The Human vs. AI Film Premiere is a one-day celebration of short film cinema featuring nominated films and notable works of the 2026 Human vs. AI Film Festival. Across 4 screening sessions built around contrasting emotions, audiences will experience how human filmmakers and generative AI shape stories, express feeling, and make creative choices, revealing both their differences and their evolving possibilities for the future of film. Get your movie tickets today!
Date: September 26, 2026
Time: 11 AM, 1PM, 3PM, 5PM
Location:
Delancey Street Screening Room
In this episode of Silicon Valley Unplugged, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen explores Taiwan’s startup potential, highlight its top-tier engineering talent and vital bridge to Silicon Valley. Having returned to Taiwan after twenty years in Silicon Valley, Chen highlights its hardware and AI strengths alongside key obstacles: limited early-stage capital, restrictive banking, and relocation hurdles. He calls for a long-term strategy to build globally competitive startups, urging Taiwanese founders to immerse themselves in Silicon Valley via landing programs like Berkeley SkyDeck to ultimately reinvest experience back home. Could combining Silicon Valley ambition with Taiwan’s manufacturing prowess produce the next YouTube? Watch the full conversation.
Silicon Valley Unplugged
What if the next great Silicon Valley moonshot is not software, chips, or AI — but human longevity? In this episode of Silicon Valley Unplugged, we sit down with Sergey Jakimov, Managing Partner of LongeVC, a venture capital fund backing early stage biotech and longevity focused founders working to change the future of human health.
Silicon Valley Unplugged
By Sparknify
Recorded on May 4, 2026 at Stanford, California
The Sparknify Podcast explores how we navigate life in an age of rapidly emerging technologies—from artificial intelligence to breakthrough innovations — examining where they empower us, where they disrupt our world, and where the human spirit must lead.
The Sharks Garage
Youth Accelerator
This hands-on startup incubator invites young curious minds to explore entrepreneurship with Silicon Valley mentors, build real ideas, and pitch with confidence to actual venture capitals in a fun and supportive environment. Spots are limited. Join the next generation of innovators today.
The 2026 Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Festival is now open for submissions. Filmmakers and creators worldwide are invited to submit works that explore, challenge, and expand the language of cinema, whether realized through traditional filmmaking or generated with AI. At its core, the festival confronts a defining question for the future of storytelling: can machines truly shape human emotion, or do human directors still reach the heart in ways no algorithm can?
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In this episode of Silicon Valley Spotlight, composer-improviser David Leikam performs on the NS Design CR 6-string fretless electric cello, a uniquely engineered instrument paired with high-fidelity sound technology. Born with cerebral palsy, David experiences the world in a way that has deeply shaped his artistic voice, using music as a powerful language of expression. Through completely improvised performance, he composes in real time, drawing on contemporary composition techniques and experimental sound design to create evolving textures and immersive sonic landscapes. The result is a living audio environment where technology, creativity, and human expression come together in a truly unique performance.