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NEARCON 2026

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. The event features visionary keynotes, hands-on workshops, and debates on AI eth…

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21Speakers
0Sponsors
10On the bill · sessions
19Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at NEARCON, in alphabetical order.
Alex Shevchenko
GM · NEAR Intents
Arjun Sethi
Co-CEO · Kraken
Avichal Garg
Co-Founder and Partner · Electric Capital
Cameron Dennis
Director of AI, Growth & Infra · NEAR AI
Chris Briseno
Chief Marketing Officer · NEAR Foundation
Danny Carpentier Balough
Director, Product Marketing and GTM Strategy · NEAR Foundation
Declan Hannon
CEO · Aurora
Greg Osuri
Founder and CEO · Akash
Haseeb Qureshi
Managing Partner · Dragonfly
Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder · NEAR Protocol
Jerry Ma
VP Global Affairs & Deputy CTO · Perplexity
Jessica Scrimale
Vice President, Product Strategy, AI · Oracle
Kinga Bosse
Chief Operating Officer · MPCH
Lukasz Kaiser
Researcher · OpenAI
Matt White
Global CTO AI, Linux Foundation; CTO, Agentic AI Foundation; CTO, PyTorch · Linux Foundation
Michael Kelly
Director of BuilderOps · NEAR Foundation
Nalin Mittal
Product Lead, Web3 · Google
Noëlle Becker Moreno
CMO Edge & Node, Co-Founder of The House · Edge & Node
Petr Volnov
CEO · HOT Labs
Stephany Zoo
Head of Ecosystem · Caladan
Swaroon Sridhar
Product Manager · Robinhood
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Agenda

Selected from 10 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:55 AM - 11:00 AM

    Welcome Remarks

  • 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM

    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…

  • 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM

    Autonomous Systems In Practice

    How real autonomous systems are assembled, evaluated, and constrained in practice, beyond demos and single-model abstractions.

  • 11:50 AM - 12:00 PM

    Scaling Intelligence and Generalization

    Why generalization, not raw scale, determines whether modern AI systems become usable, reliable intelligence in the real world.

  • 11:55 AM - 12:00 PM

    Welcome Remarks

  • 12:00 PM - 12:10 PM

    Intents Widget – The Multichain Gateway for Builders

    NEAR Intents is already powering cross-chain swaps and unified liquidity for onchain markets and tokenized assets. The Intents Widget, built by Aurora, turns that power into a simp…

  • 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM

    Before Agents Control Capital: Security, Risk, and Autonomy

    What must be true before autonomous agents are trusted to control real capital, from security and custody to incentives and risk.

  • 12:10 PM - 12:20 PM

    HOT + NEAR = Chain Abstracted Crypto

    HOT Labs demonstrates how NEAR Intents enables chain-abstracted products that work seamlessly across networks. The session focuses on what is live today and how builders can replic…

  • 12:20 PM - 12:30 PM

    AI Is Hitting a Wall: The Underlying Infrastructure Is Why!

    The biggest bottleneck in AI isn’t talent, but the centralized control of compute access and cost. Discover how decentralized networks can break the grip of cloud monopolies and un…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 19 companies, parsed from the program.

Nineteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
19Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

81% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite943%
  • Founder / Owner314%
  • VP-level15%
  • Director / Head of419%
  • Product210%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles15%

Of 21 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Near Foundation3V
  2. 02Akash1V
  3. 03Aurora1V
  4. 04Caladan1V
  5. 05Dragonfly1V
  6. 06Edge & Node1V
  7. 07Electric Capital1V
  8. 08Google1V
  9. 09HOT Labs1V
  10. 10Kraken1V
  11. 11Linux Foundation1V
  12. 12MPCH1V
  13. 13NEAR AI1V
  14. 14NEAR Intents1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.