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Open Atlas Summit 2026

Sat, Aug 22 · 8:00 AM PDT

India Community Center, 525 Los Coches Street, Milpitas, CA, US

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Open Atlas Summit 2026: The #1 Conference for High-Skilled Immigrants (Presented By Manifest) · Luma

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## Open Atlas Summit 2026

​🎤 Speakers (so far) include:
​• Deedy Das, Partner at Menlo Ventures
• Mani Krishnan, Founder & CEO of Shastha Foods
• Finn Reynolds, Head of Insights at Lawfully
• Nupur Dave, NRI expert and author
• Priyanka Vergadia, Sr. Director at Microsoft
• Abhijay Vuyyuru, AI Product Manager at YouTube
• Veeraj Gadda, Solutions Manager at PayPal
• Kamal Singh, Partner at Westbridge Capital
• Jyotika Gupta, Partner at Z21 Ventures
• Preetha Ram, Managing Partner at Pier 70 Ventures
• Dhravya Shah, O-1 Recipient at 19 y/o. Founder at Supermemory
• Sagnik Basu, Exec Producer at Washington Post
• Bob Webber, Immigration Attorney
• Phuong Le, Partner at KLDP
• John Pratt, Litigation Attorney
• Duden Freeman, Former Consular Officer
• Ricky Murray, Former Head of EB5 at USCIS
• Michael Valverde, Former Associate Director of Field Operations at USCIS
• April Padilla, Former Head of EB1A at USCIS
• Shev Dalal, Former Deputy Chief Counsel at USCIS
​New speakers announced weekly.

📅 Programming
​Three tracks running across two full days:

• ​Track 01 - Founders & Builders: Fundraising, GTM, and the visa playbook for immigrant founders going from idea to Series A.
• ​Track 02 - Career & Craft: Senior IC and EM panels on big tech, comp negotiation, and navigating layoffs on a work visa.
• ​Track 03 - Visas & Belonging: Frank conversations with immigration attorneys, former USCIS officers, O-1 and EB-1A recipients.

​Plus a job fair, founder lounges, and the kind of late-night conversations you can't get on a Zoom.

​✅ Why You Should Attend

• ​Build your network with 1,000+ high-skilled immigrants. Founders, engineers, attorneys, and investors
• ​Get real answers on visas, green cards, fundraising, and career growth. From people who've been through it.
• ​Find your co-founder, your next investor, or your next hire
• ​Learn from 50+ speakers who walked the same path you're on
• ​Leave more connected, more informed, and more equipped than when you arrived

## ​What to Expect

​Saturday, August 22
A full day of keynotes, fireside chats, workshops, and tactical sessions across immigration, careers, startups, money, AI, admissions, and life after the visa grind.
​Topics will include:
​• Admissions and getting into top schools
• FAANG hiring, layoffs, and career growth
• Startup fundraising and building as an immigrant founder
• J-1 and cap-exempt H-1B pathways
• O-1, EB-2 NIW, and EB-1A
• E-2, EB-5, and alternative immigration options
• Wealth building, taxes, and long-term financial planning
• Personal branding and standing out in tech
• Creator careers and non-traditional paths

## ​Legal Lounge

​Attendees will also have access to one-on-one attorney consults designed for high-skilled immigrants navigating major career and life decisions in the U.S.
​Consults will cover:
​• Starting a company as an immigrant
• Protecting your IP and founder interests
• Visa strategy and immigration planning
• Understanding your options before making major career or life decisions

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Sunday Night Networking (In-Person)

Sun, Aug 23 · 7:00 PM PDT

Panera Bread, 2002 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA, US

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Attendees must purchase their own liquid refreshments and food.

There's no content or speaker at this event -- just business and social networking.

Build your business and social network - face to face! (in-person)

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2 Hours to Freedom: Build a Fleet of AI Agents for Work (August)

Mon, Aug 24 · 2:00 PM PDT

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Take back your week and become more efficient
In this hands‑on session, you’ll use Claude or ChatGPT to build a fleet of AI agents that will save you time instead of creating busywork, especially if you work in a white collar setting. Agents provide nearly 99% cheaper cost over human hours, but still require human oversight to be meaningful and powerful.
We'll and you will walk away with:

• A personal branding agent that will help you write your LinkedIn posts for you based on your interests and career focus.
• A competitive intelligence agent that will tell you what your competitors are doing—and how you can respond.
• A content creation agent that will create a script for you that you can then use on YouTube, without having to do hours of research (if we have time).
• An understanding of how easy it is to get started with AI.

Together, these agents can save you up to 15 hours of work, saving you nearly 40% of your work week so you can focus on distribution and engagement.
This session will be recorded. All registrants receive:

• The recording.
• Links to an example project that they can fork.
• Written setup instructions and troubleshooting tips.

This workshop will give you the beginner tools you need to become AI-fluent, especially if you're looking to increase your views, be more efficient at work, or go to a networking event with something to share.

25% OFF: 2 Hours to Freedom: Build a Job Hunt AI Agent with Claude

Mon, Aug 24 · 2:00 PM PDT

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Build an AI agent that job hunts while you sleep.
In this hands‑on session, you’ll use Claude to build a job hunt agent that actually saves you time instead of creating more busywork. You’ll learn how to set up focused channels for targeting roles, researching companies, and tailoring outreach, then wire in various APIs so your agent can pull fresh job postings and context on demand. We'll learn how to have a reusable channel setup and prompt patterns you can run weekly to keep your search organized, personalized, and mostly on autopilot.

Build an AI agent that job hunts while you sleep.

AI agents are an emerging way to automate parts of your job search, from sourcing roles to drafting outreach, so you spend less time grinding and more time in real conversations.

In this beta, hands‑on workshop, you’ll follow a guided build to assemble a prototype “Job Search Copilot” using Claude. Rather than promising a polished, one‑click agent, we’ll focus on helping you understand the building blocks: structuring prompts and tasks, wiring simple workflows, and tailoring behaviors for your role or niche.

Because tools and setups vary, not every participant will leave with a perfectly running agent in their own environment. Instead, you’ll leave with:

• A concrete mental model of how AI agents support a job search.
• A copy of the instructor’s working example project you can study and reuse.
• Templates, code snippets, and a step‑by‑step guide you can revisit after the session to get your own version fully working.
• No prior technical experience is required, but you should be comfortable installing software and copying commands. If you hit environment issues during the live session, we’ll provide ways to follow along using prepared checkpoints so you can still absorb the patterns and process.

This session will be recorded. All registrants receive:

• The recording.
• Links to the example project.
• Written setup instructions and troubleshooting tips.
• Whether you’re a jobseeker, career coach, or a professional curious about operationalizing AI in your workflow, this workshop is designed to give you a realistic, experiment‑ready starting point, not a finished product.

What you’ll walk away with

• A reusable blueprint for building simple AI agents with modern tools.
• A prototype “Job Search Copilot” project (or access to a working example) that you can refine after the workshop.
• Practical patterns you can extend to other use cases beyond job hunting.

Finally, this session will be recorded. If you sign up and cannot make it, a recording will be sent to you.