Surreal: Consumer Social

​Making the surreal, real.

​​​​​Join us on campus for a gathering of the Stanford community - Computer Science PhD Candidates, AI Researchers, engineers and more.

​​We'll discuss what the future of consumer social might look like and how cutting edge technology is unlocking new entertainment behaviors.

​​​​Speakers:

• ​Sunita Verma, CTO of Character.AI

• ​Rose Wang, COO of BlueSky

• ​Moderating: Regynald Augustin, Engineer at Twitter & Dispo

​CoHosts:

• ​Ahmed Ahmed, Stanford PhD CS

• ​Bryce Marion, Masters at Stanford

• ​Stanford Knight Hennessy program & Stanford Computer Science PhDs

​​Attendees hail from Stanford PhDs, Perplexity, TikTok, OpenAI, Meta, X.Ai, Eventbrite, Glean, Rippling, Vercel, Twitch, Typeface, Weights, Fizz, Apple, Google Gemini, Jane Street, Microsoft, Coactive, Nvidia, and more.

​​Agenda:

• ​​​5pm Doors Open + Mingle

• ​​​5:40pm Panel

• ​​​6:15pm Breakout into Tables + Light Dinner

• ​​​7:00pm Breakout Table ShareOut

• ​​​7:30pm Network + Mingle

​​Surreal

• ​​​​​Surreal products are created when a research breakthrough rapidly meets a consumer behavior shift.

• ​​​​​The speed of this latent unlock creates a reality distortion field, a narrative violation.

• ​​​​​It's not just improbable, it seems impossible.

• ​​​​​The premise is first questioned, then fought, and then shaken.

• ​​​​​But then a small group of people finds your work - and it's what they've been looking for their whole life.

• ​​​​​They fought and clawed for an answer despite the experts' heeding that it wasn't possible.

• ​​​​​And then they met you. Your research redefines what's possible.

• ​​​​​You make the surreal, real.

​​​​​“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke

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