The AI Conference 2026

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI

Call for Speakers

If you’re building, researching, or deploying AI in groundbreaking ways, this is your chance. Join an elite lineup of AI leaders, engineers, and visionaries who are shaping the future.

Day ZERØ

Sept 29

Day ZERØ is an intimate pre-conference day for senior builders and leaders to go deep on strategy and implementation while moving between workshops and a live AI Hack Day.

Capped at 300 people for high-signal workshops (Technical or Leadership track).
Guaranteed Hack Day access (observe or participate) plus VIP evening dinner.
Includes full AI Conference pass and early badge pickup.

This will sell out quickly

Full Conference

Sept 30 - Oct 1

Day 1 and Day 2 are high-energy conference days where 5,500+ attendees move across five tracks, keynotes, and the Startup Showdown to turn frontier AI ideas into production.

Five tracks: AI Frontiers, AI Builders, The AI Stack, Applied AI, and AI Strategy.
Full days of keynotes, sessions, and mixers at Pier 48, Mission Rock in San Francisco.
Startup Showdown live pitches plus extensive networking with the broader AI community.

Attendees will gain insights, connections, and ideas to drive real-world AI impact.

AI Frontiers

Explore governance, ethics, societal impact, and frontier research—multimodal, agentic, and world models included.

Perfect for researchers, policy leaders, and senior strategists.

AI Builders

Learn how to ship agentic and multi-LLM systems with the right toolchains, fine-tuning, retrieval, and scaling patterns.

Perfect for software engineers, architects, and tech leads.

The AI Stack

Dive deep into model design and training, distributed inference, data and evaluations, accelerators, and MLOps.

Perfect for ML researchers, ML/AI engineers, and infrastructure teams.

Applied AI

See how real deployments work: workflow automation, edge/on-device intelligence, rigorous evaluation, and case studies.

Perfect for product managers, applied scientists, and solutions/operations leaders.

AI Strategy

Lead enterprise adoption with governance, risk management, capability building, ROI frameworks, and culture change.

Perfect for executives, strategists, and transformation owners.

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