Open Intelligence Summit

October 12–13, 2026The Midway, San Francisco
  • Amplitude
  • Bolt.new
  • Daytona
  • DigitalOcean
  • Inferact
  • LanceDB
  • Nous Research
  • NVIDIA
  • OpenHands
  • Open Router
  • RadixArk
  • Hugging Face
  • Arcee
  • E2B
  • Applied Compute
  • MiniMax
  • Bright Data
  • VAST Data
  • Fivetran
  • dbt Labs
  • LiquidAI
  • supabase
  • Premise

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

Where openness wins

More choice, better economics, faster innovation, and more control.

A practical playbook

What it takes to keep intelligence portable, interoperable, and owned.

Who it’s for

Builders who want choice, innovation, and control over their future.

Agenda

Day 0: Workshop

Monday, October 12
  1. 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

    Kickoff the Open Intelligence Summit with a day of building.

    Ship a real project with open weights, open infra, and open agents.

Day 1: Summit

Tuesday, October 13
  1. 11:30 AM

    Registration and light lunch

  2. 1:00 PM

    Keynote

    Speakers:

    Paddy SrinivasanDigitalOcean
    Vinay KumarDigitalOcean
    Adel El HallakNVIDIA
  3. 2:15 PM
    BUILD

    Resilient, Elastic Infrastructure for Continual Learning

    Speakers:

    Linden LiApplied Compute
    SERVE

    Building Better Agents with Specialized Open Models

    Speakers:

    Shashank VermaNVIDIA
    Archana KamathDigitalOcean
    RUN

    5 Minutes to Build an Agent with Nous Research

    Speakers:

    Sam HerringNous Research
    Malcolm Ah KunDigitalOcean
  4. 2:45 PM
    BUILD

    Build an Open Multimodal Data Stack for Search, Curation, and Training

    Speakers:

    Lei XuLanceDB
    SERVE

    More Models, One stack: How to Choose and Serve Open Models

    Speakers:

    Peter WalkerOpenRouter
    Alex NailsRadixArk
    Viviana MárquezLiquid AI
    Victor Su OrtizMiniMax
    RUN

    Beyond the CLI: Automating the SDLC with Agents

    Speakers:

    Robert BrennanOpenHands
  5. 3:40 PM
    BUILD

    Portable by Design: Open Standards for Agent Data, Memory, and Context

    Speakers:

    Dinesh MurthyDigitalOcean
    Or LenchnerBrightData
    Alon HorevVAST
    George Fraserdbt Labs
    Brad GygerSupabase
    SERVE

    Serving vLLM on Agentic Production Workloads

    Speakers:

    Yifan QiaoInferact (vLLM)
    RUN

    Shipping Products Customers Love on an Open Stack

    Speakers:

    Vanessa LarcoPremise
    Ivan BurazinDaytona
    Spenser SkateAmplitude
    Eric SimonsBolt
  6. 4:20 PM

    Closing Panel: What’s next in Open Intelligence?

    Speakers:

    Salman ParachaDigitalOcean
    Jeff BoudierHugging Face
    Lucas AtkinsArcee
    Vasek MlejnskyE2B
  7. 4:45 - 6:30 PM

    Celebrate the future of Open Intelligence

    Enjoy a social hour with refreshments, treats from Somi Somi, and tunes with Rico Avila

Speakers

Nous Research
Sam Herring

Sam Herring

Machine Learning Engineer, Nous Research

Digital Ocean Logo
Paddy Srinivasan Photo

Paddy Srinivasan

CEO, DigitalOcean

NVIDIA
Adel El Hallak

Adel El Hallak

VP of Product, NVIDIA AI

NVIDIA
Shashank Verma

Shashank Verma

Product Research Manager, NVIDIA

LiquidAI
Viviana Marquez

Viviana Márquez

Member of Technical Staff, Developer Relations, LiquidAI

Nous Research Logo
Robert Brennan Photo

Robert Brennan

Co-founder and CEO, OpenHands

Lance DB Logo
Lei Xu Photo

Lei Xu

Co-founder and CTO, LanceDB

Inferact Logo
Yifan Qiao

Yifan Qiao

Founding Member of Technical Staff, Inferact

Digital Ocean Logo
Archana Kamath Photo

Archana Kamath

VP, Engineering, DigitalOcean

Daytona
Ivan Burazin

Ivan Burazin

Co-founder and CEO, Daytona

Digital Ocean Logo
Vinay Kumar Photo

Vinay Kumar

CPTO, DigitalOcean

Amplitude Logo
Spenser Skates Photo

Spenser Skates

Co-founder and CEO, Amplitude

Open Router
Peter Walker

Peter Walker

Head of Insights, OpenRouter

RadixArk Logo
Alex Nails

Alex Nails

Member Technical Staff, RadixArk

DigitalOcean
Salman Paracha

Salman Paracha

SVP AI, DigitalOcean

Bolt.new
Eric Simons

Eric Simons

Co-founder and CEO, Bolt

Hugging Face
Jeff Boudier

Jeff Boudier

VP of Product, Hugging Face

Arcee
Lucas Atkins

Lucas Atkins

CTO, Arcee

E2B
Vasek Mlejnsky

Vasek Mlejnsky

Co-founder and CEO, E2B

Applied Compute
Lindin Li

Linden Li

Co-founder and Chief Architect, Applied Compute

MiniMax
Victor Su Ortiz

Victor Su Ortiz

Global Product Marketing Manager, MiniMax

Bright Data
Or Lenchner

Or Lenchner

CEO, Bright Data

Fivetran + dbt Labs
George Fraser

George Fraser

CEO, Fivetran + dbt Labs

VAST Data
Alon Horev

Alon Horev

CTO, VAST Data

Supabase
Brad Gyger

Brad Gyger

VP of Success, Supabase

Premise
Vanessa Larco

Vanessa Larco

Co-founder, Premise

Frequently asked questions

Open Intelligence Summit by DigitalOcean & NVIDIA

From Hacktoberfest to the tutorials that millions of developers learn on, DigitalOcean has backed open source for years. Across the AI-Native Cloud, that means open models, open inference, and open choices across the stack. The Open Intelligence Summit is part of our contribution to openness, innovation, and community.