The Summit on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence —— Future of Decentralization and AI, hosted by Berkeley RDI, aims to bring together researchers, innovators, thought leaders, and builders to showcase and discuss responsible innovation in decentralization and AI for a greater future for humanity.
In particular, the event will include topics on how AI/ML and decentralization technology can help each other, and how to build a full decentralized, open source stack for AI/ML, including 1) decentralized ML infra such as decentralized training, inference, provenance, integrity guarantees, 2) open source data, model, and tooling, 3) personalized AI with privacy and trustworthiness; 4) democratic and decentralized process for AI governance and alignment. We hope this summit will provide an opportunity for researchers from diverse backgrounds including AI/ML, Security & Privacy, game theory, economics, decentralization technology, to get together and cross pollinate to help seed the initial discussions in this important space and make advancement in responsible AI with decentralization.
Date: August 6, 2024
Venue: Verizon Center, Cornell Tech Campus, Roosevelt Island, NYC
Note that for access, registration approval is required for security purposes.
Program Schedule
| 8:45am | Door open; refreshment; coffee |
| 9:15am | Opening remark: Dawn Song (Professor, UC Berkeley) |
| Session I: Open Source AI | |
| 9:30-10:35am |
LMs Inside-Out
Sasha Rush (Associate Professor, Cornell Tech; Hugging Face) |
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Building a Global AI Safety Benchmark
Mala Kumar (Director of Program Management, AI Safety, MLCommons) |
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What Issues Are Blocking AI Adoption? A Decentralization Perspective
Dean Wampler (Head of Technology for the AI Alliance, IBM Research) |
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| Panel: Open Source vs. Closed Source; What's Needed to Make Open Source Win | |
| Session II: Decentralized AI, Cryptography & Confidential Compute | |
| 10:35-11:45am |
Keynote: Touching Points of Cryptography and AI
Moti Yung (Research Scientist, Google) |
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Decentralized Confidential AI: Federated Learning with Confidential Computing
Chester Chen (Senior Manager, NVIDIA) |
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Keynote: Responsible, Democratized AI for All
Dawn Song (Professor, UC Berkeley) |
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| Panel: Cryptography/Confidential Compute and Decentralized AI | |
| 11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch |
| Session III | |
| 1:00-2:00pm |
Keynote: OML: Open, Monetizable, Loyal -- the Era of AI Entrepreneurship
Pramod Viswanath (Professor, Princeton; Co-Founder of Sentient) |
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Decentralized AI Ecosystem
DC Builder (Research Engineer, Worldcoin Foundation) |
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Fair Data Attribution at Scale
Ruoxi Jia (Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech) |
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Governing People's Values in Multimodal Generative AI Models with Democratic Platform
Tanusree Sharma (Incoming Assistant Professor, Penn State University) |
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Zero-knowledge proof and applications to ML
Ian Miers (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland; Founding Scientist, Aleo Foundation) |
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zkML: GKR Based Solution for Scalable and Verifiable ML
Tiancheng Xie (CTO, Polyhedra Network) |
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| Session IV: Research Spotlight | |
| 2:00-2:25pm |
Implementing High Performance Zero-Knowledge ML Provers
Lilia Tang (PhD Student, UIUC) |
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CoServe: Building Decentralized Services for Collaborative Large Language Model Inference
Xiaoyuan Liu (PhD Student, UC Berkeley) |
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Decentralized Orchestration for Training Deep Neural Networks
Abhishek Singh (PhD Student, MIT) |
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Empowering Data Sovereignty: A Decentralized Intelligence Network
Abraham Nash (PhD Student, University of Oxford) |
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Combating Misinformation in the Age of LLMs
Canyu Chen (PhD Student, Illinois Institute of Technology) |
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SolMover: Smart Contract Code Translation Based on Concepts
Rabimba Karanjai (PhD Student, University of Houston) |
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| 2:25-2:40pm | Break |
| Session V: DeAI in the Field: Data, Infrastructure and Agents | |
| 2:40-3:50pm |
Part I: The Decentralized Data Paradigm
Anna Kazlauskas (Co-Founder/CEO, Vana) Sean Ren (Co-Founder/CEO, Sahara AI) Scott Dykstra (Co-Founder/CTO, Space & Time) Brendan Playford (Co-Founder/CEO, Masa) Moderator: Dmitriy Berenzon (Partner, Archetype) |
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Part II: Decentralized AI Agents
Xyn Song (Researcher, Flashbots) Ron Bodkin (Co-Founder/CEO, Theoriq) Sishir Varghese (Founder, Spectral Labs) Mike Hanono (Founder/CEO, Talus) David Minarsch (Co-Founder/CEO, Valory & Olas) Moderator: Matt Stephenson (Research Partner, Pantera Capital) |
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Part III: DeAI Infrastructure: Challenges & Opportunities
Ben Fielding (Co-Founder/CEO, Gensyn) Anish Agnihotri (Founding Member, Ritual) Nick Emmons (Co-Founder/CEO, Allora Labs) Michael Heinrich (Co-Founder/CEO, 0G Labs) Dylan Zhang (Co-Founder/CEO, Pond) Moderator: Danny Sursock (Principal, Archetype) |
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| Session VI: Future of Decentralized AI and Innovators Showcase | |
| 3:50-4:10pm |
Fostering Decentralized AI: Insights from VCs
Haseeb Qureshi (Managing Partner, Dragonfly) Dovey Wan (Founding Partner, Primitive Ventures) Jake Brukhman (Founder/CEO, CoinFund) |
| 4:10-4:50pm |
Innovators Showcase
More info coming soon |
| 4:50pm | Closing Remark |
| 5:00-6:00pm | Reception and Poster session |
The Summit is hosted by Berkeley RDI, a multi-disciplinary campus-wide center, focusing on advancing the science and technology of decentralization and decentralized intelligence, to make it universally accessible and empower a responsible digital economy.
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