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Clear all filtersInside Zipline’s Factory: The World’s Largest Drone Delivery Network
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Molly O'Shea
ZipLine is nearing two million total deliveries of autonomous aircraft across 140 million safe commercial miles, with its California headquarters employing over 1,300 staff to oversee a fleet managed by human supervisors rather than direct pilots. The company is rapidly scaling operations from 17 to 24 hours daily while transitioning to single-operator control of up to 30 units, supported by extensive in-house manufacturing of custom electric components and rigorous testing protocols. Strategic partnerships with major retailers and healthcare providers are driving adoption where over 50% of some households order via the service, despite current supply constraints necessitating limits on non-essential orders to ensure reliability.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 12m
The Poo Doctor: This Cheap Spice Fixes A Damaged Gut!
This presentation details how chronic low-grade inflammation, driven by a compromised gut barrier and microbiome dysbiosis, underlies over 130 health conditions ranging from autoimmune disorders to neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Bulsiewicz outlines clinical applications for restoring gut health through Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT), which has demonstrated efficacy in treating *C. difficile* infections and enhancing cancer therapy outcomes. The discussion concludes by identifying specific dietary and lifestyle interventions, including fiber intake, fermented foods, and circadian rhythm optimization, as essential protocols for preventing inflammation and supporting long-term physiological resilience.
Full Anduril R&D Tour: Matt Grimm, Co-Founder & COO
Matt Grimm, Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Molly O'Shea
Founded in 2017, Anduril has rapidly scaled to a global workforce of 7,000 employees operating across 35 offices to manufacture autonomous defense systems like the Ghost Shark submarine and Fury aerial vehicle. The company leverages an iterative R&D model and dedicated facilities in Rhode Island and Sydney to transition from rapid prototyping to mass production of AI-enabled battlefield ecosystems. Led by CEO Brian and co-founder Palmer Luckey, Anduril focuses on building a cohesive command network that integrates ground, air, and soldier-borne compute nodes to execute large-scale military contracts.
Inside Anduril: Exclusive HQ Tour w/ Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm & Trae Stephens
Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm, Trae Stephens, Molly O'Shea
Anduril is rapidly scaling its autonomous defense capabilities through massive manufacturing expansions in Ohio and globally, driven by a strategic shift toward industrial speed and affordability over traditional technological edge. Key programs like the Fury autonomous fighter and Ghost Shark underwater vehicle demonstrate the company's ability to outpace legacy contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin while addressing critical capability gaps for allies like Australia. By redefining the defense industry as a product-focused enterprise, the firm aims to transform the U.S. production base into a decisive wartime asset capable of mass-producing systems that integrate AI, optical camouflage, and distributed command structures.
- Sequoia Capital40 min
Why IDEs Won't Die in the Age of AI Coding: Zed Founder Nathan Sobo
Nathan Sobo, Sonya Huang, Pat Grady
Nathan Sobo, founder of the Rust-based IDE Zed, argues against the impending obsolescence of visual editors by asserting that source code requires human-readable contexts for effective AI-driven code review. He introduces the open Agent Client Protocol to standardize interactions between diverse AI agents and Zed, aiming to replace ephemeral chat windows with a unified interface where conversations permanently anchor to specific code lines. With 170,000 active users, the platform prioritizes high-performance, real-time collaboration to support "vibe coding" workflows while maintaining critical human oversight for complex architectural decisions.
- Milken Institute22 min
Actress Shefali Shah: Stories that Move; Strength that Inspires | Asia Summit 2025
Shefali Shah, Teresa Whang, Curtis S. Chin
Acclaimed actress Shefali Shah, known for her Emmy-winning role as DCP Shreya Sharma in Netflix's *Delhi Crime*, discusses the industry's shift from limiting stereotypical roles to complex character portrayals. She details the upcoming third season of the series, which tackles human trafficking and bride sales through a narrative blending multiple true cases, while highlighting her work in *The Three of Us* and *Adolescence* to explore dementia and social media's impact on children. Shah further emphasizes her advocacy for women's and children's safety, urging audiences to view her award-winning projects to understand these critical social issues.
- RAISE Summit25 min
Workshop: Agentic Pipelines orchestrating open-source LLMs ft. n8n & Nebius AI Studio
Nebius, a NASDAQ-listed neocloud provider backed by Deep Capital, offers an AI Studio platform featuring over 30 open-source models hosted in EU data centers with strict zero-data-retention policies. The service enables enterprise-grade AI agents by optimizing inference for speed and structured outputs while providing fine-tuning without additional hosting costs. Through a demonstrated Nike sales analysis pipeline, the platform proves its ability to orchestrate complex autonomous workflows that integrate reasoning, memory, and external tool connections for scalable business applications.
- RAISE Summit17 min
A Keynote with Richard Rizk, & IRobert Rizk, BLACKBOX.AI
Co-founded by Robert and Richard Co, Blackbox has scaled its autonomous coding agent platform to over 20 million users, securing the top rank among code-related AI startups on Andreessen Horowitz's 2024 adoption list. The system distinguishes itself through features like Figma-to-code conversion, voice-enabled remote execution, and a "Robocoder" module that resolves GitHub issues asynchronously within isolated secure environments. While integrating with over 35 IDEs and offering unified model access, the company emphasizes a human-in-the-loop philosophy to augment developer productivity rather than replace engineers.
- RAISE Summit18 min
Richard Wham, Airia: Best Practices for Accelerating Your AI Journey with Secure and Powerful Agents
ARIA, founded by the co-founders of AirWatch and OneTrust, is an AI orchestration platform designed to solve the industry-wide stagnation where 88% of organizations remain stuck in Proof of Concept phases due to security and reliability concerns. The solution utilizes a dual-layer architecture combining a flexible agent-building environment with a guarded central management system to dynamically swap between models, mitigate rapid deprecation cycles, and enforce strict data privacy standards across multi-provider ecosystems. Serving approximately 500 customers, the platform enables enterprises to deploy containerized, compliant AI solutions that ensure resilience against supply chain risks while optimizing for cost and performance in an evolving market.
- RAISE Summit16 min
June Paik (FuriosaAI): Tensor Contraction Processor: NextGen AI Inference Chip for Data Centers
Seoul-based Furiosa AI CEO Jun Paek unveiled the Renegade, a second-generation silicon chip engineered to solve energy bottlenecks in the shift toward frontier agentic model inference. Built on TSMC's 5-nanometer node, this Tensor Contraction Processor delivers 190% superior tokens-per-second-per-watt performance compared to NVIDIA H100 units by optimizing for 1.5 terabytes per second memory bandwidth and 180-watt power consumption. Currently in the sampling phase with global enterprise clients, the chip enables manufacturers and sovereign sectors to own their full AI stack while drastically reducing the capital and operational costs associated with scaling massive data centers.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Nils Pihl, CEO & Co-Founder, AUKI Labs: Teaching Machines to See the World
Speaker forecasts a tenfold global economic expansion within two decades driven by Artificial Intelligence, provided that technology evolves to interact with the physical world rather than remaining limited to digital interfaces. Aukey addresses critical gaps in current positioning infrastructure by developing a decentralized spatial computing protocol and lightweight smart glasses that replace unreliable GPS with user-generated maps, enabling autonomous systems to navigate high-density urban environments. This strategy unlocks significant efficiency gains in sectors like retail by reducing staff travel time and enabling secure, self-hosted data collection for both human and robotic coordination.
- RAISE Summit13 min
Steve Lucas, CEO & Chairman, Boomi: The Next Era of Enterprise Leadership Transformation & Trust
Steve Lucas, Chairman and CEO of Boomi, outlines the industry shift from deterministic digital transformation to "agentic transformation," where AI-driven systems dynamically learn and adapt alongside human workforces. Backed by McKinsey's projection of $15 trillion in new AI value over five years, Boomi has launched an agentic platform serving 24,000 customers while internally reducing support costs by 75% through a strategy that prioritizes automating mundane processes and building an "Agent Control Tower" for governance. Lucas emphasizes that successful adoption relies on high-quality data, bottom-up innovation, and aligning organizational change speeds with the critical "speed of trust" required for reliable human-AI collaboration.
- RAISE Summit22 min
Lin Qiao, Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI: Open Models: The future of AI agent development
Fireworks CEO Lin positions 2025 as a pivotal year for AI agents, highlighting the platform's deployment for major enterprises like Cursor, Uber, and UiPath through a unique "data flying wheel" strategy that aligns model distributions with proprietary product data. The service scales 5 trillion tokens daily across 1,000 models while utilizing multilora compression and reinforcement fine-tuning to achieve up to 15x performance gains in coding and research tasks. By offering enterprise-grade security and bringing custom models to production with 100x faster iteration speeds, Fireworks enables organizations to transform AI from a utility into a core intellectual property asset.
- RAISE Summit16 min
Dr. Ilya Burkov (Nebius): Powering Next‑Gen Biotech Research with High‑Performance AI and Cloud GPUs
Nebius, a vertically integrated Dutch cloud provider, leverages its unique pay-as-you-go infrastructure and top-tier supercomputer ranking to support biotech and healthcare firms in overcoming hardware bottlenecks. The platform enables critical advancements in drug discovery and radiology diagnostics for organizations like Converge Bio and Simulacra AI, which achieved significant accuracy gains and speedups over hyperscaler alternatives by utilizing on-demand H100 GPU capacity. Looking toward 2025, the company aims to expand its global footprint by integrating agentic AI and multi-omics data processing to address workforce shortages and accelerate time-to-market for new treatments.
- 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.