Samah Afifi
CTO at Pitchtape
Samah Afifi is the Founder of CogniFound and CTO of Pitchtape and a technology executive with 20+ years of experience building enterprise software, AI platforms, and data systems. I specialize in agentic AI, decentralized AI architectures, and AI governance, helping organizations build production-ready AI systems that prioritize reliability, privacy, and human control. I advise startups on bringing trustworthy AI products from concept to deployment.
Talks
Data Con LA 2026
Decentralized AI: Safer, Faster, and Greener
As AI systems move from centralized clouds into personal devices, edge compute, and distributed networks, a pivotal question follows: can decentralization make AI not just more powerful, but safer, faster, and greener? Builders of personal, self-hosted AI, climate-tech and product leaders, and sustainable AI infrastructure experts examine the concrete patterns, from personal AI servers and embodied agents that keep data local, to AI-powered climate platforms, to low-carbon GPU clouds powering sovereign AI stacks, and what it takes to align incentives, protocols, and infrastructure with privacy, resilience, and sustainability.