​Kwaai 2026 Personal AI Summit: Decentralized AI

​a one‑day, deep‑dive event co‑located with SCaLE 23x at the Pasadena Convention Center on March 5, 2026. Hosted by Kwaai, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit AI lab, the summit explores how AI can be open, people‑owned, and run on decentralized infrastructure instead of a few central platforms.

​Agenda

​Workshop

​Two hands‑on sessions. All you need is a browser.

• ​10AM

• ​Room 103

• ​Building in the Browser: Kasm Workspaces for the Kwaai Community (10:00 AM, Jaymes Davis)
  How to use container‑streamed browser workspaces as secure, zero‑install dev environments for open‑source AI—showing preconfigured IDEs, sandboxes, and how to spin up/customize Kasm for globally distributed contributors.

• ​KwaaiNet – Building Decentralized AI Infrastructure (10:30 AM, Balaji Lakshmanan & Brian Ragazzi)
  A deep dive into running Personal AI on user‑controlled infrastructure via KwaaiNet—covering its architecture (compute, storage, identity), live node deployment and tool integration, then a hands‑on exercise deploying a simple Personal AI or micro‑agent to the network.

​Symposium (noon - 5PM)

​Keynotes

• ​Ben Goertzel (CEO, SingularityNET & ASI Alliance) will present “Path toward deAGI”, outlining how open, decentralized architectures can keep future AGI beneficial and accessible to everyone, not just a handful of corporations.​

• ​Raffi Krikorian (Mozilla CTO - former Twitter CTO and creator of the Technically Optimistic podcast) will deliver “Owner, Not Renters”, making the case that powerful AI tools must be transparent, open, and truly owned by the people who use them.​

• ​Drummond Reed (self‑sovereign identity and decentralized trust pioneer) will show how the “Decentralized Trust Graph” lets people—and their personal AIs—carry their own identities, credentials, and agreements into every interaction without handing control to centralized platforms.

• ​Doc Searls (open‑source veteran and Chief Intention Officer at Kwaai) will connect MyTerms, open‑source culture, and the intention economy to demonstrate how personal AIs can finally negotiate on users’ behalf and help the web run on our terms instead of one‑sided click‑wraps.

• ​Moderator: Daniela Barbosa, General Manager Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation.

​Kwaai Fundamental AI Research

​The Fundamental AI Research session (2:00–3:00 PM) features three tightly focused talks:

• ​OS of Life (Jowan Österlund, MYRA): A self‑powered implant that turns real‑time biometrics into user‑owned data streams feeding local Personal AIs for health and risk management.

• ​AI in Personal Healthcare (Dr Rajesh Vijay, 21D): An open‑source simulator using health‑state models and economic data to show how oral health affects whole‑body disease and costs, enabling patients and Personal AIs to run “what if” prevention scenarios.

• ​Confidential Vector Search (Sulimon Sattari, Kwaai): A practical design for homomorphic‑encrypted vector search so RAG systems can query sensitive knowledge bases in ciphertext, preserving privacy while remaining usable in real‑time personal AI and healthcare applications.

​Kwaai Personal AI Development

• ​Consent Chain: Towards MyTerms (Jaymes Davis, Kasm)
  How a ConsentChain architecture can replace cookie banners with user‑defined, cryptographically provable privacy profiles. A browser plugin negotiates site consent automatically and records hashed agreements on a blockchain, aligning with Doc Searls’ MyTerms vision so people become true owners of their data relationships.

• ​dRAG Race: Benchmarking Open Source Vector Databases (Maira Khwaja, Kwaai)
  Results from Kwaai’s intern‑led Vector DB Performance project, benchmarking seven open‑source vector databases under realistic RAG workloads. The session explains the experimental design, tradeoffs between latency and recall, and how a mission‑driven internship produced peer‑reviewed research and a reusable framework for choosing and tuning vector backends.

​Kwaai Policy Lab

• ​T4AS (Steve Vitka): A three‑layer model (Agent, Workflow, Workspace) that makes AI agents safer, auditable, and interoperable.

• ​Panel – Decentralization across the Political Spectrum : Cross‑ideological discussion on why decentralization matters for everyone.

• ​Closing Remarks (Reza Rassool): Kwaai’s call to action for building open, decentralized Personal AI.