B Cavello
B Cavello is a technology and facilitation expert passionate about creating social change by empowering everyone to participate in technological and social governance. They serve as director of emerging technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. B also serves as a 2026 Siegel research fellow, as organizer for the Public AI Network, and as a board member to Metagov, an interdisciplinary research nonprofit promoting digital self-governance. Previously they worked assistant program chair for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference, tech policy advisor in the US Congress, program lead at Partnership on AI, senior engagement lead at IBM, and director of product and community Exploding Kittens.
Sessions
We'll open the day with a discussion of tailoring AI to the personal, the local, and the specific as part of the strategy for public AI. We'll talk about offline, local-first AI and how communities and individuals can meaningfully shape and harness these technologies.
Public AI means building for increased agency and shared prosperity. We'll open the day's conversations with a group discussion on balancing the benefits of open knowledge with the challenges of shared infrastructure.
We'll open with a panel discussion with Václav Pavlín, Bruno Caldas Vianna, and Wouter Kampmann before rolling up our sleeves with some hands-on workshop time to help people get started with their own local AI applications.
We'll open the day with a discussion of how we want to relate to knowledge, intimacy, and memory. We'll talk about what must be maintained and what needs to be renegotiated as we build public AI.