The Sovereign AI House

webAI's Mike Morin joins the founders shaping the next wave of Texas tech. Moderated by Gauntlet AI founder Austen Allred, this panel brings together leaders from Base Power, Jasper AI, Saronic, Apptronik, and more for a conversation about what it takes to build at scale in the Lone Star State.

webAI Co-Founder Tyler Mauer and VP of Engineering Hossein Moghimifam pull back the curtain on the technical vision driving sovereign AI. A session for anyone who wants to understand where AI infrastructure is really going, and how webAI is building the road to get there.

Kick off SXSW weekend early. webAI hosts the official happy hour right after the day's AI Innovation sessions—200-300 guests, good drinks, and the right crowd to start the week.

Most AI today is rented intelligence. Your ideas, workflows, and data are fed into centralized systems that learn from that input—and keep the value. In this keynote, webAI Founder and CEO David Stout explains how this approach is fundamentally flawed. As AI becomes the operating system of modern life, the real question isn’t how powerful the models are. It’s who owns the intelligence they produce.

Stout outlines a different future where intelligence is personal, contextual, and owned by the people and organizations that generate it. Instead of a single model in the cloud, the next era of AI will be a civilization of models: networks of specialized systems working together to solve problems no single model ever could.

This is the debut of the next evolution of the webAI platform—a hands-on, live walkthrough of the newest application experience. You won't want to miss this one.

What does it take to deploy AI where lives are on the line? Qwake CEO Sam Cossman, webAI CMO Anuneet Kumar, and Carmel, Indiana Mayor Sue Finkam discuss how cities are confronting rising pressure on public safety systems—and how real-time intelligence could help first responders operate more safely and effectively in the environments where failure isn’t an option.

Wind down the day with the webAI community. Grab a drink, make a connection, and keep the conversation going.

Women's health questions are often deeply personal, highly contextual, and too often underserved by generic health products or one-size-fits-all AI. In this fireside chat, Oura will unpack why women's health requires a different product and AI strategy — one built around trust, emotional safety, personalization, and clinical rigor. Amanda Youman and Jared Perez will share how Oura is building a custom women's health model inside Advisor, how the team evaluates whether it is actually better for women, and where this approach could go next.

AI isn't just another software wave. It's the beginning of a new industrial era that will reshape how intelligence, infrastructure, and national capability are built.

In this conversation, webAI Chief Intelligence Officer PJ Maykish joins Oxcart Ventures founder Larry Covert to explore where the next generation of technology is actually heading—from distributed intelligence systems to the return of ambitious, builder-driven innovation. Together they examine how AI is moving beyond cloud software into the physical world, why the most important breakthroughs may come from infrastructure rather than models, and what it will take for the next wave of builders to define the future of technology.

LLMs were trained on structured text, much of it written in markdown. In this technical deep dive, we explore why markdown-native design unlocks more powerful AI systems — with live demos and practical patterns for building at scale.

Day two wraps with drinks, conversations, and connections across the webAI partner ecosystem.

AI adoption is growing, but cloud-based one-size-fits-all models are hitting limits like high costs, privacy concerns, environmental damage, & latency issues. This session will explore why the next generation of AI will be specialized, expert, & deeply customized. Panelists will unpack how custom models, trained on proprietary data and tailored to specific domains, can deliver improved performance, privacy, & scalability with a more sustainable infrastructure.