Flower AI Day: Collaborative Superintelligence
Flower AI Day returns this year as AI enters a new phase. The frontier of AI is no longer defined by single, isolated, closed models. Increasingly, it is being pushed forward by open agents and models working together, combining their capabilities and improving collectively. We call this collaborative superintelligence, and it will be the focus of Flower AI Day 2026.
Expect a world-class afternoon and evening program featuring some of the top thinkers and builders in AI. Past Flower events have included Sara Hooker (CEO, Adaption), Joseph Spisak (VP, Reflection), Ce Zhang (CTO, Together AI), Jonathan Frankle (Chief AI Scientist, Databricks), and Thomas Wolf (CSO, Hugging Face).
Join us for technical talks, new Flower technology and demos, expert firesides and panels, and plenty of opportunities to meet others building open, collaborative, and production-ready AI systems.
The Dawn of Collaborative Superintelligence
Flower AI Day will explore the technologies defining the emerging frontier of collaborative superintelligence, from cutting-edge research to systems already being deployed by ambitious organizations and enterprises:
Agent teams for long-horizon complex work
Open-source AI especially post-trained base models exceeding closed frontier AI systems
AI Grids and forms of distributed inference that maximize networked AI resources
Multi-agent systems combining specialist capabilities and guided by user supervision
Local AI, supporting on-device and private frontier-level open-weight LLMs
Decentralized training for foundation models using multi-site compute and data
Federated learning and analytics methods targeting sensitive data domains
Sovereign, compliant, and privacy-preserving model lifecycles
AI requiring confidential compute, attestation, governance, and policy enforcement
Real-world enterprise AI deployments in healthcare, automotive, teleco, finance, and manufacturing
Complete details of the 2026 program, including speakers, will be announced soon.
Flower AI Day 2026
Our program kicks off early in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 30, bringing together the Flower community for an afternoon and evening of technical talks, demonstrations, discussion and networking.
We are delighted to be hosting Flower AI Day at The Pearl in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, at the heart of a fast-growing AI and startup district around Y Combinator, OpenAI and Mission Bay. All attendees will receive our world-famous Flower swag, and the program will include several catered social and networking sessions. The day will conclude with an evening reception featuring a buffet dinner, open bar, complimentary cocktails and drinks.
Last year at Flower AI Day 2025, we brought together speakers and panelists from Cohere, Meta, Together AI, Red Hat, J.P. Morgan, AWS, Coinbase, Vana and Flower Labs. Speakers included Sara Hooker, Joseph Spisak, Ce Zhang, Tony James, Sudhir Upadhyay, Anna Kazlauskas, Erran Li, Kevin Leffew, Daniel J. Beutel, Nic Lane, Patrick Foley and others. We anticipate Flower AI Day 2026 will build on that momentum, bringing together an exceptional group of researchers, founders, engineers and industry leaders shaping the future of collaborative AI.