NEARCON is where intelligence, privacy, and the open web converge.
An invite-only gathering shaping an AI economy built on trust, transparency, and user ownership.
Join founders, researchers, and builders redefining how intelligent systems run — private, open, and on your terms.
What to Expect?
Visionary keynotes from global AI and open technology pioneers.
Live agent demos and hands-on workshops.
Deep dives on why privacy is the key to user-owned AI at scale.
Debates between industry leaders on adoption, ethics, and billion-dollar use cases.
Partner activations and a dedicated builders lounge.
Speakers
Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol
Co-Founder
Jessica Scrimale
Oracle
Vice President, Product Strategy, AI
Lukasz Kaiser
OpenAI
Researcher
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Live Schedule
Location: Singularity
Welcome Remarks
Chris Briseno
NEAR Foundation — Chief Marketing Officer
Location: Singularity
The Unified Commerce Layer for the Agentic Era
AI agents are quickly becoming economic actors, with personal assistant frameworks taking actions and transacting on behalf of people and businesses. Illia explains how NEAR AI and NEAR Intents are converging as the unified commerce layer, driving agentic commerce across all asset types and providing secure, private infrastructure for AI tools.
Illia Polosukhin
NEAR Protocol — Co-Founder
Location: Singularity
Autonomous Systems In Practice
How real autonomous systems are assembled, evaluated, and constrained in practice, beyond demos and single-model abstractions.
Nalin Mittal
Google — Product Lead, Web3
Matt White
Linux Foundation — Global CTO AI, Linux Foundation. CTO, Agentic AI Foundation. CTO, PyTorch
Noëlle Becker Moreno
Edge & Node — CMO Edge & Node, Co-Founder of The House
Cameron Dennis
NEAR AI — Director of AI, Growth & Infra
Location: Singularity
Scaling Intelligence and Generalization
Why generalization, not raw scale, determines whether modern AI systems become usable, reliable intelligence in the real world.
Lukasz Kaiser
OpenAI — Researcher
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