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Open, local & sovereign AI

Choose where AI runs and who controls its foundations. These talks connect open protocol governance, open-weight models, on-device and distributed inference, model portability and sovereignty with practical cost and privacy decisions.

7 published talks

Talks about open, local & sovereign ai

Who Keeps It Open?

Manik SurtaniCTO and co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation

Every generational shift in computing produces plumbing that everyone depends on. TCP/IP, HTTP, the container runtime. And every time, there is a…

Local AI and the End of the Cloud Default

Lukas WesemannCo-founder, CEO, Base Compute

Most AI today runs in the cloud, where every token costs money and every input leaves your device. Now AI agents are running around the clock with…

Skippy: The Little Inference Engine That CUDA

James DumayFounder, Stealth AI Startup

Daniel Winter-WijntjesCo-CEO and Founder, Stealth AI Startup

What happens under the hood when you run a large language model? This talk explores Skippy, a custom inference engine built for Mesh on top of…

Sovereignty Is an Inference Problem

Leo BorgesChief Engineer - GenAI, Commbank

AI sovereignty isn’t about where the GPUs sit. It’s about who can switch the intelligence off. Australia is spending billions on sovereign AI…

Office-Brain and the Night Shift: What Happens When You Turn Off the Meter

Mark PesceCo-Founder, Noops

"Good enough" AI now runs on a reasonably beefy laptop. Qwen3.8-27B benchmarks at an Intelligence Index of 52 - roughly the best money could buy back…