Proof of Human: Meet the Voices Joining Us at SF Tech Week
AI can write the campaign, compose the soundtrack, design the product and predict the audience. It can create more content, in more formats, at greater speed than ever before.
But generation alone doesn’t create meaning. It doesn’t guarantee quality, earn trust or give people a reason to care.
That tension sits at the heart of Proof of Human, our SF Tech Week event exploring the essential role people continue to play in an age of infinite creation.
On Tuesday, October 6, we’ll bring together six distinctive voices from technology, culture, creativity and business aboard the historic Klamath in San Francisco. Each speaker will deliver a tightly directed, 10-minute provocation examining one of the human qualities that turns artificial possibility into meaningful impact.
No panels. No product pitches. No definitive answers.
Just unexpected perspectives and one essential question:
If AI can generate almost anything, what turns it into something people believe?
Proof of Human
Tuesday, October 6
12:00–1:30 p.m. PT
The Klamath, San Francisco
Reserve your place at Proof of Human
Spaces are limited.
Meet some of our confirmed speakers
Buffy Gorilla
Podcast Producer and Journalist
Buffy understands what makes a story worth listening to, and what makes an audience trust the person telling it. Drawing on her experience in journalism and audio production, she will bring a storyteller’s perspective to the relationship between technology, credibility and human connection.
Den Jones
Founder & CEO, 909Cyber
As the founder and CEO of 909Cyber, Den works at the intersection of technology, security and leadership. His perspective will explore what trust and accountability look like as increasingly capable systems begin influencing how businesses operate, communicate and make decisions.
Ennis Olson
Founder, Neuroconvergent Leadership
Ennis brings a perspective grounded in the complexity of how people think, lead and contribute. His work challenges conventional ideas about leadership and invites us to consider why distinctly human differences become even more valuable as technology moves toward uniformity and scale.
They’ll be joined by additional voices from beyond the usual technology circuit, each offering a different response to the question at the center of the event.
A different kind of Tech Week conversation
Proof of Human isn’t another conversation about what AI might do next.
Instead, we’re asking what people must continue to bring: taste, judgment, imagination, imperfection, identity and accountability.
Because the more machines can generate, the more important it becomes to understand what makes something resonate—and who remains responsible for the result.
Join us for a series of provocations, lunch and a fast-moving conversation designed to challenge the usual Tech Week narrative.