The AI Conference
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The AI Conference 2026 5,500+ global builders, researchers & leaders Day ZERØ workshops • Hack Day • 120+ speakers 📍 San Francisco | Sept 29–Oct 1, 2026

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined August 2015
Beyond the sessions, there was plenty happening at Pier 48. 🤝 New connections, live demos, and conversations happening across every corner of The AI Conference 2026.
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Mark your calendars! 📅 The AI Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 12–14, 2027, at Moscone West! Three days of insights, innovation, and connections with the people shaping the future of AI. Save the date. We can't wait to see you in 2027!
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A look inside Hack Day at The AI Conference 2026, where builders came together to collaborate, experiment, and turn ideas into working projects.
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The conversations don't end when the sessions do. What was one insight from The AI Conference 2026 that stuck with you?
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Just another moment from an unforgettable three days at Pier 48!
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📸 The AI Conference 2026 photo gallery is officially live! Relive your favorite moments from three incredible days in San Francisco. 🔗 Browse the official gallery and find your favorite photos: aiconference.com/2026-MEDIA/
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Three days. One incredible AI community. 🚀 From groundbreaking ideas on stage to hands-on innovation and connections across the industry, The AI Conference 2026 brought together the people shaping the future of AI. Relive the highlights from an unforgettable week in San Francisco. 🎬 Thank you to everyone who made it possible. See you next year!
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🏆 Congratulations to the winners of The AI Conference 2026 Startup Showdown! 🥇 Startup Showdown Winner: @HammingAI 🏅 People’s Choice Award: Brainstorm Therapeutics Thank you to all the startups that took the stage to pitch their ideas and showcase what they're building.
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The conversation doesn’t end when the conference does. Join The AI Conference Discord to stay connected with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, share insights, and keep the conversations going beyond the event. 💬 Join the community: discord.gg/sPqRZYv4Ys
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The best moments happen beyond the stage. 🤝 From new connections and hands-on experiences to robot encounters, The AI Conference 2026 brought the AI community together in more ways than one. What was your favorite moment?
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Missed a session? Want to watch it again? 📷 The AI Conference 2026 may be over, but the conversations continue. Revisit talks, insights, and ideas from the stages at Pier 48 now on our YouTube channel. More session videos are being added daily, so keep checking back as we release more from this year’s conference. piped.video/playlist?list=PL…
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Some of our favorite moments from The AI Conference 2026 were seeing attendees packed into sessions, taking notes, asking questions, and hearing directly from the people building AI today.
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Big ideas took the stage at The AI Conference 2026. 🎤 Across three days at Pier 48, builders, researchers, and leaders shared what they’re learning, what they’re building, and where AI is headed next. Thank you to every speaker who brought their perspective to the stage and every attendee who joined the conversation.
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The AI Conference 2026 is officially in the books. Over the past few days, thousands of engineers, founders, researchers, investors, and AI leaders came together in San Francisco to share what they’re building, compare what’s working, and push the conversation forward. From Day ZERØ and Hack Day to the main conference, Startup Showdown, Party in the Park, and Ignite Talks, the energy came from the people in the room. Thank you to everyone who spoke, built, shared, connected, and showed up. More highlights from The AI Conference 2026 are coming soon!
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Three days we won’t forget. 🚀 The AI Conference 2026 brought together an incredible community at Pier 48 for three days of ideas, conversations, connections, and a look at what’s next for AI. To every speaker, sponsor, and attendee who made it possible, thank you for being part of it. Until next time, San Francisco. 💜
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Day Two brought The AI Conference 2026 to an incredible close! 🚀 From packed stages and new perspectives to conversations and connections across Pier 48, the final day was a reminder of what makes bringing this community together so special. Thank you to everyone who joined us, shared their ideas, and helped make these three days unforgettable. That’s a wrap on The AI Conference 2026. See you next year!
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Close out the day with something sweet. Join us from 5:00–6:00 PM in the Innovation Hub for the Closing Ice Cream Social powered by Dropbox. Grab some ice cream, connect with the community, and wind down after a full day at The AI Conference.
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The energy at Pier 48 continues! 🚀 From packed stages and new ideas to conversations and connections happening throughout the conference, The AI Conference 2026 has brought the AI community together for an incredible three days in San Francisco.
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What does agentic AI look like inside a company the size of PayPal? Hardik Nahata and Deepika Khera are bringing the answer to Conference Day 2, with a look at the platform, governance, and agent design behind PayPal’s approach. Building Agentic AI at PayPal: Platform, Governance, and Agent Design 12:00–12:25 PM | Theater 2
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Reality is the final test. At 10:30 AM in Theater 1, @istoica05 will take on two of the hardest problems in agentic software engineering: closing the gap between what systems can do in theory and what actually works in production. Reality Is the Final Verifier: On Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering 10:30–10:50 AM | Theater 1
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Robotics takes the main stage on Conference Day 2. At 9:40 AM in Theater 1, @svlevine will deliver a program-wide keynote on Robot Foundation Models and what they could mean for the next generation of intelligent machines. Robot Foundation Models 9:40–9:55 AM | Theater 1
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Day Two starts now! Yesterday brought incredible conversations, connections, and ideas to Pier 48. Today, we’re doing it all over again. Get ready for another packed day of sessions, demos, networking, and insights from across the AI community.
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Ignite Talks starts at 7:00 PM in Theater 1. Join us for two hours of rapid-fire talks built around sharp ideas, unexpected perspectives, and fresh conversations from across the AI community. 7:00–9:00 PM | Theater 1 A fast, high-energy close to Day 1.
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Party in the Park takes place at China Basin Park in San Francisco’s Mission Rock neighborhood. The park is on China Basin Way, between Third Street and Terry A Francois Boulevard, across the water from Oracle Park. Join the AI community for an open-air evening with live music, food and drinks, games, and a special surprise announcement. All registered attendees are invited. 5:00–7:00 PM | China Basin Park Sponsored by @FireworksAI_HQ and @merge_api.
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From zero to $100M in six weeks. At 4:30 PM in Theater 2, Brian Yang will share lessons from building a $100M product at OpenAI and what that kind of speed reveals about product, execution, and scale. Lessons from Building a $100M Product in Six Weeks at OpenAI 4:30–4:55 PM | Theater 2 #theaiconference #ai #aibuilders #openai
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Startup Showdown takes the stage on Conference Day 1. Eight early-stage AI companies will pitch live in front of investors, founders, operators, and thousands of attendees, competing for the top spot and the People’s Choice Award. Expect four-minute pitches, real-time judge scoring, and a fast look at the companies trying to shape what comes next. Startup Showdown 2026 Conference Day 1 | The AI Conference
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A useful AI assistant needs more than a fluent answer. It needs the right context, data, and guardrails. At 12:00 PM in Theater 4, Dharmin Parikh and Himaanshu Gupta will share lessons from building Uber’s production AI assistant for drivers and couriers, including real-time contextual data, latency and cost, safety guardrails, and evaluating responses for accuracy and trust. Behind One Useful Answer: Building Uber’s Earner Assistant 12:00–12:25 PM | Theater 4
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Next up on Conference Day 1: @ericries and @timoreilly At 10:30 AM in Theater 1, they’ll take the stage for “Building AI Companies That Matter.” A conversation for founders, builders, and operators thinking beyond the hype and toward companies with real staying power. Building AI Companies That Matter 10:30–10:50 AM | Theater 1
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Conference Day 1 starts with Peter Norvig. At 9:05 AM in Theater 1, Peter opens The AI Conference with “Beyond the Breakthrough: What Comes Next for AI.” A program-wide keynote setting the tone for the conversations ahead and looking at what comes after the latest wave of AI breakthroughs. Beyond the Breakthrough: What Comes Next for AI 9:05–9:25 AM | Theater 1
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Good morning from San Francisco. Day ZERØ is in the books. Today, the full conference begins. Thousands of engineers, founders, researchers, investors, and AI leaders are coming together for two days of ideas, production lessons, and conversations about what comes next. Doors are open. Coffee is flowing. The room is filling up. Let’s get into it.
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Closing out Day ZERØ with a session built for builders who want full control. At 4:00 PM in Theater 3, Kavya Sri Chennoju will break down how to build a multimodal AI system that runs entirely on your own hardware. How to Build a Multimodal AI System That Runs Entirely on Your Own Hardware 4:00 PM | Theater 3 Day ZERØ pass required. #theaiconference #taic26 #multimodalai #dayzero
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AI governance gets harder when models move from metrics to real-world consequences. At 2:00 PM in Theater 3, Stella Umunna and George Rivera will lead a hands-on session on how to evaluate AI risk and make real deployment decisions using the CHOIR-G Framework. Kill, Suspend, or Scale? 2:00 PM | Theater 3 Day ZERØ pass required.
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Agentic systems are easy to demo. Production is where reliability gets tested. At 11:00 AM in Theater 3, @joaomdmoura and Lorenze Hay will dig into what it takes to design agentic systems that are reliable enough for real-world use. Designing Agentic Systems Reliable Enough for Production 11:00 AM | Theater 3 Day ZERØ pass required. #theaiconference #ai #agents #dayzero
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SAN FRANCISCO: IT’S NOT TOO LATE. The AI Conference is already underway, but the main conference starts tomorrow. You can still get a ticket and join thousands of engineers, founders, researchers, and tech leaders for two days of ideas, technical sessions, and conversations happening right here in San Francisco. See what leading teams are building. Learn what’s working now. Meet the people behind it. You haven’t missed it. Get your ticket and join us tomorrow. aiconference.com/#tickets 📍 Mission Rock, San Francisco 📅 Sept 30 + Oct 1
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Hack Day starts TODAY! 🚀 Today, builders and founders come together for one focused day to turn ideas into something real. Build with modern AI tools, work alongside mentors, ship a working product, and compete for the chance to pitch live to VCs on the main stage. A huge thank you to @CrusoeAI, @band_hq, @DuploCloud, @neo4j, @OpenRouter, @PLAUDAI, @Similarweb, @usertesting, @Vultr, @brave, @merge_api, and @nebiusai for helping bring Hack Day 2026 to life. Time to build. Let’s see what you ship!
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Turn AI experiments into a real enterprise strategy with Evangelos Simoudis at The AI Conference. At 9:00 AM in Theater 2, Evangelos will explore how companies can move from scattered AI initiatives to a more deliberate investment portfolio tied to long-term priorities. From AI Experiments to Enterprise Strategy: Build Your AI Investment Portfolio 9:00 AM | Theater 2 Day ZERØ pass required.
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Don’t miss Lisa Shen at The AI Conference. At 9:00 AM in Theater 3, Lisa will break down what it takes to build production-ready AI agents on Google Cloud Run and move beyond the demo stage. Building Production-Ready AI Agents on Google Cloud Run 9:00 AM | Theater 3 Day ZERØ pass required.
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Welcome to The AI Conference 2026! It all starts today. Day ZERØ is officially underway, kicking off three days of building, learning, connecting, and conversations about what’s happening across AI right now. We’re excited to welcome the AI community to San Francisco and can’t wait to see what comes out of the next three days. See you at Pier 48!
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Richard Rizk is Co-Founder and CTO of @blackboxai — and the pioneer behind the only end-to-end encrypted inference technology available today. He built Encrypted Model: client-sealed AI inference where prompts are encrypted on the user’s device and decrypted only inside an attested GPU enclave. The proxy, the host, and the operator never hold the key. AES-256-GCM. ECDH P-384. Hardware attestation before secrets move. True end-to-end encryption for AI inference and agentic workloads — the Signal standard, applied to the model hop. Where others stop at TLS or trust the gateway, Richard’s stack answers a harder question: can anything except you and the attested enclave read the prompt at all?
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Encrypted inference. Intelligence without giving up control. @blackboxai builds encrypted inference for agentic workloads, so your prompts belong to you, not the provider, not the operator, not a co-tenant. Agents don’t make one call. They loop: plan, tool use, code, retry. That only works if token generation is fast enough to feel real-time and sealed enough that the whole trajectory isn’t plaintext on someone else’s metal. Every company wants AI on its most important workflows. Almost none can risk the prompts. You shouldn’t have to choose between intelligence and control.
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LAST CHANCE 🚨 The AI Conference starts tomorrow. This is your final chance to register before the conference begins. Over three days, you’ll hear real deployment lessons, compare how leaders are approaching models, agents, infrastructure, security, and governance, and get founder and investor insight on fundraising, defensibility, and where capital is moving. You can also still take part in: • Hack Day: build and launch a business in one day, then pitch it on stage the next • Ignite Talks: fast-paced ideas from builders, founders, researchers, and operators The conference starts tomorrow. Get your ticket today. aiconference.com/#tickets
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Tomorrow, the AI community comes together in San Francisco! Where is AI headed next? Hear directly from the founders, investors, and leaders building what’s next and making the decisions shaping where AI goes from here. From fundraising and defensibility to where capital is moving, get the insights and connections that can help you navigate what comes next. The AI Conference starts tomorrow. Registration is closing soon. Secure your ticket now and be part of the conversation! aiconference.com/#tickets
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We’re excited to welcome @mondaydotcom as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026! monday.com is an AI Work Platform built around people and agents working together. Its AI agents can operate directly within workflows, monitor activity, make decisions based on defined priorities, and execute work while staying within established permissions and guardrails.
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We’re excited to welcome @robotemi as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026! temi is an autonomous personal AI robot designed to interact with people, navigate environments, and support applications across enterprise, healthcare, education, hospitality, retail, and more. Its open platform also enables developers to build and deploy new robotic experiences.
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We’re excited to welcome @merge_api as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026! Merge provides the connectivity layer for AI, helping companies give agents secure access to thousands of tools, connect products to customer data across hundreds of systems, and route across leading LLMs.
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Last chance to save! Ticket prices increase TODAY. Next week, 5,500+ AI decision-makers, 120+ speakers, and 200+ companies come together in San Francisco for three days focused on what’s actually happening in AI right now. Get real-world insights on models, agents, infrastructure, security, governance, and more, directly from the people building and deploying the technology. Register today before prices go up and be part of the conversation!
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We’re excited to welcome @Dropbox as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Dropbox helps teams organize, share, and collaborate on their most important content, with AI-powered capabilities designed to help people find information, understand content, and move work forward faster.
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We’re excited to welcome @nebiusai as a sponsor of the AI Conference 2026. Nebius helps customers turn infrastructure and models into production AI, from efficient compute to completed AI work and outcomes. AI Cloud provides an integrated AI-native foundation spanning compute, networking, storage, and orchestration, engineered together for demanding AI workloads. Token Factory enables customers to choose, serve, optimize, and improve open and custom models without building or operating the serving stack. Together, they improve performance, control, and TCO across the AI production stack.
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Next week, Pier 48 becomes the place to be for AI. For three days, 5,500+ AI decision-makers will come together to learn what’s working, exchange ideas, make connections, and explore where AI is headed next. This is where builders meet leaders, research meets real-world deployment, and conversations turn into what gets built next. San Francisco | September 29–October 1 Prices increase tomorrow. Secure your ticket now and be part of the conversation! aiconference.com/#tickets
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We’re excited to welcome @RSAsecurity as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. RSA provides identity security solutions for high-assurance organizations, helping secure access and enforce governance across users, devices, and non-human identities. Its capabilities span authentication, passwordless security, identity and access management, and identity governance across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
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Next week, the AI community comes together in San Francisco. Join 5,500+ AI decision-makers, 120+ speakers, and 200+ companies for three days of insights, connections, and conversations about what’s happening in AI right now. Explore 7 tracks, learn directly from the people building and deploying AI, and connect with the teams shaping what comes next. Registration is closing soon. Join us September 29–October 1 and be part of the conversation.
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