Every organization is asking the same questions. How do we use AI without giving away our IP? How do we keep costs predictable as usage grows? How much of our AI should we own? This three-day track brings enterprise leaders, builders, and researchers together to work through the answers with open-weight models and sovereign AI. Day 1 is about owning your AI stack. Day 2 is about keeping your IP private. Day 3 brings both together in an open unconference and ends with demo night.

October 6-8, 2026 · San Francisco · Part of SF Tech WeekHosted by Apollo Innovation Commons. Day 1 host: Outcast Ventures. Headline sponsor: TrustedRouter.

WHO SHOULD COME

  • Enterprise leaders: CTOs, CIOs, and AI leads deciding what to build, buy, or own

  • Security, legal, and compliance teams who protect IP and sign off on deployments

  • Finance and operations leaders watching AI spend and looking for predictable costs

  • Builders and researchers creating open models and privacy tools

HOW THE DAYS WORK

Builders' curiosity about best practices with open-weight models is at an all-time high. Each day is designed for expert discussions, builder feedback, demo tables, and connective networking.

  • Doors and coffee at 8:00 AM every day

  • Panels, talks, and working sessions where practitioners share what they chose, what it cost, and what they would do differently

  • Lunch roundtables every day, with demo tables and a builder mixer on Day 1

  • Happy hour every evening: until 7:00 PM on Day 1, until 8:00 PM on Day 2, and Day 3 rolls into demo night

DAY 1 · TUE OCT 6 · OWNING YOUR AI STACK

The strategic case for sovereign AI: when open-weight models make sense, how to verify what your AI is doing, and how to build trust infrastructure for humans and agents. Hosted by Outcast Ventures at the Old GitHub office in SoMa. Curated by Tricia Wang of the Advanced AI Society.

  • 8:00-10:00 AM Doors, coffee and check-in

  • 10:00-10:30 AM Opening with Apollo Innovation Commons, TrustedRouter, Outcast Ventures and Tricia Wang (Advanced AI Society)

  • 10:30-11:10 AM Panel: Open Verification: Expanding Open Source Ethos Into Agentic AI, with Joseph Perla (TrustedRouter), Michelle Finneran Dennedy (Abaxx Technologies) and Mo Sadek (Alice), moderated by Tricia Wang

  • 11:30 AM-12:10 PM Talks: Embedded Governance for Fiduciary AIs, Richard Whitt (GliaNet Alliance) · A Unified Trust Infrastructure for the Internet of Humans and Agents, Junius Ho (Affinidi)

  • 12:30-1:30 PM Lunch + Roundtables

  • 2:00-2:40 PM Lightning talks: Who Owns What We Know?, Dr. Joshua Shinavier (Cognisee) · Whose GPU Is This, Anyway?, Craig Thayer (DC3 Network)

  • 3:00-4:00 PM Builder Mixer + Demo Tables

  • 4:00-4:40 PM Talk + live demo: Deterministic Laws for Probabilistic Minds, Dylan Hobbs (Vouched)

  • 4:40-5:30 PM Closing panel with Devinder Singh Sodhi (Learning Layer Labs) and guests

  • 5:30-7:00 PM Open Source Happy Hour + Demos

DAY 2 · WED OCT 7 · KEEPING YOUR IP PRIVATE

How organizations put AI to work on their most sensitive material, from trade secrets and product plans to customer and regulated data, and the privacy protections and governance that let security, legal, and compliance teams say yes. TrustedRouter headlines.

  • 8:00-10:00 AM Coffee + opening notes with Judy Zhou (Apollo Innovation Commons) and Joseph Perla (TrustedRouter)

  • 10:00-11:15 AM Panel: The History and Pitfalls of Open Source, curated by Raymond Cheng (MASQ)

  • 11:30 AM-12:10 PM Panel with Sara Ahmadian and Phil Reiner (title to be announced)

  • 12:30-1:30 PM Lunch + Roundtables

  • 1:30-2:10 PM Your Data, Their Servers: Where Enterprise IP Leaks, with Nathan Argetsinger and Patrick Deegan (Amulet AI)

  • 2:30-3:10 PM Private by Design: Confidential Computing and Encrypted AI, with Amean Asad (Confidential AI) and Anthony Ronning (Maple AI)

  • 3:30-4:10 PM Getting to Yes with Security, Legal, and Compliance, with Irina Marinescu (Continuum Partners): Sovereignty as a Control Issue · The Same Fight: Privacy for Payments and Privacy for AI, Brady Forrest (Sentz Global)

  • 4:30-5:15 PM Proving Privacy: Audits, Attestation, and Trust, with Molly Mackinlay (FilOz): Sovereign AI Needs a Sovereign Cloud, plus showcase demos

  • 5:15-6:00 PM Keynote: The Private AI Enterprise, Joseph Perla (TrustedRouter)

  • 6:00-8:00 PM Open Source Happy Hour + Demos

DAY 3 · THU OCT 8 · THE SOVEREIGN ENTERPRISE

Two days in, bringing it together: case studies from organizations running AI on their own terms, a conversation on data sovereignty and policy, an open unconference, and demo night. The unconference board opens at 8:00 AM and anyone can propose a session.

  • 8:00-10:00 AM Coffee + unconference sign-ups: the board opens for case studies, lunch tables and afternoon sessions

  • 10:15-11:30 AM Case Studies: AI on Our Own Terms, with Hang Yin (Phala Cloud) and attendee case studies by sign-up

  • 11:45 AM-1:00 PM Data Sovereignty and the Policy Horizon, with Tessa Brown (Germ Network) and breakout tables by sign-up

  • 1:00-2:00 PM Lunch + Open Build, with topic tables by sign-up

  • 2:00-5:00 PM Open Unconference, opening with Dustin Dannenhauer (Delegance AI): Engineering Loops and Graphs with Local Models, then 30-minute sessions by sign-up

  • 5:00-7:00 PM Happy Hour

  • 7:00-9:00 PM Demo Night, produced by MASS Arts at Outcast Ventures

DEMO NIGHT · OCT 8, 7:00-9:00 PM

Sovereign AI you can see working. Teams show products and tools that keep data private, bring AI costs down, or run on open models, including projects that came out of the week's sessions. Doors open at happy hour. Produced by MASS Arts at Outcast Ventures.

TAKE PART

Space is limited, so register soon and bring the sovereign AI builders, researchers, and operators in your circle. Propose a Day 3 unconference session, apply to demo, or apply for a contributor pass at opensourcesf.com.

Contributor passes are subsidized for people who build or maintain an open model, a privacy tool, or the infrastructure that lets organizations run AI on their own terms.

Registration is free and reviewed. A $200 sponsor ticket is available for anyone who wants to back the track, and full sponsorship packages are at opensourcesf.com.

ABOUT THE HOST

Apollo Innovation Commons is a civic innovation hub in San Francisco, organized as a lab of labs across AI, biotech, robotics, climate, and the arts. The work is about widening access to the tools, capital, and shared infrastructure that let people build.

Open innovation, here, is a practical commitment: publish what we learn, support the maintainers who keep shared infrastructure running, and keep the people building with these tools in the conversation about how they develop. Large organizations and independent builders both rely on that common layer, which is why this track is built for both.

Anchor labs: Learning Layer Labs and MASS Arts. Headline sponsor: TrustedRouter. Day 1 venue courtesy of Outcast Ventures.Full schedule and speaker updates at opensourcesf.com.