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2025 – 2026 AAEOY Award & Conference Proceedings Released
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Join us on September 19, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center for an afternoon AI Conference bringing together leaders in technology, startups, investment, and education to explore how AI is shaping our future.
The conference will feature two tracks: the Technology Track and the Education Track.
The Technology Track, “Engineering the AI-Native Future: How AI Is Transforming Technology, Business, and Innovation,” will bring together Silicon Valley AI leaders, venture investors, startup founders, and engineers to examine how AI-native companies are changing the way organizations compete, build products, develop software, and create entirely new industries.
The program will feature keynote speaker Jeremiah Owyang, General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures and Founder & Host of Llama Lounge, presenting “The AI-Native Era: How Organizations Will Compete, Build, and Scale.” Featured sessions will also include Bernard Harguindeguy on how every company is becoming an AI company, Leo Tchourakov of Factory on the self-improving software factory, and startup leaders sharing how AI is transforming startups and creating new industries.
Topics will include AI-native companies, agentic AI, intelligent software development, cybersecurity, AI accessibility, smart wearables, human-AI collaboration, venture capital, startups, and emerging technologies.
The Education Track will explore how we prepare people for this rapidly changing world. Dr. Arun Majumdar, Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, will present “Education in the Age of AI: Preparing Minds for an Intelligent Future,” while Johnny Ho, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Perplexity AI, will discuss “Orchestrating Entrepreneurship in AI.”
Together, the two tracks explore both sides of the AI transformation: how we build the AI-native future—and how we prepare people to thrive in it.
September 19, 2026 | 1:00 PM
Santa Clara Convention Center
2026 AAEOY Program Released
AAEOY Afternoon Program
Time: 13:00, Saturday, September 19 2026
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center
Registration Link: https://luma.com/tg9walub
There will be tracks in the afternoon program “Technology Track” and “Education Track”.
Technology Track:
Engineering the AI-Native Future
How AI Is Transforming Technology, Business, and Innovation
Artificial intelligence is transforming software engineering, cybersecurity, accessibility, autonomous systems, and the way organizations build and compete. The 2026 AAEOY Afternoon Technology Session brings together Silicon Valley founders, technology leaders, investors, and innovators to examine the emerging AI-native future.
Keynote Speaker
General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures
Founder & Host, Llama Lounge
Title: The AI-Native Era: How Organizations Will Compete, Build, and Scale
Jeremiah Owyang will discuss AI-native organizations, agentic AI, enterprise transformation, and how artificial intelligence is changing the way companies innovate, compete, and scale.
Featured Fireside Chat
Founder, Executive Venture Fund (EVF)
Title: AI, Enterprise Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Leadership
A serial entrepreneur, former CTO of Ping Identity, and venture investor, Bernard Harguindeguy will share perspectives on how AI is reshaping enterprise technology, cybersecurity, innovation, and leadership.
Featured Technical Speaker
Principal Engineer, Factory
Title: Beyond Coding Agents: Inside the Self-Improving Software Factory (Tentative)
Leo Tchourakov will explore how autonomous Software Factories are transforming the software development lifecycle through AI agents, continuous feedback, model evaluation, and self-improving engineering systems.
Startup Leaders Panel
How AI Is Transforming Startups and Creating New IndustriesStartup founders will discuss how AI is enabling new products, industries, and real-world applications.
CEO & Co-Founder, AGIGA AI
Xiaoran Wang leads the development of EchoVision, an AI-powered smart glasses platform that assists blind and low-vision users through real-time scene understanding.
CEO & Co-Founder, Captify
Tom Pritsky leads the development of AI-powered smart glasses that provide real-time captioning for people with hearing loss.
More Speakers to Be Announced
Additional speakers from AI infrastructure, software engineering, semiconductors, robotics, cybersecurity, venture capital, enterprise AI, and emerging technologies will be announced soon.
Join founders, engineers, researchers, investors, executives, and students for an afternoon of technical insights, industry perspectives, and meaningful networking.
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Location
Santa Clara Convention Center
5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
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