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Video won the podcasting format debate. The question now is who builds the infrastructure for video production, including podcasting, clips and long-form. This session brings together two founders who saw the shift early and are shipping the tools: Paul Robert Cary of StarZero, whose AI handles video search, editing, and intelligent clip extraction at scale, and Rox Codes of Flightcast, building video podcasting production infrastructure alongside Steven Bartlett. This conversation explores where AI adds real benefit, where it breaks and what's next. Learn about tools that harness AI to help humans, creating content without a broadcast budget, the HLS / RSS debate for video podcasting, and how intelligent clipping beats lazy clip-farms in both speed and quality.

With a billion new "creators" coming online via AI, how do you compete? This session offers a survival guide for creators, producers and media execs. Learn how to thrive in the age of digital twins, synthetic creators, and the slop tsunami without losing your soul... or your revshare.

An exploration of weird and wild deep tech. From biological hacking and orbital data centers to the frontiers of physical machines, this session looks at tech that will soon move from theoretical to practical. Discover where engineering and biology are headed and what the next breakthroughs will mean for builders, makers and creators.

This session showcases how creators are turning expertise and community into repeatable algorithm-free revenue, including memberships, premium community, courses and cohorts, CAD files and toolkits, brand partnerships, and creator-led products. Learn how to package, price and retain fans and unexpected ways to expand beyond revshare.

YouTube's creator liaison and editor Rene Ritchie and YouTube product manager Todd Beaupre know more about building success on YouTube than just about anyone else. In this AMA they will answer YOUR burning questions about YouTube, the algorithm, success on the platform, why the algorithm doesn't hate you, numbers to pay attention to, and much more!

Privacy, control, and agency are the defining pillars of the next wave of AI. From hybrid systems like OpenClaw and Claude Code to fully offline models, this session explores how to deploy AI partially or entirely on your own hardware. We will break down the current state of the art and project where the price-to-performance curve is heading. You will discover exactly which local hardware delivers the best return on investment, covering memory thresholds, CPU vs. GPU trade-offs, and cost-efficient scaling strategies. Finally, we will share actionable blueprints for securely ingesting proprietary data into your local AI environment, orchestrating autonomous local agents, and locking down your infrastructure from prying eyes.

The lone genius creator is becoming a small studio with a lab, a pipeline, and a product roadmap. This session provides hands-on advice for creators to help them build a cinematic hardware and software stack without spending a fortune and how to hire an effective team of production experts when needed. Learn how to optimize for creativity while digging a protective moat, preserving your humanity and scaling production without losing that weird spark that made you watchable.

Most people still treat LinkedIn like a digital resume. That's a mistake. This fireside chat with Sam Corrao Clanon, who runs creator products at LinkedIn, covers what the platform actually is now: a publishing engine where the right creator or executive can build an audience that converts. If you're a creator who wants to think like a CEO, build real revenue, and eventually sell your channel or your products, LinkedIn is the place to be. We'll discuss what good LinkedIn content looks like in 2026, the formulaic posts dominating so many feeds, and what's coming on the product and monetization side. Whether you're a solo creator, an executive trying to build a personal brand, or a company figuring out how to show up without sounding like a press release, this one's for you.

The next power move is equity: creators as founders, owners, investors, and co-builders. This session demystifies deal structures, risk, control, and how not to get dazzled into signing away your future for a short-term bag. Whether via acquisition, alignment or building together, this session identifies how to find co-founders, who's buying, and the best path to sustainable wealth.

More than half of Google searches now end without a click, and ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are answering the question before anyone reaches your site, video, or brand. Those systems pull from a small pool of trusted sources, and you're probably not there. This session covers what Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is, why it's already costing you today, and what content, technical, and distribution changes you need to do now to move the needle. Then we go one step further. Within 18 months, AI agents will complete purchases, book services, and curate media on behalf of your customers and community. And without machine-readable authority, you will be invisible. Leave with a practical diagnostic framework and an action list you can put in place today.

A discussion with two of the best editors in the world on the art, science and future of video production. You'll learn about when to break pacing, how to rescue bad footage, the magic of great scoring, what automation can handle and what it can't, and what separates a good cut from one that goes viral. This session explores the secrets of world-class editing, where AI can help (and where it fails), and the tips, tricks and technique that separate the best from the rest. We'll also talk about why "human taste" is still the bottleneck that matters.

The creators winning AI brand partnerships use the product every day. Lifestyle influencers need not apply. This fireside chat with Cursor creator partnership lead Mike McConnon explores how AI companies find creators who genuinely build stuff, why niche and authentic beats broad and polished, and how AI startups should build creator programs from the inside.

Most communities fail. They overpromise, underdeliver, and slowly turn into ghost towns. This session brings together creators and operators who have built communities that members actually use, value, and renew. You will learn how to define real member value, choose the right platform, structure memberships, design programming that drives participation, and build systems that keep the experience fresh over time. Walk away with a clear framework for launching or fixing a community that generates buzz, loyalty and revenue instead of churn and regret.

A look at the frontier of AI storytelling. How are creators using AI to build entire narrative series and movies? We explore tools that move beyond "slop" into genuine, funny, and engaging narrative formats.

A big audience and a real community are two very different things and most creators don't realize which one they have until they ask their audience to show up. This conversation brings together makers and creators who've figured out how to tell the difference: who in their audience is just watching, and who is genuinely invested. We'll talk about creative ownership, what community-driven product launches actually look like from the inside, and how some of the most interesting things being made right now started not with a solo vision - but with a creator and their most loyal people building something together.

Gen Z is leaving the public feed. This session explores the changing face of fandom, where "microfandoms" and private servers replace likes and followers. Find out why trust is the only metric that matters, and how smart brands, creators and platforms are building communities of value. Featuring insights from Discord, Disney, Signal and more.

Hank Green built Complexly to make education a mission, not just a format. Matt Fitzgerald led the largest creator-driven fundraising campaigns ever made, most recently #TeamWater with Mark Rober and MrBeast. In this conversation they talk about how to move from content to cause and the rise of creator philanthropy. They'll explore what works, how you structure the org, and how to build something durable without losing the soul of your community.

Forget rosy futures or dystopian doom'n'gloom. This session provides a roadmap focused on what will change in production, discovery, localization, agents, digital twins and personalization in the next year. We'll separate "cool demo" from "repeatable workflow," and hand you a short list of disruptive products and services, along with ground-breaking new capabilities... all coming in the next year.

Safety Third welcomes everyone to the fourth annual Open Sauce!

A panel about cars: the people who fix them, the people who break them, and the people who drive them really far.

Making stuff is hard. Making content is hard. Making content about making stuff is even harder. Creators discuss the intersect of storytelling, education, entertainment, and the algorithm.

These creators may make robots, but they're anything but robotics. From wearables to walking coffee tables, this panel digs into the robotics projects that worked and the ones that never came to life.

Ask Hank Anything Live

Creators are no longer just selling t-shirts and hoodies, they're shipping real products. This panel brings together creators who've built physical products to talk about what it actually takes: from finding the right manufacturers, to endless product testing and learning what people actually want.

We're all looking up at the stars, but these creators are looking up the engineering. Ask them your burning rocketry questions before they leave the atmosphere.

Build a bot with 500 of your closest friends and have them fight it out on stage, live.

3D printing in 2026 looks nothing like it did even two years ago. A conversation about where the industry actually is right now, what's changing when nobody's looking, and what's coming next.

We pulled Kevin out of his garage and onto the stage to answer your questions LIVE! Join him (and friends) for extremely educational content and perfectly executed demos.

AI is hitting every niche differently. It's writing essays, generating code, and faking science. Creators from tech, education, video essays, and more talk about what AI is actually doing in their corners of the internet. What it's getting wrong, what it's getting right, and what it means for the future of their industries.

BattleBots newest season, Pro League, will exclusively air on YouTube. Hear from the builders who competed and learn about the new competition format.

How many car batteries can one panel have? Feel the energy of this absolutely electric group of creators as they discuss lasers, lightning, and high-voltage experiments.

These creators tried everything so you don't have to. Join them to talk about the projects nobody else would attempt, the lessons learned from doing them anyway, and how to tell when a bad idea is actually a great one in disguise.

These creators took their toontown and made it a boomtown. Somewhere along the way, an animation channel stops being a solo project and starts being a studio. How do these creators keep a personal voice in their art when there's more pressure and more hands?

Creators who design, build, and document electronics talk about the tension between form and function, the beauty of simplicity, and why showing the inside of a thing is sometimes more interesting than hiding it.

Carp Tank is back and better than ever. Join our four ruthless business carp as they are pitched a variety of investment opportunities by real Open Sauce exhibitors. Will they give them their REAL MONEY? (they won't)

Building from fandom comes with a built-in audience and a built-in critic. Creators discuss what it's like to bring fictional worlds into physical reality, how they navigate the expectations of deeply passionate communities, and how to actually make something work when science fiction is ahead of science.

In past iterations of the Dangerous People panel, our panelists have questioned the legality of their projects. And so have the FBI. We decided it was time that they speak to someone who knows. Join these creators as they receive live 'legal counsel' about their dangerous project ideas. Legally this is a joke.

Long projects, Short stories. Even shorter panel description.

Engineering YouTube didn't always look like this. Before the eight-figure budgets, brand deals, and squid game sets, it was someone in a garage with a tripod and a curiosity problem. Creators who've been here through it all talk about how the platform has changed, how the audience has changed, and what they think the future holds.

How do social media algorithms work? No one really knows. But these creators have broken through the noise. Join them as they discuss what they've learned through years of content creation, how they deal with constantly changing best practices, and which algorithm myths may be true.

At the intersection of art and engineering sits a very specific kind of project: one that didn't need to exist but absolutely had to. Join these creators to discuss the builds, the inspirations, and the joyful process behind work designed to make people smile first and make sense second.

Artemis II made space trendy again, but these creators have been here the whole time. Join them as they talk about what's actually exciting right now, what's overhyped, and what the next few years of spaceflight look like from the people watching it closest.

The internet has changed who gets to do conservation work and how it reaches people. Creators talk about how online audiences have become a real force in conservation, what actually moves the needle, and how to turn views into outcomes for the animals and ecosystems they cover.

What if one thing was another thing now? These creator chemists answer that question (or something close to it) in every video. How do they do it? How do they not explode? This panel will help you find out! Just don't try any of it at home.

Self-teaching looks easy in a montage, but the reality is months of confusion, dead ends, and slow progress. Creators who've taught themselves across wildly different fields share what works, how to keep going when nothing makes sense, and the art of just figuring it out.

Creator Feud is BACK! Watch as two teams of creators battle against each other to guess how YOU (the Open Sauce attendees) answered a series of survey questions. Be sure to answer the questions in the event app before Sunday to have your voice heard!

We pulled Kevin out of his garage and onto the stage to answer your questions LIVE! Join him (and some surprise guests) for extremely educational content and perfectly executed demos. Sponsored by xTool!

Coding has never been more accessible, or more chaotic. Developers, creators, and game-devs talk about what's working now, what's broken, and what it actually takes to make something people use.

Every new creator gets the same advice: just start. This panel covers how to actually do that, from a more technical perspective. Learn about the gear, the software, and the workflow habits that make the difference between burning out at video three and still uploading a year later.

Alex Hirsch, the creator of Gravity Falls, and TheOdd1sOut chat about their experiences with animation, storytelling, fandom, and more.

Creators dig into the part of science communication that most viewers never see: the writing. How they pick a topic, find the right voice, and turn a pile of research into a script that actually keeps people watching.

What if you built cool stuff for a livestream and then used it on a livestream? These creators already have and now they're going to talk about it.

Cosplayers share what really happens between the reference photo and the convention floor. Learn about the late nights, the creative processes, and the parts that definitely weren't hot-glued in the parking lot.

Whether through a ghost town, a base, a farm, or a "farm", these creators bring off-the-grid online. Join them for a conversation about dirt, livestock, abandoned buildings, and the projects that never quite end.

A legally distinct drawing and guessing game with real consequences...

The internet is drowning in auto-generated explainers, AI-narrated "facts," and videos that confidently teach things that aren't true. How do creators who actually do the research, run the experiments, and check the sources break through the barrage of AI slop?

Aviation today spans hobbyists building planes in their garages and companies running autonomous fleets above your neighborhood. The panel covers both, with enthusiasts weighing in on the craft, the engineering, and the next decade of flight.

VFX breakdowns, high-speed photography, debunked illusions, and the slow, technical craft of turning footage into something that fools the eye. Creators who live at the intersection of filmmaking and science talk about what's changed with modern tools, and what audiences should expect next.

Sometimes the most interesting build in the shop isn't on the workshop, it is the workshop. Creators talk about custom tools, homemade machines, and the everyday craft of machining.

What if there was more jeopardy in Jeopardy? We're about to find out with this SHOCKING twist.

It's getting really weird out here isn't it? A chat about what putting a PC together actually looks like right now.

AI is in the tools, the thumbnails, the captions, the comments, and increasingly, the competition. A conversation with creators about where AI actually helps in a real workflow, where it doesn't, and what it's doing to the platform, the audience, and the kind of work that gets rewarded.

What will it be? Does it exist? Only one way to find out.