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A beautiful face on top of a robot is still a robot. Rendering alone cannot produce human connection. Real human computing requires personality, memory and judgement all working together so the machine doesn't just look like us, but actually understands us, remembers us and adapts to us over time. Explore what it takes to build full-stack AI humans that people genuinely trust and want to interact with again.

Teaching machines the art of being human

As AI demands more hardware, all industries looking to leverage and harness high-tech face a looming resource bottleneck. This session explores how innovations in the extractive industry (supply) and breakthrough in compute infrastructure (demand) are yielding novel ways to scale the global data ecosystem without exhausting the planet.

Solving technology's material crisis

Join Hiive CEO Sim Desai and Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan for a candid look at how late-stage founders balance funding, dilution, and employee equity. Discover the strategies today’s most ambitious companies use to deliver shareholder value and redefine liquidity without losing control.

The new liquidity playbook

As competition reshapes and AI accelerates change, brands are being tested like never before. Lindsay Smith and Rene Thomas of Takt introduce the “Brand Matrix”, a framework to stress-test brand clarity and coherence.
Drawing on their work across global brands, they explore how companies can navigate shifting category boundaries, align on identity, and build brands that remain distinctive and adaptable.

The brand matrix: Navigating AI, reinvention and category disruption

Companies today are slowed down by too many layers of managers and processes. Explore how AI is used to build a new era of the enterprise: one with fewer layers, less friction and more room for people to do great work.

The Organization Man: Why scaling needs fewer managers

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Teaching machines the art of being human

Solving technology's material crisis

The new liquidity playbook

The brand matrix: Navigating AI, reinvention and cat...

The Organization Man: Why scaling needs fewer managers

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