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Event date 16 JULY 2026 -
Event location New York
Additional speakers will be announced on a rolling basis.
Abhay Parasnis
Founder and CEO, Typeface
Abhay Parasnis is the Founder and CEO of Typeface, the enterprise-grade generative AI application to supercharge personalized content creation. He brings over two decades of experience scaling new businesses and innovative technology platforms. Previously, as CPO & CTO of Adobe, he was responsible for leading product strategy, technology vision, and engineering for Adobe’s diverse cloud portfolio. Abhay has also held leadership roles at major technology companies including Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM. Abhay is an active investor and advisor to various early-stage startups with a focus on AI. He currently serves on the board of Dropbox and Schneider Electric and is an angel investor & advisor focusing on exciting next-gen AI companies - Perplexity, Common Sense Machines, Spawning, DevRev, WisdomAI, Rhythms, Cartesia, GenMo, Higgsfield & more. Abhay is co-author of two books and named an inventor on 35+ patents spanning enterprise and consumer technologies.
Ajaz Ahmed
Founder, AKQA
Ajaz is the co-founder of Studio.One, a new independent storytelling and design firm. He founded his first company AKQA at the age of 21. As CEO, Ajaz led it to revenues of around $850m, an international team of over 5,000 people, winning 83 Agency of the Year awards and the Queen's Award for Enterprise Innovation. Francisco Partners and General Atlantic invested and achieved successful exits. Ajaz is also a recipient of the Spear's Impact Award recognizing the work of his philanthropic foundation ajaz.org.
Anne Kraybill
CEO, Art Bridges Foundation
Anne Kraybill is an accomplished leader with demonstrated success in the arts and culture sector. As CEO of Art Bridges Foundation, Anne spearheads funding and strategic initiatives that increase access to American art throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Previously, Anne was Director/CEO for the Wichita Art Museum, where she led a successful reaccreditation process with the American Alliance of Museums, eliminated permanent collection admission fees, and established an American Art Acquisition fund to diversify their collection. During her tenure as The Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Anne increased financial reserves and grew their endowment by $5 million amid the COVID-19 pandemic. She also reoriented the museum to serve the community through innovative partnerships, including an Artist-in-Residence program in collaboration with BOOM Concepts, an organization dedicated to the development of artists and creatives representing marginalized voices.
Benedict Evans
Independent Analyst
Benedict Evans has spent 25 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. He is now an independent analyst, which mostly means trying to work out what questions to ask.
He writes essays about things he’s trying to understand, including a weekly newsletter with 175,000 subscribers, and gives presentations pulling together these ideas.
In the last few years, Benedict has given presentations for companies including Alphabet, Amazon, AT&T, Axa, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, L’Oréal, LVMH, Nasdaq, Swiss Re, Visa, Warner Media, Verizon and Vodafone.
Jitish Kallat
Artist
Jitish Kallat’s work probes the intersections of science, historical memory, and existential inquiry, often reflecting on our planetary presence and place in the cosmos. A consistent approach in his practice involves shifting focal lengths across space and time to reframe and comprehend the immediate and the imminent. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and video, Kallat juxtaposes the everyday with the cosmic, the present with the historic, and the terrestrial with the celestial.
Kallat has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, which hosted a mid-career survey of his work in 2017; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Frist Art Museum, Nashville; the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; and the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai. Recent institutional presentations include Public Notice 3 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Kevin Hartz
Co-Founder and General Partner, A*, Co-Founder, Eventbrite
Kevin Hartz is a co-founder and general partner at A*, an early stage venture capital firm. He co-founded Eventbrite, a publicly traded company, and served as the CEO for the first 11 years of the company. Prior to Eventbrite, Kevin co-founded Xoom, a money remittance company that was acquired by PayPal in 2015 for over $1B. He is a prolific technology investor, having backed companies such as PayPal, Airbnb, Pinterest, Ramp, Palantir, Anduril, SpaceX, and Decagon at the earliest stages.