Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomicon, a New Conference for the Economics of AI
Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomicon, a New Conference for the Economics of AI
Publish Date: 2026-06-10 13:00:00
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SAN DIEGO, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Following last week’s announcement of the intent to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, the Linux Foundation today unveiled Tokenomicon, a new conference dedicated to the economics of AI. Tokenomicon will bring together the practitioners, enterprises, model providers, and infrastructure operators working to measure and maximize the value of tokens and AI spend. The flagship event will take place in San Diego, June 7-10, 2027.
The conference arrives as tokens become the new unit of technology spend. As enterprises move generative and agentic AI workloads from pilot to production, AI has become one of the largest and fastest-growing lines on the enterprise technology budget, yet the discipline to measure and govern that spend has not kept pace. Goldman Sachs research projects global token usage will multiply roughly 24 times between 2026 and 2030. Tokenomicon is built to close the gap, giving technology practitioners a neutral, community venue to compare cost and efficiency across models and providers and to turn AI spend into measurable business value.
Alongside the San Diego flagship, the Tokenomics community will gather at regional events, including: Amsterdam, September 22-23, 2026, and London, February 8-9, 2027. “Naming the AI cost problem was the easy part. Tokenomicon is where the people actually solving it get in a room together. Practitioners, the companies buying AI at scale, the providers selling it, all working from the same facts. That is how a discipline gets built, and it is how the industry turns token spend into real business value.” said J.R. Storment, Executive Director of the FinOps Foundation.
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