SF TECH WEEK · OCT 6–8, 2026 · SAN FRANCISCO
Open Source & Sovereign AI
Every organization is asking the same questions. How do we use AI without giving away our IP? How do we keep costs predictable as usage grows? How much of our AI should we own? This three-day track brings enterprise leaders, builders, and researchers together to work through the answers with open-weight models and sovereign AI. Day 1 is about owning your AI stack. Day 2 is about keeping your IP private. Day 3 brings both together in an open unconference and ends with demo night.
Hosted by Apollo Innovation Commons and Advanced AI Society · Sponsored by TrustedRouter.com, anyeval.com, NYTokenExchange.com
Three days
Day 1 · Oct 6
Owning Your AI Stack
The strategic case for sovereign AI: when open-weight models make sense, what it really costs to run your own versus renting from a frontier lab, and how to stay free of any single vendor's pricing and policies.
Co-hosted by Outcast Ventures
Day 2 · Oct 7
Keeping Your IP Private
How organizations put AI to work on their most sensitive material, from trade secrets and product plans to customer and regulated data, and the privacy protections and governance that let security, legal, and compliance teams say yes. TrustedRouter headlines.
Day 3 · Oct 8
The Sovereign Enterprise
Day 3 turns the first two days into practice. Organizations already running AI on their own terms open their playbooks in sign-up case studies, the afternoon belongs to an unconference where attendees convene the rooms, and the evening closes with Demo Night. You leave with working playbooks, people you can call, and a plan for putting AI to work on your own terms.
How the days work
Doors + coffee
Doors open at 8:00 every day with coffee and mingling. Day 1 opens at 10:00, Day 2 with opening notes, and Day 3 with unconference sign-ups.
Panels + talks
Mornings carry the day's central question: an opening panel on Day 1, panels on open source history and AI policy on Day 2, and attendee-led case studies on Day 3.
Working sessions + roundtables
Lunch with roundtables every day, with topic tables on Day 3 that anyone can sign up to host. Afternoons hold Day 1's builder mixer and demo tables, Day 2's working sessions, and Day 3's open unconference.
Happy hour
Day 1 from 5:30 to 7:00, Day 2 from 6:00 to 8:00, and Day 3 from 5:00 to 7:00, rolling straight into Demo Night at 7:00.
Schedule · 2026-10-06
Schedule
Owning Your AI Stack — The strategic case for sovereign AI: when open-weight models make sense, what it really costs to run your own versus renting from a frontier lab, and how to stay free of any single vendor's pricing and policies.
Venues announced to registered participants · Co-hosted by Outcast Ventures
Doors, coffee, mingling and check-in
Opening
Opening panel: Open Verification: Expanding Open Source Ethos Into Agentic AI
Break
Talks: Embedded Governance for Fiduciary AIs; Who Does Your AI Remember For? Sovereign Memory for People and Their Agents
Break
Lunch + roundtables
Lightning talks: Who Owns What We Know? Open Standards for Sovereign AI in the Age of Collective Intelligence; Whose GPU Is This, Anyway?
Break
Builder mixer + demo tables
Talk and live demo: Deterministic Laws for Probabilistic Minds, with a live KYA-OS demo
Panel: The Agentic World: Agentic Memory in Open Source
Panel curated by Learning Layer Labs
Open Source Happy Hour + Demos
Speakers
We've curated a lineup that pairs the people making AI decisions right now, CTOs, CISOs, general counsel, and finance leaders, with the researchers and open source builders creating the tools that make sovereign AI possible. The full lineup will be announced October 3.
OCT 8 · 7:00–9:00 PM
Demo Night
Sovereign AI you can see working. Teams show products and tools that keep data private, bring AI costs down, or run on open models, including projects that came out of the week's sessions. Doors open at happy hour. Produced by MASS Arts.
Contributor passes
Subsidized passes for open source contributors. If you build or maintain an open model, a privacy tool, or the infrastructure that lets organizations run AI on their own terms, apply below. Eligibility details coming.
Who should come
Enterprise leaders
CTOs, CIOs, and AI leads deciding what to build, buy, or own
Security, legal, and compliance
the people who protect IP and sign off on deployments
Finance and operations
leaders watching AI spend and looking for predictable costs
Builders and researchers
creating open models and privacy tools
Sponsors & partners
Host
Advanced AI Society builds the open verification ecosystem for AI security and agentic governance.
Day 1 co-host
Anchor labs
Part of
SF Tech Week
FAQ
Is this 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.
Do I need to attend all three days?+
No. Day 3 works best if you were there for at least one of the first two, but each day stands on its own.
What's a working session?+
A 75-minute conversation built around a real decision, led by practitioners who have made it. Expect candid tradeoffs, real numbers where people can share them, and plenty of time for questions.
What's the unconference?+
On Day 3 the board opens at 8:00 AM. Anyone can propose a session; leads from Days 1 and 2 run follow-on rooms.
How do I get a contributor pass?+
Apply in the Contributor Passes section. Eligibility details are coming.
Will sessions be recorded or streamed?+
TBA.
How do I sponsor or partner?+
Use the form in the Sponsors section.