Imagine IF, the two-day summit built around Bitcoin, AI, energy and open-source technology, is heading back to Nashville for its second year. Produced under the Bitcoin Park ecosystem, the event runs October 5-6 at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

Bitcoin Park is a community-supported campus in Nashville and Austin where Bitcoin-focused developers, entrepreneurs and builders work, learn and collaborate.

The summit’s first edition launched in September 2025 with 29 talks across four tracks covering Bitcoin’s monetary layer, artificial intelligence, energy infrastructure and digital freedom. Speakers included ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, Senator Marsha Blackburn, and CleanSpark CEO Matt Schultz.

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This year, the framing has tightened. Instead of four separate tracks, the 2026 edition is organized around three converging systems: Intelligence (AI), Power (Energy) and Money (Bitcoin), with freedom tech positioned as the outcome when all three are open.

The event will feature more than 30 sessions across two stages, a main theater and a second curated stage, with keynotes, firesides and panels, according to the site. Each talk opens with the same prompt: “Imagine IF…” followed by a specific thesis the speaker builds from.

Confirmed speakers include Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of ARK Invest, the asset management firm known for its active bets on disruptive technology; Dr. Art Laffer, the economist behind the Laffer Curve and chairman of Laffer Associates; and Sean James, distinguished engineer for energy systems at NVIDIA, the chipmaker whose GPUs power much of the world’s AI infrastructure.

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Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and U.S. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann are also on the bill, alongside Twenty One Capital CEO Raphael Zagury, Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategy officer Alex Gladstein, The Reynolds Foundation’s AI head René Ángel, and Adam Sullivan, CEO of Core Scientific, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners.

More speakers are expected to be announced closer to the event, according to the site.

The summit’s format is designed around convergence: sessions sit at the intersection of money, compute power and energy rather than treating them as separate topics, with programming split across a main theater stage and a second curated stage.