September 4 - 5, 2024
Fort Mason, San Francisco
37.80778°N 122.42972°W
In the year 1500, after the printing press was invented, you did not have old Europe plus the printing press. You had a different Europe.
— Neil Postman
The New Reality is here. It's just not evenly distributed. You can see it everywhere. Across media, politics, education, and global affairs, new technologies and players are laying waste to incumbents and making possible new enterprises and ways of building. Political pressure and popular opinion are moving from stagnation to revolution, from doom loop to boom loop.
This isn’t incremental improvement. It's reality transformation.
But the Old Reality won't go without a fight. Legacy organizations and personalities will try to write their privileges and cash flows into law faster than New Reality technologies and founders can overtake them. It's a classic strategy, employed by every guild and elite. It will work, until it doesn't.
Tech will be at the center of the fight. The printing press didn't have a politics, but printers, readers, and thinkers did. And today, after decades of pretending that Washington didn't exist, Silicon Valley has woken up to politics, recognizes the stakes, and is playing to win.
How will new media enterprises reshape political coalitions? Will defense startups unseat bloated legacy contractors? Can we bulldoze the obstacles to a brighter future? To achieve that future, America will need Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley will need its window into Washington.
The New Reality is dawning.
gala speaker
Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Alex founded Scale as a student at MIT at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Under Alex's leadership, Scale has grown to a $14 billion valuation serving hundreds of customers across industries from finance to model builders to U.S. government agencies.
reboot speaker
Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator and a group partner. He was a partner at Y Combinator from 2011 to 2015, where he built key parts of the YC experience for founders including Bookface and the Demo Day website. Garry is the co-founder of Initialized Capital and Posterous, a blog platform acquired by X, and was previously an early designer and engineering manager at Palantir.
gala speaker
Brendan Carr is the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, having served previously as the FCC’s General Counsel. Nominated by both President Trump and President Biden, Carr has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times. Described by Axios as “the FCC’s 5G crusader,” Carr has led the FCC’s work to modernize its infrastructure rules and accelerate the buildout of high-speed networks. His reforms cut billions of dollars in red tape, enabled the private sector to construct high-speed networks in communities across the country, and extended America’s global leadership in 5G.
SPEAKERS
AGENDA
Wednesday, September 4 | GALA DINNER
Pre-Gala VIP Event | 2:45 pm
Gala Registration | 5:00 pm
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Gallery 308. Attire: Cocktail.
Cocktail Reception
Seated Dinner
Gala Fireside I — Brendan Carr, FCC; and Mike Solana, Pirate Wires.
Gala Fireside II — Alexandr Wang, Scale AI; and John Coogan, Founders Fund/Lucy.
Dessert Reception
thursday, September 5 | conference
Breakfast and Registration | 8:00 am
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Cowell Theater. Attire: Casual.
Welcoming Remarks | 8:45 am
Featuring: Zach Graves, Executive Director, Foundation for American Innovation; and Garrett Johnson, Co-Founder & Chairman, Foundation for American Innovation.
Session I: The New Politics of Crypto
Featuring: Justin Slaughter, Paradigm; Kyle Bligen; Chamber of Progress; Jessica Anderson, Sentinel Action Fund; Katie Biber, Paradigm.
Session II: The Fracturing of Shared Reality
Featuring: Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University; Reihan Salam, Manhattan Institute; Renée DiResta, Stanford University; Jon Askonas, Foundation for American Innovation.
Session III: Silicon Valley's Political Débutantes
Featuring: Teddy Schleifer, New York Times; Samo Burja, Palladium Magazine/Bismarck Analysis; Simone Syed, Hyperstition; Marshall Kosloff, Foundation for American Innovation.
Session IV: Pirate Wires Keynote with Garry Tan
Featuring: Garry Tan, Y Combinator; and Mike Solana, Pirate Wires.
Lunch Break
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Gallery 308.
Session V: Artificial Intelligence and Leviathan
Featuring: Jack Clark, Anthropic; Samuel Hammond, Foundation for American Innovation.
Session VI: From Sand Hill Road to Pennsylvania Avenue
Featuring: Chris Koopman, Abundance Institute; Kara Frederick, Heritage Foundation; Adam Kovacevich, Chamber of Progress; Derek Robertson, POLITICO.
Session VII: Tech and the American Republic
Featuring: Dwarkesh Patel and a special guest.
Session VIII: Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy
Featuring: Trae Stephens, Anduril/Founders Fund; Michael Kratsios, Scale AI/Fmr. US CTO; Santi Ruiz, Statecraft.
Session IX: Population Implosion
Featuring: Lyman Stone, Institute for Family Studies; Derek Kaufman, Inclusive Abundance Initiative; Samuel Hammond, Foundation for American Innovation; Tamara Winter, Stripe Press.
Session X: Preparing for Multipolarity
Featuring: Josh Steinman, Galvanick/fmr. National Security Council; Jen Harris, Hewlett Foundation/fmr. National Security Council; Jamil Jaffer, National Security Institute/Paladin Capital; Marshall Kosloff, Foundation for American Innovation.
Networking Reception | 5:30 pm
Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, Gallery 308.
SPONSORS
FOUNDERS
Anonymous
BUILDERS
Anonymous
Anonymous
Heritage Foundation
Inclusive Abundance Initiative
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Fixed Gear Strategies
Lucy
Manhattan Institute
Palladium Magazine
Pirate Wires
PARTNERS
Abundance Institute
Anonymous
Boyden Gray
Institute for Family Studies
Manidis Foundation
Sovereign House
Proteus Strategies
The Bridge
Uber
Yelp
Young Voices
FriendS
August Strategy Group
Consumer Choice Center
DonorsTrust
Economic Innovation Group
Federation of American Scientists