Bittensor Commons has confirmed the full details of Exploit Summit 2026, the Bittensor ecosystem’s native conference, taking place at New City Gas in Montreal on September 28 and 29.

The two-day programme covers talks, debates, workshops, and live subnet demonstrations, organised around what the network is built on: game-theoretic competitive design, in which independent miners compete against validator scoring mechanisms and are rewarded by results.

Speakers confirmed to date include include Jacob Steeves (Affine), Marcus Graichen (Taostats), Rob Myers (Manifold Labs, Subnet 4 Targon), Jon Durbin (Chutes, Subnet 64), Micaela Bazo (Metanova Labs, NOVA, Subnet 68), Will Squires and Steffen Cruz (Macrocosmos), Max Sebti (Score), Ken Jon Miyachi (BitMind), Ben James (404Gen), Bob Wold (Quantum Rings), Yoav Cohen (Tao.com), Miguel Enrile (Swarm), Wouter Haringhuizen (Zeus), Mamad Anghari (Minos), John Yu (Bitsec), Jose Caldera (Yanez), Gavin Zaentz (Leadpoet), Tom Lynch (Actual Computer) and Jean-Thomas Ledore (PwC France).

Further speakers will be announced. The full speaker roster is available on the event website.

Platinum sponsors are Affine, Chutes, the Opentensor Foundation, Proof of Talk, Taostats, and Manifold. Gold tier: Lium, Score, and KubeTEE. Titanium: Dendrite. 

Silver-tier sponsors are 404gen, Bitcast, BitMind, Gradients, Openroboto, Leadpoet, Mentat Minds, and Yanez AI. Additional support comes from Bitstarter, McGill AI Lab, Subnets for Good, BTLabs, and Vidaio.

Organisers cite Montreal’s role in the development of deep learning, the concentration of Canadian contributors in the Bittensor community, and the city’s accessibility from Europe and across North America as the reasons for the location. The venue, New City Gas, is a restored 19th-century industrial complex in Griffintown.

“Exploit is not a showcase. It is the ecosystem in one room, arguing. Subnets demo, people push back, and the network gets better for it. That is how Bittensor works, so that is how the conference works.” – Etienne Leroy, Director, Opentensor Foundation

Sponsorship opportunities remain available, and speaker proposals are open, both via [email protected]. Tickets are on sale via the event’s registration page and are non-refundable but transferable, with name changes handled by the organisers.

ABOUT EXPLOIT SUMMIT

Exploit Summit is Bittensor’s native conference, held at New City Gas in Montreal on September 28-29, 2026. Across two days of talks, debates, workshops, and live demonstrations, the event gathers builders, researchers, and operators working at the intersection of machine learning, incentive design, and distributed networks. More at exploitsummit.com

About Bittensor

Bittensor is a decentralised incentive network designed to coordinate global contributors to build machine intelligence collaboratively rather than behind closed doors. More than 100 subnet teams currently operate on the network.

About Bittensor Commons

Bittensor Commons is a non-profit initiative dedicated to the visibility, understanding, and adoption of Bittensor, run by and for the community. It produces Exploit Summit.

Media Contact

Etienne Leroy
Director, Opentensor Foundation
[email protected]

Source: BeInCrypto