Sal Khan
Founder · Khan Academy
AI in Education
Sal Khan is the Founder of Khan Academy, a nonprofit education platform serving over 150 million learners across 190 countries.
Sam Altman
CEO · OpenAI
Shaping AI's Future
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the AI safety and research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT series of large language models.
Drew Houston
CEO · Dropbox
Building at Scale
Drew Houston is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dropbox, a platform trusted by over 700 million registered users and hundreds of thousands of teams worldwide.
Megan Smith
3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President (Obama) · White House, OSTP
AI Policy & Governance
Megan Smith served as the 3rd U.
Sal Khan
Founder · Khan Academy
AI in Education
Sal Khan is the Founder of Khan Academy, a nonprofit education platform serving over 150 million learners across 190 countries.
AI at the
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2026
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OpenAI
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MIT
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Agenda
Fireside Chat
Most AI stories start in a lab. This one ends in a living room. Brett Taylor has shaped the trajectory of AI at the highest levels — as Chairman of OpenAI and CEO of Sierra, he sits at the crossroads of frontier research and real-world deployment. Fawad Ahmad is on the other side of that equation: scaling AI across one of America's most trusted companies, where the stakes aren't quarterly metrics but the safety of millions of homes and businesses. In this fireside chat, they'll cut through the hype to talk about what enterprise AI adoption actually looks like — the wins, the hard lessons, and what it takes to build systems people genuinely trust.
AI for Healthcare Delivery
Everyone agrees AI will transform healthcare. Far fewer agree on how, or who pays, or what breaks along the way. This panel brings together the people closest to those questions — founders building AI-native clinical infrastructure, operators deploying it at scale, and investors backing what comes next. No hype. Just an honest reckoning with what it actually takes to move the largest and most complex industry in the world.
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