SRI CEO David Parekh and insitro CEO and co-founder Daphne Koller sat down with Stephan Mergenthaler, CTO of the World Economic Forum, to talk about a shift already underway: AI as an accelerator for scientific discovery.

The conversation moved from the present to what’s next. Parekh and Koller shared where AI is already making a measurable difference, from drug discovery and modeling to faster iteration and scientific review, and how those gains add up to one of the biggest prizes in science: getting breakthroughs to market sooner.

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Space and cybersecurity experts point out that old security assumptions no longer hold as satellite networks grow in quantity and complexity.

This PARC Forum was moderated by Ulf Lindqvist, Sr. Technical Director in SRI’s Computer Science Lab, and featured a panel of experts: Greg Falco (Cornell University, Aerospace Security & Autonomy Asst. Professor), James Curbo (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Group Chief Scientist, Constrained Cyber Solutions Group), and Dan Trujillo (Air Force Research Lab, Space Warfare, Space Cyber Technical Leader).

Panelists noted that space cybersecurity can’t just borrow from today’s IT security. Physics, legacy hardware, and the fact that you can’t just reboot a satellite present a much different problem. AI complicates the picture: it’s accelerating vulnerability discovery for attackers and defenders alike, which makes “assume breach” resilience more urgent than trying to prevent every intrusion.

The event took place on Sept 9, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

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John M. Martinis, 2025 Nobel laureate for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit, joined Celia Merzbarcher, executive director for the SRI-managed Quantum Economic Development Consortium, in this exciting PARC Forum to talk about today’s quantum ecosystem, emerging real-world applications, and more.

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Recorded June 3, 2026

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