A discussion of why privacy matters, the lack of privacy in popular products like ChatGPT and Claude, and different approaches and trade-offs to achieving it, including TEEs, homomorphic encryption, and local AI.

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Tanya Verma (Co-Founder & CEO, Tinfoil)

Mark Suman (Co-Founder & CEO, Maple)

Curtis Spencer (Partner & Co-Founder, Electric Capital)

Shruthi Gorantala (Software Engineer, Private Computing, Google)

Matt White will moderate a conversation with Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA.

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An exploration of what China’s rise in competitive open-weight models means for American AI leadership, global influence, export controls, and the case for a U.S. open-weights strategy.

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Travis Oliphant (CEO & Co-Founder, OpenTeams; Creator of NumPy & SciPy)

Kyle Olney (Senior Advisor, Bitcoin Policy Institute)

Ken Egan (Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute)

Every security guarantee in an AI system eventually rests on silicon almost no one can inspect. Three teams working that problem share their approaches. Vora is building a personal AI appliance with its own secure element. Caution is building verifiable compute out of Distrust’s open-source supply-chain work. Sudo’s Project SOVereign is an attempt at a maximally open source, fully verifiable, security-first chip.

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Jesse Posner (CEO, Vora)

Nick George (Head of Hardware, Vora)

Lance Vick (Co-Founder & CTO, Caution)

Sudo ML (Steward, Project SOVereign)

A look at why the Human Rights Foundation cares about open-source AI, how AI is shaping human freedom, and why open, user-controlled technology matters for protecting individual rights.

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Justin Moon (AI Lead, Human Rights Foundation)

A discussion on what’s being built at the intersection of open-source AI and science, and how open models, agentic skills, and local infrastructure can uniquely support scientists and help accelerate scientific discovery.

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Niko McCarty (Founding Editor, Asimov Press)

Rory Donovan-Maiye (Sr. Research Scientist, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

James Sinka (Founder, Reactorfield)

Tanishq Abraham (CEO, Sophont)

As AI becomes embedded across the enterprise, a company’s most valuable assets increasingly include what it uniquely knows: proprietary data, trade secrets, institutional knowledge, intellectual property, and the collective intelligence built over decades. This talk explores how open-source AI and sovereign data infrastructure can allow organizations to capture the transformative value of AI without surrendering control of the knowledge that creates their competitive advantage.

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Tess Posner and Alex Komoroske sit down to explore why today’s technology so often leaves us alienated and disempowered, why AI represents a critical crossroads, and what it would take to build a more resonant computing future grounded in human agency, connection, and flourishing.

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Alex Komoroske (CEO & Co-Founder, Common Tools)

Tess Posner (Founder & CEO, Resonance)

This panel explores how AI-powered security scanning is reshaping the race between attackers and defenders in open-source software. The conversation covers finding and triaging vulnerabilities, responsible disclosure, protecting maintainers from malicious reports, and why access to open-weight models is becoming essential to defending critical code.

Panelists: Steve Lee (Lead, Spiral) · Elias Rohrer (Developer, Spiral) · Jordan Mecom (Staff Security Engineer, Block) · Rob Hamilton (Co-Founder & CEO, AnchorWatch)

Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org

A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin.

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This panel explores why open protocols are essential to building an interoperable AI ecosystem. The conversation covers standards for agent identity, communication, payments, and memory, and how they can reduce lock-in, create open markets, and enable new forms of collaboration between humans and agents.

Panelists: Max Webster (Founder, Hivemind Ventures) · Tom Brow (Applied AI, Block) · Ilan Strauss (Economist, AI Disclosures Project) · Sam Herring (Developer, Nous Research) · Roland Bewick (Developer, Alby)

Recorded at the Open Source AI Summit, September 10–11, 2026, in San Francisco’s Presidio. The summit brought together 150 builders and advocates to explore open, private, and local AI across technology, science, policy, economics, and philosophy. opensourceaisummit.org

A big thanks to the sponsors: Buzz, Vora, Bitcoin Policy Institute, OpenTeams, and Presidio Bitcoin.

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