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The AI Conference 2026

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The AI Conference 2026 ran Sep 29, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026 at Pier 48 · Shed A and B in San Francisco, United States. It is a Technology conference that expected about 5,500 attendees. ConferenceGrid lists 20 speakers, 78 sponsors and 12 sessions. Dates for the next edition are not announced yet.

Lineup updated Aug 30, 2026 · dates verified May 5, 2026

The AI Conference 2026 is a premier event gathering over 5,500 builders, researchers, and leaders for three days of keynotes, hands-on workshops, and multi-track programming, focusing on the latest advancements and practical applications in artificial intelligence. The event features technical and leadership sessions, an Innovation Hub, a Startup Showdown, e…

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20Speakers
78Sponsors
12Sessions
93Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at The, in alphabetical order.

Christopher Kirchoff
Global Security
Divya Mahajan
Software Engineer · Amazon Alexa
Emmanuel Ameisen
Interpretability Researcher · Anthropic
Erin Kraemer
AWS
Ioannis Antonoglou
Co-founder and CTO · Reflection AI
Jaclyn Konzelmann
Product Director · Google Labs
Jon Pappas
Sr. Dir. Technical Product Management · Upwork
Julia Diament
Principal AI Architect, Office of the CTO · Microsoft
Marco Paglia
President - Product & Engineering · Musixmatch
Matt Blumberg
Markup AI
Pallavi Kinnera
Chip Designer · Meta Reality Labs
Peter Norvig
Distinguished Education Fellow · Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute
Pratyusha Singaraju
Senior Software Engineer · Netflix
Ruiyang Wang
Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Ryan Lopopolo
Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI
Sarah Chieng
Head of Developer Experience · Cerebras
Shuen Mei
VP, Director of Software and Data Engineering · Harbor Capital Advisors
Tris Warkentin
Google Deepmind
Vidya Meenakshi
Senior Software Engineer · Intuit
Yogiraj Awati
Engineering Manager · Instacart

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

Actualyze AIExhibitor
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Elite
AWSElite
BandContributing
BasetenElite
Blackbox AICatalyst
BraveContributing
BuildkitePartner
C1Impact
CDataVisionary
CData SoftwareVisionary
CDWPartner
ChalkVisionary
Circle CI
CircleCIPartner
CoderVisionary
CorvexVisionary
Dash0Strategic
DatabricksPartner
DatadogPartner
DelineaCatalyst
Digital Ocean
DigitalOceanContributing
eGainVisionary
ExaVisionary
FarosPartner
FiddlerVisionary
Fiddler AI
FireworksStrategic
Fireworks AIStrategic
FreshworksVisionary
FriendliAIContributing
Friendly AI
GMI CloudImpact
Google CloudPartner
GraphwiseContributing
GraviteeStrategic
Gray SwanPartner
GreptileVisionary
GrowthBookImpact

Agenda

Selected from 12 sessions.

  • TBA

    8 Ways Production Agents Fail Silently (And the Detection Patterns That Catch Them)

    Builds production‑grade agentic AI and LLM systems at Alexa scale, leading evaluation and multi‑turn workflows for Alexa+ users.

  • TBA

    Act–Verify–Refine: The Future of Adaptive Investment Agents

    Leads AI, data, and software teams building Harbor Capital Advisors’ data, cloud, and integration platforms across financial services.

  • TBA

    Beyond the Benchmark: Building for the Complexity of Real Marketplaces

    Leads AI‑powered talent search, matching, and deployment at Upwork.

  • TBA

    Cyber Offense Hits Its Moore’s Law Moment – when compute gets cheap, persistence ‎becomes the exploit.

    Brings 18+ years of AI and security expertise to Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, focused on adversarial threats and secure‑by‑design patterns.

  • TBA

    Deploying LLMs in Production to enhance grocery shopping

    Leads large-scale AI and RAG platforms powering Instacart’s grocery experience.

  • TBA

    Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer and Agents Execute

    Builds agent‑first development workflows at OpenAI, authoring the Harness Engineering framework.

  • TBA

    Lyrics: The Language Model of Music

    Leads product and engineering at Musixmatch, the global music data company.

  • TBA

    One of the Most Complex Thing Humans Build: How AI Is Finally Cracking Chip Design

    Leads AI‑driven automation for advanced‑node chip design at Meta Reality Labs.

  • TBA

    Safe PDF Processing at Scale: A Sandbox-Rasterize-OCR Architecture

    Builds infrastructure and data systems behind Anthropic’s large language models, previously at Anyscale and Google Cloud.

Quick answers

When is The AI Conference 2026?
The AI Conference 2026 ran Sep 29, 2026 – Oct 1, 2026 at Pier 48 · Shed A and B in San Francisco, United States.
Where is The AI Conference 2026 held?
The AI Conference 2026 was held at Pier 48 · Shed A and B in San Francisco, United States.
Who is speaking at The AI Conference 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 20 speakers, including Christopher Kirchoff (Global Security), Divya Mahajan (Software Engineer, Amazon Alexa) and Emmanuel Ameisen (Interpretability Researcher, Anthropic).
Who sponsors The AI Conference 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 78 sponsors, including Actualyze AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS, Band and Baseten.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 93 companies show up, and 1 bet on three roles at once?

93 companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
74Sponsoringsponsor only
18Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

AWS

Speakers by seniority

25% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite210%
  • VP-level15%
  • Director / Head of210%
  • Manager / Lead315%
  • Engineer · IC420%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Other roles735%

Of 20 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1AWSSponsor · Elite1
2Actualyze AISponsor · Exhibitor-
3BandSponsor · Contributing-
4BasetenSponsor · Elite-
5Blackbox AISponsor · Catalyst-
6BraveSponsor · Contributing-
7BuildkiteSponsor · Partner-
8C1Sponsor · Impact-
9CDataSponsor · Visionary-
10CData SoftwareSponsor · Visionary-
11CDWSponsor · Partner-
12ChalkSponsor · Visionary-
13CircleCISponsor · Partner-
14CoderSponsor · Visionary-
Sponsors by tier
visionary17
22% of 78
contributing16
21% of 78
elite3
4% of 78
exhibitor1
1% of 78
impact4
5% of 78
partner17
22% of 78
strategic8
10% of 78
catalyst5
6% of 78
unspecified7
9% of 78
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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