Sentient Salon | Korea Edition
Sentient Salon | Korea Edition | Where Open AGI Builders Actually Talk
The Concept
We gather in intimate spaces—no stages, no pitches, just builders, researchers, and VCs exchanging ideas on AI agents, coordination systems, and decentralized compute. Think living room conversations with the sharpest minds in the space.
Panel discussions that tackle real problems. Happy hour where collaborations form. The kind of gathering where you leave with three new Signal threads because someone just described your exact challenge from a different angle.
What Happens
5:00 | Doors open. Grab a drink. Meet the people building decentralized intelligence before anyone takes a stage.
5:30 – 6:40 PM | Programming
6:30 – 8:00 PM | Happy Hour
This is where you meet your next collaborator, find the person solving your exact problem, or finally have that technical debate that's been sitting in your drafts folder.
You Should Come If You're:
Shipping AI agents, models, or infrastructure on decentralized rails
Building compute networks, coordination layers, or AGI tooling
Researching open intelligence systems and need collaborators
Investing in or supporting the decentralized AI stack
Our Philosophy
We believe the best technical conversations happen in rooms small enough to actually talk. No pitch competitions. No demo booths. No investor speed dating. Just engineers, researchers, and builders who want to go deeper than LinkedIn allows.
Our principles:
Product Agnostic
Ecosystem-first
Depth
About Us
Sentient is an open-source AI lab producing state-of-the-art AI research and architecting the GRID: the coordination layer and accelerator for open-source AI development that connects builders, investors, and enterprises into one ecosystem
Partners
Lagrange is building trust for the AI-powered world with DeepProve, the fastest zero-knowledge machine learning (zkML) system in existence.
DeepProve makes it possible to verify AI inferences at scale, ensuring that models produce results consistent with their intended functions. As AI becomes deeply embedded into everyday life, verifiable AI is essential for safety, transparency, and trust.
OpenGradient is the Network for Open Intelligence: an EVM-compatible blockchain network that can host models, run secure inference, and execute AI agents verifiably onchain. OpenGradient raised $9.5M from a16z crypto, SVA, and the co-creator of transformers, Illia Polushkin, to build the foundation for AGI onchain.