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Date de l’événement 16 JULY 2026 -
Lieu de l'évènement 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.
Andrew Goldstein
Former Editor-in-Chief, Artnet News
Andrew Goldstein is a media innovator and strategist at the intersection of art and technology. As the founder of Dedalus Media Architects, he advises leading cultural institutions on multimedia strategy, emerging-technology integration, and brand partnerships, and he counsels early-stage art-tech startups. He is also the co-founder of TECHNĒ Chicago, a summit exploring how art can illuminate and accelerate scientific and technological innovation.
A veteran cultural journalist with 25 years of media experience, Andrew was previously the editor-in-chief of Artnet News, which he built into the world's most widely read art publication. He also served as Chief Digital Content Officer at Phaidon and Artspace, where he won a Webby Award for Best Newsletter. A frequent public speaker on art, technology, and the art market, Andrew also launched and hosted two influential podcasts, the Art Angle and Artwrld.
Andrew Wolff
Chairman of Artsy and Artnet
Andrew Wolff is the CEO of Beowolff Capital, which he founded in 2022. Prior, he spent more than two decades at Goldman Sachs, where he was made partner in 2006 and served as global co-head of the Merchant Banking Division, the global co-head of the Corporate Equity Investing Business, and co-CIO of the firm’s flagship private equity funds. Wolff has 30 years of investment experience across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and is also an avid art collector. Since leaving Goldman Sachs, he has focused on building a highly concentrated portfolio of private investments through Beowolff Capital, including the acquisition of Artnet and a controlling interest in Artsy.
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.
Baiju Bhatt
Founder, Cowboy Space Corporation; Co-Founder, Robinhood
Baiju Bhatt is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Cowboy Space Corporation, a company that is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, it will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit.
He is recognized as the co-founder of Robinhood, a zero-commission stock trading platform that has influenced how Americans participate in financial markets.
Bhatt co-founded Robinhood with Vlad Tenev. He has described Robinhood as inspired by the ideals of democratizing finance. When Robinhood launched its mobile app, Bhatt focused on product and design, emphasizing user research by gathering feedback from students on Stanford's campus. This approach contributed to Robinhood becoming the first finance app to receive an Apple Design award.
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.
Benjamin “Redbeard” Gross
Advisor
Benjamin “Redbeard” Gross is a multifaceted figure in the Web3 and digital art communities, known for his early involvement in cryptocurrency, his passion for digital fine art, and his contributions to education. Benny has been a crypto investor since 2012. In recent years, he has focused on collecting and curating digital fine art, aiming to build an art-forward community within the blockchain ecosystem. He manages the digital fund WCC, which invests in Web3 startups and high-end digital art . Beyond his work in crypto and art, Benny serves as an administrator at a private school with 1,400 students. He champions STEM technology, spearheads non-profit fundraising projects, and is passionate about integrating technology into education.
Bonnie Brennan
CEO, Christie’s
Bonnie was appointed CEO of Christie’s in February 2025. Prior to this role, she held several key leadership positions at the company, including Regional President for the Americas. Christie’s has sold six of the top ten collections in history, four of which were offered in New York during Bonnie’s tenure as President: The Paul G. Allen Collection—which totaled more than $1.62 billion and stands as the highest collection total of all time—Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection, The Collection of Anne H. Bass, and The Collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann.
A graduate of Northwestern University, Bonnie began her career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson in 1995 before joining Sotheby’s in 1997, where she developed a keen focus on estate-related matters and cultivated lasting client relationships. She moved to Christie’s in 2012. Outside the office, Bonnie is dedicated to community service and serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.
Jeff Burke
VP, Business Development and Partnerships, Replit
Jeff Burke joined Replit in 2022 as an early employee, leading the launch of initial AI products and international efforts. Jeff joined Replit from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he worked across consumer and tech practices. Prior to BCG, Jeff was a professional baseball player in the San Francisco Giants organization.
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.
Julia Chatterley
Financial Journalist
Julia Chatterley is Emmy nominated financial journalist & investor, beginning her career in finance at Morgan Stanley before becoming an international correspondent and anchor for CNBC and Bloomberg and finally joining CNN in New York.
Julia has reported from all over the world, covering many major global business and political stories including war in the Middle East, the Covid-19 pandemic, US-China trade relations & the global impact of tariffs. She also covers transformative technologies, like artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies and quantum computing and has a keen interest in art investment.
Julia has interviewed many prominent world and business leaders, including Former US climate Envoy John Kerry, the UN Secretary General, the NATO Secretary General, the head of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, Richard Branson, former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Michael Dell, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, LVMH’s Antoine Arnault, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi among many others.
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.
Kiya Tadele (Yatreda)
Artist
Yatreda ያጥሬዳ is a family-based collective of Ethiopian artists, led by founder Kiya Tadele. Working across film, digital art, and sculpture, the collective creates in the register of tizita, the Ethiopian understanding of nostalgia. The work carries the living presence of the past into the present. Drawing on oral history, folk tales, and the ceremonial traditions of modern Ethiopian life, the collective examines the cyclical nature of history and the endurance of cultural memory across changing material and technological eras.
Komal Shah
Originally from Ahmedabad, India, Komal Shah migrated to the US in 1991 to study computer science in California. After completing her Masters at Stanford, she obtained an MBA from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, eventually holding positions in the executive suites of Oracle, Netscape, and Yahoo. In 2008, Shah left the tech industry to focus on philanthropic pursuits. She then began developing the Shah Garg Collection with her husband and tech entrepreneur Gaurav Garg, solidifying a vision for the collection’s emphasis on women artists in 2014. Today, they are focused on amplifying the voices of women artists through the Making Their Mark Foundation.
Michael Anders
Founding Partner, ICONIQ Capital
Michael Anders is a founding partner of ICONIQ Capital, a global firm that advises and invests on behalf of some of the world’s most influential families and organizations while driving transformation at the intersection of technology and traditional industries. Michael is also the founder and chairman of ICONIQ Impact, which convenes ICONIQ’s extraordinary community of families, founders, and organizations to catalyze collaborative philanthropy for giving at scale. To-date, ICONIQ Impact has advised on nearly $600M in grants, tackling the world’s most urgent challenges, including climate change, education and economic mobility, ocean health and other impact areas. Prior to ICONIQ, Michael worked at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity Investments, and Societe General (in Paris and London). He was a founder of GivingCapital, which developed turnkey charitable products for large financial service firms and then helped in the structuring of their high-net-worth client’s charitable giving. He received his B.A. in political science and communication studies from URI, as well as a certificate in international economics from Columbia University. He serves on the boards of the World Surf League and Firewire Surfboards, and he received URI’s Distinguished Achievement Presidential Award in 2022. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Peter Tuchman
Senior Floor Trader, Trademas Inc.
Peter Tuchman is a Senior Floor Trader at Trademas Inc. and one of the most recognizable figures on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Known globally as the "Einstein of Wall Street," he has spent decades navigating historic market events and providing insight on investing, market psychology, and economic trends. Peter is a frequent media contributor and sought-after speaker, bringing audiences a unique perspective from the front lines of Wall Street. Peter Tuchman is officially represented for speaking engagements, media appearances, and brand partnerships by GLORION Media.
Richard Barton
Richard Barton is an entrepreneur, co-executive chairman and a former two-time chief executive officer of Zillow Group, a company he co-founded in 2006. Barton founded online travel company (and Microsoft spinoff) Expedia, Inc., real-estate internet company Zillow, and job search engine and career community Glassdoor. He also founded the online travel photography sharing website and app Trover, which was acquired by Expedia in 2016. Barton was also a venture partner at Benchmark, and is on the board of directors for Netflix, Avvo, Nextdoor, and Artsy. He serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.
Robert Frank
Wealth Editor, CNBC
Robert Frank is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author and a leading authority on the American wealthy. He joined CNBC in May 2012 as Wealth Editor.
Prior to CNBC, Frank worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years, serving as a foreign correspondent in London and Singapore, and later covering Wall Street and corporate scandals. For eight years, he was the paper’s Wealth Reporter, covering the lives, culture and economy of the new rich.
Frank is the author of two books: “Richistan,” a New York Times best-seller, and “The High-Beta Rich,” released in 2011. His blog, The Wealth Report, was named by Time magazine as one of America’s most influential financial blogs.
Frank holds a bachelor’s degree in literature from State University of New York at Binghamton. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
Rui Costa, DVM, PhD
President and CEO, Allen Institute
Rui Costa is President and CEO of the Allen Institute, and Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His research in neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the neural circuits underlying learning, movement, and decision-making, uncovering fundamental principles of how the brain generates adaptive behavior and how these processes are disrupted in disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. At the Allen Institute, he leads one of the world’s premier open-science research organizations, driving large-scale initiatives that generate some of the largest and most comprehensive biological datasets and foundational resources for AI-driven scientific discovery in areas of life sciences like brain science and immunology. His leadership currently focuses on accelerating discovery through large-scale collaborative science, open data, multimodal biology, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Costa has received numerous honors including the Ariëns Kappers Medal from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine and EMBO.