Silas Alberti

Founding Team, Cognition

Silas Alberti is a Stanford-trained AI researcher and founding team member at Cognition, where he leads research on the company’s AI coding products. Before joining Cognition, he worked at Google DeepMind, Jane Street, and on his own startups.

Silas Alberti

Sessions / 2026 / 1 talk

  • The playbook for building a startup hasn't changed much in 20 years - until now. Fewer people, different skills, and a completely different sense of what's possible. A new generation of founders is shipping products with smaller teams, moving faster, and using AI across every function. Join a group of AI-native founders for a candid look at how they're actually using AI inside their own companies - in their workflows, their code, their ops - and what the shape of their teams looks like as a result.

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