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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit31 min
Clarifai, Oracle, TensorWave, Cherry & Vaire: Sovereign AI in a Borderless Tech World
Nadia, Rodolfo, Don Barnetson, Peter Tomasik, Hakim Lumi, Matt Zehler
Panelists including Peter Tomasik, Hakim Lumi, and Don Barnetson established that physical infrastructure and talent are the primary prerequisites for Sovereign AI, warning that Europe faces a competitive deficit while the Middle East leverages energy wealth to emerge as a third global contender. The discourse highlighted significant risks regarding stranded hardware assets due to rapid obsolescence and emphasized that current enterprise adoption remains driven by pragmatic cost and performance rather than theoretical sovereignty. Strategic recommendations from the session urge diverse silicon sourcing, cohesive national policy frameworks, and a shift toward "security by design" to address the complex vulnerabilities inherent in large language model deployment.
- RAISE Summit20 min
A Fireside Chat with Luc Julia, Renault & Matthieu de Chanville, Shift for Good
Luc Julia, Matthieu de Chanville
Luc Beaulieu, Renault's Chief Scientific Officer, highlights the critical lag between century-old automakers and agile startups regarding AI adoption, noting that legacy software cycles remain incompatible with the rapid hardware refresh rates required for software-defined vehicles. While dismissing the feasibility of Level 5 autonomy and humanoids, Beaulieu champions specialized "physical AI," geo-fenced Level 4 robot taxis, and virtual sensor technologies to enhance manufacturing efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. These insights are further reinforced by the "Software Republic" consortium, which includes Renault and Thales, as it advances a vision where artificial intelligence serves as a specialized tool to augment human capability rather than replace it.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Ramine Roane, CVP @ AMD: Unlocking the Next Wave of AI Open Foundations for Intelligent Systems
AMD outlines a strategic pivot where AI intelligence growth now relies on distributed compute across pre-training, post-training, and reasoning inference, supported by a hardware roadmap featuring the MI350 and MI400 series with superior memory capacity compared to competitors. The company promotes an open software ecosystem via the ROCm stack and optimized inference architectures like LMD, which are already deployed in top global supercomputers and sovereign data centers in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. By advocating for multi-vendor strategies and open standards, AMD aims to establish a global industrial-scale foundation for AI that prevents single-supplier dependency while delivering performance metrics that exceed current closed-source alternatives.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Craig Tavares, President of BuzzHPC: The Global Contest for AI Sovereignty
Craig Taveras, President and CEO of BuzzHPC, leads a Canadian-owned sovereign GPU cloud provider that constructs power-dense, hydroelectric-powered infrastructure to ensure domestic data control against foreign legal influences like the U.S. Cloud Act. Responding to a 4x increase in rack density and a shift from air to liquid cooling, the company deploys over 300 megawatts of capacity to support high-performance AI workloads while addressing critical national talent retention in Montreal, Toronto, and Alberta. This sovereign approach combines accelerated government funding with strict Protected B compliance to offer enterprises a unified, secure environment for training and hosting applications that traditional cloud providers cannot guarantee.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Eric Piscini (Hashgraph) & Jonathan Dotan (EQTY Lab): Proof of Trust Rethinking AI ft. DLTBlockchain
Equity Lab and its partner Hedera are deploying a hardware-rooted system that leverages next-generation Intel and NVIDIA secure enclaves to generate tamper-proof certificates for AI agents, addressing the critical trust barrier identified by business leaders. This architecture delivers a 400,000x performance improvement in cryptographic proof generation while recording immutable audit trails on the Hedera blockchain to ensure compliance with global regulations like GDPR. Following a successful pilot with 11 Accenture agents, the technology positions itself as an essential infrastructure for the projected trillions of autonomous agents expected to dominate future web traffic and enterprise supply chains.
- RAISE Summit40 min
Antoine Bordes (Helsing) & Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA): Where Public Research Meets Innovation
Antoine Bordes, Gaël Varoquaux, Rob, Isabelle Riel, Joëlle Barral
At the expanded RAISE conference, experts from institutions including INRIA, Google DeepMind, and Helsing discussed the critical friction between public research and private innovation in the European AI ecosystem. Panelists outlined a 2035 vision where generative AI transforms healthcare and defense through rapid commercialization, while warning that bureaucratic bottlenecks and a "one-way door" for talent are stifling Europe's competitive growth. The discussion emphasized a need to shift from funding isolated technologies to building scalable products that bridge the gap between foundational academic discovery and urgent market application.
- RAISE Summit34 min
Ori, PolyAI, Cresta, Writer & Fireworks AI: Is Enterprise Defensibility Possible in an AI's World?
Mike Butcher, May Habib, Russell Banzon, Nicola, Lynn, Amalia, Mahdi
Industry leaders convened to declare that traditional SaaS and seat-based pricing models are collapsing as enterprises pivot to agentic AI, where value is derived from direct outcomes and autonomous revenue generation rather than software access. The consensus emphasizes that architectural advantages are temporary, with true defensibility emerging only through proprietary data flywheels and comprehensive organizational adoption strategies that integrate AI into core workflows. Looking toward 2025, the panel predicts a surge in production-level deployments driven by a tenfold reduction in infrastructure costs, forcing companies to prioritize offensive scaling over defensive postures to survive rapid market disruption.
- RAISE Summit35 min
AI Visionaries Panel: Collaboration is All You Need! Open Source as AI's Great Accelerator
Olivier, Ankit, Matt, Mitchell, Jim, Jonathan
Leaders from Nvidia, Red Hat, Mozilla, and the Linux Foundation convened to analyze the symbiotic relationship between AI-driven investment strategies and the accelerating open-source ecosystem. The panel emphasized that while artificial intelligence boosts code velocity, the primary value in commercial open source now lies in community coordination and neutral standards that prevent market fragmentation. Key outcomes included the identification of a "reverse venture capital" approach for selecting durable projects and a consensus that human oversight remains critical for navigating the legal and architectural challenges of AGI development.
- RAISE Summit22 min
WEKA, Cohere, Nebius: Rewriting the Rules Agentic AI and the Race to Scale
Lauren Vaccarello, Cécile Robert-Michon, Dan Shtan, VYACHESLAV TYKHONOVSKYI, DAN GALPIN, Danila
At a panel on AI infrastructure and economics, Weka CMO Lauren Vaccarello, Cohere's Cécile Robert-Michon, and Nabeus CTO Dan Galpin discussed the necessity of rethinking legacy systems to support massive scale and agentic AI. The speakers emphasized that modern requirements prioritize intelligence per token over raw cost efficiency, citing Nabeus's software-first approach that achieves near-NVIDIA benchmark performance without virtualization and Cohere's converged storage solutions that deliver 20x faster checkpointing. They concluded that enterprises must abandon rigid long-term planning in favor of short-cycle agility to navigate the rapidly shifting demands of privacy, security, and compute resources in a commercial AI landscape.
- Milken Institute36 min
Influence to Shape Platforms for Good | Asia Summit 2025
Ross Butler, Bhumi Pednekar, Curtis S. Chin
Actors Bhumi Pednekar and Ross Butler discuss their respective careers of dismantling stereotypes in Indian and Hollywood cinema while highlighting the societal pressures to pursue traditional professions over creative arts. Beyond entertainment, both advocates emphasize the transformative power of social media for disaster relief and mental health awareness, with Pednekar leading UNDP climate initiatives and Butler championing cross-cultural co-productions in Southeast Asia. Looking forward, the duo plans to collaborate on a project bridging Indian and Asian narratives while mentoring emerging talent to redefine regional storytelling globally.
- Goldman Sachs44 min
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s CEO on the Future of Cancer Treatment
Selwyn M. Vickers, Brian Robinson, Dr. Selwyn Vickers
Memorial Sloan Kettering leverages its vast biobank and dual expertise in computational oncology to drive a "golden era" of cancer treatment, where AI-driven predictive models and breakthroughs in immunotherapy have transformed survival rates for aggressive malignancies. Concurrently, the institution confronts rising youth cancer incidence and systemic health inequities by developing accessible genetic screening tools and deploying low-infrastructure immunotherapy protocols globally. These clinical and technological advances are grounded in a leadership philosophy that prioritizes professional excellence to dismantle socioeconomic barriers and improve care access for underserved populations.
- Y Combinator41 min
Ask These Questions Before Starting An AI Startup
Founder and alignment researcher Sam Altman warns that the imminent arrival of AGI within two to three years forces startups to radically rethink hiring, product design, and long-term strategy beyond traditional focus models. He argues that enterprises will soon bypass external SaaS providers by building internal software with AI, while consumer markets may shift from static apps to on-demand, AI-generated solutions that require new trust mechanisms like automated auditing. Ultimately, Altman urges founders to prioritize solving hard infrastructure problems and societal impact over immediate monetization, as the window to build defensible moats against commoditization and centralized control narrows rapidly.
- Milken Institute42 min
Who Will Win the Scramble for Global Talent? | Asia Summit 2025
Tiffany Ang, David Ha, Ichiro Miyoshi, Manjit Singh, Anupam Trehan
Industry leaders from Sun Life, Cisco, Sakana AI, and Manunouchi Innovation Partners convened to address the convergence of multi-generational workforces and AI-driven disruption in the global talent landscape. Panelists detailed strategic responses to U.S. visa fee hikes and the "war for talent," ranging from Cisco's rotational career pathways to Sakana AI's equity-based compensation for international AI researchers targeting Japan. The discussion highlighted that success in this evolving environment requires balancing deep technical skills with human-centric values, such as organizational purpose and collaborative workflows, to retain Gen Z talent and navigate shifting economic ecosystems.
- All-In Podcast12 min
The Next Bubble Is Already Here - Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason, Friedberg, Nick
Speakers warn that the private equity sector, having grown to $5 trillion through artificial borrowing, faces a structural collapse driven by mismanagement and stagnant distributions as capital migrates toward a new bubble in private credit. To address the dysfunction of traditional IPOs and flawed SPAC structures, the Raptor 2 initiative has secured backing from 98.7% of blue-chip institutional investors to introduce a transparent, performance-aligned model for high-growth companies. Future iterations, Raptor 3, propose a "pre-baked IPO" using pure common stock to eliminate conversion risk and ensure fair pricing for public shareholders.
Joby, Dirac & Allen Control: The Future of Air, AI Factories & Defense Tech
Molly O'Shea, Eric Allison, Filip Aronshtein, Steve Simoni
The Reindustrialize 2024 summit in Detroit highlighted strategic capital infusions and operational expansions by key players such as Joby Aviation, Dirac, and Allen Control Systems to address critical gaps in the American industrial base. Joby Aviation secured further funding and strategic partnerships to advance its FAA-certified eVTOL air taxi program, while Dirac deployed AI-driven software to automate manufacturing instructions and preserve tribal knowledge, and Allen Control Systems raised capital to scale its "Bullfrog" kinetic defense turret for drone warfare. Collectively, these developments reflect a broader industry urgency to reverse offshoring trends, reintegrate vertically controlled supply chains, and deploy domestic manufacturing solutions amidst evolving geopolitical and technological pressures.