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Summit Series

Evolve

Sand’s summit series that convenes leaders, policymakers, technologists and creators for discovery and discussion on how AI can better solve real world problems.
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Inside Evolve 2026 | Building Intelligence for the Real World

EVENT RECAP · 04 minutes

The key moments, ideas and breakthroughs from Evolve 2026, where 300+ leaders explored what it takes to make AI work in the systems the world depends on.

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Inside Evolve 2025 | Redefining What Is Possible With AI

EVENT RECAP · 06 minutes

Highlights from Evolve 2025 in New York, where Sand Technologies celebrated its US launch with music industry icons, government leaders, and innovators exploring how AI can reshape industries and communities.

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Keynote Address: When Intelligence Becomes Physical

Fred Swaniker on why the real AI opportunity is not on the internet, and what changes when intelligence moves into the physical world.

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Governing Smarter: How AI is Advancing Modern Cities

City leaders from New York, Baltimore and Miami-Dade on the practical realities of making AI work inside local government.

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AI for Public Good

Leaders from Tuskegee, Detroit and Ethiopia on what dependable AI looks like when vulnerable communities are relying on it most.

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Education in the Age of AI

Education leaders on the widening global talent gap and the blueprint for a university built for the AI era.

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Embodied Intelligence at Work

Step into the field to see physical AI in action, from robots inspecting water pipes to autonomous airships and advanced bioacoustics.

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AI on the Tarmac

Operational leaders from the world’s busiest airports on what AI-powered logistics and operations look like at scale.

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Flowing Forward: AI and the Future of Water

Water utility leaders on the urgent shift from reactive to predictive management as they tackle aging infrastructure and scarce resources.

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Creativity & AI

Telisha Jones and Palash Ahmed on what a Billboard-charting AI artist means for creativity, ownership and the future of entertainment.

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Audience Reactions

The honest, unscripted reactions from practitioners, city officials, and innovators on what landed and what they are putting into practice.

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Behind The Scenes at Formula E

Fred Swaniker at the Miami ePrix on AI and what the Formula E experience reveals about data-driven performance.
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Gina Raimondo Fireside Chat

Former US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on America’s three-tier strategy to stay competitive in AI, and what workforce development has to do with it.

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Timbaland, Jidenna and Tommy Brown,
AI in Creativity

Three recording industry heavyweights join Fred Swaniker to debate what AI means for artists, why prompting is a skill worth mastering, and how creators can stay in control of their craft.

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Doing More with Less in the Public Sector

A governor, a mayor, and a senator on the pressure to deliver more with fewer resources, and where AI is actually helping them do it.

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Manasseh Gihana Wandera,
Society for Family Health

How Rwanda used AI to improve healthcare delivery nationwide, and what strategic deployment looks like when the goal is health equity at scale.

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Fred Swaniker Keynote,
Evolve 2025

Sand Technologies CEO Fred Swaniker on AI’s potential to address humanity’s greatest challenges, and what it takes to move from ambition to real-world impact.

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Neerav Kingsland,
Anthropic

Anthropic’s Neerav Kingsland on building AI that does what humans actually want, and how it can be directed toward improving communities around the world.

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Alice Powell,
Envision Racing

Envision Racing’s Alice Powell and Fred Swaniker on Formula E, and how AI and data are driving performance and sustainability in all-electric motorsport.

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