​BYOB — Bring Your Own Brain

​By ChatAndBuild · Co-hosted with BNB Chain

​Featuring: OpenAI, Google, Strategy

​Join ChatAndBuild and speakers from OpenAI, Google, Strategy and BNB Chain for a closed-door gathering exploring the next chapter of AI: interoperable, persistent and model-independent memory.

​At the centre is Living Brain: ChatAndBuild’s persistent, interoperable, model-independent memory infrastructure that is reusable across connected AI tools, agents, applications and models.

​What’s on the programme

​Living Brain in Action
Christel Buchanan, Founder of ChatAndBuild, introduces the vision for memory that travels, followed by Sun Weiran, Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI, demonstrating Living Brain inside ChatGPT and Codex.

​Inside OpenAI: What Comes Next
A candid fireside with Thomas Jeng, Head of Startups APAC at OpenAI, on emerging opportunities for AI-native startups, persistent agents and why context matters as models become more capable.

​Memory That Travels: A Cross-Ecosystem Panel
Sun Weiran, Howie Owi, Vincent Toh and Gwénolé Martin, representing OpenAI, Google, Strategy and BNB Chain, explore how knowledge can move across AI systems while preserving meaning, permissions and trust. Moderated by Christel Buchanan.

​Enterprise AI with Google
Howie Owi, AI Specialist at Google, explores Living Brain in Gemini Enterprise. Abhijeet Rajurkar, Data Solutions Engineering at Google, then goes beneath the experience to examine the infrastructure needed to support memory at scale.

​From Business Meaning to Organisational Memory
Charmaine Chua, GM of Strategy ASEAN, joins Christel Buchanan to explore how trusted business definitions and evolving organisational knowledge can work together to make enterprise AI more useful.

​Building Agents That Remember
Lucas Liao, Lead Solutions Architect, and Gwénolé Martin, Developer Relations Lead at BNB Chain, showcase BNBrain and BNB Chain Agent Studio, exploring memory-powered agents through APIs, SDKs and MCP.

​One More Thing: Beyond the Screen
Christel Buchanan, Founder of ChatAndBuild, closes with a first look at how Living Brain can bring personal AI memory into the physical world. We’re keeping this one under wraps.

​The details

​📅 Wednesday, 7 October 2026
🕤 9:30am–3:30pm SGT
Arrival, breakfast and demos from 9:30am. Programme begins at 10:00am.

​Breakfast and catered lunch are included.

​Attendance & waitlist

​BYOB is an invite-led event with limited capacity. We’re currently at capacity, but welcome waitlist requests from relevant founders, enterprise leaders, developers and partners.

​Join the waitlist to request a place. Our team will review registrations and confirm attendance directly.