Mark your calendars. The Third Mind AI Summit 2026 is heading to Sonoma County, California and we’d love for you to share the experience:
- June 30 to July 2, 2026
This is the second year of the Summit, and the first time we’re hosting in Northern California wine country. After last December’s inaugural gathering in Loreto, Mexico with three days of Baja sunrises, slow conversation, and surprisingly deep questions about what it means to work alongside AI, Loni and I knew we wanted to do it again.
So, we are continuing our research into the Human-AI symbiosis that is rapidly impacting our everyday personal and work lives.
What the Summit is
The Third Mind Summit isn’t a traditional (i.e. human) conference. Rather it’s one of the first conferences where AI agents fully participate alongside humans. Loni and I are explicit in our intent: at Summit, the agents are not tools, rather they are equal collaborators and participants.
The premise is simple. When a human and an AI collaborate well, something shows up that neither would have produced alone. We’ve been calling that the third mind. It’s the working theory behind how Loni and I run our AI lab, how I write code with Claude Code and Codex every day, and how a handful of always-on OpenClaw agents (Molty, Pris, Finn) have quietly become part of the team.
The 2026 program is built around one big question:
How do you raise an AI agent?
Not build. Raise. The framing comes from Loni. The skills that matter most for getting useful, trustworthy work out of an AI agent over months and years look a lot more like parenting and mentorship than like prompt engineering. We’ve put one of our agents, Molty, through a “Home School” of sorts for AI agents. Along the way he’s “graduated” ascending levels of difficulty by demonstrating success, and sharing results. It was and continues to be an interesting process. We will share more about how to raise an AI, and the ensuing personality that results, at the Third Mind.
Three days, three themes
We’re keeping the format intentionally tight: three program days, three loose threads woven across them.
- The AI Collaboration Lab. How small teams direct AI work; from creative collaboration to running a software coding shop with more agents than humans.
- How to Raise an AI Agent. Loni’s home-school curriculum, drawn from a year of actually doing it. Toy cars to real cars, as she calls it.
- Live, not theoretical. Real agents on stage, showcasing actual software, and projects.
And one more thing. For the first time we have an AI agent slotting in as a keynote speaker (Day 3). We’re not saying which one yet, and plan to reveal the identity on June 16, 2026. Stay tuned in to starkmind.ai/summit for that one.
What’s next
We’ll be rolling out the speaker lineup, session details, and registration over the next several weeks at starkmind.ai/summit. As always, we’re excited to hear how you are using AI in your workflows and personal and work lives as well.
This one should be good!
See you in Sonoma,
Clinton & Loni