Accelerating Open Innovation with Collaborative DevelopmentAn AI Alliance Meetup | June 24, 2026 | New York, New York
The rules of AI are being rewritten, and the question isn't just who builds the most powerful models: It's who controls them, who trains them on what data, and whether the global economy runs on shared infrastructure or a handful of proprietary stacks.
The AI Alliance brings together 200+ organizations - researchers, enterprises, and sovereign institutions - to build open, federated AI that no single actor controls. On June 24th, we're convening leaders from across this ecosystem for an afternoon of frank conversation, technical depth, and real partnership.
📅 Agenda
2:00 PM — Doors Open & Refreshments
2:30 PM — Welcome & Introductions (Dean Wampler, AI Alliance)
Part 1: Sovereign Models (2:40 – 4:00 PM) The geopolitics of foundation models. How open-weights, federated training, and cultural alignment are reshaping who gets to build — and who gets to decide.
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The global landscape: open source, closed source, and the sovereignty gap
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Cultural alignment and multilingual AI
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Consortium training: building frontier models as a commons
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Data: navigating the spectrum from private to fully open
4:00 PM — Break
Part 2: Sovereign Applications (4:15 – 5:30 PM) What sovereign AI looks like in production. Lightning talks on enterprise deployment, validated infrastructure patterns, and real-world workflows.
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Industry implications: finance, telecom, and beyond
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Validated Patterns: deploying open AI at scale
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Lightning talks from practitioners
5:00 - 6 PM — Food & Networking
This is an AI Alliance event.Speakers may include: Our noted Science Advisor, Yann LeCun, and leaders across our members including IBM, Red Hat, Mozilla, AMD, ServiceNow, Morgan Stanley, and the broader AI Alliance ecosystem. (Speaker lineup to be confirmed.)
Space is limited to 125 attendees. Due to capacity, our team will confirm registration closer to event date.
Please note: registration closes 48 hours before the event to submit confirmed registrations to the building.
Code of Conduct We expect our members to treat each other like family, so please click here to read our Code of Conduct. If you see someone violating it, please speak with your event organizer or reach out to event hosts on this page.
The AI Alliance is a non-profit community of 200+ member companies, including leading enterprises, researchers, and over 50K individuals. Through world-class events, online events, and workshops, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.
