THE AI CONFERENCE 2026
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI
- Sept 29 - Oct 1
- SAN FRANCISCO
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Meet the first confirmed of 120+ speakers for The AI Conference 2026. Additional speakers, presentations, and features will be announced weekly.
Peter Norvig
Distinguished Education Fellow
Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and formerly directed research at Google and NASA’s Ames Research Center.
Ryan Lopopolo
Member of Technical Staff
Ryan Lopopolo is a software engineer at OpenAI working on agent‑first product exploration, best known for authoring OpenAI’s Harness Engineering framework and for creating Artichoke Ruby, with a long track record in developer tools and infrastructure.
Pallavi Kinnera
Chip Designer
Pallavi Kinnera is a Physical Design Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, where she works on advanced‑node AI and AR silicon and leads AI‑driven automation for complex SoC physical design workflows, drawing on nearly a decade of experience at Meta and Intel.
Pratyusha Singaraju
Senior Software Engineer
Pratyusha Singaraju is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, where she designs and builds AI‑powered backend services that drive the content understanding behind Netflix’s search, collections, and ratings experiences.
Julia Diament
Principal AI Architect, Office of the CTO
Julia is an AI and security practitioner in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO with 18+ years of experience operationalizing machine learning in high‑stakes settings, focusing on adversarial threats, secure‑by‑design patterns, and practical AI assurance.
Sudeep Das
Head of AI, New Verticals
Sudeep Das is Head of Machine Learning for New Business Verticals at DoorDash, where he leads ML for personalization, search, catalog, and fulfillment, and previously worked on next‑generation recommendation and search algorithms at Netflix.
Vidya Meenakshi
Senior Software Engineer,
Vidya Meenakshi is a Senior Software Engineer at Intuit, where she builds backend experimentation platforms that power data‑driven decision making and recently helped develop the Experimentation Agent and MCP Server to scale experimentation capabilities.
Call for Speakers
After an overwhelming response our call for speakers is closed. Sign up to be notified of new speaker announcements. Take advantage of early prices now before the content schedule is announced!
Day ZERØ
Sept 29
Day ZERØ is a high-signal, small-room kickoff where senior builders and leaders spend a full day moving between focused workshops and a live AI Hack Day before the main conference. The AI Conference full experience starts here. Includes full conference pass.
Capped at 300 people, this where AI ideas go from concept to usable tech in real-time. It includes technical or leadership tracks (6 sessions, 90 min each), deeper discussions, and direct access to speakers and peers.
Technical Track
Deep-dive, hands-on sessions for engineers and builders covering model development, RAG, infra, evaluation, agents, and real-world deployment patterns.
Leadership Track
Strategy-focused sessions for founders and executives on AI roadmaps, product strategy, governance, organizational change, and safely scaling AI in production.
Observe or participate in a live AI build environment. See frontier ideas move from concept to working systems in real time.
An intimate gathering with fellow operators and speakers designed for meaningful conversations before the larger conference begins.
Start early, avoid lines, and move seamlessly into the two-day conference with complete access to all programming.
Be where AI ideas go from concept to usable tech in real-time. This is ground zero for where execution meets opportunity.
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Full Conference
Sept 30 - Oct 1
Day 1 and 2 of The AI Conference brings together 5,500+ builders, researchers, and leaders for two full days of five-track programming, main-stage keynotes, the Startup Showdown, and an expanded Innovation Hub, focused on applied AI from research to production.
Full two Day Conference
Dedicated programming spanning applied AI, technical depth, infrastructure, product, and leadership—so you can focus on the conversations most relevant to your work.
Founders, engineers, researchers, and operators sharing real implementation stories, technical insight, and lessons from scaling AI in production.
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Emerging AI companies take the stage to present live. Competing, demonstrating, and connecting with investors, partners, and the broader ecosystem.
An expanded showcase of emerging tools, platforms, and startups shaping the next generation of AI.
Attendees can expect concrete architectures, practical lessons from teams shipping AI today.
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Networking Event
All registered attendees get an invite to the AI industry’s most anticipated private after-hours event.
Party in the Park is an open-air celebration where ideas meet vibes and the AI community comes to life under the stars.
This exclusive event will feature:
- Live music that keeps the energy high
- Ice-cold drinks and good food
- Big giveaways
- A surprise announcement you’ll want to be there for
AI Frontiers
Explore governance, ethics, societal impact, and frontier research—multimodal, agentic, and world models included.
AI Builders
Learn how to ship agentic and multi-LLM systems with the right toolchains, fine-tuning, retrieval, and scaling patterns.
The AI Stack
Dive deep into model design and training, distributed inference, data and evaluations, accelerators, and MLOps.
Applied AI
See how real deployments work: workflow automation, edge/on-device intelligence, rigorous evaluation, and case studies.
AI Strategy
Lead enterprise adoption with governance, risk management, capability building, ROI frameworks, and culture change.
Past Attendees
Real voices from last year’s crowd. Attendees talk candidly about the sessions, speakers, and community that made The AI Conference valuable, and why they recommend it to people serious about AI.
These unscripted interviews offer a real look at the experience.
- High-signal content, not generic talks
- Time to actually meet speakers and peers
- A community that returns year after year
The AI Conference 2026 is the premier destination for companies shaping the future of artificial intelligence. This is your invitation to sponsor and align your brand with the most forward-thinking minds and market-making conversations in AI.
San Francisco
The AI Conference 2026 is hosted at Pier 48, a waterfront venue in San Francisco’s Mission Rock neighborhood. The space sits steps from Oracle Park and the emerging Mission Rock district, with easy access from downtown, Caltrain, and major freeways.
The AI Conference 2026
Pier 48 · Shed A and B
48 Pier 48, San Francisco, CA 94158
Mission Rock waterfront district
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