Opening Keynote | How AI Is Transforming the Physical World: The Next Decade Will Bring Autonomous Intelligence to Our Factories, Our Infrastructure and Our Bodies

9.15am – 9.45am AEST, 15 May 2026 ‐ 30 mins

Session

A global deeptech investor with unmatched pattern recognition on where the next decade is heading.

Purpose: This session opens Day 2 with a global view from one of the world's most active deeptech investors — and connects that thesis explicitly to global capital allocation and capability conversations.

Discussion: Sean will share what SOSV is seeing at the deeptech and quantum frontier, where the genuinely interesting work is concentrating, and what families with capital to deploy should be paying attention to that they currently aren't.

Speakers

Sean O'Sullivan

PWN Member, Founder & Managing General Partner, SOSV (United States)

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Sean O'Sullivan

PWN Member, Founder & Managing General Partner, SOSV (United States)

Sean O’Sullivan is Managing General Partner of SOSV, a venture capital firm with over $1.6 Billion in AUM. Sean began his career as an entrepreneur, his first startup, MapInfo, grew toa $200 million revenue public company, popularising street mapping on computers. At NetCentric, he was credited as the co-creator of the term “cloud computing”. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from RPI and an MFA in Film Production from USC. Sean is on the board of Khan Academy, the Tyndall Institute, the Autism Impact Alliance, Brain Foundation, and a number of private companies.