IAP is a non-political organization that honors the remarkable legacy, leadership, and contributions of Iranian-Americans pioneers across all professions.
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I am deeply grateful and humbled to have been selected by the Iranian-American Pioneers (IAP) Summit Organization as a Pioneer.
As mentioned on their website, "IAP provides a platform where established pioneers, emerging professionals, and students come together to share experiences, inspire innovation, strengthen community bonds, and amplify the collective impact of the Iranian-American diaspora on the global stage.” For more information, please see: iapsummit.org
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The Iranian-American Pioneers (IAP) Summit 2026 is honored to announce an extraordinary lineup of confirmed speakers. This year's summit will bring together some of the most accomplished visionaries, innovators, entrepreneurs, academics, artists, and leaders whose work has made a lasting impact across industries and communities worldwide for two days of inspiring conversations, groundbreaking ideas, and meaningful connections.
And this is only the beginning. More speakers and special guests will be announced in the coming months. Whether you are an entrepreneur, researcher, student, investor, executive, artist, or community leader, IAP 2026 offers a unique opportunity to learn from inspiring pioneers, exchange ideas, and build meaningful connections with a global network of forward-thinking individuals.
📍 Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, California, USA
📅 October 23–24, 2026
🎟️ Registration and sponsorship opportunities are now open.
Learn more and reserve your place today:
🔗 iapsummit.org/
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Tara Rezaei (@tararezaeikh), 23, Iranian, is one of the wildest new Silicon Valley talent stories.
IOAA medalist for Iran in 2021.
MIT in 2022.
OpenAI intern.
Now co-founder of @mirendil, a frontier AI company that just raised a $200M seed from @a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA.
All of this in 4 years.
Btw, this story probably wouldn’t have happened if a travel ban had existed in 2022.
Image: Tara on Iran’s IOAA team in 2021.
Today, I’m excited to formally announce @mirendil with my amazing co-founders Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei!
We’re fortunate to work with @a16z and @kleinerperkins, who led our seed round of $200M, followed by a major investment from NVIDIA, among others.
Mirendil exists to accelerate science and technology, and through them, to help solve humanity's most pressing problems.
Self-accelerating AI R&D is the most direct path to delivering on AI's broader promise, which is why we believe the most important application of AI is AI itself. Get this loop right, and it compounds. It fundamentally changes the rate of progress itself across all domains.
We believe this capability should be democratized. It should be used to power all scientific efforts trying to innovate at the frontier. There are far more important problems—and broader ones—than any single lab can take on, so more groups should be able to pursue them.
This pulls concentration of power away from a few labs: businesses and science labs can own their AI and infrastructure, keep their margins, and control their own destiny instead of ceding it all to a single AI lab.
We’re a small team with a singular focus. Our founding team consists of 20 researchers and engineers from frontier institutions including Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI, united by a passion for science and a drive to build the technologies that move it faster. If you want to build the system that builds systems, join us!
@HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, @tararezaeikh
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Today, May 12, we celebrate the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) - the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal.
Her groundbreaking work on Riemann surfaces and moduli spaces continues to inspire mathematicians worldwide.
May 12 is now International Women in Mathematics Day.
