Exploit Summit 2026 to Take Place in Montreal on Sept 28-29

The full details of Exploit Summit 2026 have been confirmed by Bittensor Commons. The event, the Bittensor ecosystem's own conference, will run at New City Gas in Montreal on September 28 and 29.

Talks, debates, workshops and live subnet demos make up the two-day schedule. The organising principle is the same one underpinning the network: game-theoretic competitive design, where independent miners vie against validator scoring mechanisms and earn rewards based on outcomes.

Those confirmed so far are 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).

Additional speakers are still to come. The complete list of speakers is posted on the event website.

Platinum sponsor status belongs to Affine, Chutes, the Opentensor Foundation, Proof of Talk, Taostats and Manifold. Lium, Score and KubeTEE are the gold-tier sponsors, with Dendrite at titanium level.

Silver sponsors are 404gen, Bitcast, BitMind, Gradients, Openroboto, Leadpoet, Mentat Minds and Yanez AI. Bitstarter, McGill AI Lab, Subnets for Good, BTLabs and Vidaio add further support.

The choice of Montreal is explained by organisers through three factors: the city's role in the development of deep learning, the high number of Canadian contributors to the Bittensor community, and its accessibility from Europe and the rest of North America. New City Gas, the venue, is a restored industrial complex from the 19th century located 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 are still open, and speaker proposals can be submitted, with hello@exploitsummit.com the contact for both. Tickets, available through the event's registration page, are non-refundable but transferable, and the organisers will handle any name changes.

About Exploit Summit

As Bittensor's own conference, Exploit Summit is set at New City Gas in Montreal from September 28 to 29, 2026. The two-day event, made up of talks, debates, workshops and live demonstrations, draws builders, researchers and operators who work where machine learning, incentive design and distributed networks meet. Further details can be found at exploitsummit.com.

About Bittensor

Bittensor is built as a decentralised incentive network whose aim is to bring together contributors around the world so machine intelligence is developed collaboratively rather than in secret. More than 100 subnet teams are active on the network today. Bittensor's website is https://bittensor.com.

About Bittensor Commons

Bittensor Commons is a non-profit organisation run by and for the community, set up to increase the visibility, understanding and adoption of Bittensor. It is the organiser behind Exploit Summit.

Media Contact

Etienne Leroy
Director, Opentensor Foundation
etienne@opentensor.dev