The Consortium group within the Trajectory Forum decides on event dates and locations globally.
Our Private Symposiums take place in major cities like New York, San Francisco, Austin, London, and more. Most events are 80-100 people, and are by invitation only. Keynote presentations, panels, and 2+ hours of in-person networking with policy and technical experts who all share an interest in the future trajectory of intelligence. Previous attendees include:
AGI lab employees (policy, research, alignment) from all major western AGI labs
AGI policy thinkers from RAND, OECD, the UN, the UK AISI and myriad other
The founders of many AGI safety orgs, of unicorn AI startups, and of bio / neurotech firms
Leading academic researchers in neruo, AI, and bio from Stanford, Cambridge, CMU, Oxford, Cornell, and more
These private symbosiums operate under Chatham House rule, and we do not release the names of attendees (or even of speakers, unless they explicitly permit it). Photos and videos aren’t allowed within most of the events venues (except of speakers and only with explicit permission, or for rare “open” events like our symposium in Austin in 2025).
I’ll aim to update this page with future event highlights.
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Sep 2026 – NYC
1/7
Worthy Successor NYC is a wrap, ~60 people at the New York Academy of Sciences
Event theme:
"If AGI / human-machine symbiosis is happening faster than anticipated, how do we ensure that these technologies expand (not crush) the living process?"
1/6 ~100 people jammed into a sea cliff SF mansion discussing posthuman AGI. guest list isn't public (unicorn founders, agi twitter anons, agi lab folks, agi gov leaders), but the speakers are public 🙂
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