Road to Agentic Future
Description
The world is rapidly embracing AI, yet many still lack a clear understanding of how technologies like LLMs and AI agents are evolving and impacting real-world applications.
This event aims to bridge that gap by exploring the current state of AI—from foundational models and enabling protocols to the rise of multi-agent systems.
By gathering leading experts and companies, the event will offer practical insights into the infrastructure, services, and innovations driving the AI ecosystem, helping attendees better grasp how these tools are shaping the future of work and business.
Date&Time: April 15th, 16:30 - 22:00 pm
Venue: Hyundai Card Understage (Itaewon)
Event Program
16:30 - 17:00 Registration
17:00 - 17:15 Opening: Beyond the Edge of Imagination - Taewoo Park / Spacebar Ventures
17:15 - 17:45 AI & Gaming Infrastructure of the Future - Mark Rydon, Cofounder / Aethir
17:45 - 18:15 Own your AI: Hosting your own AI inference nodes with Gaia - Matt Wright, CEO / GAIA
18:15 - 18:45 Fireside chat: Web3 in the Age of AI: Why It Matters, How It Wins- Gaia, Virtuals, HabiliAI
18:45 - 19:00 Breaktime
19:00 - 19:30 The future of AI: Collaborative AI Agent Society on Web3 - Dennis Park, CEO / HabiliAI
19:30 - 20:00 Why Programmable Data - Josh Benaron, Founder / Irys.xyz
20:00 - 20:30 The Future of AI is Specialized: Why General Models aren’t Enough - Ramkumar, Core contributor / OpenLedger
20:00 - 21:30 Networking
About the hosts:
ABC (AI Blockchain Community) is a community for anyone interested in the intersection of AI and Web3. We aim to provide opportunities to share cutting-edge knowledge, discuss the future direction of the industry, and build a network and ecosystem together. ABC helps participants to grow collectively by providing resources and inspiring each other.
Spacebar Ventures is a VC & Accelerator firm specialized in crypto investment, supporting early-stage projects building in Web3.0 and Artificial Intelligence. We primarily focus on the intersection between Blockchain and AI along with facilitating the mass adoption of Web3 through innovative infrastructures.
INF CL is a leading acceleration company in Korea, empowering global projects such as Aethir, 0g Labs, SUI and Uniswap to successfully enter the Asian market. Leveraging our expertise, CL also operates a GPU cloud business through INF CloudLab, providing high-end GPUs (H100, A100) via cloud services to domestic AI startups and major universities, accelerating breakthroughs in AI research and development.
Co-hosts & Sponsors:
Aethir is revolutionizing DePIN with its Scalable Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure (DCI) for Gaming & AI. Founded in 2021, Aethir has over $150M in funding, distributed 90,000+ Checker Node licenses, backed by Framework Ventures, Sanctor Capital, Animoca Brands, Hashkey and more. Aethir counts 2M+ community members and currently has access to 3000+ NVIDIA H100s.
Gaia is a decentralized computing infrastructure that enables everyone to create, deploy, scale, and monetize their own AI agents that reflect their styles, values, knowledge, and expertise. A GaiaNet node consists of a high-performance and cross-platform application runtime, a finetuned LLM, a knowledge embedding model, a vector database, a prompt manager, an open API server, and a plugin system for calling external tools and functions using LLM outputs.
Irys is that vision realized—something beyond a datachain, beyond data storage. It's something entirely new: the world's first programmable datachain, where data doesn't just exist; it becomes active, fluid, valuable across applications. And it's this evolution—from passive to programmable—that marks the true primitive.
Nillion is a decentralized data storage and computation network and an accompanying a suite of tools that together allow builders to build novel, powerful applications that leverage high-value data in a safer way. Its modular and flexible architecture makes it possible to leverage cutting-edge cryptographic techniques to accomplish this, enabling both more secure versions of existing workflows and unlocking new opportunities.
Hyundai Card is a leading financial services company in Korea known for its innovative, lifestyle-focused credit card offerings. Beyond its core business, Hyundai Card has made significant investments in artificial intelligence, developing its proprietary AI platform, UNIVERSE, to drive hyper-personalization and operational efficiency. The company also exports its AI solutions internationally and partners with fintech firms to enhance customer experience through data-driven insights.