November 3
Pier 27, San Francisco
One day dedicated to
building your own frontier
An event by Fireworks
Forge brings together the individuals, teams, and companies building their own frontier on open models: intelligence shaped by their data, specialized for their domain, and sharpened through real-world use
Additional speakers to be announced.

Lin Qiao
CEO & Co-founder

Jensen Huang
President & CEO

Jay Parikh
Executive Vice President

Gavin Baker
Managing Partner & CIO

David Sacks
Co-Chair

Misha Laskin
CEO

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
Creator

Noah Shinn
Founder

Junbiao Tang
Senior Director of Engineering, GenAI Monetization

Michele Catasta
President & Head of AI

Josh Weisberg
Senior Vice President of AI

Eno Reyes
Co-founder & CTO

Dima Dzhulgakov
CTO & Co-founder

Sarah Sachs
Head of AI

Oscar Mullin
Technology Sr Vice President

Kay Zhu
CTO & Co-founder

George Hu
President

Silas Alberti
SVP, Research & Founding Team

Benny Chen
Co-founder

Steph Nevins
Chief Operating Officer

Jeff Tangney
CEO & Co-founder

Eléonore Crespo
Co-CEO & Co-founder

Nathan Lambert
Co-founder & Executive Director

Pawel Garbacki
Co-founder

Brendan Foody
CEO & Co-founder

Dwarak Rajagopal
SVP, Engineering

Ari Lehavi
General Manager - Head of Applied AI

Jessy Lin
Co-founder & CPO

Chris Harris
VP, Product Engineering

Dylan Patel
Founder & CEO

Taqi Jaffri
VP of Product

Vivek Chauhan
Principal Product Manager

Sherif Cherfa
Applied Research

Shawn Wang (swyx)
Curator

Kevin Koehncke
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Sebastian Pilarski
Head of AI

Yonatan Oren
Founding Researcher

Srinivasan Manoharan
Director, AI Platform

A curated gathering of builders, researchers, and technical leaders pushing specialized intelligence forward. Apply to attend.