OpenLab Stanford AO Summit

Agenda

July 30–31, 2026 · Stanford campus
dinner July 30, talks July 31
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Thursday, July 30

Evening event · dinner & evening talk

6:00 PM
Dinner

James Evans — 10-minute talk · Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Friday, July 31

Main program · 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Joshua Tan — Welcome & opening

CTO at Current AI and Associate at Stanford OpenLab

9:30 AM
Axel Wennström

Cafe, Store, Radio, and More — Lessons from Launching Some of the World's First AI-Run Businesses

Member of Technical Staff, Andon Labs

10:00 AM
Roundtable: Autonomous Organizations in the Wild

Agent collectives actually operating — what breaks, what emerges, and what it's like to work alongside them.

Lightning talks followed by plenary discussion

  • Apolinário Passos — Head of ML for Art & Creativity, Hugging Face
    Symbients: growing autonomous entities without central control
  • Helena Rong — Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai
    Multi-Agent Workspaces in the Wild: Case Study on Raft, Where AI Agents Are Your Co-Workers
  • Adam Binksmith — Director, AI Village
    Tales from the AI Village
11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:30 AM
Dotta

The Self-Improving Organization: Defining Good Enough

CEO, Paperclip

12:00 PM
Joel Z Leibo

Cooperation Beyond the Matrix

Senior Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

12:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Roundtable: Measuring Autonomy — Benchmarks & the Science of Coordination

How do you actually evaluate an AO? Metrics, benchmarks, and the science of coordination.

Lightning talks followed by plenary discussion

  • Rakshit Trivedi — Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT & Harvard University
    Solipsistic Superintelligence is Unlikely to be Cooperative
  • Hao Zhu — Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford
    CooperBench: Measuring the Curse of Coordination in Multi-Agent Cooperation
  • Sam Pasupalak — Co-founder & CEO, Skyfall AI
    Towards Autonomous Enterprises: Morpheus, a Bigworld Benchmark for Continual Learning
  • Yankai Wang — PhD Student, Stanford GSB
    Learning the Grammar of Coordination with Generative Transformers
2:30 PM
Roundtable: Openness, Institutions & Society

Where AOs meet humans: open ecosystems, personal AI, and the institutions around them.

Lightning talks followed by plenary discussion

  • Allison Duettmann — President & CEO, Foresight Institute
    How & why open source, open science in the age of AI
  • Alex "Sandy" Pentland — Faculty Lead, Stanford Digital Economy Lab
    Personal AI that protects and helps: Diamond Age made Real
  • Joseph Low — Senior Software Engineer, Change.org
    Delegating Deliberation to AI Representatives
3:30 PM
Break
4:00 PM
Alex Obadia

Standing up the Scaling Trust Arena: a real, physical economy where AI-run companies trade, compete, and earn revenue from real customers, while red teams attack them.

Programme Director, ARIA

4:30 PM
Plenary discussion
5:00 PM
End