The Flagship Open AGI Summit Returns to Denver Amid a Global Surge in Open-Source AI

The Open AGI Summit, a leading open source AI conference, will convene in Denver on February 19, 2025, for a full day of programming addressing one of technology’s defining questions: should Artificial General Intelligence be controlled by a handful of corporations, or built openly by the researchers, engineers, and communities who believe intelligence should be accessible to everyone?

Presented by Sentient, the summit will bring together researchers, founders, and builders working across AI and crypto to explore how decentralized intelligence can be developed transparently, ethically, and without centralized control.

The explosive rise of autonomous AI agents, from OpenClaw’s 150,000+ GitHub stars to fully onchain agents executing transactions and governance, has made one thing clear: the future of AI is agentic, and it’s being built in the open. This year’s summit will explore why Web3 infrastructure, including decentralized compute, tokenized incentives, verifiable execution, and open-source frameworks, is not just complementary but essential to building AI agents that are trustworthy, composable, and owned by their communities rather than corporations.

“Closed AI represents the greatest heist of public knowledge in all of human history. As AGI becomes more powerful, the risk is that a handful of corporations, countries or even individuals control the intelligence that shapes our economies, our institutions, and our daily lives. The Open AGI Summit brings together the researchers, engineers, and builders who believe there is another path, one where intelligence is built in the open, governed transparently, and aligned with the public interest rather than concentrated power.”
— Himanshu Tyagi, Co Founder, Sentient

The Seventh Edition

The Denver event marks the seventh Open AGI Summit. Since launching in Denver in 2024, the summit has grown into a global series with editions in Brussels, Bangkok, Cannes, and Buenos Aires. This seventh edition represents the third time the community has gathered in Denver, returning to where the movement began.

The summit will serve as a meeting point for those shaping the future of AI, blockchain, and open infrastructure, with programming designed to encourage collaboration across ecosystems.

Program Highlights

The event will feature presentations and panels from leaders at Coinbase, Consensys, MetaMask, Base, Billions, Ethereum Foundation, Zama, and Aztec, alongside keynotes from Prisma X, Gensyn, and Sentient Labs. Sessions will cover AI agents, DeFi AI, privacy-preserving systems, open source model training, and governance at scale.
Previous editions have featured Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum Foundation, and Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO at Coinbase and GP at a16z.

A Global Movement for Open AGI

The Open AGI Summit is part of a broader movement committed to ensuring AGI remains open, accessible, and aligned with public interest rather than concentrated corporate power. As the debate over AI governance intensifies and regulatory frameworks take shape worldwide, the summit provides a forum for those building alternatives to closed, corporate-controlled AI development.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM MST 
Location: Upper Larimer, 3034 Larimer St, Denver, CO 80205 
Registration: Complimentary tickets available at luma.com/6khv7iq9 (application required)

For more information, visit openagi.xyz

About the Open AGI Summit

The Open AGI Summit is a leading open source AI conference that brings together researchers, developers, and communities united by the shared conviction that AGI must remain open and accessible to everyone.

Media Contact: marketing@sentient.foundation 

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