March 5 9:00 AM-5:00 PM PST
Personal AI Summit
March 5, 2026
Pasadena Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
The Personal AI Summit convenes leaders across research, engineering, governance, and policy to examine the future of decentralized AI. Set in Pasadena on March 5, 2026, this gathering focuses on the structural questions shaping next-generation AI systems: ownership, control, interoperability, and trust.
As AI capabilities accelerate, the question is no longer only what systems can do. It is who governs them, who benefits from them, and who ultimately holds authority over data, models, and outcomes. For builders of decentralized infrastructure, these questions are foundational.
Closing Panel
Owning AI: Hard Questions on Power, Trust and Who Decides
In the summit’s closing conversation, Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust, will lead a direct and rigorous discussion with a group of prominent AI visionaries.
Barbosa will pose a series of difficult questions that often go unaddressed in mainstream AI discourse:
- In visions of AGI and advanced AI systems, where does ownership actually reside?
- Does open source AI meaningfully shift power, or does it recreate concentration in new forms?
- Can decentralized trust architectures ensure that user-set terms are enforceable in practice?
- Are we building systems governed by platforms, by protocols, or by people?
This panel centers the structural realities of power, governance, and accountability in AI infrastructure. It challenges assumptions about openness, decentralization, and control, and asks whether current architectures genuinely distribute authority or merely repackage it.
For the LF Decentralized Trust community, these themes intersect directly with ongoing work across blockchain, decentralized identity, cryptographic systems, and verifiable data frameworks. As AI systems increasingly integrate with digital trust infrastructure, questions of provenance, policy enforcement, and user agency move from theoretical to operational.
Attendees can expect a substantive, technically grounded dialogue that bridges research, development, and policy, and situates decentralized AI within broader open source governance models.
Learn more about LF Decentralized Trust initiatives and how to engage with the community through the Linux Foundation ecosystem.
Register here: https://www.kwaai.ai/summit2026
Details:
Start:
March 5 9:00 AM
End:
March 5 5:00 PM