Speaker Spotlight: Christopher Manning @chrmanning

The path toward more capable AI runs through a deeper understanding of language—and the research that helps machines represent and process it.

Christopher Manning is a @Stanford CS & Linguistics professor; Director of SAIL. His work spans NLP, AI Research, and Machine Learning. @StanfordAILab Directs: Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) Founded: Stanford NLP group & CS224N course @stanfordnlp Pioneered: GloVe word vectors, deep learning for NLP 2024 IEEE von Neumann Medal @IEEEorg

As AI systems become more capable, advances in language understanding and machine learning will remain central to how the field moves forward.

Hear Christopher on stage at AGI Summit SF 2026.

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AGI Summit 2026 | The Rise of Agentic Intelligence · July 18–19 · Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco · Luma

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​AGI Summit 2026 | The Rise of Agentic Intelligence

​**📅 July 18–19, 2026****📍 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco****🌐 Silicon Valley’s most influential AI community for 4 years running**

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​🚨 SPEAKER LINEUP UPDATE — AGI Summit 2026

​Anthropic × OpenAI × Stanford × Berkeley — the people building frontier AI, on one stage.

​July 18–19, 2026 · Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco

​JUST ADDED

​• Jon Chu — Partner, Khosla Ventures (15B\+ AUM\) • Bin Yu — UC Berkeley, National Academy of Sciences member • Mykel Kochenderfer — Stanford, safety\-critical AI for aviation & autonomy • Mahesh Sathiamoorthy — Co\-Founder & CEO, Bespoke Labs \(ex\-Google DeepMind\) • Dan Klein — UC Berkeley, co\-founder of Scaled Cognition \(100M raised) • Ken Goldberg — UC Berkeley, robot grasping pioneer • Joseph Gonzalez — UC Berkeley, behind vLLM & Chatbot Arena • Christopher Potts — Stanford, Chair of Linguistics • Larry Blyth — Harvey, legal AI product leader

​HEADLINING THE STAGE

​• Aengus Lynch (Anthropic) — Claude for Enterprise + the alignment research behind the Claude 4 system card • Rohan Varma (OpenAI) — Product Lead of Codex; ex-Cursor first PM ($0 → $1B in under a year), joined by four more OpenAI speakers across infra, inference, and GTM • Christopher Manning (Stanford) — Director of SAIL, co-founder of Stanford HAI, the NLP pioneer behind GloVe • Sebastian Thrun (Stanford) — founder of Udacity & Google X, built Google’s self-driving car • Surya Ganguli (Stanford) — co-invented diffusion models, 2× NeurIPS Outstanding Paper • James Zou (Stanford) — FDA-cleared cardiac AI, NYT Good Tech Award • Plus 100+ speakers across AI research, infrastructure, robotics, healthcare, and venture

​ON THE EXPO FLOOR

​OpenAI · ElevenLabs · Tesla · AWS Startups

​15,000 attendees · 200 exhibitors · 200 speakers (expected)

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​1. Be in the Room With the People Defining AI

​This is the single highest concentration of AI decision-makers on the West Coast this year.

​**🔬 Researchers**from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT — the people writing the papers everyone else will be reading next year.

​**🏢 Industry leaders**from Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, NVIDIA, and Apple — the operators shipping AI at planetary scale.

​**💰 Global capital**from a16z, Sequoia, Benchmark, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and BlackRock — the same funds behind Hugging Face, Perplexity, and the breakout companies of this cycle.

​**🚀 Founders**building the next generation of AI-native products, agent infrastructure, and autonomous systems.

​Two days. One venue. Direct access.

​🎤 1. Featured Speakers

​Meet the builders, researchers, and investors shaping the next intelligence era.

​🔥 Headline Speakers

​🚀 Big Tech & Frontier Labs

​Rohan Varma— Engineering, Codex @ OpenAIPrakhar

​Bhargava— Go-To-Market @ OpenAI

​Carol S. Scott— Global AI Growth & Success Leader @ Microsoft

​Li Erran Li— Head of Science, HIL Team @ AWSChintan

​Turakhia— Head of Eng, Wallet + AI @ Coinbase

​Emery Han— Go-To-Market, Platforms @ Stripe

​🌟 Founders Building the Future

​Daksh Gupta— Co-Founder & CEO, Greptile ↳ AI code review · Y Combinator

​Joshua McKibben— Head of Trust & AI Risk, Harvey ↳ Legal AI unicorn

​Zihan Wang— CTO, O2 AI ↳ Ex-DeepSeek

​Jia Li— Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer & President, LiveX AI ↳ Ex-Google AI · Ex-Fei-Fei Li team

​Shannon McClenaghan— CEO, StartX ↳ Stanford accelerator · $40B+ founder network

​Sophie Ren— Founder & CEO, ChatSlide, Forbes 30U30, 2017

​Qing Yin— Founder, ViskoJonathan Buckheit— CEO, PayAll

​💰 Investors & Capital

​Vanessa Larco— Partner & Cofounder, Premise VC (Ex-NEA)

​Jeremiah Owyang— General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures

​Amathnadu— Senior Investment Director, SK Telecom Ventures

​Viki Huang— Investor, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco Growth Fund)

​Gloria Zhang— Vice President, DCM Ventures

​Holly Zheng— Founding Partner, EnvisionX Capital

​🛡️ Security & Trust Leaders

​Bryan Green— CISO, MGM Resorts International (Ex-a16z CISO)

​Ty Sbano— CISO, Webflow

​John Donovan— Head of Security, IT & Compliance,

​ZEDEDAWickey— Emerging Tech Advisor, ISACA

​🎓 Academic Voices

​Yubei Chen— Assistant Professor, ECE @ UC Davis

​Ruizhe Jia— Assistant Professor, Management Science @ Stanford

​🎓 2. Learn What’s Actually Working — From the People Who Built It

​Skip the trend reports. Get the unfiltered version, straight from the source.

​The headline theme: The Rise of OpenClaw— the shift from “AI assists you” to “AI executes for you,” and the defining transition of 2026.

​Deep-dive tracks include:

• ​Vibe Coding— execution-grade in Coding, Finance, Security, Infra, Legal, and Healthcare
• ​Agent Orchestration— multi-agent coordination and the emerging middleware stack
• ​Autonomous Workflows— full end-to-end systems already running in production
• ​AI-Native Enterprises— companies rebuilt from the ground up around agents
• ​Multimodal Models at Scale— what’s actually deployed, and what’s still hype

​No vaporware. No demo-stage theater. Only systems already generating value.

​🎤 3. Pitch on the Main Stage — Applications Open

​If you’re building a category-defining AI company, this is your direct line to the investors who actually move markets.

​We’re convening the same networks behind Hugging Face, Perplexity, and other breakout names —Sequoia, Lightspeed, BlackRock, and more.

​First-round selection is already underway.

​👉Apply now:https://forms.gle/CWmSm11wqHzcmWS96

​All applications subject to review. Selected teams notified directly.

​💼4. Where Capital, Talent, and Partnerships Actually Move

​What happens at the Summit — beyond the stage:

​✅ Term sheets signed on-site ✅ Strategic partnerships locked in ✅ Critical hires made in days, not quarters ✅ Cross-border ecosystems formed in hours

​Not conversation. Outcomes.

​**🌍 5. A Global Network, Concentrated Into 48 Hours**

• ​**15,000+**global attendees
• ​**300+**frontier startups exhibiting
• ​**30+**countries represented
• ​**200+**speakers
• ​2 daysof high-density signal

​AGI Summit & GenAI Summit 2026 is where this new paradigm comes alive.

​🏛 6. At One of the World’s Most Iconic Venues

​ThePalace of Fine Artsin San Francisco — the most elegant landmark in the global epicenter of AI.

​When frontier technology meets century-old architecture, the message is clear:

​The next era of intelligence isn’t just a technical shift. It’s a civilizational one.

​7. GAC Global AI Cinema Lunching Panel Event

​🧭 Three Years, Three Questions

​2024:“What can AI do?”2025:“What is AI already replacing?”2026:“What’s left for humans?”

​The questions are getting sharper. The stakes have never been higher.

​A Special Session from Science in Motion- Created by Stanford Researchers

​🎟 You Belong Here If You Are:

• ​Afounderbuilding what comes next
• ​Aninvestorhunting the next billion-dollar trajectory
• ​Abuilder, engineer, or researcherwho needs to be at the frontier
• ​Or simply someone whose instincts are telling you:be in the room

​💡 Why Attend AGI Summit &GenAI Summit 2026?

​🤖 Witness the Rise of OpenClaw

​From “AI assists you” → to “AI executes for you”

​Explore:

• ​Vertical Claws (Coding, Finance, Security, Infra)
• ​Agent orchestration systems
• ​Fully autonomous workflows already in production

​Step into our Exhibition Zone and meet the next generation of intelligent robots.

​Agibot A3 Dual-Battery Interactive Service Humanoid Robot

​Anyware Robotics

​Bittle X

​Nybble Q

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​Refund Policy: By registering for GenAI Summit SF 2026, you agree to our Refund Policy. Refund eligibility is based on the date we receive your written request. Full policy:https://agisummit.ai/refund-policy

​**Transportation:**Parking in San Francisco can be limited, so we strongly encourage guests to carpool whenever possible.