Flower AI DAY 2025

Open-source Decentralized Superintelligence has arrived.

Flower AI Day is set to be a landmark 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. We are gathering together due to a fast evolving change in the AI landscape that will impact everything: Open-source Decentralized Super Intelligence has arrived.

Flower AI Day will explore the rapid arrival of open-source decentralized superintelligence. Core relevant sub-topics include:

on-device LLMsprivacy-preserving technologies (PETs)decentralized AIfederated learningcompliance-ready AIconfidential computeenterprise-scale fed AI deployments

Agenda

1:00 PM

☕️ Registration and Reception

Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee.

1:25 PM

Welcome and Opening

Nic Lane - Flower Labs

1:30 PM

Decentralized Superintelligence

Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs

2:00 PM

From OpenFL to Flower

Patrick Foley - Flower Labs

2:15 PM

Foundation Models with Flower

Nic Lane - Flower Labs

2:30 PM

☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking

3:00 PM

Fireside Chat: Joseph Spisak (Meta)

Host: Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs

3:30 PM

Talk: Sara Hooker (Ex-Cohere)

TIME100 AI, ex-DeepMind

4:00 PM

Talk: Tony James (Red Hat)

Chief Architect, Science and Space

4:25 PM

☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking

4:45 PM

Fireside Chat: Ce Zhang (Together AI)

Host: Nic Lane - Flower Labs

5:20 PM

Talk: Sudhir Upadhyay (Kinexys by J.P. Morgan)

Head of Engineering

5:35 PM

Flower SuperGrid

Chong Shen Ng - Flower Labs

5:45 PM

☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking

6:00 PM

Talk: Anna Kazlauskas (Vana)

CEO of Open Data Labs and Co-Founder of Vana

6:15 PM

Flower Intelligence

Charles Beauville - Flower Labs

6:30 PM

Panel: Federated AI is Here. What Happens Next?

Li Erran Li, Kevin Leffew, Sudhir Upadhyay, Pan Heng & Patrick Foley

7:15 PM

🍸 Dinner and Open Bar Reception

Featured speakers

More speakers coming soon

Tony James

Chief Architect, Science and Space

Sara Hooker

VP Research, Head of Cohere Labs

Sudhir Upadhyay

Head of Engineering

Anna Kazlauskas

CEO of Open Data Labs and Creator of Vana

Ce Zhang

CTO at Together AI

Joseph Spisak

Product Director, Generative AI

Daniel J. Beutel

Co-Creator of Flower

Li Erran Li

Head of Science, HIL Team

Kevin Leffew

GTM Lead and Co-Creator of x402

Nicholas Lane

Co-Founder & CSO

Join us for our next event

Decentralized AI Hackathon 2025

SEPT. 26

Flower Labs is bringing builders, researchers, and the open-source community together at Stanford University for a full day of hands-on building, lightning talks, and demos—shaping the future of decentralized intelligence. Participation is free, but spots are limited, register today.

Learn more

What to expect at Flower AI Day? Check out Flower AI Summit from early 2025.

Catch the best of Flower AI Summit 2025, March 26–27 in London — don’t miss the announcements of Flower Intelligence and COLLECTIVE-1 and talks from Mozilla, Databricks, Vana, Owkin, Hugging Face, Intel and Nvidia. Now available online.