Flower AI Day 2026
Collaborative Superintelligence
September 30, 2026
San Francisco · The Pearl
What a day. Thank you to everyone who joined us in San Francisco or tuned in online. Catch up on all 11 talks below.
Welcome & Collaborative Superintelligence
Daniel J. Beutel, Nic Lane & Charles Beauville
Frontier AI, Owned by Everyone
Anthony Annunziata
Training AI in Space
James Casaletto
AI Meets Materials Science
Henning Fehrmann & Diran Apelian
Move Intelligence to the Data
Javier Fernandez
Building Trust in Healthcare AI
Jared Josleyn
Beyond the Frontier with Flower
Nic Lane
Building Startups in the Age of AI Agents
Nicolas Dessaigne
Training AI Across National Labs
Jerry Watkins
Connecting Brain Research with Federated AI
Bryce Pickard
Inside Arcee AI’s Open Model Bet
Lucas Atkins
The next frontier is collaborative.
Flower AI Day returns as AI enters a new phase. The frontier is moving beyond isolated, closed models toward open agents and models that work together, combine their capabilities, and improve collectively.
Agent teams & open models
Multi-agent systems for long-horizon work and post-trained open models to push beyond the closed frontier.
Distributed training & inference
AI grids, hybrid inference and decentralized training that connect compute and data across multiple sites.
Private & sovereign AI
Local models, federated learning, and confidential computing for sensitive data and regulated enterprise workflows.
Meet the speakers
Researchers, founders, and industry leaders advancing open models, collaborative agents, and real-world AI.
An afternoon at AI’s frontier.
☕️ Registration and Reception
Check in for badge and swag. Network over coffee.
Welcome and Opening
Nic Lane - Flower Labs
Collaborative Superintelligence
Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
Anthony J. Annunziata (AI Alliance / IBM)
Chair and Co-founder at AI Alliance and Director, Open Source AI at IBM
James Casaletto (NASA)
Staff Scientist
☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
Henning Fehrmann (Fehrmann) and Diran Apelian (UC Irvine)
Host: Nic Lane - Flower Labs
Move Intelligence to the Data
Javier Fernandez - Flower Labs
Jared Josleyn (Sanofi)
Host: Patrick Foley - Flower Labs
Beyond the Frontier with Flower
Nic Lane - Flower Labs
☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator)
Host: Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
Jerry Watkins (Sandia National Labs)
Computational Scientist
☕️ Refreshment Break and Networking
Bryce Pickard (OBI)
Host: Patrick Foley - Flower Labs
Lucas Atkins (Arcee)
Host: Nic Lane - Flower Labs
Tanya Roosta (AMD)
Host: Charles Beauville - Flower Labs
Closing Remarks
Daniel J. Beutel - Flower Labs
🍸 Dinner and Open Bar Reception
The Pearl
Join us in Dogpatch for an afternoon of ideas and an evening of connections. Catering, drinks, and Flower swag included.