​📍 Venue Entrance Guide 📍

​Our event will be held at the Denver Art Museum, inside the Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Please use the Main Entrance as shown in the image below to access the venue.

​🔹 Address: 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, Colorado
🔹 Refer to the image below for clear directions to the entrance:

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​✨ The Largest AI Summit

​Scaling Denver is the largest AI x Web3 Summit during ETHDenver, bringing together over 15 leading VCs, top-tier AI projects, and global academic experts to explore the latest innovations in AI and blockchain technologies.

​​​📌 Event Details

​​Host: 499

​Cohost: ZetaChain, NEAR, Kite AI, HETU

​Special Partner: Openledger

​Partner: Ai16z, Solana Foundation, Swarms, BASE, MetaMask, lo.net, Sentient, 0G, Paramita VC, Pantera Capital, The Spartan Group, Foresight Ventures, Sahara AI, VANA, Primus Labs, Google Cloud, YesNoError, Spore, Gensyn, ETHStorage, FanTV, PredX, ChainOpera Al, Big Brain Holdings, Pitch Lucy AI

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​✨ Summit Agenda

​The Scaling will be a full-day event, featuring a variety of engaging sessions such as panel discussions, keynotes, fireside chats and debate with top leaders and innovators in the AI space. Attendees will have the chance to dive deep into critical topics, explore cutting-edge projects, and engage directly with founders from leading AI projects shaping the future of technology.

​11:00｜Sign-in

​11:20-11:30｜Opening Speech

​11:30-11:45｜Keynote: The Road to One Trillion Agents

• ​​​​Pierre Le Guen, Senior Software Engineer, NEAR

​11:50-12:30｜Panel: Control Mechanisms for Self-Replicating AI Agents

​​MOD: Justin Z, Co-founder & CEO, IXO Protocol

• ​​​​Kye Gomez, CEO, Swarms

• ​​​​Chi Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO, Kite AI

• ​​​​Marvin Tong, Founder, Phala & Spore

• ​Rich Widmann, Global Head of Strategy for Web3, Google Cloud

• ​​​​Mariano Maisterrena, Founder, Pitch Lucy

​12:30-13:10｜Fireside Chat: Decentralized Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery

​​MOD: Leon, Core Member, HetuDAO

• ​​​​Sean Ren, Co-Founder and CEO, Sahara AI

• ​Himanshu, Co-Founder, Sentient

• ​​​​Jialin Li, Co- Founder, Advaita Labs & Hetu Protocol

• ​Kamesh, Core Contributor, Openledger

​13:10-13:30｜Break

​13:30-13:50｜Keynote: Redefining the AI Economy 3.0 with
Proof of Attributed Intelligence (PoAI)

• ​​​​Chi Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO, Kite AI

​13:50-14:30｜Panel: Distributed ML Systems: From Edge Intelligence to Cross-Chain Learning

​​MOD: Naman Kapasi, Head of Research, BigBrain

• ​​​​Sriram, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin​

• ​​​​Mori Zihayat, Co-Founder, Heisenberg Network & Associate Prof at TMU

• ​​​​Salman Avestimehr, Co-Founder, ChainOpera AI

​14:30-15:10｜Panel: Security and Reliability of AI Models in Cross-Chain Data Interactions

​​MOD: Asa, APAC Head, io.net

• ​​​​Michael Heinrich, Founder and CEO, 0G

• ​Anna Kazlauskas, Creator, Vana & CEO, Open Data Labs

• ​​​​Ben Parr, Co-Founder, YesNoError

• ​Ben Fielding, Co-Founder, Gensyn

​15:10-15:30｜Keynote: Hetu Protocol: Intersubjective Consensus for Decentralized AI

• ​​​​Jialin Li, Co-Founder, Advaita Labs & Hetu Protocol

​15:30-16:10｜Panel: AI agents and Autonomous Decision Making

​MOD: Tracy Zhang, CMO, Followin.io

• ​​​​Francesco Andreoli, Developer Relation Lead, MetaMask

• ​​​​Audrey Taylor, CTO, The Spartan Group

• ​Abhi, Protocol Optimization Researcher, Hetu Protocol

• ​Prashan Agarwal, Founder & CEO, FanTV

​16:10-16:50｜Debate: AI Agents in Multi-Chain Ecosystems - Infrastructure, Governance and Future Applications

​MOD: Julie, Head of Growth, Tako Protocol

• ​​Sam Gao, Ai16z Whitepaper Author with 10+ NIPS/CVPR Papers

• ​Rein Wu, PhD, Founder, PredX

• ​Alex Kim, Ecosystem Lead, ZetaChain

• ​Anthurine, Co-Founder, EthStorage

​16:50-17:10｜Keynote: ZetaChain: Building Universal Blockchain For All of Crypto

• ​​​​Alex Kim, Ecosystem Lead, ZetaChain

​17:10-17:30｜Keynote: Unlocking Data Interoperability for Blockchain and AI

• ​​​​Xiang Xie, Co-founder, Primus

​17:30-18:10｜Panel:Investing in AI: AI Agents for Funding Scientific Research

​MOD: Zoie, COO, Entrova

• ​​​​Melody He, Co-Founder, The Spartan Group

• ​Ian Xu, Vice President, Foresight Ventures

• ​Austin Marrazza, Investor, Dragonfly

• ​William Starr, Investor, 6th Man Ventures

​18:10-19:00｜Networking

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​​💡Shaping the Future Through Collaboration

​Our AI Ecosystem

​Over the years, we have partnered with leading organizations across industries, collaborating on groundbreaking projects that redefine innovation. From cutting-edge AI initiatives to transformative blockchain solutions, our partnerships span a diverse ecosystem of trailblazing ventures and visionary investors, driving progress in the Web3 and tech space.

​Expanding the Ecosystem

​0x499’s offline events have drawn more than 330 top partners, establishing deep collaborations with industry leaders such as Binance, NEAR, Cointelegraph, and HashKey. These esteemed partners prominently feature in global events, showcasing our substantial industry presence.

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​​✨ ​About 499

​499 - 499 is leading a fresh take on the LunaPunk movement. Established in 2018, it has grown to become Asia's earliest and largest decentralized open organization, challenging traditional power structures while celebrating feminine influence in the decentralized digital age.

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​✨ ​Co-hosted by:

​​NEAR - NEAR is a carbon-neutral layer-1 blockchain network that is scalable and secure thanks to its unique implementation of sharding called Nightshade. NEAR is built with a focus on usability and ease of use, for both developers and users. NEAR is designed to be an interoperable L1 network that can, through different services, provide a scalable infrastructure that communicates with other chains and ecosystems.

​ZetaChain - ZetaChain is the first Universal Blockchain with native access to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and more, offering seamless UX and unified liquidity to the next billions of users. With its Universal EVM, ZetaChain empowers developers to build Universal Apps that operate natively across any blockchain, creating a fluid crypto ecosystem from a single platform.

​Kite AI by ZettaBlock - Kite AI is a purpose-built, EVM-compatible L1 designed to power the AI economy. At its core is Proof of Attributed Intelligence (Proof of AI), an innovative consensus mechanism that ensures fair attribution and transparent rewards for contributors across agents, models and data.

​HETU - HETUProtocol is the intersubjective consensus, decentralizing AI for Science. It’s the social contract machine, bringing humanic intelligence to crypto.