

Open Source AI Summit Lisbon
Open Source AI Summit is coming to Lisbon on January 9th! Co-hosted by KryptoPlanet and NEAR Protocol, this will be the 8th Open Source AI Summit, first time in Lisbon. This will be an important side event after BUIDL Europe, at the new coworking hub The Nest. Talks will consist of 20 min solo presentations and fireside chats and topics will be AI focused.
KryptoPlanet started the Open Source AI Summit series in 2024 and since then hosted 7 successful events in SF, NYC, Seoul, Stanford, Brussels, Singapore, and Bangkok. In Seoul, Open Source AI Summit was coupled with BUIDL AI Hackathon on April 11-13.
Previous talk videos can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmCpr-EMcmEwVed9rJWhMgiVgs3eunntw
Agenda:
13:00pm - 13:30pm Registration and introduction
13:30pm - 13:50pm Solo presentation by Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder at NEAR Protocol
Talk title: "Who Owns Intelligence?"
13:55pm - 14:20pm Fireside chat between Illia Polosukhin, Co-founder at NEAR Protocol and Stepan Gershuni, VC at cyber.fund
Session title: "AI and Intent Economy"
14:25pm - 14:45pm Solo presentation by Advait Jayant, Chief Strategy Officer at OpenGradient
Talk title: "Infrastructure for the Agentic World: Why We Can't Build the Future on Closed Black Boxes"
14:50pm - 15:10pm Solo presentation by Kyrylo Kirykov, CTO & Co-Founder at Datrics AI
Talk title: "Secure Agentic Payments in real life"
15:15pm - 15:35pm Solo presentation by Christine Yip, Co-founder at Ensue
Talk title: "Why agent memory feels solved - until it suddenly isn’t"
15:40pm - 16:10pm Investor fireside chat by Lacey Wisdom, General Partner at PL Capital and Stepan Gershuni, VC at cyber.fund
Moderator: Cameron Dennis, Head of AI at NEAR Foundation
16:15pm - 16:35pm Solo presentation by Cameron Dennis, Head of AI at NEAR Foundation
Talk title: "NEAR’s Private AI Stack: Models, Agents, and Memory"
16:40pm - 17:00pm Solo presentation by Albiona Hoti (albicodes)
Talk title: "The End of Extractive Apps: Designing for User Agency"
See you soon at Open Source AI Summit Lisbon!