Daniel Ong - Jan.ai 

With the recent buzz around AI PCs, Nvidia, Windows, Intel have all jumped in with competing visions for how Local AI will work in the future.

In this talk we’ll cover how Local AI works at a software and hardware level, and how the different ecosystems of Nvidia, Windows, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and more both compete and cooperate to enable Local AI.

Daniel is the founder of the Homebrew Computer Company, which builds tools to run local AI. He is the lead maintainer for:

Silicon Valley is buzzing again. Dozens of nightly AI meetups, packed co-working spaces, and a lot of hype. But the real action isn’t in a postal code. It’s on GitHub.
This talk breaks down why JavaScript is powering the AI boom globally, and why you don’t need a Valley badge to be part of it. Just open an issue and commit.
AI-assisted development is becoming part of modern workflows. The goal isn’t to redefine open source. It’s to make sure that as tools evolve, accountability, transparency, and maintainership stay intact.

Swyx - Founder of smol.ai and host of Latent Space Podcast

Swyx is visiting from San Francisco and will be sharing about the state of AI and The Rise of the AI Engineer.

CEO of Langchain will be with us from San Francisco to give a talk about Deep Agents.