Builders
Practitioners translating research into tools people can understand, question, and trust.
We stand by one conviction: the human side determines whether intelligence works.
Our work is moving quickly from contained experiments into everyday decisions. This gathering slows down the right questions: who is helped, what becomes clearer, and where careful design can prevent distance or harm.
Across three days, small rooms and open sessions turn big claims into practical principles for teams building now.
A shared point of view
Who the room is for.
Leaders
Decision-makers setting responsible incentives, standards, and measures of meaningful value.
Investors
Long-horizon partners backing durable, useful products instead of passing noise.
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A different pace
Meet beside the Pacific.
Morning conversations, afternoon workshops, and long dinners in a place where attention stretches farther than the calendar.
People bringing practice into the room.
Researchers, product builders, public-interest technologists, and cultural leaders chosen for the clarity of their work—not the size of their following.
Nadia Rios
Research director · Civic Pattern
Owen Mercer
Founder · Open Assembly
Priya Kale
Design lead · Kindred Systems
Martin Cho
Partner · Farline Ventures
Elena Voss
Author · The Careful Machine
Samir Bell
Engineer · Public Index
Jo Bishop
Creative director · Fieldwork
Lucas Renn
Policy fellow · Common Thread
Mina Laurent
CEO · Archive Health
Rafi Winters
Journalist · Signal Desk
Main day · May 15
A day for useful disagreement.
One shared track, generous breaks, and workshop tables that carry questions from the stage into smaller rooms.
Breakfast on the terrace
Coffee, context, and quiet introductions.
Currentform team
Opening: design after the demo
Moving from remarkable capability to durable usefulness.
Nadia Rios
Where judgment still matters
A candid conversation on autonomy, craft, and meaningful review.
Priya Kale
Courtyard break
Fruit, tea, and one prompt per table.
Open Assembly
Workshop: explaining intelligent systems
Clear interface patterns for confidence, uncertainty, and recourse.
Jo Bishop
Long-table lunch
Hosted conversations across disciplines.
Fieldwork
The economics of careful products
What patient capital measures when engagement is not the goal.
Martin Cho
Public systems, public accountability
Building visible routes for challenge and repair.
Lucas Renn
Roundtables: the questions teams avoid
Small-group sessions shaped by attendee submissions.
All speakers
Closing field notes
Principles worth carrying back into the work.
Elena Voss
Beyond the program
The summit continues between sessions: unhurried meals, movement, salt air, and a few deliberately offline hours.
- Meditation.
- Sound bath.
- Coastal yoga.
- Surfing.
- Night walk.
- Fireworks.
Leave with better questions—and people to call.
Apply for a seat in this year’s small cohort.
Currentform is intentionally limited to 186 participants. Tell us what you are building, studying, or trying to understand.
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