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OpenAI
David Duxin (Business Operations & Content Partnerships), Christina Lim (Partner Manager, Media Partnerships), Varun Shetty (Head of Media Partnerships).
Open AI’s latest tool aims to change the search landscape. How does news fit in this landscape? How are publishers building new experiences using AI like the OpenAI API?
Perplexity
Jessica Chan, Head of Partnerships.
How can Perplexity help media and publishers? One of the fastest-growing AI apps, Perplexity is redefining how users interact with search.
ScalePost
Zach Liberman and Ahmed Malik, co-founders.
ScalePost.ai is building a next-generation platform to connect LLMs and AI Agents directly with content owners to use their content or data. It facilitates partnerships between content owners and GenAI companies, transforming how content is licensed, monetized, and deployed. We work with over 100 leading publishers including Time, Entrepreneur, Texas Tribune and others. ScalePost works with Fortune 10 AI companies, as well as AI agents (including our exclusive partnership with Perplexity.ai) to help them seamlessly access content. Top-tier investors and advisors from E14 Fund, Quiet Capital, Tenacity Ventures, the Ex-CEO of Fast Company & Inc. Magazine, ex back the company. Chief Data Officer of Hulu and co-founders of transformative AI technologies like Siri.
Stanford University
Cheryl Philipps and Djordje Padeski.
How is AI impacting publishers and journalism? Cheryl Philipps, visiting professor of professional journalism, and Djordje Padejski, associate director of post-fellowship programs, will host us for a conversation with the Knight fellows and a presentation of one of the most recent journalism projects using AI.
Miso Technologies
Lucky Gunasekara, co-founder and CEO.
AI and user experience: How can AI assist publishers in accessing new audiences and opening new revenue streams?
ProRata.ai
Annelies Jansen, Chief Strategy Officer.
ProRata.ai has developed technology that will enable generative AI platforms to accurately attribute and share revenues on a per-user basis with content owners. In August, ProRata raised $25 million in a Series A round for its tech, for which it has several pending patents. The company’s early investors include Revolution Ventures, Prime Movers Lab, Mayfield, and Technology incubator Idealab Studio.
Hearst & The San Francisco Chronicle
Tim O’Rourke, VP of Content Strategy, Hearst, and Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Editor-in-chief.
How AI can augment journalism in local newsrooms and produce user-centric personalized experience. Hear from The San Francisco Chronicle’s innovation, and the DevHub – the team that drives editorial innovation in Hearst’s local newsrooms. Their most recent experiments with AI include Chowbot (An AI restaurant guide) ; the Kamala Harris news assistant.
Verso
Patrick Swanson and Kaveh Waddell, co-founders.
Verso is a new AI consulting lab based in San Francisco. It helps newsrooms, non-profits, and business leaders enter the AI age, drawing on our journalistic and technical experience. Verso is co-funded by Patrick Swanson and Kaveh Waddell, two ex-Stanford Knight fellows. They will share a masterclass on AI design thinking for leaders.
The San Francisco Standard
Griffin Gaffney, CEO.
Innovation and journalism. Launched in 2021 with the backing of venture capitalist Michael Moritz, the San Francisco Standard is San Francisco newest digital only media and fastest growing newsroom in the US. In the last year, the Standard added new verticals to its offer (opinion and sports, most notably, but also tech and wealth).
Kapwing
Julia Enthoven, CEO and founder.
Leveraging AI to innovate with videos. Kapwing helps many newsrooms transform their formats and expand their reach on social with videos.
Protege Media
Dave Davis, Managing Director.
Protege Media is a new venture that connects media companies with the growing world of artificial intelligence. It helps AI developers access high-quality media content—like TV shows, films, news clips, and sports broadcasts—to train AI systems responsibly and effectively. This new arm of Protege, a platform known for managing and licensing data for AI, was created after acquiring Calliope Networks, a company with deep experience in media content licensing. Protege Media now offers a treasure trove of global, premium content, including rare formats like 4K and 3D. Dave Davis will tell us how media companies can safely and and profitably license their content for AI projects.
Particle
Sara Beykpour, co-founder and CEO.
Particle is an easier way to keep up with the news. It’s designed to give users a streamlined, personalized, and multi-perspective view of the news they care about the most. Traffic is down, newsrooms are undergoing lay-offs, and publishers fear AI technologies will only worsen matters. Entering the fray, news-reader startup Particle is teaming up with publishers to seek a new business model for the AI era, where AI news summaries don’t have to mean lost revenues. The startup, built by former Twitter engineers, offers a news-reading app that helps readers understand all angles of the story by leveraging AI to summarize news from across a range of publishers.
You.com
Richard Socher, Research scientist, CEO and Founder of You.com.
You.com is an AI-powered productivity engine and search platform founded by AI research scientists Richard Socher and Bryan McCann in 2020. The platform aims to help users with research, analysis, complex problem-solving, and content creation. You.com aims to differentiate itself from competitors like Google and OpenAI by focusing on complex queries and enterprise use cases, positioning itself as a productivity tool for knowledge workers who need accurate and sophisticated answers.
The Information
Laura Mandaro, Managing Editor.
AI isn’t just a technology : it’s an industry itself, fueled by billions of dollars and plenty of drama. The Information, a leading tech business publication in the US, has been at the forefront of breaking stories about AI’s biggest players and controversies. Join us for a conversation with Managing Editor Laura Mandaro and (to be confirmed) AI beat reporters Jon Victor and Stephanie Palozzolo to explore how they tackle this high-stakes beat.
Bloomberg Beta
James Cham, venture capital investor.
Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P, is recognized as a leading investor in artificial intelligence, focusing on startups that leverage machine learning and AI technologies to improve business processes and the future of work. Bloomberg Beta aims to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in innovative startups while maintaining an independent and transparent approach to venture capital.
AGI House
Rocky Yu, founder and CEO.
AGI House is a community dedicated to advancing AI. It is also a 68 million $ mansion in one of Silicon Valley’s most coveted cities, Hillsborough. AGI House organizes Hackathons and many events and has full-time tenants.
TollBit
Josh Stone, Head of Partnerships.
TollBit is creating a revolutionary marketplace that connects publishers with AI companies, enabling a mutually beneficial system for content licensing and monetization, ensuring publishers are fairly compensated for their work. Over 200 publisher sites have been onboarded to the platform. High-profile publishing partners include Penske Media Corporation, TIME, Mumsnet, Trusted Media Brands, CANDR Media Group, and ADWEEK.
Mayfield Fund
Shelby Golan, Director of Business Development.
Mayfield is one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most influential venture capital funds. The company has a legacy of backing transformative companies like Poshmark, Marketo, and Lyft. More recently, it has invested in ProRata.ai and Scrunch AI, a start-up helping large companies adapt to the era of AI-driven search. In this conversation with Shelby Golan, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping and will continue to disrupt the media industry.
