The most powerful computer in the world is whichever one is on the desk in front of you. In this session, Kyle McCullough — local-first technologist and fractional CTO, shows how to run modern AI where nothing leaves the room: images, music, speech, video, 3D models, and chat, all on a laptop with the Wi-Fi turned off.

He'll dig into what's made this possible (unified memory, open model weights, quantization) and what it means for privacy, cost, and building products without the usual constraints. If the space shuttle taught us anything, it's that today's most powerful frontier models will be running on your wristwatch tomorrow.