The AI Conference

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

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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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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: https://t.co/WdBBvDQohP

[Hedera @hedera]

At the @AIconference, @narb_s at @hashgraph covered how to give agents spending power without losing control.

With Hedera Agent Accounts, spending caps live on-chain and only you can change them, with an audit trail of every agent action.

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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!

[Redpanda @redpandadata]

Would you hand a brand-new hire root access and trust them to enforce your security policies on day one?

That’s what we’re doing when we trust AI agents to carry access rules and data classifications themselves.

@AIconference San Francisco, Redpanda VP of Engineering Piyush Agarwal explained why that’s risky and showed a better approach. Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane uses out-of-band metadata channels to enforce governance entirely outside the agent’s read/write path. It scopes data access going in, constrains actions during execution and captures tamper-proof audit trails coming out.

Watch the full talk: https://t.co/SCrXsYjFIz

[Hedera @hedera]

Funds are too important for AI agents to guess.

@Lindsayjowalk @hashgraph on making autonomous agent commerce a reality:

No probabilistic transactions, rules the human sets and the system enforces, and agent authority that’s immutable, provable, and tied to a legal identity.

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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.

[Fireworks @FireworksAI_HQ]

Our VP of AI spoke recently at @AIconference on how to harness frontier models. Check out his keynote below:

[Rob Ferguson @RobFergusonIII]

In 2024 I made 5-year AI predictions on stage at the AI Conference. This year I went back and graded https://t.co/urHjXPFB1q TAIC 2026 keynote, “Your Own Frontier”: https://t.co/7z42wo3skd

@AIconference @FireworksAI_HQ

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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: https://t.co/5L16U7d6xh

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@joelnet @Nordischsound Joel…

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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.
https://t.co/TZnXMkWBVZ

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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.

[Crusoe @CrusoeAI]

350+ participants. 88 projects. That’s a wrap on @aiconference’s Hack Day 2026!

Huge thanks to @achampiong and the @CrusoeDev team for showing up and supporting the builders.

🏆 3 winners used Managed Inference: 🔗 https://t.co/eKiqQ4WmUW

#Hackathon #Inference

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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.

[Latitude.sh 🔜 KubeCon @latitudesh]

Still thinking about @AIconference in San Francisco 😎

@cmaiacd took the stage to talk AI infrastructure, and we spent the rest of the event doing what we like most: talking to builders about GPUs, their workloads and what they need to scale faster

Nothing beats building alongside the people actually using the infrastructure

See you at the next one ⚡

[Hedera @hedera]

Agentic commerce is about more than the checkout moment 🛒

@Lindsayjowalk @hashgraph spoke about this at the @AIconference, noting that we haven’t seen true autonomy just yet.

Read more via @ThomasClaburn @TheRegister: https://t.co/rwKfSf9NvM