The theme of the Artificiality Summit 2026 is Unknowing. We start with five speakers—David Wolpert, Caleb Scharf, Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman, Gašper Beguš, and Nina Beguš—whose work converges on a single finding: the uncertainty surrounding AI is permanent, not a phase.
This week, we are highlighting two events that we hope you will join with us. One in Athens, Greece in May and one in Bend, Oregon in October.
Don't miss the Early Bird pricing for the Artificiality Summit which ends on March 31.
World Beautiful Business Forum
May 7-10, 2026
Athens, Greece
We’re proud to partner with the World Beautiful Business Forum in Athens this May. As many of you know, we have partnered with the House of Beautiful Business for several years—on public and private events—and the House serves as a key inspiration for our own Summit.
At this year's Forum, we are collaborating on the AI & Democracy Marathon and giving a talk, provocatively titled Human Democracy is Dead. We will be joined on stage by several members of our community: Arathi Sethumadhavan, Sir Geoff Mulgan, Julia Pahina, Larry Irving, Maggie Jackson, Sean White, and Tess Posner.
This year marks 10 years of the House of Beautiful Business—and the theme feels more urgent than ever:
The most human gathering for the more-than-human world.
For four days, 750+ leaders from business, art, philosophy, technology, policy, design, science, and activism converge in the heart of Athens—the cradle of democracy—to ask:
How do we build businesses that create beauty and positive impact in a fragmented world?
What makes this Forum different?
No name tags—removing hierarchy and transactional networking
Experiential, immersive, participative sessions
Playful formats that invite real exchange, not passive listening
Conversations that merge business, democracy, regeneration, belonging, and spirit
Fivemain stage acts inspired by Greek drama, more than 100 speakers, facilitators, and performers across more than 80 concurrent sessions organized into 10 immersive program tracks—and 1 powerful community.
It’s a living experiment in how business can be more life-centered.
Athens. May 7–10. Join us: http://worldbeautifulbusinessforum.com/
Artificiality Summit 2026
October 22-24, 2026
Bend, Oregon
The future belongs to those who can dwell in possibility.
AI is dissolving our inherited boundaries—between knowing and not-knowing, between thinking and acting, between who we have been and who we might still become.
The world is changing faster than our mental models can keep up.
Our instinct is to search for answers.
This year, we choose to embrace something else.
Unknowing.
Join us: October 22-24, 2026 in Bend, Oregon.
New Speakers! We're particularly happy to welcome two couples to the couch this year: Nina Beguš and Gašper Beguš from the University of California at Berkeley and Judith Fan and Robert Hawkins from Stanford University. It will be fantastic to welcome each of them individually—and extra fantastic to welcome them together!
Here is the full list of confirmed speakers (yes, a few more coming soon...):
Dave Edwards is a Co-Founder of Artificiality. He previously co-founded Intelligentsia.ai (acquired by Atlantic Media) and worked at Apple, CRV, Macromedia, Morgan Stanley, Quartz, and ThinkEquity.
