Hitchhiker’s Guide to Data Centres: workshop on Decentralised Local LLMs
Local AI. Distributed power. Self-sovereign intelligence.
Who stores our knowledge? Who controls the machines? Who gets access?
Join Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy at the Internet Archive in Amsterdam for an evening exploring the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence, and the alternatives we can build together.
As AI becomes essential infrastructure, do we have to rely on giant centralised data centres and a handful of frontier-model companies? Or can local and edge AI, community-owned compute and self-sovereign data put intelligence back into the hands of people and communities?
The workshop connects with our sister event taking place the same evening at Newspeak House in London: Who Owns the Future?. Together, the two gatherings ask how we can build a more open, distributed and self-sovereign future for AI.
Expect conversation, practical experimentation and new ideas around local and edge AI, distributed computing, data sovereignty, digital independence and community infrastructure.
This event is co-organised by the Internet Archive Europe. The Internet Archive Europe is a Dutch non-profit research library. Working with libraries, museums, and archives, we share these tools and collections to further everyone’s services.
Speakers:
Dr. David Bovill - Creative director of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Dr. Heather Allansdottir - lecturer and researcher exploring the frontiers of space law and space policy. Specialising in the legal frameworks governing orbital rights, resource extraction, international treaties and space sustainability.
Tim Hafner - two-time AI founder with a decade of experience in blockchain, serving as CEO of OpenServ.
Armağan Amcalar - bringing 20 years of machine learning expertise and a track record of founding multiple technology companies - CTO of OpenSERV