Unconferences, workshops, assemblies

Convenings

Bringing together researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to bridge the gap between AI markets, implementation mechanisms, and welfare outcomes for all.

Upcoming
27 April – 1 May 2026
Rockefeller Foundation
Bellagio Center, Italy
Market Design Value Creation Protocols

Missing Mechanisms for the Future Human+AI Economy

Architectures and Mechanisms for Distributed Value Creation

This convening brings together 21 leading experts working across AI product development, economics, standards-setting, policy, and research to explore how to design market structures that are sustainable and allow for broad participation in value creation and distribution.

AI systems increasingly rely on external content – text, images, audio, and data produced across the web – but the mechanisms for recognizing, attributing, and rewarding those inputs remain underdeveloped. As a result, value flows are opaque, even as AI-mediated products become more deeply integrated into everyday economic activity.

Format

Closed convening of AI leaders and builders with 21 invited participants over five days. Participants will prepare prototype mechanisms and RFC-type contributions.

Convened By

AI Disclosures Project at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy.

Contact

For questions: [email protected]

Key Questions
  • What is the future of knowledge curation and consumption in the age of AI?
  • What is the value-exchange under AI that will sustain existing content producers and incentivize new content production?
  • What technical architectures – APIs, protocols, attribution systems – could support open, interoperable AI markets?
  • What new AI-native business models could align creator incentives with AI product growth?
  • What governance mechanisms do we need to make these markets trustworthy and consent-driven?
Conveners
Tim O'ReillyO'Reilly Media / AI Disclosures Project
Ilan StraussUCL IIPP / AI Disclosures Project
O'Reilly Media with AI Disclosures Project
June 26–28, 2026
Lighthaven, Berkeley
California, USA
Agentic AI Market Design Business Models

Market Design and the AI Economy

A FOO Camp for the new agentic economy

You are invited to join a weekend "FOO" Camp to shape what AI-native markets should look like. As AI agents become a new layer for web discovery and transactions, they will reshape who captures value and where sustained value can ultimately reside.

Over the weekend, we will consider together what sustainable business models in the agentic era can look like – models that can support third-party ecosystems, encourage high-quality participation, attribute value fairly, and reward innovation and honesty.

Format

Open unconference — self-organized sessions, 150+ attendees, three days.

Co-hosted By

O'Reilly Media, AI Disclosures Project, and Partners at Lighthaven, Berkeley, CA.

Join the Committee

Contact: [email protected]

Key Questions
  • What is the future of knowledge curation and consumption in AI-native and agentic markets?
  • If not 'clicks' or 'views', then what are the key signals through which agentic AI markets will value inputs?
  • What are the new "win-win" AI-native business models for the web that can help scale agentic AI?
  • What technical architectures would incentivize interoperability while reducing 'winner-takes-most' dynamics?
  • How can inspectability, traceability, and interoperability be baked into agentic actions and markets?
  • What can mature rights regimes (music, publishing, open source) teach us about AI-era markets?
Who Attends
AI Product DesignersIndustry / Labs
EconomistsAcademia / Research
Content ProvidersPublishers / Creators
Policy AdvocatesRegulators / Think Tanks