Democratize Intelligence Summit #3
DEMi3 is a free, invite-only action summit designed for ambitious builders making AI easier to use and develop.
Incredible things can happen when we're bringing together 500+ of the world's most brilliant engineers, researchers, and founders committed to creating a more open future for AI.
If you're a high-agency builder of any kind, this event is for you.
Sign up for our two-day open-source AGI hackathon: you'll be shipping new software by Sunday.
Join our policy workshops with a draft or idea; publish your latest white paper before you leave.
DEMi3 presents four tracks to help you connect your project with the right resources:
Research
model development & training
benchmarking & evaluation
datasets & data governance
Infrastructure
compute, GPUs, datacenters
distributed & edge computing frameworks
Coordination
antitrust policy, IP licensing
incentives & mechanism design
open standards, interoperability guidelines
Avant-Garde
novel perspectives. renegade intellectuals.
frontier ideas opening the Overton window
DEMi3 Speakers:
Emmett Shear - ex-OpenAI CEO; Founder of Softmax; Co-Founder & Former CEO at Twitch
Edward Hu - Inventor of LoRA and μTransfer; ex-OpenAI, ex-Microsoft Research
Andrew Byrnes - Tech Policy Advisor & Attorney; ex-Obama Admin; Senior Legal Director at Uber
Simeon Bochev - Co-Founder & CEO of Compute.Exchange; Ex-Apple Head of AI Infra, Head of Strategy Lambda
Trevor McCourt - Co-Founder & CTO at Extropic; PhD (abd) MIT. Quantum AI at Google.
Chip Huyen - Former Stanford CS lecturer; open-source ML lead at SnorkelAI; ML at NVIDIA, Netflix; author of AI Engineering (2025)
Ben Bolte - Founder of K-Scale Labs Robotics; ex-Tesla, Meta, Google, Amazon.
Denis Timonin - Founder & CEO at FlyMy.AI, Former Lead AI Architect at NVIDIA
Chris Catoya - Executive Director at The cadCAD Foundation; Co-Founder of DNS.xyz
Jeremy Nixon - Founder of AGIHouse (SF, Hillsborough); Ex-Google Brain; Mathematics at Harvard
Michael Tsai - Former Elected Commissioner of Milpitas; Chairman of the Board at Santa Clara County
Jacob Buckman - Co-Founder & CEO at Manifest.AI
Andrew Côté - Founder of Hyperstition Incorporated
Berivan Isik - Research Scientist at Google (LLMs, Data & Evals)
Bilge Acun - Research Scientist at Meta FAIR (Fundamental AI Research); Ex-IBM Watson; PhD CS, ML Optimization.
Jesse Schmidt - Neuroscience & AI Researcher, Instructor, and Consultant
Event Program:
10:00AM - Check-ins & Opening Remarks
Kyle Morris - Founder of Democratize Intelligence
Stepan Gershuni - VC Principal at cyber•Fund
10:50AM - Keynote Speech
TBA
11:30AM - Split Session 1
Choose your track: Panels, roundtables, and fireside chats in each field take place simultaneously on four different stages.
1:00PM - Office Hours 1
Chat with your favorite Split Session speakers in a more back-and-forth, relaxed, semi-private setting.
1:30PM - Lunch
2:00PM - Split Session 2
3:45 PM - Office Hours 2
4:15PM - Unconference
You're the conference planner now! Whether you’re here to make connections, learn new ideas, or build stuff, now’s the time you gather a small group and set your own agenda.
5:30PM - Dinner
6:30PM - Hack Party
Part 1 - Rave: Neon lights. Disco music. Sketchpads and snacks in every corner. It’s a high-energy party where you build what matters.
Part 2 - Lounge: Dim the lights. Lo-fi beats. Curl up in a cozy beanbag nest. It’s deep work time.