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Rethinking Hardware in the AI Era

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The AI revolution isn't just a software story. Join us for a pivotal discussion as we dive into the emerging landscape of AI, where hardware is no longer just an afterthought.

Hardware serves as the crucial mediator between humans and AI systems. The convergence of AI software with purpose-built hardware will redefine how we interact with technology.

We'll explore embodied AI, the edge vs. cloud debate – revealing how both play crucial roles in AI's future, and human-computer interaction, UX and design decisions when thinking about AI and hardware.

The future belongs to those who master the powerful interplay between hardware, AI and software. Start 2025 with a fresh perspective and discover the opportunities presented by the AI hardware renaissance.

when

Thursday
January 23, 2025
6:30 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

​​6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments

​​7:00-8:00 - AI Hardware Panel with audience Q+A

​​8:00-8:30 - Community demos
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.

​​8:30-10:00 - Mix + mingle

Speakers

Vishal Kumar

CEO & Co-founder
Alice Camera
Biography

Vishal is internationally recognised as a cultural data scientist with extensive experience managing data science, AI and 5G projects in the cultural and creative industries for several governments and international organisations. Building on his area of expertise, Vishal has gathered over 30,000 followers on social media as a content creator with his content reaching 1 million views.

Vishal previously was a researcher at The Bartlett at UCL and he studied at the London School of Economics and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and then worked at Sotheby’s as one of the company’s first-ever Data Scientists.

In 2020, Vishal co-Founded the Alice Camera as its CEO, a computational photography start-up building a novel AI camera for content creators, streamers and live events. The company is incubated at UCL and backed by Innovate UK and has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture capitalists since launching. The team has gone through accelerators run by the Digital Catapult, Nvidia and Entrepreneur First and have been nominated for an award by the Creative Industries Council.

Mina Fahmi

Product Manager, AI
Meta
Biography

Mina is a Product Manager at Meta working on deep learning-based neural interfaces for future computing platforms. His career has focused on technologies which feel like an extension of the self, including neurotechnology, augmented reality, and wearable robotics. He has explored novel AI interfaces through projects including an AI-powered journal, autonomous company concept, and multimodal wearable device. Prior to Meta, Mina worked at CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta in 2019) and studied engineering at MIT.

Davide Asnaghi

Founder & CEO
Diode Computers, Inc.
Biography

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Rethinking Hardware in the AI Era

January 23, 2025
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The AI revolution isn't just a software story. Join us for a pivotal discussion as we dive into the emerging landscape of AI, where hardware is no longer just an afterthought.

Hardware serves as the crucial mediator between humans and AI systems. The convergence of AI software with purpose-built hardware will redefine how we interact with technology.

We'll explore embodied AI, the edge vs. cloud debate – revealing how both play crucial roles in AI's future, and human-computer interaction, UX and design decisions when thinking about AI and hardware.

The future belongs to those who master the powerful interplay between hardware, AI and software. Start 2025 with a fresh perspective and discover the opportunities presented by the AI hardware renaissance.

When

January 23, 2025
6:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

​​6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments

​​7:00-8:00 - AI Hardware Panel with audience Q+A

​​8:00-8:30 - Community demos
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.

​​8:30-10:00 - Mix + mingle

Speakers

Vishal Kumar

CEO & Co-founder
Alice Camera
Biography

Vishal is internationally recognised as a cultural data scientist with extensive experience managing data science, AI and 5G projects in the cultural and creative industries for several governments and international organisations. Building on his area of expertise, Vishal has gathered over 30,000 followers on social media as a content creator with his content reaching 1 million views.

Vishal previously was a researcher at The Bartlett at UCL and he studied at the London School of Economics and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and then worked at Sotheby’s as one of the company’s first-ever Data Scientists.

In 2020, Vishal co-Founded the Alice Camera as its CEO, a computational photography start-up building a novel AI camera for content creators, streamers and live events. The company is incubated at UCL and backed by Innovate UK and has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture capitalists since launching. The team has gone through accelerators run by the Digital Catapult, Nvidia and Entrepreneur First and have been nominated for an award by the Creative Industries Council.

Mina Fahmi

Product Manager, AI
Meta
Biography

Mina is a Product Manager at Meta working on deep learning-based neural interfaces for future computing platforms. His career has focused on technologies which feel like an extension of the self, including neurotechnology, augmented reality, and wearable robotics. He has explored novel AI interfaces through projects including an AI-powered journal, autonomous company concept, and multimodal wearable device. Prior to Meta, Mina worked at CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta in 2019) and studied engineering at MIT.

Davide Asnaghi

Founder & CEO
Diode Computers, Inc.
Biography

Sponsors

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Rethinking Hardware in the AI Era

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The AI revolution isn't just a software story. Join us for a pivotal discussion as we dive into the emerging landscape of AI, where hardware is no longer just an afterthought.

Hardware serves as the crucial mediator between humans and AI systems. The convergence of AI software with purpose-built hardware will redefine how we interact with technology.

We'll explore embodied AI, the edge vs. cloud debate – revealing how both play crucial roles in AI's future, and human-computer interaction, UX and design decisions when thinking about AI and hardware.

The future belongs to those who master the powerful interplay between hardware, AI and software. Start 2025 with a fresh perspective and discover the opportunities presented by the AI hardware renaissance.

when

Thursday
January 23, 2025
6:30 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

​​6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments

​​7:00-8:00 - AI Hardware Panel with audience Q+A

​​8:00-8:30 - Community demos
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.

​​8:30-10:00 - Mix + mingle

Speakers

Vishal Kumar

CEO & Co-founder
Alice Camera
Biography

Vishal is internationally recognised as a cultural data scientist with extensive experience managing data science, AI and 5G projects in the cultural and creative industries for several governments and international organisations. Building on his area of expertise, Vishal has gathered over 30,000 followers on social media as a content creator with his content reaching 1 million views.

Vishal previously was a researcher at The Bartlett at UCL and he studied at the London School of Economics and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and then worked at Sotheby’s as one of the company’s first-ever Data Scientists.

In 2020, Vishal co-Founded the Alice Camera as its CEO, a computational photography start-up building a novel AI camera for content creators, streamers and live events. The company is incubated at UCL and backed by Innovate UK and has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture capitalists since launching. The team has gone through accelerators run by the Digital Catapult, Nvidia and Entrepreneur First and have been nominated for an award by the Creative Industries Council.

Mina Fahmi

Product Manager, AI
Meta
Biography

Mina is a Product Manager at Meta working on deep learning-based neural interfaces for future computing platforms. His career has focused on technologies which feel like an extension of the self, including neurotechnology, augmented reality, and wearable robotics. He has explored novel AI interfaces through projects including an AI-powered journal, autonomous company concept, and multimodal wearable device. Prior to Meta, Mina worked at CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta in 2019) and studied engineering at MIT.

Davide Asnaghi

Founder & CEO
Diode Computers, Inc.
Biography

Sponsors

1/23/2025

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Rethinking Hardware in the AI Era

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The AI revolution isn't just a software story. Join us for a pivotal discussion as we dive into the emerging landscape of AI, where hardware is no longer just an afterthought.

Hardware serves as the crucial mediator between humans and AI systems. The convergence of AI software with purpose-built hardware will redefine how we interact with technology.

We'll explore embodied AI, the edge vs. cloud debate – revealing how both play crucial roles in AI's future, and human-computer interaction, UX and design decisions when thinking about AI and hardware.

The future belongs to those who master the powerful interplay between hardware, AI and software. Start 2025 with a fresh perspective and discover the opportunities presented by the AI hardware renaissance.

speakers

Vishal Kumar

CEO & Co-founder
Alice Camera
Biography

Vishal is internationally recognised as a cultural data scientist with extensive experience managing data science, AI and 5G projects in the cultural and creative industries for several governments and international organisations. Building on his area of expertise, Vishal has gathered over 30,000 followers on social media as a content creator with his content reaching 1 million views.

Vishal previously was a researcher at The Bartlett at UCL and he studied at the London School of Economics and Sotheby’s Institute of Art and then worked at Sotheby’s as one of the company’s first-ever Data Scientists.

In 2020, Vishal co-Founded the Alice Camera as its CEO, a computational photography start-up building a novel AI camera for content creators, streamers and live events. The company is incubated at UCL and backed by Innovate UK and has raised $1.5 million in funding from venture capitalists since launching. The team has gone through accelerators run by the Digital Catapult, Nvidia and Entrepreneur First and have been nominated for an award by the Creative Industries Council.

Mina Fahmi

Product Manager, AI
Meta
Biography

Mina is a Product Manager at Meta working on deep learning-based neural interfaces for future computing platforms. His career has focused on technologies which feel like an extension of the self, including neurotechnology, augmented reality, and wearable robotics. He has explored novel AI interfaces through projects including an AI-powered journal, autonomous company concept, and multimodal wearable device. Prior to Meta, Mina worked at CTRL-labs (acquired by Meta in 2019) and studied engineering at MIT.

Davide Asnaghi

Founder & CEO
Diode Computers, Inc.
Biography

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WHEN

Thursday, January 23, 2025
6:30 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

​​6:30-7:00 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments

​​7:00-8:00 - AI Hardware Panel with audience Q+A

​​8:00-8:30 - Community demos
Anyone will have the chance for a 30 second pitch to demo a prototype or talk about what they are working on.

​​8:30-10:00 - Mix + mingle

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

January 23, 2025
6:30 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

The AI revolution isn't just a software story. Join us for a pivotal discussion as we dive into the emerging landscape of AI, where hardware is no longer just an afterthought.

Hardware serves as the crucial mediator between humans and AI systems. The convergence of AI software with purpose-built hardware will redefine how we interact with technology.

We'll explore embodied AI, the edge vs. cloud debate – revealing how both play crucial roles in AI's future, and human-computer interaction, UX and design decisions when thinking about AI and hardware.

The future belongs to those who master the powerful interplay between hardware, AI and software. Start 2025 with a fresh perspective and discover the opportunities presented by the AI hardware renaissance.

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold

Vishal

Kumar

CEO & Co-founder
Alice Camera
vishalkumarldn

Mina

Fahmi

Product Manager, AI
Meta
@minafahmi_

Davide

Asnaghi

Founder & CEO
Diode Computers, Inc.
davide_asnaghi

Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app