Democratize Intelligence

​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.