Hello ATAI 2026 Attendees,

We are still catching our breath after an incredible two days in Durham this week. When we set out to build All Things AI 2026, our goal was simple: to bring together the smartest builders, strategists, and leaders for real, unvarnished conversations about the future of artificial intelligence.

You delivered. Thousands of you showed up, packing the halls of the Durham Convention Center and Carolina Theater. From the hands-on technical workshops on Monday to the standing-room-only keynotes on Tuesday, the energy was electric. We saw enterprise executives collaborating with startup founders, and seasoned engineers learning alongside students. This is what we need to be doing to ensure the future.

But we don't just want to celebrate; we want to build. So we have a humble ask: please take 3 minutes to fill out our post-conference survey. We read every single response. Your feedback directly shapes the content, format, and direction of next year's event. We think this year was good, but we always want to do better, and we need your help to get there.

Your voice matters. Whether you attended a single workshop or stayed for every keynote, your insights are crucial to our planning.

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We provide education all year long, not just during our conference, and we strive to create high-quality learning experiences and bring together some really amazing people to share their knowledge.

First, we had Igor Jablokov, the father of Baby Siri and Baby Alexa, on stage at All Things AI on Monday, and he got more questions than we could cover in a short time. Igor loved the crowd's vibe and wanted to give you the answers you were looking for. So share your questions and we’ll record a session called Ask Igor.

🙋 Ask the father of Baby Alexa and Bay Siri where he sees AI going

At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang stood before 30,000 people and placed confidential computing at the center of his vision for the AI factory era. Not as a footnote. Not as a security slide buried in the back. As the foundation.

When autonomous agents start querying your customer records, financial models, proprietary source code, regulated health and legal data, encryption at rest and in transit is no longer enough. The agent has to process that data. And the moment it does, under traditional architectures, it's exposed. Every inference. Every query. Every time.

Jensen knows this. That's why confidential computing wasn't a side conversation at GTC. It was the architecture.

Now here's the practical question: what does your organization actually do about it?
I'm sitting down with Aaron Fulkerson — CEO of Opaque Systems, the leading Confidential AI platform out of UC Berkeley's RISELab, backed by Intel, Accenture, and NVIDIA — to have that conversation. We'll break down what Trusted Execution Environments actually are, why your current security stack wasn't built for a world where software makes autonomous decisions on your behalf, and how the organizations that get this right first won't just be more secure — they'll be faster and further ahead than competitors still waiting for legal to sign off.

🎟️ Join Mark and Aaron for this All Things AI Virtual Event

We just wanted to reiterate that, despite the .org domain and our dedication to providing educational opportunities to the community, we are a for-profit business. But right now, there isn’t much profit in it. But we want to build something sustainable that takes time and hard work.

So while we are figuring that out. Both Mark and Todd have other ways they pay the bills. If you want to work with them, here’s how:

Support Todd by attending All Things Open. All Things AI will be there to help drive the AI track.

📆 Save the Date for All Things Open 2026

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💼 Peripety Labs is Mark’s consultancy for all your AI training and strategic needs. (New vibecoded website is in the works, the classic case of the cobbler’s children have no shoes)

Second, the countdown to All Things AI 2027 has officially begun. We'll be returning on March 22nd and 23rd, 2027. We are already hard at work curating the next generation of workshops and keynotes, and we can't wait to share what's next.

📆 Save the Date for All Things AI 2027

AI is moving fast. We're here to make sure no one gets left behind. Thank you for being part of a community that learns together and builds responsibly. We will be providing many more free AI learning and networking opportunities.

📆 Join the All Things AI Live Meetup Group
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🛜 Connect with us on LinkedIn and join the LinkedIn All Things AI Networking Group

AI is moving fast. We're here to make sure no one gets left behind. Thank you for being part of a community that learns together and builds responsibly. We will be providing many more free AI learning and networking opportunities.