Speakers | Exploit Summit 2026

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Meet the Exploit speaker roster.

Builders, researchers, founders, and ecosystem operators shaping the future of incentivized compute.

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.

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