​A discussion of the potential, pitfalls, and possibilities of training and building decentralized AI. Curated talks with both believers and skeptics, designed as an entry point for AI engineers & researchers who want to explore.

​WHO: A gathering of AI talent in SF exploring dAI.

​WHAT: Discussions of projects, expert talks on the current state of dAI, the philosophy of decentralized AI, and conversations around what the ecosystem needs.

​At Frontier Tower, 2nd floor.

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🎤 SPEAKERS

​Nathan Lambert

​Post-training lead at Ai2 and founder of Interconnects

​Steffen Cruz

​Steffen is the co-founder and CTO of Macrocosmos, pioneering decentralized intelligence on Bittensor. He envisions a future where AI ecosystems grow like living networks - adaptive, open, and collectively owned.

​Will Squires

​Will Squires is the co-founder and CEO of Macrocosmos, a company building distributed AI technologies across the Bittensor network. His work bridges systems engineering, machine intelligence, and network design.

​Shardul Bansal

​Shardul benchmarked and evaluated models for Bittensor early in 2021, after which he had a stint at AWS. He was a founder in residence at Entrepreneurs First last year, working on grid topology optimisation software. He's now Founding Engineer at Crucible Labs, a company committed to advancing Decentralized AI by investing and building on Bittensor.

​Davide Crapis

​Davide is the AI Lead at Ethereum Foundation, where he works on applied R&D on the Ethereum protocol economics and related mechanisms.

​Isabella Liu 


​Isabella is a Tech Partner at Crucible Labs, leveraging her expertise in distributed systems and applied machine learning. Before joining Crucible, she served as a founding engineer at Bittensor and the Opentensor Foundation, where she led core research in decentralized machine learning and helped design Bittensor’s tokenomics beginning in 2021.

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🗓️ AGENDA

​6:00

​Meetup begins

​6:30-6:45

​Greetings and overview  (15m)

​6:45-7:30

​4 Talks (45m)

​7:30-8:00

​Fireside Chat (30m)

​8:00-8:45

​Small Group Discussion

​8:45-9:00

​Closing remarks  (15m)

​9:30

​Meetup ends

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Produced by AI Collective,

​with help from our sponsors Bittensor / Crucible Labs

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​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 80,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.

​All attendees and organizers at events affiliated with The AI Collective are subject to our Code of Conduct.