Join us in New York City or via livestream on Aug 6th, 2024 for the Summit on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence 2024 – Future of Decentralization and AI, organized by Berkeley RDI.
The Summit 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.
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 Moderator: Sam Broner (Investment Partner, a16z) |
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| Session II: Foundations of Decentralized AI (I) | |||||||||||
| 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 Moderator: Ruoxi Jia (Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech) |
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| 11:45am-1:00pm | Lunch | ||||||||||
| Session III: Foundations of Decentralized AI (II) [Session Chair: Arthur Gervais] | |||||||||||
| 1:00-2:00pm | Keynote: OML: Open, Monetizable, Loyal — the Era of AI Entrepreneurship Pramod Viswanath (Professor, Princeton; Core-contributor 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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| A Waterlog for Large Language Models Ian Miers (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland; Lead Research 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 [Session Chair: Tanusree Sharma] | |||||||||||
| 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 Sun (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) 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) |
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| 4:10-4:50pm | Innovators Showcase
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| 4:50-6:00pm | Closing Remark, Reception and Poster Session | ||||||||||
This is a side event for The Science of Blockchain Conference 2024