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11 November 2024; A general view of Centre Stage during the opening night of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal.

AI will transform every industry, but none more than AI research itself. Join Recursive & You.com co-founder & CEO Richard Socher, as he breaks down how self-improving systems are accelerating their own development and laying the foundation for superintelligence.

When AI builds itself

AI agents are changing how people discover information, shop, and transact online. As more activity happens without a human click, the web is facing new questions about control, attribution, and value. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince explains why the internet is at a turning point - what this shift means for companies of every size and what it will take to keep the web open in the agentic era.

The agentic internet: Who controls the web?

Intelligence is getting cheap. Useful intelligence isn't. A frontier model without your context is just an expensive trivia machine. Join Replit President Michele Catasta to learn what really matters when building agents for everyone, and why outcome-maxxing is the only remedy to token-maxxing.

Making useful intelligence accessible to everyone

Today, reporting needs to keep pace with the movement of misinformation and falsehoods on social media. How do mainstream media outlets balance the demand for instant news without jeopardising editorial integrity? Join this panel of editorial leaders as they pull back the curtain on the high-stakes balancing act of maintaining absolute accuracy under absolute pressure.

Reporting at the speed of news

With record public and private debt, geopolitical fragmentation and AI-driven market shifts, are the conditions for another financial crisis already in place? This talk examines the biggest risks facing the global financial system, from sovereign debt and central bank policy to asset bubbles, private credit, and geopolitical shocks. Our panel will debate whether today's economy is fundamentally more resilient than in 2008, or whether we're simply waiting for the next trigger.

The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's coming?

As AI and algorithms increasingly shape how people navigate the world, genuine human connection has never been more sought after or more valuable. Reddit COO Jen Wong explores why the next era of the internet will depend not on more information, but on trusted context, personal opinion and firsthand experience, considering how authentic human dialogue can strengthen AI, search & discovery while keeping people at the centre of an increasingly automated internet.

Our first 20 talks are live!

When AI builds itself

The agentic internet: Who controls the web?

Making useful intelligence accessible to everyone

Reporting at the speed of news

The next financial crisis: Are we ready for what's c...

Maintaining the human in an AI world

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