GatherVerse AI Summit 2026
February 3-4, 2026 (8:00 AM PST)
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Day 2 – February 4, 2026
| Opening: The Promise and Perils of AI in a Globalized Society Speaker: Christopher Lafayette |
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| Roundtable Panel: The Rise of Physical AI Moderator: Lynn Gitau Speakers: Pooja Kashyap, Kee Jones, Mary Waweru, Prof. Veera Talukdar, Stefan Youngblood, Marian Villa, Golden Johnson, Sivaprakash Nithyanandam |
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| Roundtable Panel: Synthetic Relationships: Human + Machine Moderator: Christian Brown Speakers: Sally Good, Jesper Hansen, Kim Nelson-Wright, Michael Forman, Trevor Tomion, Serenity Parker |
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| Fireside Chat: Keeping Humans in the Lead When AI Learns Fast Host: Russell Bundy Speaker: Katherine Fry |
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| Roundtable Panel: Governance, Trust, and Accountability: Who Is AI Answerable To? Moderator: Russell Bundy Speakers: Michael Dixon, Faith Katua, Grant McGaugh, Onur Korucu, Venkata Sai Vasumitha Kadiyam, Beth Zukowsky, Annesha Chowdhury |
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| Roundtable Panel: Career Path Disruption: Living With Technical Transition Moderator: Salvation Chigereoka Speakers: Anar Rasul, Nolwenn Germain, Nehal El Naggar, Jebet Chepkoyo, Asante Asiedu, Raini Steffen, Lorna McFarlane, Santosh Kumar, Olayemi Arokoyo |
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| Session Topic: Leveraging AI to Increase Access to Justice Speaker: Kisha Brown |
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| Session Topic: Creatives, AI Agents, and The Challenge of Transparency Speaker: Cecilia Lascialfari |
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| Session Topic: AI as a Force Multiplier for Global Equity Speaker: Linda Porter |
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| Session Topic: What make Protirement truly relevant in the AI era Speaker: Patrick Chang |
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| Session Topic: AI powered tokenization and machine learning strategies for PII protection in cloud native architectures Speaker: Leela Venkata Sai Rajesh Guntupalli |
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| Session Topic: What’s Really Coming: The Tech Trends That Will Separate Leaders from Followers Speaker: Bernice Omiunu |
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| Session Topic: The Future of Empathy Driven AI Speaker: Thomas Wilson |
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| Closing: AI Summit 2026 | |
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