Human-Authorized: The Summit on Human Agency
Napa Valley, California, February 9th, 2026, Chainwire
Hosted by H2H, Affinidi, LF Decentralized Trust and the Advanced AI Society, the Summit focuses on technologies that assure humans remain in control of AI
Amid growing predictions about our lives and businesses being managed by autonomous AI agents, a timely convening of leaders who are building and using these technologies aims to ensure they remain accountable to provably human authority.
Anyone responsible for deploying AI agents, authorizing their use, shaping the rules they operate under, or considering the mounting compliance and legal risks associated with them should attend Human-Authorized: The Summit on Human Agency in Napa Valley, California on February 23, 2026.
In exploring and experimenting with cutting-edge trust and identity solutions that give people and businesses access control over their data under privacy-preserving conditions, attendees will discover how enterprises, boards, regulators, and individuals can take steps to ensure safe deployment of AI tools. They’ll discuss how to address vital questions that must be answered before allowing AI agents to move money, access sensitive data, coordinate work, and make decisions:
- How can we distinguish between machines and people online?
- Who or what does an agent represent?
- What is that agent authorized to do?
- Who is accountable for its actions?
Hosted by H2H and its event partners – Affinidi, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and the Advanced AI Society – Human-Authorized: The Summit on Human Agency is grounded in a shared conviction among its hosts: that agentic AI will only scale responsibly if human intent, authority, and accountability are embedded directly into how autonomous systems operate. This requires a new privacy-prioritized trust infrastructure that allows people and organizations to delegate power to AI agents without surrendering control.
“The great leaps in innovation promised by agentic AI will never be realized if we can’t trust that our AI agents are truly operating on our behalf and that we have full, provable authority over their workflows and our data. We need a human anchor for agent delegation that’s based on safe, reliable proofs of personhood and on verified trust relationships with other people and organizations,” said Michael Casey, cofounder of H2H and Chair of the Advanced AI Society. “We’re honored to be working with the smartest minds solving this problem and are excited to explore, discuss and showcase their solutions at this unique event.”
Exposed to a top-notch lineup of speakers, summit attendees will learn how this approach’s benefits extend far beyond mitigating security risks as it gives rise to a new “intention economy” in which people and businesses can unlock AI’s immense potential with their data, under their control, on their terms.
The Summit will showcase a prototype “H2H Connect” event app, built by Affinidi under a framework developed by the First Person Project, which is founded on technologies and standards openly developed under LF Decentralized Trust. With the app in hand, attendees will be encouraged to experiment with new, privacy-preserving approaches to managing the professional relationships they forge at the event.
“This summit’s timing is critical,” said Glenn Gore, CEO of Affinidi. “Individuals and every major enterprise are deploying agentic AI, but securing and maintaining privacy hasn’t kept pace.
That’s why this collaboration with H2H, LF Decentralized Trust, and the Advanced AI Society matters. As the technology provider, we’re excited to demonstrate what’s possible. The H2H Connect app shows the breadth of this opportunity: people connecting securely without platform intermediaries, verifying identities without surveillance, and maintaining control over their data as it travels with them. When that same infrastructure extends to AI agents, granting them delegated authority, we can verify and trust that we can audit them, unlocking an entirely new AI economy. Enterprises innovate confidently. Individuals retain control. Developers build without creating new vulnerabilities. AI stops being a trade-off between capability and accountability; it becomes an accelerant for both. That’s the internet of trust we’re building toward.”
The one-day, invite-only event will occur right before the annual Linux Foundation Member Summit, at a moment when industry attention is focused on interoperability standards for agentic AI, including the work underway by the Agentic AI Foundation, a new Linux Foundation project spearheaded by the AI industry.
“As AI agents become autonomous, open source and open standards are critical if identity, delegation, and accountability are to be transparent, auditable, and interoperable,” said Daniela Barbosa, General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. “With its neutral governance, open codebases, and a global ecosystem, the LF Decentralized Trust community and technologies are contributing vital decentralized trust infrastructures that give enterprises and regulators confidence in the age of AI. This event spotlights the challenges and opportunities and will serve as a catalyst for innovation and adoption of critical foundations for responsible agentic AI.”
Attendees drawn from the fields of AI, finance, enterprise data, open-source standards and digital identity will hear from a lineup of leading thinkers in identity, AI and digital society that includes:
- Bestselling author Clay Shirky
- Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin
- Privacy expert Michelle Dennedy
- Author, comedian, host of “Life with Machines” podcast Baratunde Thurston
- Blockchain inventor Scott Stornetta
- Yubico founder and SIROS Chair Stina Ehrensvard
- Affinidi CEO and former AWS Chief Architect Glenn Gore
- Lawyer and digital rights advocate Wendy Seltzer
- Erik Reppel, the author of Coinbase’s x402 payments protocol.
For additional questions on the event, please contact summitonhumanagency@linuxfoundation.org.
About H2H
H2H is a convening and trust infrastructure company enabling meaningful, verifiable human and business relationships in the age of AI. Through curated events and privacy-preserving technologies, H2H catalyzes social and professional connections that are anchored in verifiable personhood credentials, consented connections, and direct human control over identity, social graphs and personal data.
About Affinidi
Affinidi builds trust infrastructures that enable individuals, businesses, and AI agents to control their own data and identity. A data and identity technology company that utilises verifiable credential technology to build privacy-first systems that allow secure collaboration without compromising data ownership. Through developer tools built on open standards, Affinidi supports ecosystems where trust is cryptographically verifiable, consent is required for data access, and value is unlocked for everyone. For more information: https://www.affinidi.com
About the Advanced AI Society
The Advanced AI Society (AAI Society) is an industry association activating Proof-of-Control as a foundational category of technology for the AI economy. Proof-of-Control refers to cryptographically tamper-resistant technologies that make AI systems independently provable beyond contractual assurances or platform trust. AAI Society’s mission is to create the market infrastructure that enables the adoption of provable AI at scale. We convene builders, buyers, investors, and governance leaders to make Proof-of-Control tech visible, investable, and adoptable across enterprise and institutional environments. https://www.advancedaisociety.org/