Frontiers of AI Summit 2026 Program
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Verizon Executive Education Center | Cornell Tech
WELCOME | 9 a.m.
Welcome and Agenda
Yoav Artzi — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
Greg Morrisett — Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech
KEYNOTE
Think Before You Speak: Next Gen LLMs with Global Reasoning and External Memory
Kilian Q. Weinberger — Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Moderator: Yoav Artzi — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
LIGHTNING TALKS
Moderator: Yoav Artzi — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
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Beyond Language Models: Toward Multimodal World Modeling
Saining Xie — Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU; Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer, AMI Labs
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Building Cursor Composer
Sasha Rush — Researcher, Cursor
MORNING BREAK
LIGHTNING TALK | 11:00 a.m.
Moderator: Yoav Artzi — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
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Illuminating Unknown Areas of Protein Biology With AI
Roshan Rao — Research Scientist, Biohub
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Making Sense of the Multimodal World
Carl Vondrick — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University
KEYNOTE CONVERSATION
Open Source AI
Soumith Chintala — Chief Technology Officer, Thinking Labs
Moderator: Yoav Artzi — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
LUNCH | 12:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE | 1:00 p.m.
How Could a Superhuman AI Mathematician Come About?
Sanjeev Arora — Director, Princeton Language and Intelligence, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
Moderator: Robert Kleinberg — Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
STARTUP SPOTLIGHTS
Accelerating Agentic Inference with Heterogeneous Hardware
Natalie Serrino — Co-Founder, Gimlet Labs
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Modal — AI Infrastructure That Developers Love
Erik Bernhardsson — Chief Executive Officer, Modal
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Automatic GPU Performance Engineering in the Age of Code Generation
Mohamed Abdelfattah — Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell Tech; Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer, Makora
AFTERNOON BREAK
KEYNOTE | 3:00 p.m.
Building an AI Polymath
Shirley Ho — Group Leader, Simons Foundation; Chief Executive Officer, Polymathic Technologies; Professor of Physics, NYU
Moderator: Kilian Q. Weinberger — Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
LIGHTNING AND SPOTLIGHTS
Moderator: Kilian Q. Weinberger — Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
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Accelerated Materials Discovery Through Self-Driving Labs
Jorge Colindres — Co-Founder, Radical AI
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Interoperability Isn’t Enough: Building Trustworthy AI Infrastructure with MCP
Ania Musial — Head of AI Platforms Product, Chief Technology Office, Bloomberg
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The Outer Loop: How AI Agents Are Taking Over the Code Review, the Bug Ticket, and the 3 a.m. Incident
Robert Brennan — Chief Executive Officer, OpenHands
KEYNOTE CONVERSATION
The AI Bubble
Andrew Ross Sorkin — Award-Winning Journalist; Founder, Editor at Large, The New York Times DealBook; Co-Anchor, CNBC’s Squawk Box; Author, “1929” and “Too Big to Fail”; Co-Creator, Showtime’s “Billions”
Moderator: Kavita Bala — Provost, Cornell University
CLOSING RECEPTION