Personal AI Agents, Transformational Productivity (Part 2):
Newer, Deeper, and More Q&A
May 19, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Online
May 19, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Online
About the Session
The previous session on The Rise of Personalized AI Agents highlighted a pivotal shift from passive chat to autonomous action. We explored how open-source frameworks like OpenClaw, NVIDIA’s NemoClaw, and other tools have crossed the "action gap," allowing personal agents (or "claws") to manage local file systems, automate complex APIs, and run continuous workflows overnight without human supervision.
This session will explore new technologies and features that have emerged since Part 1, incuding at Google Cloud Next and by other companies and projects. Then, whurley will dig deeper into usage examples for scientific/technical computing. We will also have more Q&A with whurley, and conclude with comparative info on the landscape of tools and how to get started effectively and quickly with sevreal of them!
Part 1
Speaker
whurley
Founder and CEO, Strangeworks
whurley is founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup that makes the power of quantum computing easily accessible and available to all. He is an Eisenhower Fellow, Innovator in Residence for the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, A Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Chairman of the Quantum Computing Standards Workgroup at the IEEE, the first Ambassador to CERN and Society, a regular contributor to TechCrunch on the topic of Quantum Computing, and the co-author of "Quantum Computing For Babies”. Prior to starting Strangeworks he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS]. He came to Goldman Sachs via the acquisition of his second startup, Honest Dollar. Prior to Honest Dollar whurley founded Chaotic Moon Studios which was acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN].