Nathan Calvin is General Counsel and VP of State Affairs at Encode (encodeai.org), where he leads legal strategy and state policy initiatives.
He was a central figure behind California's SB 53, the Frontier AI Transparency Act, and has led Encode's scrutiny of OpenAI's nonprofit restructuring. He holds a JD and MPP from Stanford and previously worked at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Nathan will speak on Encode's on-the-ground policy work — SB 53 and the RAISE Act, the OpenAI restructuring fight, and the push against federal preemption of state AI regulation.
