2026-07-10 –, AI Barn
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.
On the panel, Václav Pavlín, Bruno Caldas Vianna, and Wouter Kampmann will share their learnings from working on peer-to-peer and local-first tech and talk about what it takes to make local AI more accessible, useful, and fun.
Following the discussion, we'll open up the space for some group hacking and knowledge-sharing as people learn to host their own AI assistants or rebuild anything from CMS systems to social media platforms as local-first experiences.
About our panelists:
Václav Pavlín is a Logos contributor who spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source.
Wouter Kampmann has worked on Defi at MakerDAO since 2017, before shifting focus to decentralized organizations and local-first application building at Powerhouse.
Bruno Caldas Vianna lives in Barcelona. In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona.
This panel will be moderated by B Cavello, Director of Emerging Technologies at the Aspen Institute and leader in the movement for public AI.
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.
Wouter has worked on Defi at MakerDAO since 2017, before shifting focus to decentralized organizations and local-first application building at Powerhouse.
Bruno Caldas Vianna lives in Barcelona. In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona. He has a degree in film, and a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artist practice traverses poetical affordances of technology, by creating visual narratives in innovative and traditional supports, short and feature films, live cinema, augmented reality, mobile apps, installations. Between 2011 and 2016, he ran Nuvem, a rural space dedicated to art and technology in Brazil. From 2012 and 2018 he taught at Oi Kabum, a school for art in technology in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founder of the autonomous technology collective Coolab, which was awarded a Mozilla grant in 2017, with a project to finance community networks.
I am just a chaos agent - anything I touch usually breaks, but I often help to fix it:) Logos contributor, spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source.