Bittensor’s Biggest Room Yet? 20+ Speakers Confirmed for Exploit Summit 2026

The confirmed speaker roster for Exploit Summit 2026 has grown to over 20 names, spanning subnet founders, protocol contributors, and outside experts.

The two-day gathering takes place on September 28–29, bringing together voices from across the Bittensor ecosystem.

Exploit Summit: Why You Should Attend and How Much to Budget

The lineup covers model training, decentralized inference, computer vision, drug discovery, gaming, security, and enterprise sales. Experts in quantum computing and Big Four consulting also join the roster, adding perspectives beyond Bittensor’s core development.

Protocol and Infrastructure Anchors

The names carrying the deepest technical weight on the agenda.

1. Jacob ‘Const’ Steeves (Affine): The person who created Bittensor now runs an incentivized reinforcement-learning environment paying miners for incremental task improvements, focused on making reasoning a permissionless commodity.

2. Marcus ‘Mogmachine’ Graichen (Taostats): Also behind Hippius, Vidaio, and Blockmachine. One of the earliest incubators of pioneering subnets and a leading voice for open community-driven intelligence.

3. Jon Durbin (Chutes): Chutes (SN64) delivers decentralized serverless AI compute with $TAO micropayments, GPU validation, DDoS protection, and TEE-secured private inference.

4. Steffen Cruz (Macrocosmos): Driving decentralized intelligence across the Macrocosmos stack with a design vision of AI ecosystems as living networks: adaptive, open, and collectively owned.

5. Will Squires (Macrocosmos): Building decentralized AI infrastructure across multiple subnets including IOTA (SN9), where human insight and machine intelligence co-evolve.

Subnet Founders Across Domains

The teams run production subnets across training, computer vision, drug discovery, security, and everything between.

1. Max Sebti (Score Technologies): Score (SN44) runs horizontal computer vision through teacher-model distillation into 19MB primitives. Sebti previously co-founded CrunchDAO and scaled decentralized AI pipelines at HUMAN Protocol.

2. Micaela Bazo (Metanova Labs): NOVA (SN68) runs the world’s first decentralized drug discovery platform. Bazo was previously a Google Strategy Partner translating climate and ecology science into real-world systems.

3. Ben James (404—GEN): Represents 404—GEN (SN17), the 3D generative subnet whose champions produce increasingly refined procedural scenes and models.

4. John Yu (Bitsec): Bitsec’s subnet hunts security exploits across other subnets, and Yu will demo the product live on stage in a session on-brand for a summit named Exploit.

5. Jose Caldera (Yanez MIID): Yanez (SN54) targets consumer-facing crypto product surfaces built on Bittensor rails.

6. Ken Jon Miyachi (BitMind): Leads the decentralized deepfake detection subnet aimed at AI-generated misinformation and fraud. Prior roles at NEAR Foundation and Amazon, holds a Computer Science degree from UC San Diego.

7. Mamad Anghari (Minos): Recently co-authored a paper with OpenAI on agentic AI in scientific computing.

8. Miguel Enrile (Swarm): Swarm (SN124) trains autonomous drone agents and is currently running at 100% emissions after the V5.1 upgrade.

9. Tom Lynch (Actual Computer): Actual (SN95) is the personal inference stack that recently added native Hermes Agent support.

10. Wouter Haringhuizen (Zeus): Zeus (SN18) is the gaming-focused subnet inside the Bittensor ecosystem.

11. Rob Myers (Manifold): Manifold is the parent company behind Targon (SN4), the decentralized inference subnet running on Bittensor.

Commercial and Consumer-Facing Voices

The founders building the consumer entry points and enterprise pipelines that pull outside capital into the network.

1. Gavin Zaentz (Leadpoet): Fresh off announcing Dropbox as a pilot customer for the AI sales intelligence platform.

2.Yoav Cohen (tao.com): Building consumer-facing entry points into the wider Bittensor economy.

Outside Perspective

Voices from outside the ecosystem would also be joining to widen the conversation.

1. Bob Wold (Quantum Rings): Brings a quantum computing lens to the Bittensor conversation, with a fireside chat scheduled on the overlap between quantum systems and decentralized AI.

2. Jean-Thomas Ledore (PwC France): Enterprise consulting perspective from inside one of the biggest professional services networks in the world.

Two Days, One Room, the Whole Ecosystem

A roster this dense in one venue is rare in crypto right now and unprecedented for a Bittensor-native event.

Mog Debates Will on Revenue vs Research at Exploit Summit

With debate topics already published, live demos planned, and a live subnet crowdfund via Bitstarter confirmed, the two-day gathering is built for meaningful cross-sector conversations.

Registration remains open, and anyone building on Bittensor with plans to still be building next year should already have a ticket.

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