SF TECH WEEK · OCT 6–8, 2026 · SAN FRANCISCO
A three-day track where builders and cryptographers get a working stage, not a pitch-deck stage. Day 1 is sovereign AI for builders. Day 2 is encryption for enterprise AI. Day 3 merges both into an open source unconference and ends with demo night.
Hosted by Apollo Innovation Commons · Headline sponsor: TrustedRouter
Three days
Day 1 · Oct 6
What it takes to ship on open weights: open weights and who gets to build, self-hosting and inference infrastructure, on-device inference, and export controls on shipping open weights internationally.
Day 2 · Oct 7
Running inference on data you can't send to an API: homomorphic encryption for inference, secure enclaves and confidential computing, verifiable compute, and the enterprise sign-off conversation with security and compliance in the room. TrustedRouter headlines.
Day 3 · Oct 8
Two days in: what got built and what broke. Case studies, a policy conversation from the builder side, an open build block, a closing synthesis keynote, and demo night.
How the days work
Breakfast bar + morning panel
Every day opens at 8:15 with coffee, contributors, and a social panel.
Working sessions
75-minute hands-on rooms with running code on screen, not slides. Bring a laptop.
Open build time
Lunch and afternoon blocks reserved for actually building.
Happy hour
5–7 PM every day. Day 3 rolls straight into demo night.
Schedule · 2026-10-06
Sovereign AI for Builders — What it takes to ship on open weights: open weights and who gets to build, self-hosting and inference infrastructure, on-device inference, and export controls on shipping open weights internationally.
8:15–10:00 AM
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10:15–11:30 AM
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11:45 AM–1:00 PM
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1:00–2:00 PM
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2:00–3:15 PM
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3:15–4:15 PM
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4:15–5:00 PM
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5:00–7:00 PM
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Lineup announced soon. We're booking maintainers, applied cryptographers, infrastructure engineers running open models in production, and the security and compliance leads who decide what ships.
OCT 8 · 7:00–9:00 PM
Running code only. Projects with an active repo and a working demo — including ones that came out of the week's working sessions. Doors open at happy hour. Produced by MASS Arts.
Subsidized passes for open source contributors. If you maintain or contribute to an open serving stack, quantization runtime, FHE library, confidential computing project, or open model, apply below. Eligibility details coming.
Who should come
Builders
shipping products on open models
Maintainers
of serving, quantization, FHE, and enclave projects
Cryptographers
and security researchers
Security, compliance, and enterprise AI buyers
who sign off on deployments
Headline sponsor
Host
Anchor labs
Part of
SF Tech Week
Yes. The track runs October 6–8 at Apollo Innovation Commons in San Francisco. Tech Week runs October 5–11.
No. Day 3 works best if you were there for at least one of the first two, but each day stands on its own.
75 minutes, hands-on, running code on screen. Bring a laptop.
On Day 3 the board opens at 8:15 AM. Anyone can propose a session; leads from Days 1 and 2 run follow-on rooms.
Apply in the Contributor Passes section. Eligibility details are coming.
TBA.
Use the form in the Sponsors section.