DEAI Summit Malta

DeAI Summit 2026: Beyond Borders, The Inflection Point of AI 25–26 November 2026 | Malta - Europe 🌟 DeAI Summit 2026 brings together the people building, funding, regulating, and challenging the future of AI. Welcoming 500+ elite international delegates from over 50 countries + VIPs from AI labs, decentralized infrastructure, regulation, academia, venture capital, enterprise, and public policy to discuss one of the defining questions of this era: who holds the power of AI. The 2026 theme, “Beyond Borders: The Inflection Point of AI,” is built around three core pillars that are also foundational properties of decentralized AI: ▪️ Sustainability — systems that endure: environmentally efficient, institutionally resilient, and economically viable beyond the survival or business model of any one company▪️ Security — distributed systems that resist single points of failure, tampering, and capture; intelligence that can be inspected and defended▪️ Sovereignty — control over models, data, and compute remains with the institution, nation, or person using the AI, rather than a distant provider Together, these pillars shape the summit’s central agenda: how to widen access to AI capability so that more nations, institutions, builders, and communities can participate in building and benefiting from it. Topics to be discussed include: ▪️ Who holds the power of AI, and how that circle can be widened▪️ Centralized vs decentralized AI architectures▪️ Compliance and governance under the EU AI Act▪️ AI safety, transparency, and accountability▪️ Societal impact, labor transformation, and democratic resilience▪️ Capital allocation across next-generation AI systems▪️ Investment opportunities in decentralized AI infrastructure and startups The summit will feature keynotes, investor sessions, startup competitions, investment panels, and high-level networking, with speakers and contributors from leading universities, policy institutions, frontier labs, and the wider AI ecosystem. For founders and startup teams, the event offers direct access to investors, enterprise partners, regulators, and ecosystem leaders shaping the next phase of AI infrastructure and deployment. 🌐 Website: https://deaisummit.org 🔗Website: https://deaisummit.org 🔗 Learn more and register: https://deaisummit.org