San Francisco, CA, July 17, 2026, Chainwire
AI Collective, one of the world’s largest communities of AI builders, founders, and enterprise practitioners, today announced that it has been selected as an official partner of the AGI-26 conference, the leading gathering for artificial general intelligence research, development, and deployment.
This partnership brings together AGI Conference’s deep research team of leading researchers and theorists with The AI Collective’s network of thousands of engineers, founders, and business leaders who are currently building and deploying AI systems in production. Together, the two organizations aim to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AGI research and the real-world tools and workflows that enterprises and developers use every day.
“The path to AGI is as much about people as it is about models. Our community of more than 250,000 builders, founders, and practitioners engage every day with the human side—the judgment, skills, and craftsmanship required to build increasingly capable systems.We just finished Humans in AI Week, which had simultaneous events in more than 100 cities, and we are proud to announce that AGI-26 There’s no better stage for that conversation than with Ben Goertzel and his team at the AGI Society and SingularityNET. ” — AJ Green, Executive Director, AI Collective.
“During these unprecedented times, the push toward AGI is emerging from the niche research world that has nurtured AGI since the middle of last century, and is gathering enthusiasm and resources from the broader community,” continued Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET. “I’m excited about the partnership between AGI Conference and AI Collective because it has the potential to accelerate and smooth this transition for the benefit of everyone. The deep innovation pursued by long-time AGI researchers has great potential to strengthen AI Collective’s practical projects, and the energy, scale, and diversity of AI Collective will push AGI R&D beyond what was previously possible. There is considerable potential for scaling up. It is definitely a win-win.”
As part of the partnership, The AI Collective and AGI-26 will:
- Opening speaking slots to the AI Collective community will give builders, founders, and practitioners direct access to the AGI conference stage to share real-world case studies, technological breakthroughs, and lessons learned from large-scale adoption of AI.
- We create dedicated programming and workshops focused on practical, hands-on implementation of AGI technologies, helping teams translate cutting-edge research into ready-to-use tools.
- We foster direct connections between the AGI Conference’s research and academic network and The AI Collective’s base of operators and founders, fostering collaboration between those who advance AGI’s science and those who build its applications.
- We will expand access for members of the AI Collective to join, participate, and participate in AGI-26’s full program of talks, panels, and networking events.
This partnership reflects our shared belief that the path to useful and widely adopted AGI is achieved through collaboration between researchers and practitioners who translate that research into real-world products and impact.
Now in its 19th year, the AGI Conference is the only major conference series dedicated to human-level AI development since its inception in 2008. AGI-26 will be held. San Francisco, July 27-30, 2026a hybrid format offering both in-person and virtual attendance. This year’s edition comes at a pivotal time, as theoretical AGI research is increasingly translated into systems capable of true inference, adaptation, and broader generalization.
The speakers confirmed for AGI-26 are:
- Ben Goertzel — SingularityNET / ASI Alliance / BGI Labs
- carl friston — University College London
- Emad Mostake — Intelligent Internet
- Neil Gershenfeld — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- michael levin — Tufts University
- Marco Pavone — Nvidia
- Alexander Lerchner — Google DeepMind
- Alison Gopnik — University of California, Berkeley
- Fazeh Habibi — Singularity NET
- Hod Lipson — Columbia University
- alex wisner gross — physical intelligence
This year’s speakers represent all the major schools of thought moving the field forward, from Friston’s neuroscience-inspired models and Markus’ examples of symbolic reasoning, to Levin and Hazan’s work on biological intelligence, Gershenfeld’s work on programmable matter at MIT, Lachner’s cutting-edge work at Google DeepMind, and Goertzel’s own decades-long pursuit of general intelligence. The result is a program that captures the most productive tensions, bringing neuroscience, symbolic reasoning, agent architecture, and hybrid systems to one stage.
The AGI Conference speaker series has previously featured foundational figures such as Jürgen Schmidhuber, Joshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Gary Marcus, Christoph Koch, Richard Sutton, Marcus Hitter, and François Cholet, cementing our reputation as a gathering place for the field’s most serious thinkers.
Since its inception in 2008, the AGI Conference Series has attracted more than 1,000 researchers, practitioners, and thought leaders from academia, industry, and government. More than a showcase, this series has served as a pressure test to question basic assumptions and shape the direction of the field.
Link to ticket: https://luma.com/AGI-26
About AGI Association
The AGI Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the research and design of artificial general intelligence systems. The association fosters global cooperation and communication to disseminate knowledge and diverse views on the future of intelligence.
https://agi-conference.org/
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