Building Sovereign AI for Amateur Radio
Most AI assistants send your data to the cloud. This talk shows you how to build one that does not. Joe Cupano walks through the construction of a fully sovereign AI server on commodity hardware, an NVIDIA RTX GPU running Ollama with a curated knowledge base capable of answering amateur radio and SIGINT questions from local inference alone. The talk covers the full pipeline from hardware selection through corpus ingestion, the agent frameworks that failed the sovereignty test, and practical techniques for building domain-specific knowledge bases from heterogeneous sources. Attendees will leave with a replicable architecture, a working blueprint, and a clear-eyed view of which open-source tools actually respect data sovereignty and which do not.
Sunday 1100 Crystal Ballroom
