Ground Truth by Sphere ft. a16z

Ground Truth by Sphere ft. a16zA half day conference for senior engineers building at the edge of AI and regulation.Two in-depth panels with engineering and technical leaders on building in industries where there is no room for error.Then a reception that runs late.1:00 – 2:00 PM · Doors open · Welcome2:00 – 3:45 PM · Panel 1 Where do reliability guarantees sit in compliance heavy industries, and where does automation stop and human review begin?3:45 – 4:15 PM · Subsurface session A 20-minute deep dive into a problem submitted with an application, tied to Panel 1.4:15 – 5:15 PM · Break Introductions matched across the room. Coffee, light bites.5:15 – 6:30 PM · Panel 2 Is deep domain depth genuine technical defensibility, or does it just delay the inevitable as models climb?6:30 – 7:00 PM · Subsurface session The second deep dive from the room.7:00 – 9:00 PM · Reception Heavy appetizers, open bar, and networking until late.ABOUT SPHERESWIFT for money. Stripe for payments. Compliance is one of the last and largest — and the hardest, because trade rules aren't data to be looked up. They're a complex adaptive system with 190+ sovereign jurisdictions, in different languages, changing constantly, reacting to each other.Sphere built the system that solves it. Our AI (TRAM) ingests global trade law, interprets it, resolves conflicts across jurisdictions, and produces compliance determinations more reliable than human experts. We handle the entire lifecycle — calculation, registration, filing, remittance — at millisecond latency with zero downtime.