Open Source AI Summit 2026 San Francisco

The Open Source AI Summit explores an alternative ecosystem rooted in independence and decentralization, where individuals build, run, and own their intelligence.
For two days, we'll explore the technical, economic, philosophical, and geopolitical dimensions of open-source AI. Topics will span open models and local inference to verifiable hardware, AI economics and safety, and the right to compute.
Speakers include:
David Sacks, Founder & Partner, Craft Ventures
Ravin Kumar, Staff Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
Vincent Weisser, CEO & Co-Founder, Prime Intellect
Jeff Boudier, VP of Product, Hugging Face
Noah Smith, Senior Director of NLP Research, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Denny Lee, PM Director, Startups & Ecosystems, Databricks
Ahmad M. Osman, Founder & CEO, Osmantic
Tanya Verma, Co-Founder & CEO, Tinfoil
Travis Oliphant, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenTeams
Zain Hasan, Staff AI/ML Engineer, DX, Together AI
Rory Donovan-Maiye, Sr. Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Greg Lukianoff, President & CEO, FIRE
Niko McCarty, Founding Editor, Asimov Press
Alex Komoroske, CEO & Co-Founder, Common Tools
Steve Lee, Lead, Spiral
Curtis Spencer, Partner & Co-Founder, Electric Capital
Conner Brown, Executive Director, Bitcoin Policy Institute
Jordan Mecom, Staff Security Engineer, Block
Michael Millerman, Founder, Millerman School
Jasper Hugo, Developer on Goose, Spiral
Ken Egan, Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute
Jesse Posner, CEO, Vora
Timothy Kassis, PhD, Co-Founder & CTO, KDense
Ilan Strauss, Economist, AI Disclosures Project
Mark Suman, Co-Founder & CEO, Maple
Ramez Naam, Investor & Award-Winning Author
Tess Posner, Founder & CEO, Resonance
Nick George, Head of Hardware, Vora
Lance Vick, Co-Founder & CTO, Caution
Douwe Osinga, Developer on Goose, Spiral
Justin Moon, AI Lead, Human Rights Foundation
Rob Hamilton, Co-Founder & CEO, AnchorWatch
Kyle Olney, Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute
Dustin Dannenhauer, Founder, Delegance AI
Elias Rohrer, Developer, Spiral