Flower AI Day: Collaborative Superintelligence

Flower AI Day returns this year as AI enters a new phase. The frontier of AI is no longer defined by single, isolated, closed models. Increasingly, it is being pushed forward by open agents and models working together, combining their capabilities and improving collectively. We call this collaborative superintelligence, and it will be the focus of Flower AI Day 2026. Expect a world-class afternoon and evening program featuring some of the top thinkers and builders in AI. This year’s speakers include Nicolas Dessaigne (GP, Y Combinator), Lucas Atkins (CTO, Arcee AI), Daniel Beutel (CEO, Flower), Tanya Roosta (AMD), James Casaletto (NASA), Jared Josleyn (Sanofi), Anthony Annunziata (Founder, AI Alliance / IBM), Nic Lane (CSO, Flower), Jerry Watkins (US Department of Energy), Bryce Pickard (President, OBI), Patrick Foley (Flower), Henning Fehrmann (CEO, Fehrmann), Diran Apelian (Distinguished Professor, UC Irvine) and Javier Fernandez (Flower). Join us for technical talks, new Flower tech and demos, expert firesides and panels, and plenty of opportunities to meet others building open, collaborative, and production-ready AI systems. The Dawn of Collaborative Superintelligence Flower AI Day will explore the technologies defining the emerging frontier of collaborative superintelligence, from cutting-edge research to systems already being deployed by ambitious organizations and enterprises: Agent teams for long-horizon complex work Open-source AI especially post-trained base models exceeding closed frontier AI systems AI Grids and forms of distributed inference that maximize networked AI resources Multi-agent systems combining specialist capabilities and guided by user supervision Local AI, supporting on-device and private frontier-level open-weight LLMs Decentralized training for foundation models using multi-site compute and data Federated learning and analytics methods targeting sensitive data domains Sovereign, compliant, and privacy-preserving model lifecycles AI requiring confidential compute, attestation, governance, and policy enforcement Real-world enterprise AI deployments in healthcare, automotive, teleco, finance, and manufacturing Explore the preliminary agenda below, with sessions on open models, enterprise AI, private AI, and self-improving systems. Flower AI Day 2026 Our program kicks off early in the afternoon on Wednesday, September 30, bringing together the Flower community for an afternoon and evening of technical talks, demonstrations, discussion and networking. We are delighted to be hosting Flower AI Day at The Pearl in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, at the heart of a fast-growing AI and startup district around Y Combinator, OpenAI and Mission Bay. All attendees will receive our world-famous Flower swag, and the program will include several catered social and networking sessions. The day will conclude with an evening reception featuring a buffet dinner, open bar, complimentary cocktails and drinks. This year’s registered attendees come from organizations including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, AWS, Stanford, UC Berkeley, JPMorgan Chase, MGX, Together AI, Lightning AI, and Arcee AI. Join them for an afternoon and evening of technical discussion, shared ideas, and networking. Preliminary Agenda 1:00 PM — Registration and Reception Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee. 1:30 PM — Welcome and Flower Keynote A first look at brand new Flower tech for collaborative superintelligence, with demos of open agents and models that tackle frontier level AI tasks including long-horizon work. 2:10 PM — Building the Open Frontier Together From 80B-scale model training to open models that organizations can build on and improve together. Explore how decentralized training and collaboration across institutions can put frontier capability into more hands. 2:30 PM — Fireside Chat: Open Source and the Race to Superintelligence 3:00 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking 3:20 PM — Scaling Enterprise AI Without Giving Up Control A view from the front line of collaborative AI. How large organizations are putting AI to work across private data and organizational boundaries, and deploying hybrid open models with federated methods. What does it take for these systems to deliver lasting value? 4:00 PM — Private AI for High-Stakes AI Outcomes and Work From trade secrets to regulated workflows in healthcare and finance, explore how local AI and confidential computing can help organizations put AI to work where data exposure is costly and compliance is non-negotiable. The potential extends beyond business value to breakthroughs that benefit us all, from new medicines to better safety and security. 4:30 PM — Refreshment Break and Networking 4:45PM — The Next Leap Is Self-Improving AI Move beyond saturated benchmarks to AI that learns and improves collaboratively. Explore how fresh evaluations, real-world feedback, and proprietary data can help models and agents outperform today’s frontier AI on the tasks that matter, turning private knowledge into a shared advantage. 5:15 PM — Panel: AI at a Crossroads. Building a Federated and Collaborative Future. 6:00 PM — Light Dinner and After-hours Party till 8:00 PM