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On stage in Dubai 2026: the keynote that defined HORNO's next year

A full annotated transcript of Vincenzo's 42-minute keynote at the HORNO Town Hall, with the three product reveals that broke the room.

May 28, 2026 11 min read 27.8k views

On stage in Dubai 2026: the keynote that defined HORNO's next year

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Vincenzo Picciuolo
Vincenzo Picciuolo
Founder & CEO ยท HORNO Network ยท Author ยท ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
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1,400 people, fourteen nationalities, one stage. The keynote opened with a slide nobody expected: the actual PostgreSQL row count of active HORNO nodes, updated live, in front of the room. Transparency is a feature.

The three reveals โ€” Spaces subdomains, the Recruiter Leaderboard, and AI-native llms.txt for every Pro profile โ€” landed in that order on purpose. Each one removes a different excuse for not joining.

The line that traveled furthest on social: 'We don't need a million users. We need a million owners.' It is, I think, the cleanest one-sentence summary of what we are building.

Tickets for Town Hall Singapore 2027 open in Q4. I'll be there. So will the team.

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Vincenzo Picciuolo

Founder & CEO of HORNO Network. 25+ years in infrastructure, blockchain and hardware. I write โ€” I don't recruit. Read my CEO letters and essays.

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