Bittensor's Native Conference. September 28-29, 2026. New City Gas, Montreal, Canada. exploitsummit.com
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Doors open for 8:30am tomorrow morning for our Bittensor 101 session. Get ready and get there early - the first 500 guests get their very own Exploit tote bag with t-shirt, pin, and stickers (as modelled by house darling @SiliconJose ).
Last tickets at: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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AI sovereignty isn’t just about where a model was built. It’s about who controls the compute, the data, the infrastructure - and the rules they operate under.
SPUR Innovation Center is building sovereign Canadian AI infrastructure - running frontier-scale models on Canadian-owned compute, with data kept under Canadian jurisdiction. CEO Sharif Virani joins us to talk all things sovereignty and the future of the great equalizer that is AI: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Expose the weaknesses, learn faster, get stronger - it's what #Bittensor was built on.
Opening Exploit, the visionary behind Bittensor @const_reborn looks at what that means in practice - how incentives respond when systems are attacked, why concentration of power is dangerous, and how Bittensor stays open, competitive + hard to capture: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Just a few months ago, @JesusMartinez made his first video on TAO. Since, he’s developed his own thesis on the markets - the Attention Cycle - with TAO at the center of it. At Exploit, he’s going all in.
As an official Media Partner, he'll will be interviewing speakers throughout both days - getting behind the products, people + stories driving #Bittensor’s subnets: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Bittensor isn’t finished. The choices being made now will shape what it becomes.
At Exploit, leaders across research, infrastructure + subnets look ahead: what needs to improve, where the biggest opportunities are, and which decisions could define the network’s next chapter.
With @micaelabazo, @KibibyteMe, @gylez + @jon_durbin. Moderated by @GSchvey: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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From Bitcoin to AI, the infrastructure story is evolving fast.
We’re excited to welcome @BitcoinNews as an official Exploit Media Partner - bringing one of crypto’s biggest global news platforms into the room to interview founders, builders + speakers shaping Bittensor.
Expect conversations from the summit to travel well beyond Montréal: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Bittensor can be a force multiplier, but teams have to have the right vision, execution, and support behind them to succeed.
At Exploit, this panel gets inside how incubators decide which teams to fund, what kills promising projects early + what founders need to get right to earn conviction.
With @LindsMikeStone of @YumaGroup, Kelly Woodward of @CrucibleLabs, and @capradavis of @UnsupervisedCap + moderated by @bitstarterAI's @macrozack: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Exploit has its emcee - and @amarquezlara knows how to start a conversation.
Founder of UFacilitate, a global facilitation company, he also teaches leadership at @Georgetown University and when he discovered #Bittensor, founded @SubnetsForGood_ to connect the network with real-world impact.
Just 4 days to go until he opens the summit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Bittensor is powerful and participating shouldn’t feel complicated.
At Exploit, @zeroexvictor + @buildwithsamp of @CrucibleLabs will demo the Crucible Wallet that combines the best of both decentralized and centralized worlds to create one intuitive experience, making Bittensor easier to use wherever you are.
From complex to click: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @decentramike spends his days helping rewrite Filecoin’s economics - and his nights behind the decks.
He’s Head of Governance at @Filecoin + co-author of Solstice, an anticipated reform explicitly inspired by #Bittensor’s subnet model.
And for the Exploit Party, he becomes Magique Mike - with sets spanning Burning Man + Montréal. 🪩
Sign up to join the party -> luma.com/w5guj5ix
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Every AI model you use forgets you the moment you leave.
At #Exploit, @peytonspencer of @heydittoai explains why memory should belong to the user - not the lab - how SN118 makes persistent agent memory portable across models, and what they’re announcing next for Bittensor 🔥luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Exploit doesn’t start with the first keynote - and it doesn’t end when the stages close.
We’ve got a full run of side events across Montréal: community drinks + quiz night, beginner sessions, the Exploit party and a handful of intimate private dinners.
Some are limited capacity, so register early. Free to all Exploit ticket-holders -> luma.com/user/bt_commons
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Post-training is where frontier models get sharper - and where compute gets expensive.
At Exploit, @0xgrizzz + @RomAI__ of @reliquary_ai show how SN81 turns reinforcement learning into an open market: miners hunt for training signal, prove the work + compete to improve the next checkpoint: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Frontier-scale training has belonged to labs with giant GPU clusters. @ConnitoAI is trying to break that model.
At Exploit, @isabella618033 shows how we can turn distributed training model into a business model that we can sell to scale: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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The full Exploit lineup is now LIVE⚡
Two days of launches, live demos, adversarial debates, workshops + experiments across AI training, robotics, agents, compute, privacy and more.
New products. Hard questions. Big bets. The pioneers of distributed AI, all in one place.
See what’s coming ↓
exploitsummit.com/agenda/
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Two machine learning teams. One #Bittensor subnet slot. You decide who gets it.
At pitchtensor, hosted by @bitstarterAI, two aspiring teams pitch to @macrocrux, @KeithSingery, @maxsebti, @EvanMalanga + @willobrien - then you choose the winner in a live crowdfund, online + in the room.
Live from the Exploit stage: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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300M scientific papers. Almost none are structured for machines to reason over.
@PKoellinger + @nashgambit of @DeSciClaims show how miners can extract claims + evidence, validators verify them, and incentives turn the literature into trusted, AI-ready data.
Catch them at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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The TAO Pill is coming to Exploit.
@GordonFrayne has built one of Bittensor’s most substantive interview series - getting founders to unpack the technology, incentives + business models behind the network’s most ambitious projects.
As an official Media Partner, he’ll be interviewing Exploit speakers throughout the summit for a special run of TAO Pill episodes.
Two days. One room. A lot of conversations you won’t get anywhere else: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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AI is going to be one of the greatest social equalizer of all time and Sharif Virani is building the kind of AI infrastructure Canada aims to own.
As CEO of SPUR Innovation Center, he leads a 700,000 sq ft former @BlackBerry campus combining sovereign GPU compute, venture building + AI education.
He'll be exploring what it means to be sovereign in the age of AI, live on the Exploit stage: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Privacy is easy to argue for. Building the infrastructure that actually delivers it is much harder.
At Exploit, @xcolwell of @urnetwork, @haitzu of @KhalaResearch + @KeithSingery of @taodotcom bring three perspectives - builder, investor/researcher + Bittensor operator - to what an open, encrypted internet needs to look like in practice: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Four years of mining on Bittensor teaches you where the incentives break.
On the Exploit stage, @pbarbachowski of @DendriteHQ shares lessons from the move from major miner to subnet operator: what miners exploit, where teams go wrong, and what it takes to build a sustainable subnet:
luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @askyoav has been building the rails that bring #Bittensor to a much bigger market.
As co-founder of @taodotcom, he’s helped turn #TAO into something people can actually access + use - most recently taking canonical TAO onto @solana and opening the network to a new pool of users and liquidity.
At Exploit, he'll be representing the 'move slower' side against @0xcarro in our debate on how fast the protocol should change... luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Robotics has a flywheel problem: better robots need better data, better training + better evaluation - all feeding each other.
At Exploit, @quack_builder of @openroboto shows how Bittensor can connect that loop: from human demonstrations → open model competition → working robots in the real world: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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New to #Bittensor? Start here.
In exactly one week, Exploit opens with Bittensor 101, led by @TAOTemplar + @mcjkula of @learnbittensor - a high-level map of how the network works, where subnets fit + how to navigate the ecosystem.
Get the foundations in place before two days of big conversations.
📅 Monday 28 September · 9–9:45am
Register here → luma.com/nqy2n5zi (free to Exploit guests)
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The cloud asks you to trust whoever owns the machine. KubeTEE is built so you don’t have to.
At Exploit, @pamanseau of @KubeTEEAI shows how confidential Kubernetes can run AI across decentralized GPU clusters while keeping models + data hidden - even from the host: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @TAOTemplar has spent years making Bittensor easier to understand - from mining + dTAO to subnet mechanics.
A software developer with 15 years’ experience, he built TAOFlute and one of the ecosystem’s best-known education channels.
At Exploit, he’ll lead our Bittensor 101 session: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Robotics is moving from demos to an investable, competitive AI frontier.
@haitzu maps where the field stands now at Exploit - from data + training to physical deployment - before formally unveiling a new Bittensor robotics subnet being built by Pylon Partners.
Don't miss it: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Maciej Kula ( @mcjkula ) couldn't find a clear way to learn #Bittensor from scratch, so he built the resource he wished existed.
@learnbittensor is now part of @latentholdings, where Maciej leads education and makes Bittensor easier to understand.
He'll be leading our Bittensor 101 session to kick off Day 1: luma.com/nqy2n5zi
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. @Gylez has spent the last few years building the infrastructure around #Bittensor’s next phase of adoption.
As co-founder of @taodotcom, he’s helped grow a 30+ person team, build one of Bittensor’s largest validators and launch trading + wallet infrastructure across mobile and browser.
He joins Exploit to discuss where the protocol goes from here... luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Kelly Woodward knows how to turn ambitious ideas into organizations that actually execute.
Before becoming Chief of Staff at @CrucibleLabs, she held the same role at @Shutterfly after years across consumer tech. Now she helps drive one of Bittensor’s most research-led teams.
Fittingly, she'll be moderating our panel on what it takes to be enterprise-ready... luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @hunter_tensor has been in crypto since 2017 and building on #Bittensor since 2022.
As Co-Founder & COO of @DendriteHQ, he helps run one of the network’s most experienced mining and subnet teams - turning years of ecosystem knowledge into company built to scale.
Tune in to his Bittensor Mining 101 session at Exploit:
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Bittensor has a security model most users barely think about: coldkeys, hotkeys, validator machines + increasingly complex signing flows.
At Exploit, @KibibyteMe of @LatentHoldings gets practical on where those setups break - and how to secure them properly before they do: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @hux_dendrite works across LLM training, agents + production AI.
He’s mined across 15 #Bittensor subnets and co-authored Teutonic-I 10B, built through SN3’s 70-day decentralized training competition with 2,163 model duels and 203 successful improvements.
Now he’s leading our Bittensor Mining 101 session at Exploit:
luma.com/1kfeefnr
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Agentic AI gets much more interesting when agents stop operating in text boxes - and start understanding worlds.
On our stage, @6329 of @404gen_ will explore how world models can give agents persistent environments to reason, learn, plan + act inside.
Only at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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. @GSchvey knows what it takes to turn emerging infrastructure into something institutions actually use.
He co-founded TradeBlock, later acquired by @DCGco, then Axoni, whose post-trade business was acquired by @LSEGplc.
Now COO of @YumaGroup, he’s helping scale Bittensor across validators, mining, subnet acceleration + institutional adoption. Catch him on the Exploit stage: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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The conversation doesn’t end at the conference 🍽️
Announcing two private side event dinners free for Exploit guests:
28 Sept · Day 1 before the Exploit party with @TargonCompute
29 Sept · To close out the conference with @affine_io
Just 30 guests each. Request your seat below 👇
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. @quack_builder has spent years enabling builders to actually build.
After studying CS + Media Arts at UChicago, Cameron Wang co-founded @HackQuest_, helping run 100+ hackathons + 1000 developer events
Now he’s a core contributor to @openroboto, building open-source intelligence for robots.
Catch him at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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You can build the best subnet in Bittensor and still lose if nobody knows it exists.
At Exploit, @sebyrubino makes the case that distribution is as critical as product: positioning, storytelling + getting your work in front of the people who can use it, back it and grow it.
Building is only half the job. Catch it at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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What makes an autonomous agent worth trusting - without making it predictable enough to become indistinguishable from everything else?
At Exploit, @PhilBeaudoin of Stealth Lab explores why sovereignty, distinctiveness + autonomy may be essential to building agent networks that can collaborate without collapsing into sameness: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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12 HOURS LEFT
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12 hours until our final flash sale closes at noon EST. Save 25% with FINAL25 and join the builders, researchers and founders pushing AI into new territory.
Next stop: Montréal. 28–29 September: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Video is entering a new phase: AI isn’t just generating it - it’s becoming part of the production pipeline.
At Exploit, @Gareth_Vidaio draws on 25 years across Netflix, Disney + Spotify to show how @vidaio_ is bringing AI into real workflows for enhancement, compression + localization - including new work with a major industry partner.
Don't miss it: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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For 4 decades, @pamanseau has been building infrastructure - from one of Canada’s early ISPs to cloud, Kubernetes + hardware-level security.
Now he’s founder of @KubeTEEAI and working on secure infrastructure designed to run workloads across decentralized multi-cluster environments while protecting data in use.
Catch him at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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In the early days of #Bittensor, there was @KeithSingery.
He built Bittensor Guru, ran one of the network’s major validators, and now serves as Chief Evangelist at @taodotcom - helping turn years of ecosystem knowledge into tools, analysis + infrastructure for the next wave of users.
Now he'll be at Bittensor's first dedicated summit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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One day left to make your move.
Get 25% off Exploit: two days of decentralised AI, live demos and debates worth having. Meet the people building what comes next.
Use FINAL25. Our last flash sale ends at noon EST.
📍 Montréal · 28–29 September: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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AI agents can execute tasks. But can they prove they followed the right process?
@willobrien helped build trust infrastructure for crypto as co-founder + early CEO of @BitGo. Now with @provenonce_ai he explores how the evidence, context + decisions agents leave behind can become a verifiable assurance layer - and why #Bittensor is the right place to govern it.
Live at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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A familiar face is taking on a new role at Exploit.
The night before the summit kicks off, @SiliconJose will trade organiser mode for quizmaster at the Bittensor Community Drinks & Quiz Night.
As co-director of @bt_commons and founder of @btlabs_ai, he’s helped shape Exploit from the inside out. Now he’s putting your Bittensor knowledge to the test. Don’t miss it: luma.com/7hj5nphs
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Our last Exploit sale is now live.
48 hours to get 25% off two days of decentralised AI, live demos and big debates in Montréal.
Use FINAL25 at checkout. Then we’re done with discounts.
28–29 September. See you there: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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.@green_compute_ is scaling fast - and Josh Riddett is bringing the receipts to Exploit.
A $3M GPU site just went live. An even bigger one comes online during the conference. £6M in infrastructure deployed since launch, fueled by real demand + its @IOTA_SN9 partnership.
And if talks close in time: a potential multi million annual rental deal. Don't miss the reveal: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Training frontier models is a compute arms race. The top GPUs - B200s, H200s - are scarce, expensive, and locked behind the big clouds.
@lium_io (SN51) opens the door: high-end GPUs rented by the hour, no KYC, no gatekeepers. A decentralized marketplace without a waitlist.
Now a gold sponsor of Exploit.
🎟 luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Ask today’s AI what an investor should have done in 2012 and there’s a problem: it already knows what happened next.
At Exploit, @herelle_jean of @chronollm shows how models trained only on what was known at the time can make historical testing actually trustworthy: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Bittensor is literally paying people to break cryptography.
At Exploit, @BeyondNISQ of @qBitTensorLabs shows how @EnigmaSN63 puts serious prize money behind cracking harder + harder RSA and quantum challenges - with every solution open-sourced.
Then: why he thinks @QuantumSN48 is being overlooked: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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James Woodman has lived the token vs equity question from the inside.
Former COO of the Bittensor Foundation and now co-founder of @manifoldlabs, he’s helped build Targon while Manifold raised $10.5M in venture funding.
@jameswoodmanv takes the pro-coexistence side against @sebyrubino in the Exploit debate arena. Don't miss it: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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This is a big one.
@PhilBeaudoin has spent his career at the frontier of AI: PhD in computer science, postdoc at UBC, senior engineer at @Google, co-founder of Element AI + founder of Waverly.
Now at Stealth Lab and affiliated researcher with @LawZero_, Yoshua Bengio’s safe-by-design #AI research organization, Philippe studies long-running human-AI relationships, stable multi-agent systems + the philosophy of AI.
He joins Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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It's not easy breaking into #Bittensor. That's what @LindsMikeStone is for. She sits at the operational heart of @YumaGroup, turning Bittensor strategy into programs, partnerships + teams.
She's supported the launch of 20 subnets including @bitsecai, @yanez__ai, and @b1m_ai and co-authored Yuma’s subnet valuation research - connecting talent, capital + builders across the ecosystem. Find her at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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What happens when agents outgrow the benchmark?
At Exploit, @shardiban of @oroagents shows why ShoppingBench had to evolve into an environment compiler - grounding agents in live commerce data, then using world models to generate the interactions no static dataset could contain.
And why depth in one vertical may beat breadth everywhere: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Josh Riddett has spent nearly a decade building and selling GPU infrastructure to enterprise.
Now, as founder of @green_compute_ (SN110), he’s turning stranded renewable energy into permanent AI compute, with millions in new infrastructure already deployed.
Meet him at Exploit: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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Cameron Fairchild has been building #Bittensor from the inside for years - first as a core protocol contributor, now as co-founder + CTO of @LatentHoldings.
His fingerprints are across the protocol, TAOApp, Ridges, Cacheon + the tooling developers use every day.
@KibibyteMe joins Exploit to talk all things wallet security: luma.com/exploitsummit26
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