Event Signals· 8 min read· September 29 – October 1, 2026 · San Francisco, California

    What Companies Are Attending The AI Conference 2026?

    The AI Conference 2026 takes place September 29 to October 1, 2026 at Pier 48 in San Francisco, California. The three-day event brings together AI researchers, engineers, founders, enterprise technology leaders, and companies building models, agents, inference infrastructure, data platforms, developer tools, security, observability, and production AI systems.

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    The AI Conference 2026 at a glance

    EventThe AI Conference 2026
    DatesSeptember 29 to October 1, 2026
    LocationSan Francisco, California
    VenuePier 48, Mission Rock
    AudienceAI builders, researchers, founders and enterprise technology leaders
    Attendance5,500+
    Speakers120+
    Overall program3 days and 7 tracks
    Main conferenceSeptember 30 to October 1
    Main conference tracks5 curated tracks
    Day ZERØSeptember 29
    Innovation Hub100+ AI companies
    Key areasAgentic AI, frontier models, AI infrastructure, evaluation, security, governance and applied AI

    Day ZERØ on September 29 combines technical and leadership workshops with a live Hack Day. The main conference runs September 30 to October 1 across AI Frontiers, AI Builders, The AI Stack, Applied AI, and AI Strategy.

    The AI Conference 2026 companies list

    CompanyAreaThe AI Conference 2026 connection
    Amazon Web ServicesCloud & AI infrastructureElite Sponsor
    BasetenAI inference infrastructureElite Sponsor
    Together AIAI infrastructureStrategic Sponsor
    Fireworks AIGenerative AI infrastructureStrategic Sponsor
    IBMEnterprise AIStrategic Sponsor
    NebiusAI cloud infrastructureStrategic Sponsor
    Neo4jGraph data & AIStrategic Sponsor
    DropboxCloud software & AIStrategic Sponsor
    GraviteeAPI managementStrategic Sponsor
    HederaDistributed infrastructureStrategic Sponsor
    Dash0ObservabilityStrategic Sponsor
    CDataEnterprise data connectivitySponsor
    GraphwiseKnowledge graphs & semantic AIExhibitor / Speaker
    DenodoData managementSponsor
    BraveBrowser & privacy technologySponsor
    DigitalOceanCloud infrastructureSponsor
    FriendliAIAI inferenceSponsor
    ProductboardProduct management softwareSponsor
    RubrikData securitySponsor
    SambaNovaAI computingSponsor
    SentryDeveloper observabilitySponsor
    SkyflowData privacySponsor
    SmartsheetWork management softwareSponsor
    TelnyxCommunications infrastructureSponsor
    UnblockedDeveloper knowledgeSponsor
    VultrCloud & GPU infrastructureSponsor
    ChalkAI data infrastructureSponsor
    CoderCloud development environmentsSponsor
    eGainCustomer experience AISponsor
    FiddlerAI evaluation & observabilitySponsor
    GreptileAI code reviewSponsor / Speaker
    LaunchDarklySoftware deliverySponsor
    PostmanAPI platformSponsor
    Successive TechnologiesDigital engineeringSponsor
    Tempo SoftwarePortfolio & work managementSponsor
    ExaAI search infrastructureSponsor
    GumloopAI workflow automationSponsor
    VapiVoice AI infrastructureSponsor
    SS&C Blue PrismIntelligent automationPartner
    StreamNativeStreaming data infrastructurePartner
    DatabricksData & AI platformPartner / Speaker connection
    TensormeshAI inference infrastructureSponsor / Exhibitor
    DeepgramVoice AISponsor
    OpenRouterModel routing & inferenceInnovation Hub / Speaker
    Vast.aiGPU cloudSponsor
    VESSL AIAI cloud infrastructureSponsor
    Agentic FabriqAI agent securitySponsor
    O'Reilly MediaTechnology publishingSponsor / Speaker
    NICEEnterprise AI & customer experienceSponsor
    Teamily AIAgentic collaborationSponsor
    Expedia GroupTravel technologySponsor
    Keysight TechnologiesAI infrastructure testingSponsor / Exhibitor
    ThornAI safetySponsor
    WorldpayPayments technologySponsor
    FreshworksEnterprise software & AISpeaker
    OpenAIFrontier AISpeaker
    AnthropicFrontier AISpeaker
    GoogleAI & technologySpeakers
    MicrosoftCloud & AISpeaker
    NVIDIAAI computingSpeaker
    JPMorgan ChaseFinancial services & AISpeaker
    NetflixStreaming & AISpeaker
    MetaAI & computingSpeaker
    IntuitFinancial software & AISpeaker
    ArmSemiconductor & edge AISpeaker
    Character.AIConversational AISpeaker
    WeaviateVector databaseSpeaker
    UnstructuredAI data infrastructureSpeaker
    ReltioEnterprise dataSpeaker

    The roster shows how broad the production AI stack has become. Model companies sit alongside inference providers, cloud platforms, data infrastructure, agent-security companies, developer tools, observability platforms, and enterprise teams already operating AI in real products.

    Company profiles

    Amazon Web Services

    Cloud & AI infrastructure · Elite Sponsor

    Amazon Web Services provides cloud computing, managed AI services, GPU infrastructure, data platforms, and developer tools. Its role at the conference connects foundation models and AI applications with the infrastructure needed to deploy them at enterprise scale.

    Baseten

    AI inference infrastructure · Elite Sponsor

    Baseten provides infrastructure for deploying and serving AI models in production. Its platform focuses on model inference, scaling, performance optimization, and operating custom models reliably.

    Together AI

    AI infrastructure · Strategic Sponsor

    Together AI provides infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and serving generative AI models. It supports teams building applications on open and custom models while optimizing inference performance and cost.

    Fireworks AI

    Generative AI infrastructure · Strategic Sponsor

    Fireworks AI provides generative AI inference infrastructure for production applications. Its platform helps developers deploy, optimize, and serve open and custom models with low latency.

    IBM

    Enterprise AI · Strategic Sponsor

    IBM develops enterprise AI, hybrid cloud, automation, governance, and data technology. Its AI portfolio focuses heavily on helping organizations build and govern production AI and agentic systems.

    Nebius

    AI cloud infrastructure · Strategic Sponsor

    Nebius provides cloud infrastructure designed specifically for intensive AI workloads. Its services include GPU compute and infrastructure for model training, inference, and large-scale AI development.

    Neo4j

    Graph data & AI · Strategic Sponsor

    Neo4j develops graph database technology for connected data. Knowledge graphs are increasingly used to give AI applications richer context, improve retrieval, and ground agent reasoning in enterprise relationships.

    Dropbox

    Cloud software & AI · Strategic Sponsor

    Dropbox develops cloud content and collaboration software. Its AI work focuses on helping users search, understand, organize, and interact with large volumes of business content.

    Gravitee

    API management · Strategic Sponsor

    Gravitee provides API management, governance, and security technology. Its role is increasingly relevant as AI agents become API consumers and need controlled access to enterprise tools and data.

    Hedera

    Distributed infrastructure · Strategic Sponsor

    Hedera provides distributed ledger infrastructure designed for high-throughput applications. Its participation extends the conference's infrastructure discussion into verifiable data, decentralized systems, and trusted digital interactions.

    Dash0

    Observability · Strategic Sponsor

    Dash0 develops OpenTelemetry-native observability software. Its platform gives engineering teams visibility across metrics, logs, traces, and production systems, including increasingly complex AI applications.

    CData

    Enterprise data connectivity · Sponsor

    CData develops connectivity software that gives applications and AI agents access to live enterprise data. Its products connect hundreds of SaaS, database, and business systems while preserving governance and context.

    Graphwise

    Knowledge graphs & semantic AI · Exhibitor / Speaker

    Graphwise develops knowledge-graph and semantic AI technology. Its conference presence focuses on using governed business meaning and connected data to reduce hallucinations and make enterprise AI outputs more explainable.

    Denodo

    Data management · Sponsor

    Denodo provides data virtualization and data-management technology. Its AI capabilities help enterprises make distributed data accessible to generative AI systems without moving every source into a new platform.

    DigitalOcean

    Cloud infrastructure · Sponsor

    DigitalOcean provides cloud infrastructure for developers and growing technology companies. Its expanding AI infrastructure includes GPU computing alongside managed compute, databases, storage, and application platforms.

    FriendliAI

    AI inference · Sponsor

    FriendliAI develops inference infrastructure for large AI models. Its platform focuses on improving model-serving throughput, latency, and compute efficiency for production workloads.

    SambaNova

    AI computing · Sponsor

    SambaNova develops AI computing infrastructure, models, and enterprise AI systems. Its technology targets organizations that need high-performance generative AI and model inference without building the entire stack themselves.

    Sentry

    Developer observability · Sponsor

    Sentry develops application monitoring and debugging technology for software teams. Its tools help developers identify errors, performance problems, and production failures as AI becomes embedded in more applications.

    Skyflow

    Data privacy · Sponsor

    Skyflow provides privacy infrastructure for sensitive data. Its technology helps companies control how personal and regulated information is accessed and used inside AI applications.

    Telnyx

    Communications infrastructure · Sponsor

    Telnyx provides voice, messaging, networking, and communications APIs. Its infrastructure is increasingly used to connect voice AI agents with real-time telephony and customer communications.

    Vultr

    Cloud & GPU infrastructure · Sponsor

    Vultr provides cloud compute and GPU infrastructure across a global data-center network. Its AI services support teams running training, inference, and other compute-intensive workloads.

    Chalk

    AI data infrastructure · Sponsor

    Chalk provides real-time data infrastructure for machine learning and AI applications. It helps teams serve fresh features and contextual data to models and agents during inference.

    Coder

    Cloud development environments · Sponsor

    Coder provides cloud development environments for engineering teams. It gives organizations centralized control over developer compute, including resource-intensive AI development workloads.

    Fiddler

    AI evaluation & observability · Sponsor

    Fiddler develops AI evaluation, observability, and governance technology. Its platform helps teams measure model behavior, investigate failures, monitor performance, and manage AI risk in production.

    Greptile

    AI code review · Sponsor / Speaker

    Greptile develops AI agents for code review. Its system analyzes software changes and provides automated review feedback, making it particularly relevant as agent-generated code becomes more common.

    LaunchDarkly

    Software delivery · Sponsor

    LaunchDarkly provides feature-management and software-delivery technology. Engineering teams use it to control rollouts, test new functionality, and limit production risk when shipping rapidly changing software.

    Postman

    API platform · Sponsor

    Postman provides a platform for building, testing, documenting, and managing APIs. Its relevance to AI is growing as agents increasingly rely on APIs to access data and take actions across software systems.

    Exa

    AI search infrastructure · Sponsor

    Exa develops web-search infrastructure designed for AI applications and agents. Its APIs allow AI systems to discover, retrieve, and reason over information from the web programmatically.

    Gumloop

    AI workflow automation · Sponsor

    Gumloop develops an AI automation platform for building workflows and agents. Teams can connect models, business applications, and data sources to automate multi-step work.

    Databricks

    Data & AI platform · Partner / Speaker connection

    Databricks provides a data and AI platform used to build analytics, machine-learning, and generative AI applications. Its technology spans enterprise data, model development, AI infrastructure, and governance.

    Deepgram

    Voice AI · Sponsor

    Deepgram develops speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice AI APIs. Its infrastructure is built for developers creating low-latency voice agents and real-time conversational applications.

    OpenRouter

    Model routing & inference · Innovation Hub / Speaker

    OpenRouter provides a unified interface for accessing and routing across many AI models. Its infrastructure gives developers flexibility across model providers while generating useful data on real-world model usage and inference patterns.

    VESSL AI

    AI cloud infrastructure · Sponsor

    VESSL AI provides AI cloud infrastructure for GPU-intensive workloads. Its platform supports self-service GPUs, multi-node training, storage, and production inference for AI research and development teams.

    Agentic Fabriq

    AI agent security · Sponsor

    Agentic Fabriq develops identity, permissioning, and governance infrastructure for AI agents. It gives agents distinct identities, scoped access, audit trails, and controls over what they can do across enterprise systems.

    O'Reilly Media

    Technology publishing · Sponsor / Speaker

    O'Reilly Media provides technology education, books, online learning, and professional training. Founder Tim O'Reilly is part of the conference program discussing how AI changes companies, markets, and technology strategy.

    NICE

    Enterprise AI & customer experience · Sponsor

    NICE develops enterprise customer-experience and automation technology. Its AI products are used to automate customer interactions, assist employees, and orchestrate workflows across contact-center environments.

    Keysight Technologies

    AI infrastructure testing · Sponsor / Exhibitor

    Keysight Technologies develops electronic design, network testing, security, and infrastructure-validation technology. At The AI Conference, its focus includes testing inference infrastructure, agentic workflows, AI security, GPU memory, and storage performance.

    OpenAI

    Frontier AI · Speaker

    OpenAI develops frontier AI models and developer platforms for generative AI and agentic applications. Its conference speakers bring practical experience building developer tooling and software workflows around frontier models.

    Anthropic

    Frontier AI · Speaker

    Anthropic develops Claude and conducts frontier AI research across model capabilities, interpretability, safety, and agentic systems. Its conference presence adds both research and production perspectives.

    Google

    AI & technology · Speakers

    Google develops AI models, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and consumer technology. Its conference sessions include agentic product design and building systems where AI can move beyond answering questions to taking actions.

    Microsoft

    Cloud & AI · Speaker

    Microsoft develops Azure, Copilot, enterprise AI, security products, and developer tools. Its conference participation includes secure-by-design approaches to AI systems and emerging adversarial threats.

    NVIDIA

    AI computing · Speaker

    NVIDIA develops GPUs, accelerated-computing platforms, model software, and inference infrastructure. Its conference programming includes reinforcement learning, post-training, language agents, and production generative AI.

    JPMorgan Chase

    Financial services & AI · Speaker

    JPMorgan Chase operates one of the world's largest financial technology organizations. Its AI leadership is sharing how a highly regulated enterprise translates AI governance and policy into real deployment practices.

    Netflix

    Streaming & AI · Speaker

    Netflix operates large-scale streaming, data, and machine-learning systems. Its conference session focuses on AI-powered content workflows supporting search, discovery, and content understanding at Netflix scale.

    Meta

    AI & computing · Speaker

    Meta develops social platforms, AI models, compute infrastructure, and advanced hardware. Its conference participation includes applying AI to automate complex semiconductor and chip-design workflows.

    Intuit

    Financial software & AI · Speaker

    Intuit develops financial software including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp. Its engineering teams are building experimentation infrastructure and multi-agent systems for production products.

    Arm

    Semiconductor & edge AI · Speaker

    Arm develops processor architectures used across mobile, cloud, automotive, and edge computing. Its conference session examines how multimodal AI systems can run directly on local hardware.

    Character.AI

    Conversational AI · Speaker

    Character.AI develops conversational AI and large-scale model infrastructure. Its teams work across post-training, model behavior, alignment, data, and safety for interactive AI systems.

    Weaviate

    Vector database · Speaker

    Weaviate develops an open-source vector database for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI applications. It provides the retrieval layer that helps models and agents access relevant contextual information.

    Unstructured

    AI data infrastructure · Speaker

    Unstructured develops infrastructure for converting documents and other unstructured information into AI-ready data. Its technology supports retrieval, enterprise search, RAG, and agentic applications.

    Reltio

    Enterprise data · Speaker

    Reltio provides enterprise data management and entity-resolution technology. Its platform creates trusted, unified information that AI agents can use to reason across customers, products, suppliers, and other business entities.

    Startup Showdown companies at The AI Conference 2026

    The Startup Showdown puts eight early-stage companies on the Day ONE main stage for live four-minute pitches and investor scoring.

    StartupWhat it is building
    BrainStorm TherapeuticsAI-assisted CNS drug discovery
    DATApoint AIMultimodal model evaluation
    Guava AI SystemsVoice AI for regulated industries
    Hamming AIVoice-agent testing and red teaming
    Helen's FoundryGovernance for AI-generated software
    Rein SecurityRuntime security for enterprise AI agents
    WaferInference optimization for open-weight models
    Hack Day WinnerFinal participant selected from Day ZERØ

    BrainStorm Therapeutics

    AI-assisted CNS drug discovery

    BrainStorm Therapeutics combines human brain organoids with multimodal AI to improve drug discovery for neurological diseases.

    DATApoint AI

    Multimodal model evaluation

    DATApoint AI provides multimodal model-evaluation infrastructure designed to collect high-volume human preferences for model refinement and RLHF.

    Guava AI Systems

    Voice AI for regulated industries

    Guava AI Systems develops voice AI infrastructure for regulated industries where reliability, compliance, and complex call workflows are critical.

    Hamming AI

    Voice-agent testing and red teaming

    Hamming AI provides testing and monitoring for voice and conversational AI agents, including automated red-teaming of real phone interactions.

    Helen's Foundry

    Governance for AI-generated software

    Helen's Foundry develops governance technology for software teams using coding agents. Its system checks agent-generated pull requests against the team's intended architecture and product direction.

    Rein Security

    Runtime security for enterprise AI agents

    Rein Security provides runtime security for enterprise AI agents, giving security teams visibility into agent tool calls and autonomous actions.

    Wafer

    Inference optimization for open-weight models

    Wafer builds AI-driven inference optimization technology designed to reduce the cost of running open-weight models.

    What types of companies are at The AI Conference 2026?

    The AI Conference brings together companies across nearly every layer of the modern AI stack.

    CategoryRepresentative companies
    Frontier models and model developmentOpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Character.AI, Together AI, Fireworks AI, SambaNova, and IBM
    AI cloud and inference infrastructureAWS, Baseten, Nebius, DigitalOcean, Vultr, VESSL AI, FriendliAI, Tensormesh, Vast.ai, and Databricks
    Agents and automationGumloop, Vapi, Agentic Fabriq, OpenRouter, Greptile, You.com, Hamming AI, and Rein Security
    Data, retrieval and contextNeo4j, CData, Graphwise, Denodo, Chalk, Exa, Weaviate, Unstructured, StreamNative, and Reltio
    Developer tools and observabilityPostman, LaunchDarkly, Sentry, Dash0, Dynatrace, Coder, Fiddler, Greptile, and Unblocked
    AI security and governanceFiddler, Skyflow, Agentic Fabriq, Rubrik, Thorn, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and Rein Security
    Enterprise AIJPMorgan Chase, Netflix, Meta, Intuit, Dropbox, Expedia Group, Freshworks, NICE, IBM, and Microsoft

    What topics does The AI Conference 2026 cover?

    AI FrontiersEmerging model capabilities, reinforcement learning, multimodal systems, interpretability, AI governance, safety, and societal impact.
    AI BuildersBuilding agentic and multi-model systems, including tool use, RAG, fine-tuning, context, orchestration, and production engineering.
    The AI StackModel training, distributed inference, accelerators, data infrastructure, evaluations, MLOps, and the systems required to run AI reliably.
    Applied AIReal deployments across workflow automation, edge AI, enterprise applications, evaluation, and production use cases.
    AI StrategyEnterprise adoption, governance, risk, ROI, organizational capability, product strategy, and scaling AI across businesses.

    Why The AI Conference 2026 matters

    AI is moving from standalone model experiments into complete production systems.

    A useful AI application now depends on far more than the model itself. Teams need inference infrastructure, data access, retrieval, APIs, agent orchestration, observability, evaluation, security, privacy, governance, and reliable software-delivery practices.

    The AI Conference 2026 brings those layers together. Its company roster shows how the market is shifting from a narrow focus on foundation models toward the broader infrastructure required to make AI dependable in real products.

    The presence of companies such as Baseten, Fireworks AI, Together AI, VESSL AI, Neo4j, CData, OpenRouter, Agentic Fabriq, Fiddler, Deepgram, Postman, and Sentry alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Netflix, and Meta makes the event especially useful for understanding where production AI is heading.

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    Last reviewed: September 15, 2026

    Frequently asked questions

    What is The AI Conference 2026?

    The AI Conference 2026 is a three-day San Francisco event focused on building and deploying AI. Its program covers agentic AI, frontier models, inference infrastructure, data, evaluation, security, governance, enterprise adoption, and real-world AI applications.

    When and where is The AI Conference 2026?

    The AI Conference 2026 takes place September 29 to October 1, 2026 at Pier 48, Shed A and B, in San Francisco's Mission Rock neighborhood. Day ZERØ is September 29, followed by the main conference on September 30 and October 1.

    What companies are at The AI Conference 2026?

    Companies include AWS, Baseten, Together AI, Fireworks AI, IBM, Nebius, Neo4j, CData, Databricks, Deepgram, VESSL AI, OpenRouter, Sentry, Postman, Fiddler, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorgan Chase, Netflix, Meta, Intuit, and many others.

    Which AI infrastructure companies are at The AI Conference 2026?

    AI infrastructure companies include AWS, Baseten, Together AI, Fireworks AI, Nebius, DigitalOcean, Vultr, VESSL AI, FriendliAI, SambaNova, Tensormesh, Databricks, OpenRouter, Chalk, and CData.

    Which frontier AI and enterprise technology companies are speaking?

    Speakers come from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Intuit, JPMorgan Chase, Character.AI, Arm, OpenRouter, and other AI and enterprise technology organizations.

    What are the main tracks at The AI Conference 2026?

    The main two-day conference has five curated tracks: AI Frontiers, AI Builders, The AI Stack, Applied AI, and AI Strategy. Together they cover AI research, agents, infrastructure, production deployments, governance, and enterprise adoption.

    What are Day ZERØ and the Startup Showdown?

    Day ZERØ on September 29 is a limited-capacity day combining technical and leadership workshops with a live Hack Day. The Hack Day winner earns the eighth spot in the Startup Showdown, where eight early-stage AI companies pitch live on the Day ONE main stage.

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