Democratize Intelligence Summit #3
DEMi3 is a free, invite-only action summit designed for ambitious builders making AI open, democratic, and publicly aligned.
Incredible things can happen when we're bringing together hundreds 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 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 two tracks:
Research & Infrastructure
model development & training
benchmarking & evaluation
datasets & data governance
compute, GPUs, datacenters
distributed & edge computing frameworks
avant-garde ideas, frontier intellectuals
Coordination & Policy
antitrust policy, IP licensing
incentives & mechanism design
open standards, interoperability guidelines
DEMi3 Speakers include:
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
Emmett Shear
11:30AM - Split Session 1
Talks in each track take place simultaneously on two different stages.
Stage 1: Research & Infrastructure
Ben Bolte
Jan Liphardt
Amir Gholaminejad
Bilge Acun
Justus Mattern
Trevor McCourt
Stage 2: Policy & Coordination
Andrew Byrnes
Isabel Hahn
Giulia Genetti
Daniel Zhang
Michael Tsai
Simeon Bochev
1:00PM - Office Hours 1
Chat with your favorite speakers in a relaxed, semi-private setting.
1:30PM - Lunch
2:00PM - Split Session 2
Stage 1: Research & Infrastructure
Edward Hu
Chip Huyen
Carmen Li
Berivan Isik
Jacob Buckman
Vladimir Karishev
Stage 2: Policy & Coordination
Divya Siddarth
Bill Shi
Michael Tsai
Greg Tanaka
Kevin Park
3:30 PM - Office Hours 2
4:00PM - Split Session 3
Stage 1: Research & Infrastructure
Jeremy Nixon
Eugene Cheah
Denis Timonin
Vitaly Kleban
Andrew Cote
Jesse Schmidt
Chase Denecke
Stage 2: Policy & Coordination
Matt Parlmer
Andy McIntosh
Charles Rosenbauer
Trent Steen
Cormac Siegfried
Paul Hainsworth
Chris Catoya
Nick Simmons
5:30PM - Office Hours 3
6:00PM - Dinner
6:30PM - Hack Party
Area 1 - Rave: Neon lights. Disco music. Sketchpads and snacks in every corner. It’s a high-energy party where you build what matters.
Area 2 - Lounge: Dim the lights. Lo-fi beats. Curl up in a cozy beanbag nest and sink into deep work.