The AI Conference 2026
5,500+ global builders, researchers & leaders
Day ZERร workshops โข Hack Day โข 120+ speakers
๐ San Francisco | Sept 29โOct 1, 2026
The AI Conference 2026 is designed for founders, engineers, and builders working on real-world AI. Join 100+ speakers across applied, technical, and leadership tracks. Pre-sale tickets are available for a very limited time.
Thousands of engineers, researchers, founders, and executives come to The AI Conference to learn from the people building and deploying AI in the real world.
See what happens when the full AI ecosystem comes together in San Francisco.
We're proud to welcome @greptile as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Greptile is an AI code review platform that understands your entire codebase, automatically reviews pull requests, and helps engineering teams catch bugs faster with context-aware feedback. Built to work alongside AI coding agents, Greptile helps teams ship high-quality software with confidence.
We're excited to welcome @SkyflowAPI as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Skyflow helps organizations protect sensitive customer data with API-first Data Privacy Vaults that isolate, secure, and govern personal information. By keeping privacy at the core of modern applications and AI, Skyflow enables teams to innovate without compromising security or compliance.
From inspiring keynotes and technical sessions to live demos, networking, and the latest breakthroughs, The AI Conference is where ideas become reality.
Join us this September in San Francisco.
AI is reshaping how companies are built, scaled, and sustained.
Join Tim O'Reilly, Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Eric Ries, Founder and Author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Incorruptible, for a fireside chat on what it takes to build AI companies that matter.
From founder responsibility to the future of the AI-powered economy, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.
Purpose-built AI deserves purpose-tuned models.
We're excited to welcome @withemissary as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Emissary helps AI teams build, fine-tune, deploy, and continuously improve specialized language models for production. Their platform combines training, inference, monitoring, and retraining in one solution, enabling organizations to create models that are faster, more cost-effective, and optimized for specific AI workloads.
The best product decisions start with customer insight.
We're excited to welcome @productboard as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Productboard combines AI with customer feedback, product strategy, and roadmapping to help teams identify opportunities, prioritize what matters most, and bring better products to market faster.
Enterprise AI starts with secure infrastructure.
We're proud to welcome @coderhq as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Coder provides self-hosted AI development infrastructure that enables organizations to securely run AI models, coding agents, and cloud development environments on their own infrastructure, giving enterprises the governance and control needed to scale AI safely.
We're excited to welcome @eGain as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026.
eGain helps enterprises deliver trusted AI-powered customer experiences by combining knowledge management with generative AI. Their AI Knowledge Platform unifies enterprise knowledge to power accurate, compliant, and personalized customer service across every channel, giving organizations the trusted foundation they need to deploy AI with confidence.
Last chance to save.
Ticket prices increase today, and this is your final opportunity to lock in the current rate for The AI Conference 2026.
Join the builders turning AI into production systems, products, and real-world impact.
Final days to save $1,600 on your ticket.
Join 5,500+ attendees at The AI Conference 2026 for seven tracks, 120+ speakers, Startup Showdown, AI WEEK access, the Innovation Hub, Party in the Park, Ignite Talks, and more.
Ticket prices increase July 24th.
Enterprise AI demands speed, scale, and reliability.
We're proud to welcome @SambaNovaAI as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026. Their full-stack AI platform empowers developers and enterprises to deploy, integrate, and scale AI applications with fast inference and production-ready infrastructure.
We're excited to welcome Wafer as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026.
@wafer_ai is making open LLMs faster and more accessible with serverless inference and AI-powered optimization across the inference stack. Their platform automatically tunes models, kernels, and hardware to deliver high-performance inference without deployment overhead.
Time is running out.
Ticket prices for The AI Conference 2026 increase this Friday, July 24th. Secure your spot now and join thousands of AI engineers, founders, researchers, and technical leaders shaping what's next.
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We're excited to welcome @datadoghq as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026.
Datadog helps engineering teams monitor, secure, and optimize cloud applications and AI workloads with unified observability across infrastructure, applications, logs, and machine learning systems.
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The future of AI should be open, secure, and privacy-first.
We're excited to welcome @brave as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026, helping redefine how people search, browse, and interact with AI while keeping privacy at the forefront.
We're excited to welcome @gmi_cloud as a sponsor of The AI Conference 2026.
GMI Cloud delivers high-performance GPU cloud infrastructure purpose-built for AI, helping teams train, fine-tune, and deploy models faster with scalable compute and enterprise-ready performance.
What does AI mean for the future of software engineering?
In this session from The AI Conference 2025, Yegor Denisov-Blanch (Stanford) explores how AI is reshaping developer productivity, the evolving role of software engineers, and insights from Stanford's research on AI and engineering.
Watch the full talk on YouTube.