Summer 2026: Palm Springs
A month in the Palm Springs area: participant-led sessions, research keynotes, shared inquiry, and the first collective statement from Uncharted Frontier.
Explore the Palm Springs chapter
The series · Uncharted Frontier
A gathering with a moving center.
Uncharted Frontier is a traveling, twice-yearly residential gathering for people already close to consequential questions in AI. We convene thirty-two people in one place long enough for the conversation to change shape.
Why a series
The place changes. The ambition stays.
Each chapter is shaped by a distinct location, season, and group of contributors. The series gives ideas time to travel: insights from one gathering become questions for the next, and a network grows by returning to the conversation from new terrain.
We are building an ongoing institution rather than a single, self-contained event—one that can hold changing technical realities, real disagreement, and many ways of knowing what AI is becoming.
The chapters
The first frontier is only the beginning.
Boulder, Colorado
The next Uncharted Frontier gathering is taking shape in Boulder. Palm Springs submissions are closed; the waitlist is now open for the first invitation to apply.
Join the waitlistNew places, continuing inquiry.
A new chapter will arrive twice each year. Locations and themes will be announced as the series finds its next necessary setting.
The room
Four vantage points. One shared inquiry.
Each chapter brings together thirty-two residents: eight from each of four home cohorts. The cohorts offer a durable point of reference, while meals, workshops, housing, and editorial work intentionally cross those boundaries.
Engineering leaders
People building the systems, infrastructure, and deployment practices on which AI depends.
Product leaders
People deciding how AI enters products, organizations, institutions, and everyday life.
Researchers
People advancing the science of intelligence, capability, evaluation, safety, and understanding.
Artists
People testing how AI changes creative practice, authorship, culture, and the stories we tell.
Admission
Selected for what they bring to the room.
Admission is intentionally selective. Residents join through a rigorous application or, in a small number of cases, special invitation. Neither route changes the expectation to participate deeply and make the gathering more useful for everyone else.
A consequential perspective
Residents are selected for the specificity of their work, their point of view, and the questions they can make a room see differently.
A willingness to contribute
Every applicant arrives prepared to teach, listen closely, and help shape the collective work—not simply consume a program.
A balanced room
The final cohort is composed deliberately across disciplines, lived experience, institutional vantage points, and relationships to AI.
A resident-led institution
Each applicant proposes six sessions they could lead. Two are selected for every admitted resident, so the program is made with the people in the room—not simply delivered to them.
Join the Boulder waitlistNext up
Boulder is the next place the conversation lands.
Summer 2026: Palm Springs is full. Join the waitlist for first notice when Winter 2026: Boulder opens its application.
Join the Boulder waitlist