​What will society look like after powerful AI, and what must we build now to make sure it works for everyone?

​As progress continues to accelerate, we need to create spaces to meet and discuss: what kind of world do we actually want, and how can we design systems that make it real?

​Schedule

​Venue: The Loft, 122 North St, Healdsburg

• ​10:30am — Light Snacks

• ​11:00am — Opening Remarks – Timour Kosters + Cyber Fund

• ​11:05am — Stepan Gershuni & Vitaly Kleban (cyberFund): Cybernetic Economy

• ​11:25am — Ben Fielding (Founder, Gensyn): Keynote: AI as Infrastructure — what comes next?

• ​12:00pm — Jan Liphardt (Founder, OpenMind): Urban Robotics

• ​12:15pm — Andy Matuschak: Tools for “tools for thought”

• ​12:40pm — Ryan Lowe (Meaning Alignment Institute, ex OpenAI): Full Stack Alignment

​1:00pm-2:00pm — Break: grab food in town and hang at the Plaza or check out The World's Fair in the main Hub at 405 Healdsburg

• ​2:00pm – 2:40pm – Lightning Talks

  • ​2:00pm — Sam Green (Cambrian): A Survey of Recent Breakthrough Applications in Reinforcement Learning;

  • ​2:10pm — Bayley Wang (PrismaX): AI, Robotics, and You

  • ​2:20pm — Daljeet Virdi (OpenBlock): How Crypto Solves Agent-to-Agent Coordination
    

• ​2:40pm — Professor Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford / Path Integral): Toward the AI Scientist Era

• ​3:00pm — BREAK

• ​3:15pm — Dr. Charles H. Martin (WeightWatcher): Signatures of Emergence of AGI

• ​3:30pm — Eugene Cheah (Featherless): Post-protocol AI coordination

• ​3:50pm — Jeff Amico & Gabriel Andrade (Gensyn): Wisdom of the Crowd: Why Decentralized AI wins

• ​4:30pm — Guthrie Gintzler (Founder, Qualia Energy, Ex-Tesla Semi Truck): Sovereignty and Energy Independence in the AI Age

​5pm-6pm: Stay for the Edge Esmeralda Community Demo Day in The Loft

​Key Info

​Main Venue: The Loft, 122 North St, Healdsburg

​Other things happening at the village:

• ​Sunday 12pm-2pm: The World's Fair by World Foundation / Tools for Humanity — check out this fair during the lunchbreak. Address: 405 Healdsburg Ave.

• ​If you want to explore the town, we recommend going to the Healdsburg Plaza to hang out and meet with other attendees.

• ​If you want to stay at Edge Esmeralda longer, please grab a discounted ticket here. Use code CYBER30. The final week will be focused on Emergent Futures. More info on the programming here.

​Event Description

​​The Cybernetic Society Summit gathers builders, researchers, economists, and systems thinkers to explore the next layer:

• ​​What kind of scientific, economic, political, and social architectures do we want in a world of ambient intelligence?

• ​​How can we build technical foundations - open models, decentralized systems, resilient infrastructure - that ensure AI is in tune with broad human flourishing?

​​This is a working forum. Come to think, engage, and help shape the future at the intersection of AI, society, and open systems.

​This event is part of the Edge Esmeralda popup village and is a great chance to visit for the day.

​Organizing Partners

• ​Edge City: a society incubator that gathers people at the frontiers of tech, science, and society in popup villages around the world.

• ​cyber•Fund: cyber•Fund is backing the founders at the frontier to help catalyze the inevitable emergence of the cybernetic world.

• ​Gensyn: Gensyn is building the network for machine intelligence - execution, communication, verification, and coordination software for machine learning operations to be performed, programmatically and permissionlessly, on every capable device in the world.

• ​Blockchain Builders: a fund supporting frontier founders from the Stanford ecosystem who are building the cryptographic infrastructure for digital society — from decentralized AI coordination to provenance, ownership, and trusted data systems.

​Why Now

​We are still early enough to design the foundations of a future we want, before they're locked in by inertia, monopolies, or misaligned incentives.

​This is a chance to be part of that design process while the shape of the world is still being drawn.

​​This week is a track within the larger event of Edge Esmeralda, a month long event building toward a brighter future as a collaboration between Edge City and Esmeralda.