State of the Union: Why Local, Why Now

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Local AI has crossed from interesting to useful, driven by stronger open models, better hardware,

and a maturing ecosystem for running intelligence outside the cloud. This panel explores what that

shift unlocks for sovereignty, defense, regulated industries, privacy, cost, and resilience, and why

open-source AI may be central to who benefits from the next wave of intelligence. Moderator: Nader

Khalil (NVIDIA). Panelists: Joseph Nelson (Roboflow), Alex Cheema (Exo Labs), Ahmad Osman

(r/LocalLLaMA).

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