SF’s “Flower AI Day” Open-source Decentralized Superintelligence (2025)
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San Francisco Ferry Building | 1 Ferry Bldg., San Francisco, CA
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Flower AI Day is set to be a landmark moment for the open-source AI movement featuring keynotes from world-leading engineers and scientists, ground-breaking demos of brand-new Flower technology, and interactive expert-led panels.
Together we will explore the future of open-source decentralized intelligence. More event details found here. Topics will include: Decentralized AI, Federated Learning, Open-source AGI, Confidential Compute and Compliance-ready AI, On-device LLMs, Privacy-preserving Technologies (PETs), Custom LLMs for enterprise data.
Flower AI Day
Thursday, September 25, 2025 | 1p – 8:30p
Shack15, Ferry Building, 1, Suite 201, SF – maps
Get Tickets – $49 limited early bird; $149 regular price – During registration all attendees will receive event-specific merchandise (t-shirts and more)
Preliminary Agenda:
- 1:00 PM — Registration and Reception
Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee. - 1:30 PM — Welcome and Flower Keynote
Early preview of new Flower tech and demos including AI using federations, decentralization, privacy tech, and on-device compute. - 2:00 PM — The Road to Open-source Decentralized AGI
Talks on decentralized training that scale to frontier-quality foundation models. - 2:45 PM — Fireside Chat: Open-source AI — Going All In
- 3:15 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking
- 3:45 PM — Enterprise-scale Federated AI: A View from the Front-line
Real deployments, lessons learned, successes, and emerging patterns inside large organizations. - 4:30 PM — The Power of On-device AI and Confidential Compute for Privacy and Compliance
Speakers cover solutions to privacy, regulation and safety using local AI and/or confidential compute. - 5:00 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking
- 5:30PM — Enabling Universal AI: Every Language, Every Location, Every Application Domain
Unlocking overlooked AI applications and neglected users/regions by improving training data coverage and model eval. - 6:15 PM — Panel: Federated AI is Here. What Happens Next?
- 6:45 PM — Light Dinner and After-hours Party
Confirmed speakers with more surprises to come:
- Sara Hooker; VP of Research, Head of Cohere Labs, Cohere
- Daniel J. Beutel; Co-Founder and CEO, Flower Labs
- Joseph Spisak; Product Director, Generative AI, Meta
- Ce Zhang; CTO Together, Assoc. Prof. (Uni of Chicago)
- Timothy Chou; Lecturer (Stanford), Founder of Pediatric Moonshot
- Nic Lane; Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Flower Labs, Prof. (Uni of Cambridge)
- Sudhir Upadhyay; Head of Engineering, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Our program will kick off early in the afternoon of Thursday, September 25. Together with technical sessions there will be multiple catered social and networking sessions, including an evening reception along with light food. We are delighted to have secured for this event the stunning Shack15 venue in the Ferry Building located in downtown San Francisco.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: $49*
