45.4955° N -73.5577° W
Bittensor’s native conference.
Sept 28-29th, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Break it down. Build it better. Join the debate.
45.4955° N -73.5577° W
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.
Open source? Open debate.
Exploit the exponent
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
Founder & CEO of Affine, an incentivized RL environment that pays miners for incremental task improvements. After founding Bittensor and guiding its early growth, Jacob now builds subnets that commoditize reasoning through permissionless, incentive-driven collaboration.
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
CEO & co-founder of Metanova Labs, a crypto-native biotech running the world's first decentralized drug discovery platform, NOVA (Subnet 68). Former Google Strategy Partner translating climate and ecology science into real-world systems.
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.
John Durban
Core Contributor / Chutes
John Durban
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.
Sponsors
Special thanks to our sponsors
Platinum Tier
Gold Tier
Titanium Tier
Silver Tier
Media partners
With support from
Locations
Where we're gathering
Montreal
New City Gas
45.4955° N -73.5577° W
FAQ
Learn more about Exploit
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.
Can I be a speaker?
Yes. If you would like to speak, please send a proposal to hello@exploitsummit.com.
Can I be a sponsor?
Yes. Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please contact hello@exploitsummit.com for details.
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.
What's included in my ticket?
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.
Got a question?