Sovereign AI for Business and Society
Accelerating Open Innovation with Collaborative Development
An AI Alliance Meetup | June 24, 2026 | New York, New York
The rules of AI are being rewritten. The real questions aren't who builds the most powerful models: It's who controls them, who decides what data trains them, and whether the global economy runs on shared infrastructure or a handful of proprietary stacks.
The AI Alliance unites 200+ organizations: researchers, enterprises, and sovereign institutions - to build open, federated AI that no single actor owns. On June 24th, we're bringing leaders from across this ecosystem together for an afternoon of frank conversation, technical depth, and real partnership. We'll also announce advancements of our signature project - Tapestry.
📅 Agenda
2:00 PM - Doors open & refreshments
2:30 - 2:40: Welcome · Dean Wampler (IBM & AI Alliance)
The Challenges of Sovereign AI and the Tapestry Project
The geopolitics of foundation models — how open-weights, distributed training, properly governed data sets, and cultural alignment are enabling AI to work for everyone.
2:40 - 2:55: The Problem Statement & Tapestry Overview · Anthony Annunziata (IBM & AI Alliance)
2:55 – 3:15: Cultural Alignment - Nexbax: Next Billion AI Index · Ambrish Rawat (IBM Research)
3:15 – 3:35: Consortium Training - What Is It and Why Should You Care? · Dean Wampler (IBM & AI Alliance)
3:35 – 4:00: Data, Responsibly Used, Part I - The Spectrum from Private to Fully Open · Kaushik Bhatta (AI Alliance & B3 Alliance)
4:00 - 4:20: Break
4:20 - 4:40: Data, Responsibly Used, Part II - Expanding Common Crawl's Linguistic and Cultural Coverage · Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Common Crawl Foundation)
4:40 - 5:00: Data, Responsibly Used, Part III - Data Infrastructure For Frontier Sovereign AI · Ronnie Falcon (OpenMined)
Sovereign AI Applied
5:00 - 5:30: Owning Your Platform AI Journey · Alexandra Machado (Red Hat)
5:30 - 6:00 PM: Networking
This is an AI Alliance event.
Space is limited to 125 attendees. Due to capacity, our team will confirm registration closer to event date.
Please note: registration closes on Tuesday, June 23rd at 5PM EST to allow confirmed registrations to be given to the building.
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The AI Alliance is a non-profit community of 200+ member companies, including leading enterprises, researchers, and over 50K individuals. Through world-class events, online events, and workshops, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.