & CEO, Poshmark
Rob Bearden I CEO, Sema4.ai, Ex-Cloudera CEO

Future Stage: Autonomous AI Agents in Software

Randall Lane | Chief Content Officer, Forbes
Brian Elliott | CEO, Blitzy AI
Tom Jackson | CTO, RSM
Kartikesh Herur | EVP, CIO Investment Services Technology, State Street
Raj Basu | CEO, Galatea

Frontier Salon: AI for Longevity: Accelerating Medical Discovery

Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
Joe Betts-LaCroix | DEO, Retro Biosciences

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Luminary Stage: The Imagination Engine: AI in Games, Worlds, and Beyond

Bing Gordon | Advisors to founders Partner, Kleiner Perkins
Mark Pincus | Founder, Zynga & CEO, Erth.AI
Nitin Khanna | CTO, Erth.AI

Future Stage: Rise of Agents in Consumer and Business

Navin Chaddha | Managing Partner, Mayfield
Manish Chandra | Founder & CEO, Poshmark
Rob Bearden | CEO, Serna4.ai; Ex-Cloudera CEO

Frontier Salon: Rewriting the Rules: AI's Strategic Edge in Finance

Randell Lane | Chief Content Officer, Forbes
Rishi Nair | CEO, Diddo
David Cushman | Executive Research Leader, HFS Research
Bella Liu | CEO, Orby

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Luminary Stage: AI and the Future of Work: Economic Shifts & Workforce Innovation

Erik Brynjolfsson | Professor, Stanford University
Beena Ammanath | Global AI Institute Leader, Deloitte
Noreena Hertz | Global Bestselling Author
Nancy Xu | VP, Agentforce, Salesforce; Time AI100
Rohan Vora | Product, Glean

Future Stage: Governing AI: Ethics, Policy & Global Standard

Krystal Hu | VC & Startups Reporter Reuters News
Russell Wald | Executive Director, Stanford HIA
Sanmi Koyejo | Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Max Nadeau | PA, Technical AI Safety Open Philanthropy
Rehan Jalil | CEO, Securiti

Frontier Salon: The Agent Era: Engineering Trust at Scale

Vedant Agrawal | VP, Premji Invest
Vikram Chatterji | CEO, Galileo
Sameer Agrawal | CEO, Deductive

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Luminary Stage: The Data Engine Powering Frontier AI

Navin Chaddha | Managing Partner, Mayfield
Matei Zaharia | CTO, Databricks
Ion Stoica | Chairman & cofounder, Databricks

Future Stage: The Future in Motion: AI, Sustainability, and Mobility

Marco Pavone | Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
Ernestine Fu Mak | Co-Director of Stanford FTL (Frontier Technology Lab), Founder of Brave Capital
Sampriti Bhattacharyya | Founder & CEO, Navier
Evgeni Gousev I Senior Director, Qualcomm

Frontier Salon: Frontiers of AI Learning Systems: Research, Models, and Methods

Nina Gregory | Award-winning Journalist
Madhavi Sewak | Distinguished Research Engineer, Deepmind

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Luminary Stage: Frontier AI Models: Powering the Next Leap in AI

Tengyu Ma | Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Statistics, Stanford University
Ramin Hasani | CEO, Liquid AI
Andi Peng | Research Scientist, Anthropic
Carina Hong | CEO, Axion
Ramesh Raskar | Professor, MIT

Future Stage: How Foundation Models are Reshaping Quantitative Finance

Richard V. Rothenberg | CEO, Global AI
Miquel Noguer i Alonso | Founder, AI Finance Institute
Gideon Mann | Global Head of AI, Technology, Millennium