Sentient Salon | HK Edition
Sentient Salon | Consensus HK Edition | Where Open AGI Builders Actually Talk
The Concept
We gather in intimate spaces—no stages, no pitches, just builders, researchers, and VCs exchanging ideas on AI agents, coordination systems, and decentralized compute. Think living room conversations with the sharpest minds in the space.
Panel discussions that tackle real problems. Happy hour where collaborations form. The kind of gathering where you leave with three new Signal threads because someone just described your exact challenge from a different angle.
What Happens
4:30 – 4:55 PM | Arrival
Doors open. Grab a drink. Meet the people building decentralized intelligence before anyone takes a stage.
5:00 – 5:30 PM | Panel: AI Agent Coordination—The Next Big Question
Three builders who are actually shipping + one moderator.
The hard problems: How do agents coordinate without gatekeepers? What's blockchain's actual role? Where does human-machine coordination break down?
5:50 – 6:20 PM | Panel: Building the Foundation
VCs investing in AI agent infrastructure talk about what they're funding, where the gaps are, and what actually scales.
6:20 – 8:00 PM | Happy Hour
The programming ends. The real work begins.
This is where you meet your next collaborator, find the person solving your exact problem, or finally have that technical debate that's been sitting in your drafts folder.
You Should 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 and need collaborators
Investing in or supporting the decentralized AI stack
Our Philosophy
We believe the best technical conversations happen in rooms small enough to actually talk. No pitch competitions. No demo booths. No investor speed dating. Just engineers, researchers, and builders who want to go deeper than LinkedIn allows.
Our principles:
Product Agnostic
Ecosystem-first
Depth
About Us
Sentient is an open-source AI lab producing state-of-the-art AI research and architecting the GRID: the coordination layer and accelerator for open-source AI development that connects builders, investors, and enterprises into one ecosystem
HashKey Capital backs the infrastructure layer of Web3 and decentralized systems across APAC, with a portfolio spanning blockchain technology, AI, and digital asset innovation.