MIT AI Conference 2026

About MIT AI Conference 2026

The MIT Alumni Startup Network (MITAS) organizes the MIT AI Conference 2026 on Saturday, October 17, at the Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, in Mountain View. It is a one-day, in-person event with themes of AI applications, ethics, innovation, business and research.

The official site lists 56 speakers and 25 sessions. Speakers include Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman and CEO of the Sacramento Kings, Brad Porter, Founder and CEO of Cobot, and MIT professor and Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu. Sessions include a conversation with this year's AI Award honorees, a fireside chat with Shishir Mehrotra and a talk on financing and M&A trends in AI deals. E14, BCG X, Goodwin, Legaleez and Woodside Capital Partners are listed as sponsors.

Four ticket prices appear: General Admission at $942, and tickets at $3,141, $449 and $314. A room block is held at the Shashi Hotel, 1625 N Shoreline Blvd, a few minutes' walk from the museum.

Location

1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, California, 94043, United States

Venue: Computer History Museum

Agenda

Saturday, October 17

• 09:00–09:30 · Opening Remarks
• 09:30–10:00 · Recognizing the Best of MIT: A Conversation with This Year's AI Award Honorees
• 10:10–10:40 · Beyond the Model: What Comes Next in AI
• 11:00–11:30 · AI and the New Age of Discovery
• 11:40–12:10 · Fireside Chat: Shishir Mehrotra — Rachel Lang, Shishir Mehrotra, Rachel Lang, Shishir Mehrotra
• 12:30–13:00 · The New Rules of AI Deals - Financing & M&A Trends
• 14:15–14:45 · MIT's Role in the Next Frontier of AI
• 15:30–16:00 · AI Maximalists: Building at the Edge of What’s Possible
• 08:15–10:00 · Registration
• 08:15–16:15 · Coffee, Tea and Matcha
• 09:20–10:10 · Recognizing the Best of MIT: A Conversation with This Year's AI Award Honorees
• 10:30–10:50 · When AI Gets It Wrong, What’s on the Line?
• 11:20–11:40 · Intelligence in Motion: AI Enters the Physical World
• 12:00–13:30 · Lunch
• 13:30–14:15 · Fireside Chat: Bret Taylor & Fawad Ahmad — Bret Taylor, Fawad Ahmad
• 14:30–14:50 · Who Governs the Age of AI?
• 14:50–15:00 · What Could MIT do if it had an Unlimited Workforce of AI Agents?
• 15:00–15:20 · Research Slam Presentations, Hackathon Demos and Startup Pitches
• 15:50–16:00 · Snacks
• 16:00–16:20 · Beyond the Demo: What it Takes to Scale AI
• 16:20–16:40 · When Software Builds Itself, What do Engineers do Next?
• 16:40–17:00 · Building What’s Next: A Father - Son Conversation from Chips to AI with DJ and Suhas Patil — DJ Patil, Suhas Patil
• 17:00–17:15 · MITAS President Recap — Shuja Keen
• 17:15–17:30 · Fireside Chat: Aparna Chennapragada — Aparna Chennapragada, Arun Saigal
• 17:30–18:00 · Happy Hour

Speakers

• Shuja Keen
  Founder & Chair / Founder & President, MITAI / MITAS
• Luna Maroun
  Co-Chair, MITAI 2026
• Rachel Lang
  Co-Chair, MITAI 2026
• Vivek Ranadivé
  Chairman & CEO, Sacramento Kings
• Brad Porter
  Founder & CEO, Cobot
• Daron Acemoglu
  Professor, Nobel Laureate, MIT
• Carina Hong
  Founder, Axiom Math
• Abhinav Adduri
  ML Tech Lead, Arc Institute
• Feyza Haskaraman
  Partner, Felicis
• Ivan Burazin
  Founder, Daytona
• Nancy Wang
  1Password
• DJ Patil
  Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, The White House
• Suhas Patil
  Founder, Cirrus Logic
• Shishir Mehrotra
  Superhuman
• Bret Taylor
  CEO / Chairman of the Board, Sierra / OpenAI
• Abubakar Abid
  Head of Applications, HuggingFace
• Sasha Hoffman
  MITAI, Event Producer
• Maggie Chung
  Co-Founder, Voio
• Ana Pinczuk
  President & CTO, SentinelOne
• Bhawna Singh
  Lightspeed Commerce
• Dor Fledel
  Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
• Jake Seid
  General Partner, Ballistic Ventures
• Mike Hamilton
  Board Member / Former CIO, Genesys Works / Cloudflare
• Omar Khawaja
  Field CISO, Databricks

Sponsors

• E14
• BCG X
• Goodwin
• Legaleez
• Woodside Capital Partners

Hotels & travel

We have a room block at the Shashi Hotel located at 1625 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043, a few minutes’ walk from the museum. Rooms must be booked by October 5, 2026 to be eligible for the discounted rate. King rooms are available for a 1 or 2-night stay October 16 - 18 at $209 USD per night plus taxes and fees.

Refund policy

No refunds are provided. If you cannot attend, transfer your ticket to another person.

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