ONLINE CONFERENCE

Who's Watching the Agents?

Launching Proof-of-Control, an open verification standard for the agentic era

 

SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 | 8:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 17:00 CET 

 

In this three-hour virtual event, Advanced AI Society and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) examined why non-deterministic agents require a shift from claims-based AI to verifiable AI with the launch of Proof-of-Control. The session brought together open-source maintainers, enterprise security executives, insurers, and policymakers building the future of open verification.

September 23, 2026, at 8:00PT/11:00ET/17:00CET/23:00 SGT

 

At a Glance

Open source won the enterprise on a security premise: you cannot secure what you cannot inspect. But while open-source code defines how a traditional system is built, non-deterministic AI agents make dynamic decisions at runtime.

​Open verification is the next category of open source, extending the ethos from inspecting source code to allowing anyone to openly verify actions in the agentic stack. As the open standards framework for verifiable AI, open verification is itself open source, built on open standards anyone can implement, and moves the root of trust from a party to a mechanism anyone can verify.

​Because the standards are open, verifiable AI protocols interoperate, so deployers are not locked to one vendor.

​Openly verifiable evidence unlocks the defensible, enterprise-wide scaling of autonomous agents: creating competitive markets, reopening the path to AI insurability, and preserving public accountability as AI moves into critical real-world systems.

​Advanced AI Society introduced Proof-of-Control, the anchoring open verification standard and the newest community lab at LFDT. 


Topics Covered

  • The category shift, from claims-based AI to verifiable AI. Why non-deterministic AI outruns claims-based systems, and why verifiable AI is a distinct technology category rather than a feature.

  • ​The open source evolution. How open verification extends the open-source argument from code inspection to runtime action verification. And why open-source code or model weights or open training data tell you nothing about what an agent actually did in production.

  • The anchoring standard. How Proof-of-Control and its core framework the Verifiability Tiers give security teams the foundations for designing the systems to openly verify agent behavior without trusting the operator.

  • ​The interoperable ecosystem. How standards bodies and market leaders are building cross-industry routes to verifiable agentic trust.

 

Sessions

Part 1 - Keynote

Open verification in the agentic era

Tricia Wang, Advanced AI Society

1.1 Open verification in the agentic era

 

Part 1 - Policy Briefing

State of Independent Verification Organizations

Bri Treece, Partnership for Assurance, Credibility, and Trust on AI

1.2 State of Independent Verifcation Organizations

 

Part 1 - Session

Secure Infrastructure for Machine Trust

Daniela Barbosa, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

1.3 Secure Infrastructure for Machine Trust

 

Part 1 - Session

Open Verification at the Linux Foundation

Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation

Open Verification at the Linux Foundation

 

Part 1 - Demo

Demo: Trusted Router

Joseph Perla, TrustedRouter

1.5 Demo Trusted Router

 

Part 1 - Fireside Chat

Agent Execution and AI Safety

Esben Kran, Juniper Ventures

Bettina Warburg, Advanced AI Society

1.6 Agent Execution and AI Safety

 

Part 2 - Keynote

What is Proof-of-Control

Tricia Wang, Advanced AI Society


1.7 What is Proof-of-Control

 

Part 2 - Session

How the OpenAI/Hugging Face Incident Would have Looked different

Jim Schwoebel, Advanced AI Society


1. 8 How the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Would have Looked different

 

Part 2 - Fireside Chat

Underwriting Machine Risk: The Insurance Opportunity

Vidur Nayyar, Advanced AI Society

Paul Mang, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business


1.9 Underwriting Machine Risk-The Insurance Opportunity-1

 

Part 2 - Panel

The Demand from Deployers - "We Will Not Deploy What We Cannot Verify”

Cristin Flynn Goodwin, Advanced Cyber Law

Charles Iheagwara, AstraZeneca

Amit Sharma, Fragomen

Mostafa Elkordy, UNICC


2.x The Demand from Deployers We Will Not Deploy What We Cannot Verify

 

Part 3 - Keynote

Opening Frame

Sheila Warren, Advanced AI Society

 3.1. Opening Frame

 

Part 3 - Demo

Demo: Shielded Midnight

Bob Blessing-Hartley, Shielded Technologies

 3.2. Demo Shielded Midnight

 

Part 3 - Demo

Demo: Vouched

Rosalyn Curato, Vouched

Dylan Hobbs, Vouched

3.3. Demo Vouched

 

Part 3 - Demo

Demo: Via

Stan Byers,Via

3.4. Demo Via

 

Part 3 - Session

Public.AI and Open Verifiability

Mohsin Yousufi, PublicAI

https://www.youtube.com/live/hE4DxdODw58?t=9307&si=izkUinZwdUC4nHUD

 

Part 3 - Session

Cryptography Research update

Hart Montgomery, Linux Foundation

3.6. Cryptography Research update

 

Part 3 - Session

The Open Verification Research Stack

Jim Schwoebel, Advanced AI Society

3.7 The Open Verification Research Stack

 

Part 3 - Session

Closing Remarks

Michael Casey, Advanced AI Society

Closing remarks

 

Speakers

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Jim Zemlin

CEO, Linux Foundation

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Tricia

Tricia Wang

CEO, Advanced AI Society

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Jim Schwoebel

Head of Research, Advanced AI Society and CEO/CTO, Quome

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Hart Montgomery

CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

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Daniela

Daniela Barbosa

Executive Director, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

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Esben

Esben Kran

AI Security, Partner at Juniper Ventures

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Rosalyn Curato

Rosalyn Curato

Chief Innovation Officer, Vouched

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Sheila Warren

Sheila Warren

Co-founder, Advanced AI Society

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Bettina Warburg

Bettina Warburg

Co-founder, Advanced AI Society

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Vidur Nayyar

Vidur Nayyar

Advisor & Head of Insurance Working Group, Advanced AI Society

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Bob

Bob Blessing-Hartley

Chief Technology Officer, Shielded Technologies

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Stan

Stan Byers

VP of Business Development and Transformation, VIA

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Mostafa Elkordy

Mostafa Elkordy

Senior Cybersecurity Solutions Officer, UNICC

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Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma

Managing Director, Digital Identity, Fragomen

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Cristin

Cristin Flynn Goodwin

Founder, Advanced Cyber Law

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Bri

Bri Treece

Executive Director, Partnership for Assurance, Credibility, and Trust on AI, and Co-founder, President, Fathom

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Andrew Trask

Andrew Trask

Executive Director, OpenMined, and Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

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Mohsin Yousufi

Mohsin Yousufi

Research Engineer, Current AI, Public AI

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Joseph Perla

Joseph Perla

Founder, TrustedRouter

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Charles Iheagwara

Charles Iheagwara

AI/ML Security Leader | Global Head, AI Cybersecurity Delivery, AstraZeneca

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Dylan Hobbs

Dylan Hobbs

Founding Principal Engineer, Vouched

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Manik

Manik Surtani

Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, Agentic AI Foundation

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Michael Casey

Michael Casey

Chairman, Advanced AI Society

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Sessions

SESSION

Next Generation Enterprise Blockchain Privacy Using TEE / Confidential Computing

Adi Ben-Ari , Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

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Private Transactions in a Public World: A New Architecture for Trust

Dr. Jacob Mendel, co-CTO at Parfin

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Cryptographic VM for Financial Collaboration and Maintaining Trade Arbitrage

Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

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Selective Disclosure on Public Blockchains: Nightfall as the Bridge Between Privacy and Interoperability

Pradeep Singh, Co-founder & CEO at gateway.fm

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Cryptographically Verifiable Lotteries

Joseph Bonneau, Associate Professor at New York University

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Chainlink's Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Use Cases and Adoption

Roger Brogan, Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs

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Addressing Privacy in the Drex CBDC: Insights and Challenges

Henrique De Carvalho Videira, Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

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Building ZK Applications with SP1

Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

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Zeto: ZKP powered post-quantum secure privacy enhancing tokens

Jim Zhang, Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido

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Canton Network: Solving Privacy in Capital Markets, Crypto, and Payments.

Simon Letort, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

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Stronger Privacy for Existing Credentials

Guru Vamsi Policharla, PhD student at University of California, Berkeley 

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Real world applications of Paladin to DvP and Stablecoin use cases

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido 

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Privacy in Wholesale CBDC: Current state and Exploration

Frédéric Faure, Head of blockchain at Banque de France

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Enterprise grade Privacy with HashSphere

Andrew Stakiwicz, Head of Solutions at Hashgraph

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Privacy Considerations in Financial Blockchain Environments

Shingo Fujimoto, Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu

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The 4th Generation of Crypto where TradFi meets DeFi

Eran Barak, CEO and Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO at Shielded Technologies

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On-Chain Privacy with Verifiable Compliance

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

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Privacy in Enterprise Blockchains

Angela Pratt, Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

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Sovereign Compliance: KYC & AML in the Age Of Web3

Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, Cofounder at Ligero Inc. & Professor Computer Science at Georgetown University

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Espresso Network: A fast confirmation layer for rollups

Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science NYU

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Private Enterprise Layer 2s: Atomic DvP and Cross-Institution Settlement

Omar Azhar, VP, Head of Business Development at Matter Labs

PANEL

Open Forum: Privacy Technologies

Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

Joseph Bonneau, Associate Professor at New York University 

Benedikt Bünz, Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science at NYU

Eli Ben-Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

Hart Montgomery, CTO at LF Decentralized Trust

PANEL

Open Forum: Privacy Tools

Jay Prakash, Co-Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

Eran Barak, Chief Executive Officer at Shielded Technologies

Adi Ben-Ari, Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

Simon Letort, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido

Hart Montgomery, CTO at LF Decentralized Trust

PANEL

Open Forum: Bank Requirements for Privacy

Sudhir Upadhyay, Head of Engineering at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

Rajeev Sambyal, Head of Digital Assets Platform at BNY Mellon 

Carlos Vivas Augier, Head of DLT Platform Engineering at Citi

Henrique De Carvalho Videira, Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

Rashi Goyal, Vice President of product development, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

Speakers

Adi

Adi Ben-Ari

Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

 

 

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Dr. Jacob Mendel

co-CTO at Parfin

 

 

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Jim Zhang

Jim Zhang

Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido

 

 

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Andrew S

Andrew Stakiwicz

Head of Solutions at Hashgraph

 

 

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Guru Vamsi

Guru Vamsi Policharla

PhD student at University of California, Berkeley

 

 

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Benedikt

Benedikt Bünz

Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science NYU

 

 

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Jay Prakash

Co-Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories

 

 

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Joseph

Joseph Bonneau

Associate Professor at New York University 

 

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Pradeep Singh

Pradeep Singh

Co-Founder & CEO at gateway.fm

 

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Peter Broadhurst

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido

 

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Ben Diamond

Benjamin E. Diamond

Staff Cryptographer at Irreducible

 

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Uma Roy

Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct

 

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Roger Brogan

Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs

 

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Henrique

Henrique De Carvalho Videira

Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

 

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Simon Letort

Simon Letort

Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset

 

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Frédéric Faure

Frédéric Faure

Head of blockchain at Banque de France

 

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Shingo

Shingo Fujimoto

Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu

 

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Bob

Bob Blessing-Hartley

CTO at Shielded Technologies

 

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Barak

Eran Barak

Chief Executive Officer at Shielded Technologies

 

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Eli Ben-Sasson

Eli Ben-Sasson

Co-Founder & CEO at StarkWare

 

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Izzy

Issidor Iliev

SVP Blockchain and Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

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Angela

Angela Pratt

Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

 

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Muthu Venkitasubramaniam

Cofounder at Ligero Inc. & Professor Computer Science at Georgetown University

 

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Omar

 Omar Azhar

VP, Business Development at Matter Labs

 

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Hart Montgomery

CTO at Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

 

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Sudhir Upadhyay

Head of Engineering at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

 

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Rajeev Sambyal

Head of Digital Assets Platform at BNY Mellon 

 

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Carlos Vivas Augier

Head of DLT Platform Engineering at Citi

 

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Rashi

Rashi Goyal

Vice President of product development, Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard

 

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Johnna Powell

Managing Director, Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC and Chair of the Governing Board at LF Decentralized Trust

 

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​Part One — The category: why open verification, and why now

​Learn how the open-source movement is expanding to address non-deterministic execution through open verification. Verifiable AI is emerging as a new category, made interoperable through open standards that focus squarely on agent behavior, runtime infrastructure, and production deployment. We then gather perspectives from AI Safety, Verifiable AI investors, insurance leaders, and the assurance industry to examine why unverified agent behavior has become a critical liability, and why this moment demands an open standard.

  • ​Talk: Welcome Address, Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, LFDT

  • ​Talk: Who's watching the agents? What open verification is, the three qualifying properties, and why this moment. Tricia Wang, CEO, Advanced AI Society

  • Talk: Open verification as the next category of open source. Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation

  • Panel: Agent behavior is a security problem. Moderated by Angel Saad Gomez, Advanced AI Society and Point 72

  • Panel: Why now, from three angles. Safety, insurance, assurance. Moderated by Bettina Warburg, Co-founder, Advanced AI Society

​Part Two — Proof-of-Control: moving the root of trust

​A deep dive into Proof-of-Control, the anchoring open standard of the new lab at LF Decentralized Trust, designed to move the root of trust off the system operator. We introduce its anchoring framework, the Verifiability Tiers, which force absolute clarity on where the root of trust is held across an agentic system. Through real-world use cases, high-profile agent failure scenarios, and direct conversations with enterprise leaders, we examine why major deployers are refusing to put agents into production without verifiable controls.

  • ​Talk: Introducing Proof-of-Control. Tricia Wang, CEO, Advanced AI Society

  • Demos: Live implementations of Proof-of-Control

  • Panel: The demand from deployers: We will not deploy what we cannot verify

​Part Three — The ecosystem: many routes to open verification

​Open verification is an expansive ecosystem rather than a walled garden. Discover how verifiable AI pioneers are implementing open standards across cryptographic primitives, zero-knowledge proofs, and sovereign compute infrastructure. We examine the emerging primitives and concrete sector deployments in healthcare and finance, before closing with a look at the emerging agentic stack being defined at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) and the priorities of open verification research.

  • ​Hosted by Sheila Warren, Co-founder, Advanced AI Society, host of Part Three

  • Showcase: The emerging primitives

  • Showcase: The emerging sovereign stack

  • Showcase: The emerging health stack

  • Showcase: Finance

  • Talk: The agentic stack at the Agentic AI Foundation, Mazin Gilbert, CEO of AAIF

  • Talk: The research stack for open verification. Jim Schwoebel, Director of Research, Advanced AI Society

Agenda

8:00am-10:30am PST - The first two and a half hours are for everyone. No technical background needed.

10:30am-11:00am PST - The final thirty minutes are for builders, researchers and maintainers looking to shape the standard but you can stick around to learn more.

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