Open Source AI Summit
KryptoPlanet is hosting its second Open Source AI Summit in Brussels after its successful inaugural one at Stanford University back in March. Open Source AI Summit is proudly co-hosted with NEAR Protocol and sponsors include Nethermind, Olas, Livepeer, Gensyn, Exabits, Akash Network. The lunch break will be sponsored by Nuffle Labs, Valence, and NEAR Protocol, so be sure to join us the entire day!
The summit is supported by community partners Blackdragon Capital, Sentient, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator. Join us on July 6th at our mind blowing venue with an amazing lineup and solid content!
[Speakers]
Illia Polosukhin: Co-founder, NEAR Protocol
Alexander Hicks: Researcher, Ethereum Foundation
Matthew Wang: Founder & CEO, Valence
David Minarsch: CEO/Co-founder, Valory & Founding Member, Olas
Advait (Leo) Jayant, Co-Founder and CEO, SuperSight
Rick Staa: Head of AI Network Engineering, Livepeer
Shannon Wells: Head of Growth, Livepeer
Hoansoo Lee: Co-Founder, Exabits
Greg Osuri: CEO, Overclock Labs & Founder, Akash Network
Jinsuk Park: Technical Group Manager, ZK & AI Engineering, Nethermind
Anna Kazlauskas: Cofounder and CEO, Vana
Ben Fielding: Co-founder, Gensyn
Anand Iyers: Partner, Canonical x Lightspeed
Casey Caruso: Managing Partner, Topology
Dr. Steven Waterhouse: CEO, Nazare Ventures
[Agenda]
11:00 - 11:10 Greetings and Introduction by Erica Kang, Organizer and Host
11:10 - 11:35 Illia Polosukhin: Co-founder, NEAR Protocol
Talk title: Why the World Needs User-Owned AI (25 min)
11:35 - 11:55 Fireside chat and AMA with Illia Polosukhin
Moderator: Erica Kang (20 min)
11:55 - 12:20 Alexander Hicks: Researcher, Ethereum Foundation
Talk title: AI and formal verification (25 min)
12:20 - 12:40 Advait (Leo) Jayant: Co-Founder and CEO, Supersight
Talk title: Building intelligent multi-agent coordination networks (20 min)
12:40 - 13:00 David Minarsch: CEO/Co-founder, Valory & Founding Member, Olas
Talk title: Coordinating swarms of autonomous AI agents with Olas: the rise of agent economies (20 min)
13:00 - 13:20 Matthew Wang: Founder and CEO, Valence
Talk title: Enhancing AI through Model Composability (20 min)
13:20 - 14:30 "Valence is NEAR Nuff" Lunch Break sponsored by Nuffle x Valence x NEAR (70 min)
14:30 - 14:50 Rick Staa: Head of AI Network Engineering, Livepeer
Talk title: Open Inference for Video and Media Pipelines: the Livepeer AI Subnet (20 min)
14:50 - 15:10 Greg Osuri: CEO, Overclock Labs & Founder, Akash Network
Talk title: Decentralization is saving AI where centralization failed (20 min)
15:10 - 15:30 Hoansoo Lee: Co-founder, Exabits
Talk title: Base layer protocol for decentralized compute (20 min)
15:30 - 16:00 “Decentralized Computing as a Business” Panel(30 min)
Ben Fielding: Co-founder, Gensyn
Hoansoo Lee: Co-founder, Exabits
Greg Osuri: CEO, Overclock Labs & Founder, Akash Network
Shannon Wells: Head of Growth, Livepeer
Dr. Steven Waterhouse: CEO, Nazare Ventures (Moderator)
16:00 - 16:20 Jinsuk Park: Technical Group Manager, ZK & AI Engineering, Nethermind
Talk title: Why plurality and safety of LLMs are important (20 min)
16:20 - 16:40 Anna Kazlauskas: Co-founder and CEO, Vana
Talk title: User-Owned AI Foundation Models (20 min)
16:40 - 17:20 Investing in DeAI (30 min)
Anand Iyers: Partner, Canonical x Lightspeed
Casey Caruso: Managing Partner, Topology
Dr. Steven Waterhouse: CEO, Nazare Ventures
Anna Kazlauskas: Cofounder and CEO, Vana (Moderator)