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. This year’s speakers include Nicolas Dessaigne (GP, Y Combinator), Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee AI), Daniel Beutel (CEO, Flower), Tanya Roosta (AMD), James Casaletto (NASA), Jared Josleyn (Sanofi), Anthony Annunziata (Founder, AI Alliance / IBM), Nic Lane (CSO, Flower), Jerry Watkins (US Department of Energy), Bryce Pickard (President, OBI), Patrick Foley (Flower), Henning Fehrmann (CEO, Fehrmann), Diran Apelian (Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine) and Javier Fernandez (Flower).
Join us for technical talks, new Flower tech 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
Explore the preliminary agenda below, with sessions on open models, enterprise AI, private AI, and self-improving systems.
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.
This year’s registered attendees come from organizations including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, AWS, Stanford, UC Berkeley, JPMorgan Chase, MGX, Together AI, Lightning AI, and Arcee AI. Join them for an afternoon and evening of technical discussion, shared ideas, and networking.
Agenda
1:00 PM - ☕️ Registration and Reception
Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee.
1:25 PM - Welcome and Opening
Nic Lane - Flower Labs
1:30 PM - Collaborative Superintelligence
Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
2:00 PM - Anthony J. Annunziata (AI Alliance / IBM)
Chair and Co-founder at AI Alliance and Director, Open Source AI at IBM
2:15 PM - James Casaletto (NASA)
Staff Scientist
2:30 PM - ☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
2:45 PM - Fireside: Henning Fehrmann (Fehrmann) and Diran Apelian (UC Irvine)
Host: Nic Lane - Flower Labs
3:15 PM - Move Intelligence to the Data
Javier Fernandez - Flower Labs
3:30 PM - Fireside: Jared Josleyn (Sanofi)
Host: Patrick Foley - Flower Labs
3:45 PM - Beyond the Frontier with Flower
Nic Lane - Flower Labs
4:00 PM - ☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
4:05 PM - Fireside: Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator)
Host: Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
4:30 PM - Jerry Watkins (Sandia National Labs)
Computational Scientist
4:45 PM - ☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
5:00 PM - Fireside: Bryce Pickard (OBI)
Host: Patrick Foley - Flower Labs
5:20 PM - Fireside: Lucas Atkins (Arcee)
Host: Nic Lane - Flower Labs
5:45 PM - Fireside: Tanya Roosta (AMD)
Host: Charles Beauville - Flower Labs
6:00 PM - Closing Remarks
Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
6:05 PM - 🍸 Dinner and Open Bar Reception