AI You Can Touch by OpenBuilder, Sogni and TZ APAC
Step into AI You Can Touch: a day where AI moves from behind the screen into something tangible. The centrepiece is two interconnected DGX Sparks, physically running an open multimodal model live, with the room invited to connect directly and try it themselves. Over these 4 hours, you'll learn how to own and run your own AI locally instead of renting access to someone else's, then settle in for a fireside chat on the rise of open source and local AI.
Brought to you by TZ APAC, the leading Asia-based adoption entity furthering the Tezos ecosystem, alongside Sogni AI (founder Mauvis Ledford runs the live local-AI demo) and Lionel Sim, Founder of The AI Capitol and OpenBuilder.
Who It’s For:
This event brings together a cross-section of the TOKEN2049 community, including:
Founders and startup teams considering their own AI infrastructure
Investors and VCs trying to understand where AI compute is heading
Developers and technical leaders exploring open and local models
AI enthusiasts curious what's possible outside centralized cloud providers
Business leaders who don't need to configure a model themselves, but need to understand how fast the economics of AI are shifting
What to Expect:
Complimentary bites & drinks
Network with AI enthusiasts, founders, VCs, and investors alongside the TZ APAC team, in a collaborative setting
Two sessions, back to back: Mauvis Ledford (Founder of Sogni, ex-CTO of CoinMarketCap) on owning your AI intelligence, followed by a Fireside Chat: The Rise of Open Source and Local AI with Mauvis, Lionel Sim and TZ APAC’s CTO.
Own your AI intelligence Session
Every time you use ChatGPT, here's what's actually happening: you type a message, it travels to a data center somewhere far away, someone else's computers do the thinking and the answer comes back to you. You're renting access to someone else's brain, paying monthly, with no control over it, and no say if they change the rules, raise prices, or shut it down. That's starting to change.
In this session, we're bringing that "brain" into the room, physically. Two interconnected DGX Sparks will be running live inside our office, no distant data center, no company in the middle, and you won't only be watching. We'll open the system to everyone in the room to connect over WiFi and talk to the machines yourselves. Walk away knowing what you could realistically run on your own hardware and what it would cost you, instead of renting it forever and being at the risk of price increases and other dependencies.
Fireside Chat: The Rise of Open Source and Local AI
AI is shifting from something rented through closed cloud APIs to something that can be owned, run, and controlled locally. This fireside chat explores the rise of open source and local AI, what's driving it, and what it means for how founders, investors, and technical teams build, decide and compete going forward.
Agenda (GMT+8)
2:00 PM - 2:10 PM: Registration and Opening
2:10 PM - 5:00 PM:
Session 1: Where OpenBuilder is heading
Session 2: Own your AI intelligence
Session 3: Fireside Chat: The Rise of Open Source and Local AI
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Networking
Agenda is subject to change.
Capacity is limited, so RSVP early to secure your place!
About OpenBuilder
OpenBuilder is a community of 8,000+ Agentic AI builders and enterprise owners who learn to build, deploy and evaluate AI agents together, alongside the labs and vendors behind the technology.
About Sogni AI
Founded in 2023, Sogni is building the world’s first decentralized creative-AI ecosystem powered by physical infrastructure. Its mission is to put generative tooling, compute, and ownership back into the hands of creators worldwide.
About TZ APAC
TZ APAC is the leading Asia-based blockchain adoption entity supporting the Tezos ecosystem and the team behind Keystone Lab, a product innovation lab building products shaped by real founder experiences.