This is a deep‑dive workshop on how to run Personal AI on infrastructure you actually control. KwaaiNet is Kwaai’s sovereign AI network: a distributed compute and storage layer that turns everyday devices into an OpenAI‑compatible “AI cloud” where users keep their own keys, data, and rewards instead of handing everything to centralized platforms.
Balaji Lakshmanan and Brian Ragazzi will walk through KwaaiNet’s architecture—agent‑friendly APIs, containerized GPU/CPU nodes, Verida‑backed encrypted storage, and self‑sovereign identity hooks—and show how these pieces combine into a triple‑service platform for compute, storage, and identity. Using live demos, they’ll spin up nodes, register them to the network, and connect them to tools like Open WebUI and n8n so participants can orchestrate their own agent workflows on top of community‑owned infrastructure.
The workshop will close with a hands‑on segment where attendees deploy a simple Personal AI or micro‑agent to KwaaiNet, see how contribution and reward flows work, and discuss how this model could support everything from privacy‑preserving home assistants to research clusters and civic AI projects.
The presentation will take place in Room 103 on Thursday, March 5, 2026 - 10:30 to 12:00
