BIO
CONFIG 2026 JUNE 23-25
Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.
Christian Szegedy
@ChrSzegedy
#deeplearning, #ai research scientist. Opinions are mine.
Paul Graham
@paulg
Aravind Srinivas
@AravSrinivas
CEO @perplexity_ai
Smerity
@Smerity
ML x society. Founding Member of Technical Staff at Project Prometheus. Prev @midjourney, @SFResearch, @CommonCrawl. @Harvard '14, @Sydney_Uni '11. 🇦🇺 in SF.
Joanne Jang
@joannejang
cofounder @coreautoai // prev: model behavior & labs @openai
Elad Gil
@eladgil
Entrepreneur & Investor
Jon Barron
@jon_barron
Principal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Synthesized views are my own.
Jacob Austin
@jacobaustin132
I sometimes do AI research. I also play piano and climb. NYC. Previously @GoogleDeepMind, @Google Brain. Opinions my own
Michael Chang
@mmmbchang
Amplify human creativity with Sora @openai Prev: Gemini and Project Astra @GoogleDeepMind, @LangChainAI, @MetaAI, @SchmidhuberAI PhD @berkeley_ai BS @MIT
Bret Taylor
@btaylor
Co-Founder @SierraPlatform. Board @OpenAI.
Chenlin Meng
@chenlin_meng
Co-founder & CTO @pika_labs | ex @StanfordAILab @Stanford | Hiring: Head of Engineering and Senior Engineer
Jonathan Ho
@hojonathanho
Robert Nishihara
@robertnishihara
Co-founder @anyscalecompute. Co-creator of @raydistributed. Previously PhD ML at Berkeley.
Denis Yarats
@denisyarats
Cofounder & CTO @perplexity_ai
Thariq
@trq212
Claude Code @anthropicai. prev YC W20, @southpkcommons, @medialab
Beff (e/acc)
@beffjezos
founder @ e/acc // thermo king @extropic // Kardashev scaling is all you need
rahul
@0interestrates
ceo @JuliusAI | we're hiring engineers: https://julius.ai/careers
Nazneen Rajani
@nazneenrajani
building @collinearAI 🧪 | MIT 35u35 | UN AI Advisory Body | Featured in NYT, Quanta, Science, MIT TR| Previously: @huggingface 🤗, @SFResearch, PhD @utcompsci
Nick Turley
@nickaturley
Lenny Rachitsky
@lennysan
Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice
Ivan Zhao
@ivanhzhao
CEO @NotionHQ. Tools for thought.
Sonya Huang 🐥
@sonyatweetybird
funding big computer @sequoia
Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold. Didn't pay for a blue check, cannot make it go away
Sualeh Asif
@sualehasif996
@cursor_ai founder | https://anysphere.inc
Theo - t3.gg
@theo
Full time CEO @t3dotchat. Part time YouTuber, investor, and developer
Ryo Lu
@ryolu_
Design @Cursor_ai. Early @NotionHQ, @Stripe, built startups. I make a world where anyone can make software. Aspiring k-pop idol.
Alexander Embiricos
@embirico
Codex @OpenAI
Sarah Wang
@sarahdingwang
General Partner @a16z growth fund. “Excellence is the capacity to take pain”
sridhar
@RamaswmySridhar
CEO @snowflake; founder @neeva Ex-@GreylockVC Ex-@Google SVP of Ads Ex-@BellLabs.
Dylan Field
@zoink
eliminate the gap between imagination and reality
John Lilly
@johnolilly
This & that. But I don't come here too much these days...
scott belsky
@scottbelsky
helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.
Tom Conrad
@tconrad
CEO @sonos Board Director @zerolongevity Ex product, design and engineering @zerolongevity, quibi, @snapchat, @pandoramusic, @jackboxgames & @apple
Eren Bali
@erenbali
Cofounder/CEO of @monogram_ai. Previously founder/CEO of @carbonhealth and @udemy (NASDAQ $UDMY). IMO medalist.
Eugene Wei
@eugenewei
Former product guy at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus. Blog at http://www.eugenewei.com
Devon ☀️
@devonzuegel
I've gone to look for myself. If I return before I get back, please ask me to wait. Prev @GitHub @NotionHQ @Affirm @StanfordReview. Now building @Esmeralda_Inst
Grant Lee
@thisisgrantlee
Co-founder of @GammaApp
Frank Chen
@withfries2
Partner at @a16z. Tweets about startups, venture investing, AI, autonomy, science, tech, and the future. Sometimes Star Wars. And food. Opinions my own.
Pat Grady
@gradypb
Sequoia partner, BC alum, Wyoming native
Kieran Klaassen
@kieranklaassen
building @coracomputer | EIR @every | compound engineering | agent-ophile | composer | maker | baker
John Luttig
@absoluttig
at founders fund
Andy Hertzfeld
@andyhertzfeld
Retired hacker
