Day 1OTF StageKeynote
Targon: From Confidential Compute to Full-Stack Cloud
With Rob Myers (CEO, Manifold)
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Sept 28-29th, 2026
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Two days. Two stages. Where Bittensor’s biggest ideas take the stage.
Why Exploit
The forefront of incentivized compute. The frontier of decentralized AI.
Join leaders from the intersection of machine learning, incentive design, and distributed networks for Exploit Summit, Bittensor's breakthrough conference.
Exploit's talks, debates, workshops, and live demos reveal Bittensor's signature concept: game-theoretic competitive design.
Across two days of debates, demos, and workshops, Exploit gathers the ecosystem and beyond to stress-test ideas, challenge assumptions, and evolve together in public.
Adversarial by design, Bittensor's game-theoretic network has generated a thriving sub-economy of start-ups who are using the network to unlock unreasonable performance.
There are now over 100 subnet teams leveraging distributed compute and other resources across the board, from code-ready AI agents to quantum, robotics, and drug discovery.
And this September in Montreal, we invite you to discover how.
Convene. Compute. Compete.
Two sides. One goal. Relentless debate.
Game on for game theoretic AI.
Welcome to adversarial machine learning competitions, driven by free-market economics and powered by the world's largest network of distributed compute. In the race towards AGI, those who can harness Bittensor's underlying infrastructure design have an advantage.
Open source? Open debate.
Proprietary vs. permissionless, black box vs. white hat: right now, the future of compute, data, and software are hotly disputed. Bittensor's open competition encourages an evolutionary dynamic, exposing ideas of every kind to experiment.
Exploit the exponent
Open networks mean unlimited scale. Bittensor's ecosystem is inherently exponential, but this unique problem space can only be explored by experimentation. We invite innovative builders to take part and break through.
Speakers
Line-up? Game on.
Incentive experts, industry insiders, all-innovator - introducing Exploit's 2026 speaker roster...
Jacob Steeves
CEO / Affine
Jacob Steeves
CEO / Affine
Jacob Steeves is a co-founder of Bittensor and CEO of Affine. A mathematician and computer scientist by training, he previously worked at Google Brain before helping develop Bittensor’s decentralized machine-intelligence network. His work explores incentive-based computer networks and open systems for producing and coordinating machine intelligence.
Max Sebti
Co-founder & CEO / Score
Max Sebti
Co-founder & CEO / Score
Co-founder & CEO of Score Technologies, focused on computer vision. Previously co-founded CrunchDAO, coordinating 6,000+ data scientists to generate financial alpha, and scaled decentralized AI pipelines at HUMAN Protocol through incentive-aligned systems.
Marcus Graichen
Founder / Taostats
Marcus Graichen
Founder / Taostats
CEO & Founder of Taostats and co-founder of Hippius, Vidaio, and Blockmachine. A leading voice in Bittensor, mog has incubated pioneering subnets and built early user-facing apps, championing open, community-driven intelligence.
Micaela Bazo
CEO & Co-founder / Metanova Labs
Micaela Bazo
CEO & Co-founder / Metanova Labs
Micaela Bazo is CEO and co-founder of Metanova Labs, a crypto-native biotech running the world’s first decentralized drug discovery platform: NOVA (aka Bittensor Subnet 68). NOVA turns drug discovery into a global, incentive-driven competition that continuously improves through adversarial pressure. Micaela's background is in systems design and science-led innovation, and previously worked as a Strategy Partner at Google translating climate and ecology science into real-world applications.
Will Squires
Co-founder & CEO / Macrocosmos
Will Squires
Co-founder & CEO / Macrocosmos
Co-founder & CEO of Macrocosmos, building decentralized AI infrastructure across multiple Bittensor subnets. Focused on open systems where human insight and machine intelligence evolve together.
Steffen Cruz
Co-founder & CTO / Macrocosmos
Steffen Cruz
Co-founder & CTO / Macrocosmos
Co-founder & CTO of Macrocosmos, pioneering decentralized intelligence on Bittensor. Steffen envisions AI ecosystems that grow like living networks, adaptive, open, and collectively owned.
Jon Durbin
Core Contributor / Chutes
Jon Durbin
Core Contributor / Chutes
Jon Durbin is a core developer of Chutes, Bittensor Subnet 64 - a decentralised serverless AI compute platform enabling fast deployment of models and agents on GPU miners, with TAO micropayments, GPU validation, DDoS protection and TEEs for secure, private, open and censorship-resistant AI.
Rob Myers
CEO / Manifold
Rob Myers
CEO / Manifold
Rob Myers is co-founder and CEO of Manifold Labs, the team behind Targon, Bittensor Subnet 4. Bittensor’s first miner and former Head of Research at OTF, he now builds full-stack AI infrastructure, turning decentralized confidential compute into production-grade systems enterprises can trust.
Agenda
Plan to participate
Explore the sessions, debates, demos, and workshops shaping two days of open competition.
Day 1OTF StageKeynote
DeAI Is Dead, Long Live DeAI
With Jon Durbin (Core Contributor, Chutes)
Day 2OTF StageFireside Chat
What It Takes to Be Enterprise-Ready
With Max Sebti (Co-founder & CEO, Score), Jean-Thomas Ledore (Partner, PwC France)
Moderated by Kelly Woodward (Chief-of-Staff, Crucible Labs)
Day 2OTF StageDebate
DEBATE: Research vs Revenue
With Marcus Graichen (Founder, Taostats), Will Squires (Co-founder & CEO, Macrocosmos)
Moderated by Jack Ai Leung (Managing partner, Khala Research)
Side events
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Exploit: The Party
Why wait until the conference is over to have the afterparty?
When Day 1 wraps, we’re transforming the home of Exploit from conference floor to dancefloor for one proper night out with the Bittensor community. Free for Exploit ticket holders.
Register at: https://luma.com/w5guj5ix
Drinks and Community Quiz Night
September 27th / Nomad TV Studios - Before the talks, debates and serious business begin, we're getting the Bittensor community together for one night to find out who actually knows this network best.
Discounted flights & hotel
We've secured a discount for Exploit guests at the official conference hotel, Hotel Alt Montreal, just a 10 minute walk from the venue as well as a discount on Air Canada flights.
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Who is putting this together?
Exploit is produced by Bittensor Commons, a non-profit initiative dedicated to amplifying the visibility, understanding, and adoption of Bittensor by the community, for the community.
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Yes. If you would like to speak, please send a proposal to hello@exploitsummit.com.
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What is Bittensor?
Bittensor is a decentralized incentive network designed to coordinate global contributors to build intelligence collaboratively, not behind closed doors.
What is the refund or cancellation policy?
Tickets are non-refundable, but you can sell your ticket and the QR code will be honoured. Please email us with any name changes to the ticket.
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Your Exploit ticket unlocks two days of boundary-pushing talks, workshops, debates, and meaningful connections with the Bittensor ecosystem and the builders shaping the future of incentivized computing.
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