ANZ in AI Forum 2026

​​Stanford Australia and New Zealand Club hosted the inaugural ANZ in AI Forum on Saturday March 7, with panels and short talks featuring prominent Australians and New Zealanders in AI research, frontier labs, startups, and VC.

Casey Flint
Reflection AI

Charlie O'Neill
Parsed, Baseten

Chris Manning
Stanford, AIX Ventures

Clare Birch
Thinking Machines

Daniel Han
Unsloth

David Booth
a16z

James Alcorn
Lightspeed

Kathryn Zealand
Skip

Lachy Groom
Physical Intelligence

Maxine Minter
Co Ventures

Mudith Jayasekara
Parsed, Baseten

Saron Berhane
Blackbird

Sholto Douglas
Anthropic

Tobin South
Anthropic, Stanford

Tristan Heywood
OpenAI

For more details, see the Luma!