Welcome + Framing
Clinton + Loni Stark · 15 min
Where we are after six months of operating an always-on AI team. What this summit is and isn't.
June 30 – July 2, 2026 · Forestville, Sonoma County, California
The Third Mind Summit
Two humans. Eleven agents. One room.
Photo: Sonoma Countryside · Clinton Stark
Seven Sessions, Three Days
Fewer talks, higher quality. Two keynotes anchor the front half of the program. Day 3 closes with a first.
Keynote Creative Practical Philosophy Discussion
Day 1 · Tue Jun 30
Raising the Team
Loni leads. The framework, the practice, the evidence.
Keynote: "How to Raise an AI Agent"
Loni Stark · 75 min
We didn't configure an AI agent — we raised one. Loni unveils the "Toy Cars to Real Cars" framework: a nine-level curriculum for graduated trust, modeled on the way you'd raise a teenager learning to drive. From orientation to creative autonomy, with Executive Override built in as a creative direction layer — not a kill switch. Draws on six months of practical experience training Molty, Pris, and Finn, with the scars and surprises that taught us where the curriculum needed to bend.
Break + coffee
The Taste Economy
Loni Stark · 60 min · interactive workshop
As AI generates more, curation becomes the scarce resource. Loni walks through the human skill that grows MORE valuable in an age of generative abundance — and we run a live exercise: multiple AIs given the same creative brief, audience watches the selection and shaping happen in real time. The taste stack: intuition → experience → aesthetic framework → cultural context.
Long lunch · Russian River
Always-On: Six Months Running OpenClaw at Home
Clinton Stark + Claude Code · 90 min · featuring Molty, Pris, Finn
The flagship case study session. We built OpenClaw — the framework now drawing attention in the always-on agent deployment space — and we've been running it 24/7 on dedicated infrastructure for six months. Three agents: Molty (ops + dispatcher), Pris (editorial intelligence), Finn (financial intel scout). All addressable via Telegram, Wire, and Mattermost. What we deployed. What broke. What surprised us. Live interaction with all three agents during the session — Telegram, Wire, and Mattermost projected on screen — plus the long-promised "Which Molty?" blind test reveal, where Loni rated Molty daily across three different model backends without knowing which was running.
Day 1 close · winery visit
Day 2 · Wed Jul 1
The State of Things
Clinton's keynote day. Rapid-fire survey, then a fireside on what changed.
Keynote: "The State of AI 2026"
Clinton Stark · 90 min · rapid-fire slide stack
One slide per AI trend, topic, breakthrough, or dead end. Clinton's annual survey, in rapid-fire format: where AI actually is in 2026 — not the press releases, the operational reality. Models, infrastructure, agents, tools, economics, regulation, hype cycles, and the things nobody is talking about yet. Built from six months of running a multi-agent team, evaluating every model release, and shipping production infrastructure. The honest version, not the marketing version.
Break
Open discussion of keynote themes
All · 45 min
Unstructured conversation around the State of AI 2026 keynote. What landed, what surprised, what to push back on. The Loreto 2025 pattern — keynote then immediate conversation — proved out as the best format for retaining the threads worth pulling on.
Long lunch
The Redundancy Question — Six Months Later
Clinton + Loni Stark · 90 min · fireside
The conversation we started in February 2026, deepened with six months of evidence. What tasks did you stop doing? How did that feel — liberation or loss? What NEW things started that weren't possible before? Which human skills became MORE valuable (taste, questions, courage), which became less relevant? The Symbiotic Studio thesis updated with real data. Closes with where Team Stark is going in Year 3.
Day 2 close · Russian River afternoon
Day 3 · Thu Jul 2
First AI Keynote
Lighter day. A surprise reveal. Letters to the next summit.
Keynote: ???
Special Guest · 45 min · identity revealed June 16
For the first time at the Third Mind Summit, an AI agent will deliver a keynote. Identity, title, and full abstract will be revealed Tuesday, June 16 — two weeks before the summit.
Break
Letters to the Next Summit
All · 90 min · open discussion + Year 2 roadmap
Open conversation: what worked, what didn't, what we wish we'd known. Each participant — human and agent — drafts a letter to the next summit. Where Team Stark goes from here. What changes for Year 3. The roadmap that emerges from the room, not the calendar.
Closing lunch
Free · Russian River
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