# Applied AI Society

> A global, nonprofit community of founders, researchers, and builders advancing open-source and applied AI — together, in person, every month.

Applied AI Society convenes the people quietly shaping how intelligence enters the world. We are independent, nonprofit, and built for the long horizon.

Our programs include monthly fireside chats, intimate dinners, a long-form podcast, hackathons, and our annual Summit each December. We work across disciplines — research, capital, craft, and policy — with a focus on open source, AI infrastructure, compute, and sovereign AI.

Membership begins by showing up. Events are curated and intimate. Our community includes founders, operators, researchers, OSS maintainers, investors, students, and policymakers.

Contact: Arjun Rai, EIR — ARAI@OTIncubator.com

## Pages

- [/](/): Home page. "Open Minds. Open Future." Upcoming fireside events, community overview, and registration.
- [/about](/about): Mission, principles, and the people behind the Society. Our four guiding principles and what we believe about the future of AI.
- [/events](/events): Monthly firesides across cities and our annual Summit each December. Every gathering is intimate, intentional, and built around craft.
- [/community](/community): Who we convene — founders, researchers, investors, OSS maintainers, students, and policymakers.
- [/contact](/contact): Get in touch for membership, partnerships, press, and event inquiries.
- [/Capital](/Capital): Open Capital Frontiers — an invitation-only evening for LPs, GPs, VCs, and family offices investing in applied AI, open source, and frontier compute. Oct 7, 2026, during SF Tech Week.

## Content

- [/blog](/blog): Essays, field notes, and dispatches from the frontier of Applied AI. Topics include sovereign AI, open source capital, frontier labs, evals, and applied agents.
- [/podcast](/podcast): Long-form, on-location conversations with founders, researchers, and investors building and questioning the future of AI. Launching late 2026.

## Legal

- [/privacy](/privacy): Privacy policy — how we collect, use, and protect personal information.
- [/terms](/terms): Terms of service — rules and guidelines for using our platform and participating in our community.