Music as Medicine: The Future of Brain Health

Mickey Hart — Grateful Dead Drummer · Jim Weiss — Host, Get Real Podcast; Founder & Chairman, Real Chemistry · Featuring Dr. Adam Gazzaley — Neuroscientist

Music has always moved us. Now science is beginning to reveal just how deeply it can shape, and even rewire, the brain. In this live Get Real conversation, Jim Weiss sits down with legendary Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and renowned neuroscientist Dr. Adam Gazzaley, whose groundbreaking work explores cognition, aging and brain health. Together, they will examine what music, rhythm and research can teach us about memory, emotion, movement and recovery, and how they may help change the future of brain health. At a moment when brain health, longevity and mental well-being are becoming increasingly personal for nearly every family, they ask a provocative question: could music become part of how we care for the brain, not just how we entertain it?

The Inner Work Behind Extraordinary Performance

Dr. Michael Gervais — Performance Psychologist

The world is getting faster, noisier and less predictable. Performing under pressure is no longer just an elite skill, it is essential for anyone trying to lead, create or make consequential decisions.

Dr. Michael Gervais is one of the world's foremost experts on the psychology of elite performance. For decades, he has trained the minds of people operating at the absolute edge, from the championship Seattle Seahawks and world-class athletes to elite teams and Fortune 100 leaders, helping them access their best when the stakes are highest. Drawing on his rare vantage point, Michael reveals the inner skills behind extraordinary performance: how to meet fear and uncertainty, stay clear under pressure, recover from setbacks and train the mind to perform at its highest level.

How to Build a Brand People Actually Remember

Musa Tariq — Former Head of Brand & Marketing, Apple, Nike, Burberry, Airbnb, GoFundMe

Every feed is drowning in content that AI made free to produce, so the real premium has shifted from production to taste, identity and point of view. Musa Tariq has built his career decoding exactly that shift, leading brand and marketing at Apple, Nike, Burberry, Airbnb and GoFundMe and studying why some ideas travel while others disappear.

In this practical session, Musa breaks down the principles behind distinctive, emotionally resonant brands, from finding the story only your company can tell to carrying it consistently across product, culture and communication. Leave knowing exactly what makes a brand worth remembering, and what is quietly making yours forgettable.

Your Brain on Marketing

Gayle Troberman — Former Marketing Leader, Microsoft & iHeartMedia; Co-founder, Bubbler · Pranav Yadav — Neuroscience & Behavioral Science Expert

Why do some ideas stick while others disappear? What makes us stop, pay attention, trust, desire, recommend and ultimately act? Behind every consumer decision is a set of human processes most marketers cannot see, and only partially understand. In this expert deep dive, Pranav Yadav joins Gayle Troberman to unpack what actually happens between exposure and action.

Together, they will explore the hidden forces that shape attention, memory, emotion, desire and decision-making, and what those forces reveal about great marketing now. As the landscape grows noisier, faster and more fragmented, these two masters will examine how the smartest brands are combining enduring truths about human behavior with bold new ways of earning attention, creating relevance and breaking through.

Leading Above 28,000 Feet: A Framework for Decisions Under Pressure

Neal Mueller — Product Manager, Apple & Serial Adventurer

Neal Mueller has led expeditions from Everest to the Arctic Ocean, and he draws on those experiences to explore how leaders make high-stakes decisions when the environment changes faster than the plan.

Through expedition stories, decision-making scenarios and facilitated discussion, Neal introduces a practical framework for navigating uncertainty: protect the mission, stay flexible on the path and make the next move that preserves your ability to choose again.

Participants will leave with a repeatable approach for making decisions without perfect information, recognizing when to change course, avoiding sunk-cost thinking and preserving optionality as conditions evolve.

Trust, Tension and the Second Act: The Story of JUSTIN'S

Justin Gold — Founder, JUSTIN'S · Peter Burns — President & CEO, JUSTIN'S · Moderated by Jody Levy

Every founder eventually faces the same question: what do you need to keep owning, and when does the business need someone else to lead? Justin Gold spent a decade answering it the hard way, growing JUSTIN'S from homemade nut butter at the Boulder Farmers Market into a national brand before bringing in seasoned operator Peter Burns as President and CEO. Together, they guided the company through its next stage of growth and eventual sale.

Nearly a decade later, the story has taken an unusual turn: JUSTIN'S is independent again, Peter is back as CEO and Justin has returned as a strategic advisor and board member. Guided by Jody Levy, they unpack what they got right the first time, what they would do differently now and what it actually takes to let go, choose the right partners and build trust through tension.

Star Power, Real Equity: The New Rules of Celebrity Capital

Denise Lambertson — Managing General Partner, Constellation Capital

A celebrity investor writes a check, and suddenly everyone assumes the brand is set. Denise Lambertson knows that assumption is usually wrong, and also knows exactly what it takes to make it right.

As Managing General Partner of Constellation Capital, Lambertson has built a fund on the belief that celebrities, athletes and creators can be some of the sharpest startup investors around, backing names like poppi, Winx Health and Magic Spoon.

She also pioneered the original playbook for pairing famous faces with venture-backed startups, the same one behind Rao's Homemade, RX Bar, Thrive Market and Therabody. In this session, she breaks down why celebrity capital is one of the most powerful and misunderstood levers for growth, and what actually separates a smart partnership from an expensive photo op.

Tone Ranger — Live Performance

Tone Ranger crafts infectious dance music rooted in the mysterious beauty of the American Southwest. He is a composer, producer and sought-after collaborator who draws on a decade of wanderings through desert plateaus, remote forests and multicultural borderlands to create soundscapes that are at once ancient and futuristic.

The Invisible Universe: Navigating the Depths of Space

Dr. Kevin Hainline — Astronomer

Renowned astronomer Dr. Kevin Hainline takes us on an extraordinary journey beyond the bounds of visible light. Under the night sky, Dr. Hainline will share the latest advancements in astronomical technology and research, revealing how these tools are unlocking secrets of black holes, nebulae and distant galaxies. With a blend of passion and unique expertise, Kevin illustrates how understanding these cosmic mysteries not only deepens our knowledge of the universe but also sheds light on the fundamental laws of nature.

The Palms — Live Performance

This acclaimed indie duo fuses a love of catchy pop music with hints of West Coast psychedelia and hip hop and melds it with poignant elements of blues, rock and reggae.

The Deals That Define Your Company: Equity, Investors & Exit Strategy

Ryan Lewendon — M&A Advisor, Attorney & Partner, Giannuzzi Lewendon, LLP

Most founders do not start companies because they are passionate about corporate structures, governance, equity plans or investor terms. But the decisions you make around those things can dramatically shape what you own, how much flexibility you have and what happens when it is time to raise, scale and sell.

Ryan Lewendon turns the room into a live legal strategy session, using real challenges from the audience to unpack how he approaches complex business decisions and makes them simpler, smarter and more founder-friendly. He breaks down the legal decisions founders should understand, from choosing the right advisors and bringing financial partners into the business to structuring employee equity, protecting founder interests and optimizing for an eventual exit.

Becoming an AI-Driven Leader

Geoff Woods — Founder, AI Leadership & Author, "The AI-Driven Leader"

Most people are still using AI like a glorified search engine. In this hands-on prompt engineering workshop, Geoff Woods will show founders how to use AI as a high-level thought partner across strategy, decision-making and problem-solving. Participants will leave with a practical approach for integrating AI more meaningfully into how they run their business.

Soul & System: The New Rules of Brand Affinity and Recall

Nate Bosshard — Co-founder, brand.ai; Partner, Khosla Ventures; Founder, Offline Ventures · Moderated by Matt Wiggins

Cheap reach has made brands easier to launch and harder to remember. Durable brands need a soul and a system: the soul is a specific identity you can state in a sentence, and the system carries that identity across a thousand touchpoints without eroding it.

Nate Bosshard has spent twenty years building consumer brands, including Burton, The North Face, GoPro, Nest and Tonal, which he co-founded, and has backed some of the world's best entrepreneurs as a partner at Khosla Ventures and founder of Offline Ventures. He is now co-founder of brand.ai. Moderated by Matt Wiggins, this conversation makes the case that brand leaders should work more like engineers day-to-day, defining the soul and audience, then building the machinery that repeats it.

Nate will push back on three habits founders have picked up from the growth playbook: flooding the feed, optimizing for last click conversion and reading visibility as affinity. Leave with a framework for building a brand people remember and a view on how to use AI to scale the soul of your brand instead of diluting it.

Decoding Money Scripts: The Unconscious Beliefs Behind Every Financial Decision

Angela Mwanza — Managing Director & Private Advisor, Rockefeller Global Family Office, Capital Management

Money is deeply personal. Every leader carries invisible beliefs about finances that quietly steer high-stakes calls at the negotiating table and at home. This interactive session introduces "money scripts," the unconscious rules that shape how we assess risk, split value and read financial trust in others.

Angela Mwanza guides us through a brief survey and live discussion that surfaces these hidden assumptions and shows how differing money mindsets shape personal dynamics, partnerships and business decisions. Walk away with a clearer read on your own financial instincts and a sharper eye for the ones driving the people across the table from you.

GARZA — DJ Set

Co-founder, Thievery Corporation

Rob Garza is a visionary producer best known as one half of pioneering electronic duo Thievery Corporation, whose fusion of dub, reggae, world music and electronica reshaped the genre. His solo project, GARZA, pushes further into uncharted sonic territory, blending mesmerizing rhythms, ethereal melodies and cultural influences drawn from decades of travel. With each release, GARZA continues to captivate audiences worldwide, driven by an enduring passion for boundary-defying music.

Keep the Weird Stuff: Building a Brand Machines Cannot Copy

Robert Stephens — Founder, The Geek Squad

Soon, everyone will have access to the same technology. The real question is whether your brand is replaceable or unmistakable.

Drawing on his experience building The Geek Squad into a category-defining brand, Robert Stephens leads an interactive exercise to identify the rituals, language and customer experiences that make your company distinctive. Come explore what AI should automate, and what it should never touch, and leave with a roadmap for using technology without losing the human qualities customers remember.

Yoga Class: Honey Flow

Schuyler Grant — Co-founder, Kula Yoga Project, Wanderlust Festival, Luminescence

Join Schuyler for a thirty minute luxurious slow flow, followed by fifteen minutes of deep stretching and ending with a fifteen minute meditation practice. Leave feeling challenged and rejuvenated with a balanced mind for the day ahead.

The GEO Playbook: Winning in the Age of AI

Jon Zacharias — Co-founder & President, GR0

Your customers are already asking Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity what to buy, where to go and which brands to trust, and most companies have no idea whether AI is recommending them or burying them. Jon Zacharias saw this shift coming before anyone had a name for it. As co-founder and president of GR0, one of the country's leading independent digital marketing agencies, he has spent more than a decade mastering how brands win organic discovery and has helped companies generate billions of dollars in revenue.

Now Jon is applying that same expertise to the biggest disruption to search since Google itself, known as Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO, the discipline of becoming a source AI engines recommend, cite and trust. Through real-world case studies, Jon reveals what is actually working in GEO today and why the brands that master it now could own the next era of discovery.

Recess For Founders: An Interactive Workshop That Hones Your Brain

Jody Levy — Founder, Operator & Serial Builder

The most strategic hour of your Summit Napa Experience is going to involve scissors, glitter and no slides.

In this cerebral information age, it is imperative to balance our left and right brain hemispheres. So much of what we do is left brain: thinking, assessing, surviving. The right brain, our creative center, is where we hone our vision and intuition, and the synchronization between the two hemispheres is essential for survival. Literally. Scientifically.

Join multi-faceted founder, business operator and executive Jody Levy as she guides us through a workshop she leads with global operating teams to keep them nimble, intuitive and brain-balanced. Jody invites you to get your right brain activated with some good old-fashioned glue under your fingernails. Through a series of prompts tied to your own endeavors, professional and personal, you will craft, color and sculpt a hologram of the ecosystem you are building. You will be guided to let your artistic expression, no matter how crude or out of practice, represent the world you are dreaming into being. The end product is a hologram for your life, a representation of what you are cultivating.

Bring lunch and a glue stick, and join us in the sunshine for an interactive session bound to invoke joy and, most importantly, a return to the part of self that is essential to how we thrive and optimize in our professional endeavors.

Leading at the Edge: How to Transform While the Ground Is Moving

Brandon Powell — Founder & CEO, HatchWorks AI

Not since the Industrial Revolution have we seen this level of advancement in technology and human capability happening at the same time. Brandon Powell has lived that transformation firsthand, reinventing the company he founded in 2016 around generative AI, retraining teams and redesigning its operating model, and helping organizations move AI from experimentation into real workflows and systems.

In this session, Brandon explores what it takes to lead when the technology, the workforce and the way work gets done are all changing at once. How do you move quickly enough to capture what AI makes possible while bringing your people with you, and how do you build an organization capable of continually adapting to what comes next?

The HRV Reset: A Nervous System Tool for Leaders

Salim Najjar — Founder & Human Performance Expert

Likely one of the most profound tools you will leave Summit Napa Valley with.

Heart rate variability is the gap between your heartbeats, and it reflects how your nervous system relates to stress. Salim Najjar is a former founder and CEO whose search for deeper wellbeing led him to study human performance and wisdom traditions around the world, a journey that led him to Heart Rate Variability as one of the most powerful tools for personal transformation. Join Salim and learn how to listen to what your body is telling you, and leave with a simple, effective practice to alleviate stress, aid in recovery and lead with greater clarity and presence.

Yoga & Pranayama for Effort and Ease

Schuyler Grant — Co-founder, Kula Yoga Project, Wanderlust Festival, Luminescence

To master the mind and the nervous system, we must first master our breath. This breath-driven class starts with a slow warm up of the muscles of respiration, moves into a breath-based vinyasa flow practice and finishes with seated guided breathing and a short guided meditation. Leave feeling refreshed, strong and more deeply connected.

Build an Agent: From AI User to AI Builder

Brandon Powell — Founder & CEO, HatchWorks AI

Most people still use ChatGPT and Claude like smarter search engines, tapping only a fraction of what AI can already do. Brandon Powell has led his own company through an AI transformation and now helps organizations build AI systems that do more than answer questions — they take action.

Designed for people who are not yet regularly working with agents, this hands-on workshop will help you make the leap from AI user to AI builder. You will choose a real task or workflow from your own work and build an AI agent to take it on, learning the core principles of agentic AI as you go. You will leave with firsthand experience of what agents can do, where they can create meaningful leverage and how to start putting them to work across your own organization.

Workout: Built Different

Jerry Housey — Former Professional Athlete & Certified Trainer; Founder, Strong House Fitness

A high intensity, full body, bodyweight workout that combines explosive movements, upper and lower body strength exercises, core work, agility and conditioning to maximize the entire body. Expect to move, jump, sweat and work from beginning to end. Every movement can be modified, but the goal is to challenge yourself. This class fosters a mindset of dedication and resilience with no shortcuts.

Get Ready for 2027: AstroTwins Business & Wealth Forecast for Q4 2026

Ophira & Tali Edut — The AstroTwins; Authors & ELLE Magazine Astrologers

The legendary AstroTwins, Ophira and Tali Edut, authors and ELLE Magazine's go-to astrologers and intuitive advisors to global leaders, CEOs and founders. In this exclusive forecast, they break down the biggest astrological trends shaping careers, markets and business moves in the months ahead, so you can plan with the stars on your side. The AstroTwins combine their expertise with practical business wisdom to help leaders harness energies for maximum growth and professional success.

SAAND — DJ Set

Los Angeles based DJ and producer who taps into the sounds of the world with rhythm and soul. SAAND is Label Head of Tierra Sounds, a record label featuring some of the most proficient artists in the underground. He has been DJing since he was 13 years old and has woven through genres extensively, with a musical understanding that is masterful in its playfulness. His productions have been released on many of the top labels, and his journey has led him to rock dance floors around the globe, bringing in worldly sounds that have the power to unite humanity.

The Science of Mushrooms for Mental Performance

Alli Schaper — Co-Founder & CEO, SUPERMUSH

Functional mushrooms are backed by deep scientific research on how they support focus, memory, resilience, mood and performance, and many professionals and athletes are using them to achieve peak performance.

In this science-forward workshop, Alli Schaper will break down the functional mushrooms worth knowing, what current research suggests about their benefits and how they may support better cognitive performance, weaving together research and practical guidance.

You will leave with a clearer understanding of the major functional mushrooms, what they are used for and how to think more intentionally about supporting your brain, energy and flow.

Mike Cannon — Live Performance

Comedian, Podcaster, Writer & Actor

Mike Cannon is a NYC based comedian, podcaster, writer and actor who has headlined iconic venues including a sold out Gramercy Theatre. His special, "Traumatized Animal," racked up millions of views, and his debut album, "I Think It Just Kicked In," hit number one on iTunes Comedy. He co-hosts the podcasts "Beautiful Boys" and "Fart Carnival," starred in the film Timing and is a regular at the Comedy Cellar and New York Comedy Club.

Structuring Celebrity Partnerships That Work

Denise Lambertson — Managing General Partner, Constellation Capital

Ever wonder why some celebrity-backed brands feel authentic while others feel like a paid post with extra steps? Denise Lambertson has spent her career cracking that code. In this workshop, she gets specific: how to actually select, structure, activate and measure a celebrity partnership so it becomes a real growth engine instead of a logo on a cap table.

Natalie Spilger — DJ Set

Natalie Spilger brings dynamic sounds to the Summit stage. She is a mom of four with a background as a professional soccer player and extensive world travel experience, and she infuses her performances with a global perspective and vibrant energy that gives the audience exactly what they crave.

Sunset Cacao Ritual

Fiorella Richter — Cacao & Chocolate Sommelier

Experience the profound nature of cacao with Fiorella Richter. Cacao is a functional, whole food and is one of the highest plant-based forms of iron and antioxidants, known for improving mood and offering a stimulating effect less intense than coffee. This is an opportunity to experience this powerful plant through a guided cacao tasting, meditation and somatic practice. Leave feeling more spacious, connected and rejuvenated for the night ahead.