Agents, Atoms, Allocators + Afterparty Open Source x Sovereign AI Conference #SFTechWeek
Agents, Atoms, Allocators
SF Tech Week 2026 · Thursday, October 8 · 5:00–10:00 PM · Temple San Francisco, 540 Howard St
Three things are being built at once right now: software that acts on its own, machines that move through the world, and the capital deciding which of them gets funded. For one night, all three are in the same room. Then the room goes up to the roof.
🎯 HOW THE NIGHT WORKS
Doors open at 5 with a glass of prosecco in your hand. Content runs 6:10 to 8:05: three panels, five short keynotes, 16 people who build, fund or run the things everyone else is tweeting about. The moderators have one instruction: make them disagree.
At 8:15 the rooftop opens. Bar, music, every speaker who was just on stage now standing next to you with a drink. That's the part people come back for.
🗓 AGENDA
5:00 — Doors. Prosecco at the door, snacks out, playlist on. Come early, the flutes are poured.
6:10 — Welcome + keynote: Illia Pashkov, Acton Labs
The authorization gap: what happens between an agent deciding something and the world executing it.
6:15 — Keynote: Aman Mishra, CEO, Unsiloed AI (YC F25)
6:20 — Panel 1 · Agents: Who Authorizes the Agents?
An agent inside a fund just moved money. Who signed off: the developer, the deployer, or the user? Agent payments, agent governance, and where agent startups actually make money today versus where the decks say they will.
Moderated by Olga Vox (Alinea Institute) with Lou Kerner (DAIAA), Aman Mishra (Unsiloed AI), Sharmin Ali (4x founder, ex-Google) and Lidiya Dervisheva (Chromium Ventures).
6:50 — Keynote: Ashton Hettiarachi, OWNX
Own 1: a desktop AI computer you actually own. He's bringing one.
6:55 — Panel 2 · Atoms: Hardware Is Back. Can Venture Math Work on Physical AI?
Software gave VC 80% margins and zero capex. Robotics, quantum and space give it neither. Three builders, two investors, one question: is this a venture asset class, or are funds quietly becoming LPs in capex businesses?
Moderated by Rachel Rose (Onchain Media) with Ashton Hettiarachi (OWNX), Lisa Yu (99.VC), Tatiana Petkova (Q-CTRL), Danil Kislinskiy (GGW Ventures) and Alec Valas (Odyssey Capital).
7:25 — Keynote: Oren Barzilai, Founder & CEO, Equitybee
State of the pre-IPO secondary market, in numbers. What's moving, at what discount, who's buying.
7:30 — Panel 3 · Allocators: Pre-IPO, Secondaries & the Crowded AI Trade
Which AI names employees are most desperate to sell right now. Direct shares vs forwards vs SPVs, and how you know you're buying real stock in a closed cap table. A family office and a $20M emerging fund looking at the same name: who gets in, and what's the allocation nobody admits to.
Moderated by Illia Pashkov with Oren Barzilai (Equitybee), Roberto Menendez (Multi-Family Office) and Devon Kelley (Nightbird Capital).
8:00 — Closing keynote: Trevor Koverko, Co-Founder, Sapien
What the human data layer under every model is actually worth.
8:15 — Rooftop opens. Bar, music, shrimp cocktail, the whole speaker lineup. Until 10.
🎤 WHO'S IN THE ROOM
Illia Pashkov — Acton Labs / The Agent Times (host)
Lou Kerner — Founder, DAIAA
Devon Kelley — General Partner, Nightbird Capital
Roberto Menendez — Partner, Multi-Family Office
Lisa Yu — General Partner, 99.VC
Oren Barzilai — Founder & CEO, Equitybee
Lidiya Dervisheva — General Partner, Chromium Ventures
Trevor Koverko — Co-Founder, ARC / Sapien
Sharmin Ali — 4x Founder, ex-Google
Alec Valas — Managing Partner, Odyssey Capital
Olga Vox — Founder, Alinea Institute
Aman Mishra — CEO, Unsiloed AI (YC F25)
Tatiana Petkova — Product, Quantum, Q-CTRL
Danil Kislinskiy — General Partner, GGW Ventures
Rachel Rose — Founder, Onchain Media
Ashton Hettiarachi — Founder, OWNX
👥 WHO SHOULD COME
Founders building in AI, robotics and frontier hardware. Investors, allocators and family offices. Operators at AI labs and at the startups that will be pre-IPO in three years. It's a curated room, registration is subject to approval, and we're capped at capacity. First in, first in.
📍 THE VENUE
Temple San Francisco, 540 Howard St. Panels and welcome drinks on the main floor. The rooftop opens at 8:15 and nobody goes up before that. Trust us on this one.
🥂 WHAT'S INCLUDED
Welcome prosecco at the door, food and snacks through the night, every panel and keynote, and the rooftop+bar.
SPONSORS
Acton Labs
Building the authorization layer for AI agents: the control point between an agent deciding to act and the world letting it. If an agent can move money, sign, or ship, Acton Labs is the part that decides whether it should.
www.actonlabs.ai
Equitybee
Equitybee gives institutional investors access to leading private companies at an average discount of ~70% to their latest preferred valuation, by funding employees' stock option exercises.
www.equitybee.com
Unsiloed AI
The document layer for enterprise AI. Unsiloed turns complex PDFs, scans, images and spreadsheets into structured, LLM-ready data, so AI agents and applications can actually read and reason over enterprise documents.
www.unsiloed.ai
MEDIA PARTNERS
The Agent Times
The news layer for the agent economy. Coverage, data and interviews on the companies building autonomous agents, the infrastructure underneath them, and the capital funding them. Every speaker tonight gets a published interview.
www.theagenttimes.com
Human Layer Media
AI news and analysis for business leaders, with a weekly Monday livestream featuring industry speakers.
www.humanlayermedia.com
This event is part of #SFTechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at tech-week.com.
We're the official happy hour and afterparty for the Open Source x Sovereign AI track.