NEARCON is where intelligence, privacy, and the open web converge.
An invite-only gathering shaping an AI economy built on trust, transparency, and user ownership.
Join founders, researchers, and builders redefining how intelligent systems run - private, open, and on your terms.
What to Expect?
- Visionary keynotes from global AI and open technology pioneers.
- Live agent demos and hands-on workshops.
- Deep dives on why privacy is the key to user-owned AI at scale.
- Debates between industry leaders on adoption, ethics, and billion-dollar use cases.
- Partner activations and a dedicated builders lounge.
Speakers
Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder
Jessica Scrimale
Vice President, Product Strategy, AI
Lukasz Kaiser
Researcher
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Live Schedule
Location: Singularity
Welcome Remarks
Speakers
NEAR Foundation - Chief Marketing Officer
Moderator
Location: Singularity
The Unified Commerce Layer for the Agentic Era
AI agents are quickly becoming economic actors, with personal assistant frameworks taking actions and transacting on behalf of people and businesses. Illia explains how NEAR AI and NEAR Intents are converging as the unified commerce layer, driving agentic commerce across all asset types and providing secure, private infrastructure for AI tools. He will share some exciting new launches and preview the NEAR roadmap for the year ahead.
Speakers
NEAR Protocol - Co-Founder
Moderator
Location: Singularity
Autonomous Systems In Practice
How real autonomous systems are assembled, evaluated, and constrained in practice, beyond demos and single-model abstractions.
Speakers
Google - Product Lead, Web3
Linux Foundation - Global CTO AI, Linux Foundation. CTO, Agentic AI Foundation. CTO, PyTorch
Edge & Node - CMO Edge & Node, Co-Founder of The House
Moderator
NEAR AI - Director of AI, Growth & Infra
Location: Singularity
Scaling Intelligence and Generalization
Why generalization, not raw scale, determines whether modern AI systems become usable, reliable intelligence in the real world.
Speakers
OpenAI - Researcher
Moderator
Location: Singularity
Welcome Remarks
Speakers
NEAR Foundation - Director, Product Marketing and GTM Strategy
Moderator
Location: Singularity
NEAR Intents: The Future of Finance
NEAR Intents began with cross-chain swaps. It is evolving into a unified financial layer that abstracts complexity across chains and assets. The roadmap introduces a seamless app experience, institutional-grade privacy, programmable yield across tokens and networks, and token economics designed to align usage with long-term value creation.
Speakers
NEAR Intents - GM
Moderator
Location: Singularity
AI in Production: Where Automation Meets Reality
How enterprises and financial platforms are adopting AI in practice, and where automation still meets hard limits.
Speakers
Oracle - Vice President, Product Strategy, AI
Robinhood - Product Manager
Moderator
AI-Curious and The People's AI - Founder
Location: Singularity
The Checkbook of the Future: Who Holds the Keys?
Who controls capital in autonomous systems, and what security, compliance, and accountability require at scale.
Speakers
Electric Capital - Co-Founder and Partner
MPCH - Chief Operating Officer
Caladan - Head of Ecosystem
Moderator
Transparent Technology - CEO
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