Sentient Salon | New York Edition
Sentient Salon — New York Edition
Where open AGI builders actually talk.
No pitches. No demo booths. Just the sharpest minds in open AGI and decentralized compute, having the conversations that usually only happen at the afterparty.
What to expect
A 4-hour evening built around real conversation. Panel sessions tackling the hard problems. A debate. A happy hour where collaborations actually form. 300+ guests across the night — balanced between builders, investors, founders, and enterprise partners.
Agenda → 5:00 PM · Doors open → 5:30 PM · Introduction → 6:40 PM · Panel session → 7:10 PM · Debate → 7:40 PM · Happy hour
Come if you're
Shipping AI agents, models, or infrastructure on decentralized rails. Building compute networks, coordination layers, or AGI tooling. Researching open intelligence systems. Or investing in the stack that makes all of it possible.
The track record
Three Sentient Salons delivered in 2026 — Consensus HK (800+ registrations), Nvidia GTC (700+), BUIDL Asia (300+). NYC is expected to be our biggest yet.
About Us
Sentient Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring Artificial General Intelligence remains open-source and aligned with humanity. Operating with neutrality and transparency at its core, the Foundation promotes global adoption of open-source AGI, champions alignment and safety standards, distributes grants to developers worldwide, and coordinates governance frameworks for responsible AI development.
Sentient Labs is the technical research and product organisation of Sentient Foundation. Pioneering applied research in reasoning, alignment, and multi-agent coordination, the Labs build open-source frameworks and models that demonstrate the power of community-driven artificial intelligence. This includes enabling monetization of open-source tools, improving the quality and utility of the open-source AI ecosystem through ecosystem-wide coordination, and providing the distribution needed to make open-source the default standard in AI.
Product agnostic · Ecosystem-first · Depth over breadth.