The Artificiality Summit
Artificiality Summit 2026 Contributors

Cameron Allen
Research Scientist
UC Berkeley CHAI

Greg Amanti
Artist, Sulptor

Gašper Beguš
Associate Professor of Linguistics
UC Berkeley

Nina Beguš
Researcher
UC Berkeley

Taylor Black
Director of AI & Venture Ecosystems
Microsoft

Ricky Bloomfield
Chief Medical Officer
ŌURA

Moe Carrick
Founder
Moementum

Danielle Caruso
Producer

Heather Crank
Artist and Motion Designer
Crahmanti

Dave Edwards
Co-Founder
Artificiality Institute

Helen Edwards
Co-Founder
Artificiality Institute

Judith Fan
Professor; Cognitive Tools Lab
Stanford University

Jenna Fizel
Global Head of Emerging Technology
IDEO

Robert Hawkins
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Stanford University

Jess Holbrook
Head of UX Research
Microsoft

Jamer Hunt
Professor
Parsons School of Design

Maggie Jackson
Author

Kate Joyce
Photographer; Santa Fe Institute Resident Artist

Savannah Kunovsky
Managing Director, Emerging Technology Lab
IDEO

Josh Lovejoy
Designer
Autodesk

Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman
Head of African AI at Inclusive AI Lab
Utrecht University

Adam Mastroianni
Experimental Psychologist and Writer
Experimental History

Chris Messina
Product Leader
Ride Home Fund

Stephanie Player
Graphic Designer & Creative Technologist

Caleb Scharf
Astrobiologist and Author

David Wolpert
Professor
Santa Fe Institute

Julian Yocum
AI PhD
UC Berkeley CHAI