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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit21 min
Alexis Ohanian, Founder, 776, Reddit & Victorien Tixier, CEO, ScorePlay: The Future of AI in Sports
Alexis Ohanian, Victorien Tixier, Vic
At an industry conference, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian interviewed Scoreplay CEO Vic LaRosa to discuss how artificial intelligence will commoditize content production while elevating live sports as the premier vehicle for authentic, real-time human connection. Their dialogue highlighted Scoreplay's mission to replace legacy infrastructure with centralized AI automation for media asset management, a strategy designed to unlock global market reach through instant localization and data-driven camera placement. The conversation further emphasized a strategic pivot toward women's sports, where Ohanian argues that re-underwriting assets from first principles and leveraging digital-first storytelling will drive exponential valuation growth and reshape traditional league dynamics.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Jennifer Tejada, CEO&Chairperson, PagerDuty: Never Miss a Beat Building Reliable Experiences with AI
Spotify and PagerDuty are leveraging artificial intelligence and standardized infrastructure to address a 43% surge in major operational incidents that cost enterprises nearly $1 million each. By shifting from a pet-centric to a cattle-centric philosophy, Spotify enforced rigid "golden paths" through its Backstage platform, a move that enabled fleet-wide code transformations and the commercialization of its internal tools as the B2B "Portal" product. This evolution toward automated digital resilience and code remediation prioritizes predictability over developer autonomy, allowing Spotify to manage its massive codebase while transforming into a higher-margin infrastructure provider.
- RAISE Summit10 min
Jack Collier, Chief Growth & Marketing Manager, IO.Net: Why Open Models Need Open Infrastructure
A recent analysis identifies a critical infrastructure bottleneck where centralized control of compute power and API dominance force 70% of users toward closed-source models despite 83% preferring open alternatives. To dismantle these barriers, io.net leverages a global distributed network of over 1,000 GPUs to slash costs from $15 to $3.50 per million tokens while offering transparent, blockchain-verified access for training and inference. The platform is further expanding its ecosystem through a new "Training as a Service" feature and an inaugural hackathon, aiming to accelerate the shift toward a permissionless, decentralized AI future.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Prosus Group at RAISE 2025
On the one-year anniversary of his appointment as CEO, Fabricio outlined Prosus's strategy to transform its $130 billion valuation into a €1 trillion European tech giant through a $15 billion AI investment and aggressive expansion. The company is accelerating this vision by restructuring 40,000 employees, deploying 200 AI models at portfolio firm iFood, and seeking regulatory approval for a $4 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway. With profitability increasing tenfold and $18 billion in reserves, Prosus plans to double its size and target fintech and e-commerce sectors to secure global leadership in AI-driven commerce execution.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
AI Exchanges: The Role of Data
Neema Raphael, George Lee, Allison Nathan
Nima Raphael, a 20-year Goldman Sachs veteran, details the industry's strategic shift from deterministic coding to probabilistic machine learning, emphasizing the critical role of proprietary enterprise data in driving innovation beyond consumer hype. He argues that future AI differentiation relies on overcoming public data saturation by leveraging trapped internal datasets through rigorous engineering and emerging agent-based automation. Raphael further warns that sustained value depends on distinguishing high-quality insights from synthetic data risks while preparing for new frontiers in video and robotics generation.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Stephanie Cohen - CSO @ Cloudflare: Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
On July 1, Cloudflare implemented a permission-based default policy to block AI scrapers while launching a beta for micropayments via HTTP 402, aiming to transition the web into a value-based economy where content creators control data access. This strategic shift, supported by data showing a 65% surge in training crawler traffic, has drawn criticism from industry figures like BrightData's David Bossert but is defended by CEO Matthew Prince as necessary to repair the broken economic relationship between publishers and tech giants. Complementing this infrastructure, newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen leverages her Wall Street background to guide Cloudflare's expansion into cybersecurity and AI financial services, predicting that high-value human judgment will remain essential even as automation transforms data-rich sectors.
- RAISE Summit23 min
Atindriyo Sanyal, CEO of Galileo: Making Enterprise Gen AI “Reliable”
Galileo, an AI evaluation platform founded by a former Siri architect, addresses the critical "measurement problem" plaguing generative AI by introducing a specialized observability framework designed to productionize complex RAG and multi-step agents. The company's proprietary Luna models provide sub-200ms real-time inference for dynamic guardrails and qualitative-to-quantitative error analysis, effectively solving the latency and accuracy trade-offs that typically hinder enterprise deployment. This approach enables Fortune 500 organizations to move beyond basic statistics and systematically identify nuanced failure patterns in data quality, tool execution, and security across high-stakes workflows.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Tanuja Randery, Managing Director EMEA of AWS: Unlocking the AI Mindset
Tanuja Randery, Tineja Ranjari
A global presentation highlighted that AI adoption is outpacing mobile growth, with companies like Amazon and British Telecom reporting hundreds of millions in savings through generative coding agents. While the European market faces a critical talent shortage, AWS outlined its strategy to bridge this gap by training millions of individuals and launching a sovereign cloud infrastructure to ensure data security. The event concluded by urging organizations to accelerate from experimental pilots to high-impact deployments in sectors like healthcare and manufacturing to unlock the projected €600 billion economic potential.
- All-In Podcast1h 8m
Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Vox alumna Cleo Abram, astrophysicist Alex Filippenko, and Zipline CEO Keller Renato Clifton converge to discuss the transformative potential of optimistic technology, from Abram's independent media platform that champions solutions over fear-mongering to Filippenko's insights on the James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of early galaxy formation and the critical funding crisis threatening scientific research. Clifton details Zipline's success in delivering over 115 million autonomous miles to save lives in developing nations and its rapid scaling in the U.S., arguing that reliable robotics are essential for future logistics and geopolitical stability. Together, these leaders emphasize that sustained investment in independent innovation and basic science is vital for creating better futures and expanding access to life-saving infrastructure globally.
- Sequoia Capital1h 0m
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna: Building the AI-First Enterprise with Goose, their Open Source Agent
Dhanji Prasanna, Sonya Huang, Roelof Botha
Block CTO Dhanji Prasanna drives a strategic shift from a siloed management model to a centralized AI-first architecture, spearheading the "Goose" project that functions as an open-source agent to orchestrate workflows across internal systems. This initiative, which evolved from an internal hack week, enables high autonomy for engineers by integrating diverse LLMs and saving 25% of manual hours through shared, self-learning scripts. Looking forward, Block aims to transition from single-agent co-pilots to collaborative swarm intelligence by 2030, while simultaneously extending this technology to its public-facing Square AI for merchant financial simulations.
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Anduril CEO: China Has Scale. Can America Catch Up?
Ben, Marc, Erik Torenberg, Brian Schimpf, Chris Power
A strategic assessment reveals a critical gap in U.S. defense industrial capacity, where Russia currently outproduces NATO on 155mm munitions and existing stockpiles would deplete within six to seven days of conflict. This deficit stems from decades of offshoring, an aging skilled workforce, and a reliance on technical superiority rather than mass production, leaving the U.S. unable to sustain high-intensity wars or effectively deter China in scenarios such as an invasion of Taiwan. To address these vulnerabilities, experts recommend a "factory-first" approach featuring government-backed long-term offtake agreements, concentrated capital investment in scaled manufacturing entities, and regulatory reforms to rebuild domestic supply chains and reinvigorate the talent pipeline.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Christina Kosmowski, CEO, LogicMonitor: Scaling Observability, Performance, and the Future of AI
LogicMonitor introduces Edwin, an autonomous agentic AI capable of processing 1.8 trillion metrics to predict and resolve IT infrastructure issues, thereby shifting the focus from reactive firefighting to strategic leadership. This capability is exemplified by IHG, which leveraged the platform to stabilize its global loyalty system across 7,000 hotels and reclaimed up to five hours of weekly labor for its infrastructure lead. The presentation underscores a fundamental evolution where CIOs and executive teams must prioritize technology resilience as a direct driver of brand integrity and organizational growth within this new AI landscape.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Liran Zvibel, Cofounder, CEO of WEKA: Rise of the Token Economy The New Economics of AI
Scheduled for 2025, this event frames the fourth industrial revolution as the dawn of artificial general intelligence, shifting focus from pattern matching to reasoning models that distinguish true AGI capabilities from simple skill replication. Industry leaders and technical experts will address the critical economic divergence between massive training expenditures and the urgent need for cost-efficient inference, highlighting how latency and tokenomics currently dictate profitability. Strategic infrastructure solutions, including server elasticity and pre-fill disaggregation, will be presented as the essential mechanisms for enabling sustainable, just-in-time AI deployment while securing the industry's path to mass adoption.
- RAISE Summit18 min
CoreWeave @ RAISE 2025: Building the Next Generation of Cloud in Europe
CoreWeave announced a strategic all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific to secure 1.3 gigawatts of U.S. power capacity, a move designed to accelerate AI cluster deployment and eliminate intermediary costs. Following its rapid pivot from crypto to artificial intelligence, the company recently completed an innovative IPO and is aggressively expanding its European footprint with $2.2 billion in committed capital and plans to deploy next-generation Blackwell and Rubin Next architectures. This growth trajectory positions CoreWeave to address global power bottlenecks while advising the market that future consolidation will be driven primarily by talent migration rather than traditional mergers.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Wes Cummins, Founder & CEO of Applied Digital: Ellendale’s Purpose Built AI Factory in North Dakota
Applied Digital is expanding its high-power density data center operations by securing a 400-megawatt contract with CoreWeave to construct a North Dakota campus utilizing stranded wind energy and designed for AI workloads. The company transitioned from Bitcoin mining to Tier 3 semiconductor-grade infrastructure after spending $5 billion on this project to ensure "five nines" reliability and extreme cooling standards for hyperscalers. With approximately 3% ownership by NVIDIA, the firm is capitalizing on the shortage of available power sites in the U.S. heartland while planning future phases that will integrate gas assets and explore nuclear options like small modular reactors.