Where openness wins
More choice, better economics, faster innovation, and more control.
Own your intelligence.
The argument is no longer “is open source AI cheaper.” It’s now “who owns intelligence.” A movement is forming around Open Intelligence: the belief that the intelligence powering our products and companies should be more open, portable, and controllable.
Join DigitalOcean, Nous Research, OpenHands, RadixArk, Inferact, and more for deep dives, demos, and discussions about the technologies that keep intelligence portable, interoperable, and in the hands of builders.
What you’ll leave with
A practical playbook
What it takes to keep intelligence portable, interoperable, and owned.
Who it’s for
The gathering place for open intelligenceBuilders who want choice, innovation, and control over their future.
Agenda at a glance
BUILD
Start with your data and your alpha.#
Explore how open intelligence gets built and made your own, from data, signals, and open weights to fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, synthetic data, and post-training.
SERVE
Control the intelligence economics.#
Go inside the open inference stack, from serving engines and runtimes to routing, caching, GPU utilization, latency, throughput, and multi-model orchestration.
RUN
Own the end user interaction.#
See how intelligence is used through open harnesses, agents, tools, and protocols, including agent workflows, memory, tool use, MCP, and user-facing applications.
Featured speakers
Additional speakers to be announced
Thomas Eastman
Head of Strategy, Nous Research
Paddy Srinivasan
CEO, DigitalOcean
Shashank Verma
Product Research Manager, NVIDIA
Viviana Márquez
Member of Technical Staff, Developer Relations, LiquidAI
Robert Brennan
Co-founder and CEO, OpenHands
Lei Xu
Co-founder and CTO, LanceDB
Yifan Qiao
Founding Member of Technical Staff, Inferact
Archana Kamath
VP, Engineering, DigitalOcean
Ivan Burazin
Co-founder and CEO, Daytona
Vinay Kumar
CPTO, DigitalOcean
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Spenser Skates
Co-founder and CEO, Amplitude
Peter Walker
Head of Insights, OpenRouter
Alex Nails
Member Technical Staff, RadixArk
Salman Paracha
SVP AI, DigitalOcean
Eric Simons
Co-founder and CEO, Bolt
Jeff Boudier
VP of Product, Hugging Face
Lucas Atkins
CTO, Arcee
Vasek Mlejnsky
Co-founder and CEO, E2B
Linden Li
Co-founder and Chief Architect, Applied Compute
Victor Su Ortiz
Global Product Marketing Manager, MiniMax
Or Lenchner
CEO, Bright Data
George Fraser
CEO, Fivetran + dbt Labs
Alon Horev
CTO, VAST Data
Help shape the open intelligence movement.
Open Intelligence is built by the people who show up. Share what you’re building on stage, or put your brand behind the future of open intelligence.