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The human algorithm

Design systems

June 26, 2024
10:30 - 11:15A PST

Open seats

The human algorithm

10:35 - 10:55A

Perplexity.ai

10:55 - 11:15A

The Future of Software is Couture

10:35 - 10:55A

Perplexity.ai

Aravind Srinivas

he/him

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at perplexity.ai

Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, the conversational "answer engine" that provides precise, user-focused answers to queries — with in-line citations. Aravind co-founded the company in 2022 after working as a research scientist at OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind. To date, Perplexity has raised over $100 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, and Susan Wojciki. He has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineerin

10:55 - 11:15A

The Future of Software is Couture

What is couture software? Sam & Jason will present their vision of the future - computers that intelligently learn your preferences and change their behavior & form to meet them. Subtopics will include: how can you build a design system that will support this, while maintaining a creative vision & taste? How can you balance agency & control for the user and magic within the system?

Sam Whitmore

Co-founder & CEO at New Computer

Sam is co-founder & CEO of New Computer, a startup reimagining personalized computing for consumers in the age of AI. Formerly, she was Head of Engineering at Kensho, a company which used early NLP techniques to organize information for financial clients, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and JP Morgan Chase. Kensho was acquired in 2018 by S&P Global for $550mm, at the time the largest Al acquisition in history.

Jason Yuan

he/him

Chief Design Officer at New Computer

Co-founder and Chief Design Officer of New Computer. Former member of Apple Design Team where he worked on the future of intelligent, expressive computing. Founder and co-inventor of MakeSpace (now known as Sprout), a multi-player-first telepresence platform. Creator of mercuryos.com and helped pioneer ideas in generative UI. As a designer, worked with clients like Klim Type Foundry, Blackpink, Chanel, Vogue, Jackson Wang, The MET Gala, Nike, Christina Aguilera, FKA Twigs and The Weeknd.