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Kira Colburn
Kira Colburn
November 2, 2026

The SOSV Deep Tech Summit is just a few days away! Now is the time to explore the full agenda and click “Add to Calendar” to save the sessions you don’t want to miss.

đź”— Visit this link to join the Summit live, starting November 4th at 8:00AM PT: sosvdeeptech.com/main-stage

Here’s your day-by-day schedule at a glance (all times are Pacific Time):

🗓️ Day 1 – November 4

  • 8:10 am: Dr. Jennifer Doudna: From CRISPR to Scribe Therapeutics 
  • 8:40 am: The Progress & Perils Of AI Scientists
  • 9:20 am: Can an AI Run Your Company?
  • 10:00 am: How AI Forced Steve Blank to Revise His Lean Startup Playbook
  • 10:40 am: Reading the Brain to Right the Future of AI
  • 11:00 am: [Breakout!] How Plasma Is Powering the Next Wave of Deep Tech (Registration)
  • 11:20 am: Deep Tech OGs: DCVC Founders Zach Bogue & Matt Ocko
  • 12:00 pm: The Energy Crunch No One Saw Coming: What It Means for Renewables
  • 12:40 pm: Back to the Future? Climate Investing Returns to 2022 Levels, With a Twist
  • 1:20 pm: When Post IRA Pivots Work Out Fine

🗓️ Day 2 – November 5

  • 8:10 am: Sci-Fi Writer Neal Stephenson: What surprises him most 
  • 8:40 am: MIT’s Russ Tedrake: Teaching Machines to Learn from Humans
  • 9:10 am: Investing in Physical AI with Eclipse, Lux Capital & Playground Global
  • 9:50 am: Autonomy in Motion: Trucks, Drones & Ships
  • 10:30 am: At the Edge: Where Should AI Think?
  • 11:00 am: [Breakout!] ARPA-E: How We Fund Outlier Ideas & Move Innovations to Impact (Registration)
  • 11:10 am: Re-Booting Industrial Robotics: Agility Robotics, InBolt & Standard Bots
  • 11:50 am: How Do Corporate Investors & Specialist Funds Invest in AI for the Physical World?
  • 12:30 pm: Dr. Greg Verdine: Cracking the ‘Undruggable’ in Therapeutics
  • 1:00 pm: Busting the Therapeutics Bottlenecks: A Full-Stack Race to the Patient
  • 1:40 pm: Next Gen Vaccine Platforms: From Pathogen to People
  • 2:20 pm: Programming Biology: From Gene Circuits to AI-Designed Antibiotics

🗓️ Day 3 – November 6

  • 8:10 am: Dr. David Sinclair: Is Epigenetics & Information Theory The Path to Reversing Aging?
  • 8:40 am: Can America Make Its Own Medicines Again?
  • 9:20 am: The New Frontiers in Precision Women’s Health
  • 10:00 am: Everything in Our Bodies is Measurable. Now What?
  • 10:40 am: Devices that Disappear in Humans
  • 11:10 am: To Fix Climate, First Fix the Physical Infrastructure
  • 11:40 am: Welcome to the Next Wave of Solar Innovation
  • 12:20 pm: Nuclear Next Act: How X-energy & Kairos Power Will Change the Industry
  • 1:00 pm: Will Helion Deliver the First Fusion Energy to the Grid?

Did you know?

Avalo.ai: An Agricultural Revolution Through AI Plant Evolution

Picture this: Acres of cotton all around you. 150,000 plants. Now, harvest them all, collect the seeds — all 45 million of them — and start sequencing genomes.

How Ten63 turned an academic project into an AI platform for drugging “undruggable” cancers

Bruce Donald, Marcel Frenkel and Mark Hallen are analyzing over 19,290,123 compounds per second at quantum accuracies to develop drugs to previously incurable cancers.

unspun’s Weaving Machines Aim to Fix Apparel’s Waste and Carbon Problem

Funded with $57 million from DCVC, Lowercarbon Capital and SOSV, among others, unspun aims to eliminate 1% of global carbon emissions

NotCo’s plant-based foods are on store shelves, but its AI engine “Giuseppe” is the real business

While it might look like a plant-based food company, NotCo is in the data and AI business—and aims to disrupt R&D in many industries that use animal and plant ingredients.

Smartex is Creating the Textile Factory of the Future

Gilberto Loureiro grew up inspecting fabrics in a Portuguese textile factory. With Smartex, he and co-founders Antonio Rocha and Paulo Ribeiro are eliminating textile defects—and their enormous cost both to manufacturers and the environment.

Novoloop Is Upcycling Your Future

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao have an uncanny talent for finding value where others see waste. Their plastics upcycling company, Novoloop, just raised an $21m Series A to prove it.

Upside Foods Serves Up a Sustainable Future

To find the future of food, you may have to look no further than Emeryville, CA, a small city by the San Francisco Bay, where Upside Foods has built a 53,000-square-foot production facility for cultivated meat, the first of its kind.

Sleeping Beauty

In a timeless dilemma for new parents, Radhika and her husband Bharath discovered early that their baby daughter was a fussy sleeper. The situation left them tired and frustrated; being effective at work became a challenge.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Entrepreneur

In December 2021 Prellis raised a $14.5 million Series B and has signed partnerships with pharmaceutical behemoths including Bristol Myers Squibb and Sanofi.

Chiu Chau Reboots a Robot into a Billion Dollar Business

It was 2016, and Chiu Chau was on the ropes. He had pitched nearly 150 venture capital firms. No one would invest. Everyone doubted the startup with the open-source laboratory robot.

RxAll’s Life-Saving Deep Tech for African Pharmacies

Adebayo (“Ade”) Alonge and Amy Kao, co-founders of RxAll had nvented a handheld scanner for detecting counterfeit prescription drugs—an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry that kills an estimated 1 million people annually globally and 100,000 in Africa.