Meet Fei-Fei Li, Jeff Dean, Terence Tao and 5 Nobel Laureates at Stanford

Hi Founders, Investors, Researchers, and Tech Leaders,

This August, the people defining the frontier of AI and science will return to Stanford. From World Labs’ Fei-Fei Li, Google DeepMind’s Jeff Dean, Fields Medalist Terence Tao, Nobel Laureate & Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, and four other Nobel Laureates, to leaders from NVIDIA, Google, the National Academy of Engineering, the NSF, and Congress, this is the room where the next decade of American science and technology gets defined.

• Register now: https://ticket.aafuturefoundation.org

• 10% OFF with FounderCoHo code AASF-FounderCoho-10OFF — limited spots

• Fei-Fei Li — Founder & CEO, World Labs; Professor, Stanford University

• Terence Tao — Fields Medalist & Professor, UCLA

• Jeff Dean — Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind & Google Research

• Steven Chu — Nobel Laureate in Physics & Former U.S. Secretary of Energy

• Amin Vahdat — Senior Vice President & Chief Technologist for AI & Infrastructure, Google

• Sachin Katti — Head of Compute Strategy & GPT-Infra, OpenAI; Adjunct Professor, Stanford

• Justin Boitano — Vice President & General Manager of Enterprise AI, NVIDIA

• Diane Greene — Co-founder & Former CEO, VMware; Former CEO, Google Cloud

• Jungsang Kim — Co-Founder & CTO, IonQ; Professor, Duke University

• Kai Li — Professor, Princeton University; Founder, Data Domain (Acquired for $2.1B)

• Philip Wong — Chief Scientist of TSMC, Professor, Stanford; IEEE Fellow;

• Dawn Song — Vice President of AI Research, Meta; Professor, UC Berkeley

• Samuel Chao Chung Ting — Nobel Laureate in Physics, MIT

• Carl Wieman — Nobel Laureate in Physics, Stanford University

• Randy W. Schekman — Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, UC Berkeley

• Syukuro Manabe — Nobel Laureate in Physics, Princeton University

• Chuan He — Wolf Prize Laureate in Chemistry, University of Chicago

• Ted Lieu — U.S. Representative (CA)

• Sethuraman Panchanathan — Former Director, National Science Foundation (NSF); Professor, ASU

• Arun Majumdar — Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; Former Under Secretary of Energy

• Nani A. Coloretti — Former Deputy Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

• Tsu-Jae King Liu — President, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

• Keith Yamamoto — Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy, UCSF

• Yi Cui — Fortinet Founders Professor, Stanford University (Battery & Materials pioneer)

• Alice Ting — Professor, Stanford; Member of the National Academy of Sciences

• Stanley Qi — Associate Professor, Stanford University (Co-inventor of dCas9 CRISPR)

• Peidong Yang — Professor, UC Berkeley (MacArthur Fellow, Artificial Photosynthesis)

• Haifan Lin — Founding Director, Yale Stem Cell Center

• Gang Chen — Professor, MIT (Heat Transfer & Nanotechnology)

• Richard Lui — News Anchor, MSNBC; Executive Director, CAREGenome

• Gia Vang — Journalist & News Anchor, NBC

As AI capabilities accelerate and global competition intensifies, the biggest opportunity only belongs to those who understand where technology is heading.

This symposium brings together researchers building tomorrow’s breakthroughs, industry leaders deploying AI at global scale, and policymakers shaping the future of innovation.

Whether you’re building a startup, investing in frontier technologies, or leading AI initiatives, you’ll gain insights that can directly influence:

1. AI product strategy

2. Investment decisions

3. Research and commercialization

4. Infrastructure and scaling

5. Cross-sector collaboration between academia, industry, and government

This is one of the few places where world-renowned scientists, Nobel Laureates, AI pioneers, Fortune 500 executives, and government leaders come together to shape the future of technology and scientific innovation.

Highlights include keynote sessions from Jeff Dean, Amin Vahdat, leading Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, and University of Chicago researchers, followed by an evening networking reception.

Celebrate the visionaries who have transformed science and technology through groundbreaking discoveries and lifelong contributions. Hear exclusive conversations with Nobel Laureates, Fields Medalist Terence Tao, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, and other globally recognized leaders before the prestigious Pioneer Medal Ceremony honoring extraordinary achievement.

Explore the intersection of science, innovation, and public policy with leaders from government, academia, and industry. Through high-level fireside chats and panels, discover how research funding, national competitiveness, and public leadership will shape the future of American innovation.

• VIP Gala Dinner @ Cantor Arts Center — Saturday, August 8, 6:00–9:00 PM Invitation only. Dress code: formal attire (black tie).

• VIP Social Dinner @ Traitel Building — Friday, August 7, 6:00–8:30 PM

• Social Receptions @ Dohrmann Grove — open to all attendees, Friday and Saturday evenings

• Research & mentorship roundtables over lunch, Friday and Saturday

Hosted by the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) with the Asian American Research Center at Stanford, and in collaboration with the Hoover Institution.

Program Co-Chairs: Yi Cui (Stanford) & Kai Li (Princeton) AASF Executive Director: Gisela Perez Kusakawa

• Register: https://ticket.aafuturefoundation.org

• Location: Stanford Memorial Auditorium, 551 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305 (Sunday’s Policy Forum: Hauck Auditorium, 435 Lasuen Mall)

• Full agenda: https://www.aafuturefoundation.org/#agenda

Will you be there to shape the future?

Thanks for reading!