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| With Nicolas Dessaigne (GP, Y Combinator), Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee AI), Daniel Beutel (CEO, Flower), Tanya Roosta (AMD), James Casaletto (NASA), Jared Josleyn (Sanofi), Anthony Annunziata (Founder, AI Alliance / IBM), Nic Lane (CSO, Flower), Jerry Watkins (US Department of Energy), Bryce Pickard (President, OBI), Patrick Foley (Flower), Henning Fehrmann (CEO, Fehrmann), Diran Apelian (Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine) and Javier Fernandez (Flower). |
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Sep 30 (Wed) @ 01:00 PM
FREE
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Flower AI Day returns this year as AI enters a new phase. The frontier of AI is no longer defined by single, isolated, closed models. Increasingly, it is being pushed forward by open agents & models working together, combining their capabilities & improving collectively. We call this collaborative superintelligence, & it will be the focus of Flower AI Day 2026.
Expect a world-class afternoon & evening program featuring some of the top thinkers & builders in AI. This year's speakers include Nicolas Dessaigne (GP, Y Combinator), Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee AI), Daniel Beutel (CEO, Flower), Tanya Roosta (AMD), James Casaletto (NASA), Jared Josleyn (Sanofi), Anthony Annunziata (Founder, AI Alliance / IBM), Nic Lane (CSO, Flower), Jerry Watkins (US Department of Energy), Bryce Pickard (President, OBI), Patrick Foley (Flower), Henning Fehrmann (CEO, Fehrmann), Diran Apelian (Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine) & Javier Fernandez (Flower).
Join us for technical talks, new Flower tech & demos, expert firesides & panels, & plenty of opportunities to meet others building open, collaborative, & production-ready AI systems.
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The Dawn of Collaborative Superintelligence
Flower AI Day will explore the technologies defining the emerging frontier of collaborative superintelligence, from cutting-edge research to systems already being deployed by ambitious organizations & enterprises:
Agent teams for long-horizon complex work
Open-source AI especially post-trained base models exceeding closed frontier AI systems
AI Grids & forms of distributed inference that maximize networked AI resources
Multi-agent systems combining specialist capabilities & guided by user supervision
Local AI, supporting on-device & private frontier-level open-weight LLMs
Decentralized training for foundation models using multi-site compute & data
Federated learning & analytics methods targeting sensitive data domains
Sovereign, compliant, & privacy-preserving model lifecycles
AI requiring confidential compute, attestation, governance, & policy enforcement
Real-world enterprise AI deployments in healthcare, automotive, teleco, finance, & manufacturing
Explore the preliminary agenda below, with sessions on open models, enterprise AI, private AI, & self-improving systems.
Flower AI Day 2026
Our program kicks off early in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 30, bringing together the Flower community for an afternoon & evening of technical talks, demonstrations, discussion & networking.
We are delighted to be hosting Flower AI Day at The Pearl in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, at the heart of a fast-growing AI & startup district around Y Combinator, OpenAI & Mission Bay. All attendees will receive our world-famous Flower swag, & the program will include several catered social & networking sessions. The day will conclude with an evening reception featuring a buffet dinner, open bar, complimentary cocktails & drinks.
This year's registered attendees come from organizations including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, AWS, Stanford, UC Berkeley, JPMorgan Chase, MGX, Together AI, Lightning AI, & Arcee AI. Join them for an afternoon & evening of technical discussion, shared ideas, & networking.
Preliminary Agenda
1:00 PM - Registration & Reception
Check in for badge & swag. Network over coffee.
1:30 PM - Welcome & Flower Keynote
A first look at brand new Flower tech for collaborative superintelligence, with demos of open agents & models that tackle frontier level AI tasks including long-horizon work.
2:10 PM - Building the Open Frontier Together
From 80B-scale model training to open models that organizations can build on & improve together. Explore how decentralized training & collaboration across institutions can put frontier capability into more hands.
2:30 PM - Fireside Chat: Open Source & the Race to Superintelligence
3:00 PM - Refreshment Break & Networking
3:20 PM - Scaling Enterprise AI Without Giving Up Control
A view from the front line of collaborative AI. How large organizations are putting AI to work across private data & organizational boundaries, & deploying hybrid open models with federated methods. What does it take for these systems to deliver lasting value?
4:00 PM - Private AI for High-Stakes AI Outcomes & Work
From trade secrets to regulated workflows in healthcare & finance, explore how local AI & confidential computing can help organizations put AI to work where data exposure is costly & compliance is non-negotiable. The potential extends beyond business value to breakthroughs that benefit us all, from new medicines to better safety & security.
4:30 PM - Refreshment Break & Networking
4:45PM - The Next Leap Is Self-Improving AI
Move beyond saturated benchmarks to AI that learns & improves collaboratively. Explore how fresh evaluations, real-world feedback, & proprietary data can help models & agents outperform today's frontier AI on the tasks that matter, turning private knowledge into a shared advantage.
5:15 PM - Panel: AI at a Crossroads. Building a Federated & Collaborative Future.
6:00 PM - Light Dinner & After-hours Party till 8:00 PM
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