Events

Dec 12, 2025

• Ted Cohen Pioneering Digital Music,  Distribution & globally influential music-tech executive give a preview of the upcoming "Rock the Machine" holiday party for a night of rock and resistance.

• “AI is scraping music without credit or consent. This night is for artists who still believe their voice belongs to them”

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Dec 5, 2025

• Jaymes demonstrated a consent chain browser extension that queues and batches user consents to reduce gas fees and allows users to track and manage their consent preferences. He showcased the extension's features, including a dashboard for viewing consents, the ability to delete cookies, and the option to connect a wallet for blockchain integration. Jaymes explained that the project is open source and discussed plans to integrate it with websites like Drupal and WordPress to read blockchain consents.

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Nov 28, 2025

• Liam is a pioneer in spatial computing, XR, web-based immersive experiences and data-sovereignty advocacy is. Over his career, Liam has co-founded several companies / projects, including Ethereal Engine (acquired by Napster Corp.), HyperConstruct and Laguna Labs. He is also Co-Founder and CEO of Companion Intelligence, where the core vision is a shift away from cloud-centric, surveillance-style AI toward self-hosted AI where individuals own their data and digital memory. Under his leadership, Companion Intelligence develops and offers private servers + a personal AI stack — enabling end-users (individuals or businesses) to run their own AI agents and maintain full data sovereignty (avoiding dependence on big-cloud providers).🌎🤖

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Nov 21, 2025

• Mary presented on the impact of AI and LLMs on advertising, highlighting how these technologies are transforming the industry by targeting consumer hearts and minds rather than just eyes. She explained how LLMs are becoming the new gatekeepers of advertising, offering personalized and conversational interfaces that are outperforming traditional digital ads. Mary detailed the strategies of major companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta, noting that while OpenAI is taking a commission-based approach with partners like Walmart and Spotify, Google remains committed to its advertising model with integrated AI features. The presentation concluded with concerns about privacy and data security in this evolving advertising landscape.

Nov 14, 2025

• Drummond Reed was guest speaker  to discuss self-sovereign identity and decentralized trust systems. The latter part of the meeting focused on exploring trust models and identity verification solutions, with discussions about potential collaboration opportunities and ongoing projects within the Linux Foundation.

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Nov 7, 2025

• Greg Spector delivered a presentation on AI governance and regulations, discussing global strategies and frameworks, while emphasizing the need for flexible approaches to AI regulation.

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Oct 31, 2025

• Reports on: Georgetown University - AI for Health Summit

• Project VRM - My Terms

• Kwaai Workgroups

• AI for Med

• Intern Paper - Journal of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence 

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Oct 23, 2025

• Founder and CEO, Digital Governance Institute

• Conformance Program Administrator for the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity

• Co-Chair of the Creator Assertions Working Group

• Co-Chair the Trust Over IP Foundation’s Steering Committee and its Ecosystem & Governance Working Group

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Oct 16, 2025

• Principal Consultant - WorkQuilibrium

• Fellowship Cohort 10 of the Beta Pre-Acceleration Program - Beta University

• Founder - Stealth Mode Startup

• Product Strategy and Business Design - Heliotrope Imaginal 

• Business Fellow - Perplexity AI

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Oct 10, 2025

• Founding Data Scientist for Egypt's second largest commercial bank - Banque Misr

• Mentor and Industry Expert - MIT's Applied Data Science Program

• Data Science Mentor Disaster Relief - She In Technology

• Technical Vice President, Head of Data Science and Committee Founder - IEEE

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Oct 3, 2025

• President - The Authenticity Alliance

• CEO - The Authenticity Institute

• Founder - Delphi Internet Services Corp

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Sept 26, 2025

• CEO and Founder of Flowsiti

• CTO - Oak Venture Studios, CEO - Arkus Nexus

• Partner and Founder - Vision 360 Consulting

• COO & Co-founder - Salesforce Partner

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Sept 19, 2025

• CEO and Founder of The HGFactor

• Fractional Industry GM for Vespa.ai

• Ex Global CTO, Lifesciences @ Snowflake

• Forbes Tech Council Contributor

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Sept 12, 2025

• Demo:  A Collective budgeting tool

• KwaaiNet Growth, Kwaai Workgroups

• Intern program focus  paper for Journal of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (JBDAI) 

Sept 5, 2025

• CEO, CTO Medusa AI

• Symbolic AI

• https://www.medusaai.co

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Aug 29, 2025

• Co-Founder - Soulbis

• Co-Chair - Blockchain Governance Initiative Workgroup

• Ecosystem Growth - Verida

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Aug 15, 2025

• Fundraising for nonprofits

• Lessons from the Movember campaign

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Aug 15, 2025

• The Intention Economy

• What is our progress toward Me2B?

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Aug 8, 2025

• GliaNet Alliance

• Kwaai takes the Pledge to become a Net Fiduciary

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Aug 1, 2025

• Kwaai & Verida  Community Merger

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July 25, 2025

• Jaymes Davis - KASM unveils the new development environment donated to Kwaai.

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July 18, 2025

• Doc Searls - update on IEEE standardization of MyTerms (ProjectVRM p7012)

• Zachary Schenkler - update on his startup Balnce

July 11, 2025

• Exciting New Developments

• KwaaiNet Future

• Kwaai Community Growth Plans

• Workgroups Structure - Leaders, Mentors & Interns

Jun 27, 2025

Professor Ciraj Rassool gives 100th KwaaiDay talk about his research on the historical trade of skeletons and dead bodies in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century. He discussed how European anthropologists collected remains for museums, leading to a report in 1909 that exposed these practices. This research resulted in the return of remains to South Africa in 2012, where they were reburied in Kuruman. The talk highlighted the importance of re-humanizing AI and the need to consider ethical implications in the democratization of technology.

Jun 20, 2025

The 99th Kwaai meeting, led by Reza, welcomed numerous attendees and featured a presentation by Walter Lundari on his master's thesis regarding the organization's role in democratizing AI through open-source personal AI infrastructure. The Board discussed various organizational updates including bylaw changes, the acquisition of Verida, and the establishment of a for-profit entity to support KwaaiNet's network operations. The conversation ended with discussions about AI's role in education, network node reductions, and the formation of a work group to explore the Verida token, followed by an announcement of an after-party to discuss further board deliberations and KwaaiNet's MVP development.

June13, 2025

Senior Fellow at The Wharton School - 

AI at Wharton Initiative (AiW) and Wharton Initiative for Neuroscience (WiN)

June 6, 2025

May 30, 2025

MyData - Human-centric approach to personal data management

May 30, 2025

In a transformative move for the decentralized technology ecosystem, Kwaai and Verida today announced their intent to join forces to create a world-leading, end-to-end decentralized AI platform. This union brings together two highly complementary open-source technology stacks to empower a new generation of private, personalized, and user-owned AI applications.

May 23, 2025

Ian Hamilton

Transparent AI

May 16, 2025

Doc Searls Project VRM Update

Guest speaker Doc Searls reported on Project VRM initiatives. The group explored various aspects of personal AI, including Visa's intentcasting initiative and the importance of empowering individuals through self-knowledge and control over their data. The conversation ended with welcoming new community members, discussing potential collaborations and contributions, and addressing the need for structured project management as the organization approaches its two-year anniversary.

May 9, 2025

Hussein's Upcoming Book on Life Mastery

Hussein Halak, the guest speaker, discusses his upcoming book "Dark Art of Life Mastery," which summarizes his 30 years of experience building companies and helping entrepreneurs. The book, set to release in June, features visual concepts and is designed to be a quick read that engages readers with important lessons. Hussein also shares that he originally wanted to be a rock lead singer before his current career path. Reza expresses appreciation for Hussein's approach to AI that focuses on uplifting humanity, contrasting it with the "lemming-like" behavior of many investors chasing AI trends without differentiation.

May 2, 2025

Steve Vitka - Personal Agency / Digital Twin

Steve Vitka presents a vision of how digital twins, personalized AI agents, will revolutionize the internet. He argues that websites will become obsolete as digital twins communicate directly with each other using standardized protocols, bypassing traditional web interfaces.

Apr 25, 2025

The team discussed the progress of their distributed computing network, with plans to expand internationally and set up nodes in various countries. StJohn Deakins, CEO of Data Sapien, presented their technology that enables personal AI to be embedded into apps, running on users' devices with 100% privacy. The conversation ended with several updates and announcements, including demonstrations of KwaaiNet API and Perplexity Pro accounts, and an after-party was announced for further discussions.