AI Fundamentals: Building a Strong Foundation

AI is changing how we work, build products, and solve hard problems. But with new models, tools, and buzzwords landing every week, it's hard to know where to start.

AI Fundamentals is a community event co-hosted by OpenBox AI and KRNL for founders, builders, students, and professionals who want a practical understanding of modern AI.

An evening of talks, open discussion, and networking covering the ideas behind today's AI landscape, from foundation models and AI agents to how they're actually being used across industries.

Pizza 🍕 and drinks 🍸 are on us, so come hungry and stay for the conversation after.

What you'll learn

The core AI concepts everyone should know

How modern AI models and agents work

Where AI is being applied in business and day-to-day workflows

The trends shaping what comes next

Live Q&A with the speakers

Who should attend

Founders and operators trying to work out where AI fits in their product or business

Engineers and builders who want a clearer picture of how models and agents actually work

Students and career switchers looking for a solid starting point

Product, design, and ops people who work alongside AI teams and want to speak the same language

Anyone who has been reading about AI for months and still wants the ground-level version

No prior machine learning experience needed.

Speakers: TBA

About the hosts

OpenBox AI builds runtime governance for agentic AI systems. The platform sits in the path of agent execution, enforcing policy, scoring behaviour against OWASP-based risk criteria, and producing signed audit trails, so teams can ship agents into production and prove what they did.

Learn more at openbox.ai

KRNL is a plug-and-play protocol that extends enterprise systems with secure, cryptographically verifiable access to external APIs, AI systems, blockchain data, and traditional business applications. Every workflow step is executed off-chain in an isolated sandbox, cryptographically signed, timestamped, and delivered with a verifiable proof, enabling your systems to confirm authenticity before any state change, payment, or compliance action occurs.

Learn more at krnl.xyz

Come whether you're just starting out or filling in gaps in what you already know.