First TED AI 2023 Event Comes to San Francisco to Spotlight the Power and Impact of Artificial Intelligence

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TED announces the much-anticipated arrival of TED AI 2023, coming to San Francisco, October 17-18, 2023. The two-day special event will feature TED Talks, panels and workshops with pioneers and trailblazers to better understand the profound implications of how artificial intelligence is about to transform our civilization, our industries, our institutions, our communities and cultures.

Co-hosted by Chris Anderson, Head of TED, and curated and organized by Sam and Walter De Brouwer in collaboration with TED, the special event will host attendees from around the world. San Francisco is home to many emerging AI technologies, and this event will bring together some of the brightest minds from across industries, academia, and communities to contemplate the future shaped by AI.

"Developments in AI these past 12 months have taken my breath away. It's clear we're in the early stages of one of the biggest tech transformations in history," said Chris Anderson, Head of TED. "TED has always been committed to showcasing the world's biggest innovations, and we see coverage of AI as the single most important part of our mission for the foreseeable future."

"So we couldn't be more excited for the first TEDAI event and our curation team, led by Walter and Sam De Brouwer, have deep immersion in this field, and have pulled together an astounding program," Anderson continued. "We'll be revealing next-level amazingness that's just around the corner. And also giving full voice to the skeptical and the worried. If you care about the future, please come join us."

Attendees will be treated to a full day of engaging TED Talks on October 17 at Herbst Theater, as luminaries and experts take the stage to unveil thought-provoking insights, diverse visions, and nuanced perspectives.

This will be followed by half a day of panels and workshops for deeper and more interactive conversations taking place on October 18 at Shack15.  

TED AI 2023 along with the open source community is organizing an AI for Good Hackathon motivated by the use of AI to build creative, sustainable and social causes. More details for the event can be found at https://ai-event.ted.com/hackathon.

TED AI 2023 speakers and performers include:

Agnieszka Pilat, Agility Robotics
Andrew Ng, DeepLearning.AI, Landing AI, AI Fund
Aviv Regev, Genentech
Catherine Wood, Ark Invest
Cristóbal Valenzuela, Runway
Edo Liberty, Pinecone
Edward Saatchi, CEO, The Simulation
Eric Topol, Scripps Research Institute
Gregory P. Dawson, Choreographer and AI Enthusiast in Dance
Harrison Chase, LongChain
Heather Meeker, OSS CapitalMachine Learning & Open Source Licensing Specialist
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI
Jim Fan, NVIDIA
Joon Sung Park, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
Joy Buolamwini, Founder of the Algorithmic Justice League
KFlay, Musician
Liv Boeree, Poker Champion and Science Communicator
Max Sills, Midjourney
Max Tegmark, MIT Professor, Institute for AI and Fundamental Interactions and Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
Oak Felder, Music Producer and AI Composer
Phebe Vayanos, University of Southern California
Pelonomi Moiloa, Lelapa AI
Percy Liang, Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) & Co-Founder, Together AI
Rajeev Ronanki, Lyric - Clarity in Motion
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn | Co-Founder of Inflection AI | Partner at Greylock
Richard Socher, You.com
Robert Strong, Comedian and Magician
Sarah Guo, Conviction AI
Shane Legg, Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind
Stacy Spikes, MoviePass
Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research
Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face
Walter De Brouwer, Computational Linguist
Yohei Nakajima, BabyAGI

The TED AI 2023 team has created a number of ways for audiences to participate in and learn from this week's conference:

• Follow TED AI 2023 on Twitter to join the conversation.
• Follow TED AI 2023 on Instagram for behind-the-scenes access to the conference, such as a tour of the venue and daily highlights from the stage.
• LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/tedai2023/
• Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TEDAI23
• The official hashtag of the event is #TEDAI2023.

The TED AI 2023 team has partnered with a number of innovative organizations to support its mission and contribute to the idea exchange at TED AI 2023. This year's partners include PWC, Foley & Lardner, Intel, Arizona Commerce Authority, SHACK15 and Canopy.

Tickets for TED AI 2023 are available via Eventbrite.

About TED
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TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, but today it spans a multitude of worldwide communities and initiatives exploring everything from science and business to education, arts and global issues. In addition to the hundreds of TED Talks curated from our annual conferences and published on TED.com, we produce original podcasts, short video series, animated educational lessons (TED-Ed) and TV programs that are translated into more than 100 languages and distributed via partnerships around the world. Each year, more than 3,000 independently run TEDx events bring people together to share ideas and bridge divides in communities on every continent. Through the Audacious Project, TED has helped catalyze more than $3 billion in funding for projects that seek to make the world more beautiful, sustainable and just. In 2020, TED launched Countdown, an initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis and mobilize a movement for a net-zero future. View a full list of TED's many programs and initiatives.

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Bianca Beatty
Head of Marketing, TED AI 2023
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