Local AI and Robotics Night | by Conifer (YC S26)

An evening for the people building the future of Local AI, robotics (+ everything in between), and a chance to meet the rest of us doing the same.

We're Conifer (YC S26). We're building the least-cost inference gateway: it routes every AI query to the cheapest model that can do the job, starting with the free ones running on your own hardware, with a privacy-first mode that keeps everything on-device. For local inference, where cost, latency, and data control decide what's actually shippable, that matters.

19:00 - Doors Open:

19:15 - Opening Remarks

19:20 - Ty Lipscomb and secure local inference @ Conifer (YC S26)

19:40 - Anton Kratz @ Stealth Startup

20:00 - Break

20:20 - Tom Wang and VLA implementation @ Princeton Robotics

20:40 - Open stage Presentations

21:00 - Final Words

21:15 - Open Bar + Networking

Drinks are on us ;)

7:00–9:30 PM