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NEARCON 2026

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EARCON 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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14Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
10On the bill · sessions
13Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at NEARCON, in alphabetical order.
Alex Shevchenko
GM · NEAR Intents
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
Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder · NEAR Protocol
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
Nalin Mittal
Product Lead, Web3 · Google
Noëlle Becker Moreno
CMO Edge & Node, Co-Founder of The House · Edge & Node
Stephany Zoo
Head of Ecosystem · Caladan
Swaroon Sridhar
Product Manager · Robinhood
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The Programme

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 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
13Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

71% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite429%
  • Founder / Owner214%
  • VP-level17%
  • Director / Head of321%
  • Product214%
  • Research / Science17%
  • Other roles17%

Of 14 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01NEAR Foundation2V
  2. 02Caladan1V
  3. 03Edge & Node1V
  4. 04Electric Capital1V
  5. 05Google1V
  6. 06Linux Foundation1V
  7. 07MPCH1V
  8. 08NEAR AI1V
  9. 09NEAR Intents1V
  10. 10NEAR Protocol1V
  11. 11OpenAI1V
  12. 12Oracle1V
  13. 13Robinhood1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.