Stanford AI Product Conference

Join Stanford Product Pathways for a day focused on how AI is changing both what and how we build

Register 
January 30th | 11:30 - 6:30pm

Li Ka Shing Center

AGENDA

Big Picture: The Road Ahead

Bret Taylor, Chairman of the Board, OpenAI

Bret Taylor is Co-Founder and CEO of Sierra, a conversational AI platform building AI agents for businesses, and also Chairman of the Board at OpenAI. He previously served as Co-CEO of Salesforce and CTO of Facebook, and co-created Google Maps.

Building AI for Enterprise

Emrecan Dogan, Chief Product Officer, Glean

Glean is an enterprise work agent which helps automate search and information retrieval. With over $200 million in ARR, Glean is one of the fastest growing SaaS companies. Emrecan runs product management, design, data, product ops and tech project management teams at Glean.

The Future of Software Engineering

Romain Huet, Head of Developer Experiences, OpenAI

Building AI Agents

Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Head of Product, Sierra; Pol Peiffer, Head of Agent Development, Sierra; Anika Ayyar, Agent Product Manager, Sierra

Romain leads OpenAI’s entire developer portfolio, from the Apps SDK for ChatGPT to AgentKit and Codex, OpenAI's agentic coding model. He will share more about how AI is changing engineering roles and how he sees the software space playing out in the next few years.

AI and its Impact on Product

Adam Conway, SVP of Products, Databricks

Adam is SVP of Products at Databricks, where he leads all of Product. Over the last 7 years, he has led the company in growing to over $5 billion in revenue. He holds a Masters in Engineering from Stanford and previously founded Aerohive and Donkeycar, an open-source self-driving RC car project.

Join us for a deep dive on AI agents. Zack, Pol and Anika will share more about their experiences at Sierra, a conversational AI platform building agents for businesses. With over $100 million in revenue and a $10 billion valuation, Sierra is one of the fastest-growing AI companies. They will share more about building an applied AI company, the technical and product challenges of developing AI agents, and how agents will shape the future landscape

Research-Driven Ideation

Scott Brady and Harpinder Singh, Partners at Innovation Endeavors and Lecturers, Stanford GSB

Harpinder and Scott will discuss Research-Driven Innovation, an approach to systematically build high-impact start ups. They'll discuss how to generate and evaluate ideas and how RDI helped them start two companies which got acquired. They will also share their perspective as investors at Innovation Endeavors, an early-stage VC fund investing at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and applications, which founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Building in Verticals

Aatish Nayak, VP of Product, Harvey; Naunidh Bhalla, Co-Founder and CTO, Tetrix

Join us for a session on building in AI verticals with Naunidh Singh, the co-founder and CTO of Tetrix, an AI + Fintech company transforming private market investing, and Aatish Nayak, VP of Product at Harvey, a company building AI agents for lawyers. Harvey recently crossed $190 million in ARR and is one xof the fastest growing agentic companies.

Building in Voice

Iz Shalom, Head of Product, Cartesia and Raiza Martin, Former Head of Product, Google NotebookLM

Iz and Raiza will discuss voice AI from both a foundational and applied perspective and the use-cases it unlocks.

Company Networking

Get a chance to meet early career engineers and PMs from companies like Databricks, Sierra, Huxe, Google, Tetrix and more!

VC Office Hours

We'll have partners from Accel, Innovation Endeavors, Notable, and more for 15-minute meetings to get feedback on your ideas and pitches.