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.
The AI Conference 2026 at a glance
| Event | The AI Conference 2026 |
| Dates | September 29 to October 1, 2026 |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Venue | Pier 48, Mission Rock |
| Audience | AI builders, researchers, founders and enterprise technology leaders |
| Attendance | 5,500+ |
| Speakers | 120+ |
| Overall program | 3 days and 7 tracks |
| Main conference | September 30 to October 1 |
| Main conference tracks | 5 curated tracks |
| Day ZERØ | September 29 |
| Innovation Hub | 100+ AI companies |
| Key areas | Agentic 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
| Company | Area | The AI Conference 2026 connection |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Cloud & AI infrastructure | Elite Sponsor |
| Baseten | AI inference infrastructure | Elite Sponsor |
| Together AI | AI infrastructure | Strategic Sponsor |
| Fireworks AI | Generative AI infrastructure | Strategic Sponsor |
| IBM | Enterprise AI | Strategic Sponsor |
| Nebius | AI cloud infrastructure | Strategic Sponsor |
| Neo4j | Graph data & AI | Strategic Sponsor |
| Dropbox | Cloud software & AI | Strategic Sponsor |
| Gravitee | API management | Strategic Sponsor |
| Hedera | Distributed infrastructure | Strategic Sponsor |
| Dash0 | Observability | Strategic Sponsor |
| CData | Enterprise data connectivity | Sponsor |
| Graphwise | Knowledge graphs & semantic AI | Exhibitor / Speaker |
| Denodo | Data management | Sponsor |
| Brave | Browser & privacy technology | Sponsor |
| DigitalOcean | Cloud infrastructure | Sponsor |
| FriendliAI | AI inference | Sponsor |
| Productboard | Product management software | Sponsor |
| Rubrik | Data security | Sponsor |
| SambaNova | AI computing | Sponsor |
| Sentry | Developer observability | Sponsor |
| Skyflow | Data privacy | Sponsor |
| Smartsheet | Work management software | Sponsor |
| Telnyx | Communications infrastructure | Sponsor |
| Unblocked | Developer knowledge | Sponsor |
| Vultr | Cloud & GPU infrastructure | Sponsor |
| Chalk | AI data infrastructure | Sponsor |
| Coder | Cloud development environments | Sponsor |
| eGain | Customer experience AI | Sponsor |
| Fiddler | AI evaluation & observability | Sponsor |
| Greptile | AI code review | Sponsor / Speaker |
| LaunchDarkly | Software delivery | Sponsor |
| Postman | API platform | Sponsor |
| Successive Technologies | Digital engineering | Sponsor |
| Tempo Software | Portfolio & work management | Sponsor |
| Exa | AI search infrastructure | Sponsor |
| Gumloop | AI workflow automation | Sponsor |
| Vapi | Voice AI infrastructure | Sponsor |
| SS&C Blue Prism | Intelligent automation | Partner |
| StreamNative | Streaming data infrastructure | Partner |
| Databricks | Data & AI platform | Partner / Speaker connection |
| Tensormesh | AI inference infrastructure | Sponsor / Exhibitor |
| Deepgram | Voice AI | Sponsor |
| OpenRouter | Model routing & inference | Innovation Hub / Speaker |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | Sponsor |
| VESSL AI | AI cloud infrastructure | Sponsor |
| Agentic Fabriq | AI agent security | Sponsor |
| O'Reilly Media | Technology publishing | Sponsor / Speaker |
| NICE | Enterprise AI & customer experience | Sponsor |
| Teamily AI | Agentic collaboration | Sponsor |
| Expedia Group | Travel technology | Sponsor |
| Keysight Technologies | AI infrastructure testing | Sponsor / Exhibitor |
| Thorn | AI safety | Sponsor |
| Worldpay | Payments technology | Sponsor |
| Freshworks | Enterprise software & AI | Speaker |
| OpenAI | Frontier AI | Speaker |
| Anthropic | Frontier AI | Speaker |
| AI & technology | Speakers | |
| Microsoft | Cloud & AI | Speaker |
| NVIDIA | AI computing | Speaker |
| JPMorgan Chase | Financial services & AI | Speaker |
| Netflix | Streaming & AI | Speaker |
| Meta | AI & computing | Speaker |
| Intuit | Financial software & AI | Speaker |
| Arm | Semiconductor & edge AI | Speaker |
| Character.AI | Conversational AI | Speaker |
| Weaviate | Vector database | Speaker |
| Unstructured | AI data infrastructure | Speaker |
| Reltio | Enterprise data | Speaker |
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 SponsorAmazon 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 SponsorBaseten 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 SponsorTogether 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 SponsorFireworks 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 SponsorIBM 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 SponsorNebius 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 SponsorNeo4j 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 SponsorDropbox 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 SponsorGravitee 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 SponsorHedera 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 SponsorDash0 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 · SponsorCData 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 / SpeakerGraphwise 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 · SponsorDenodo 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 · SponsorDigitalOcean 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 · SponsorFriendliAI 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 · SponsorSambaNova 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 · SponsorSentry 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 · SponsorSkyflow 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 · SponsorTelnyx 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 · SponsorVultr 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 · SponsorChalk 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 · SponsorCoder 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 · SponsorFiddler 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 / SpeakerGreptile 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 · SponsorLaunchDarkly 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 · SponsorPostman 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 · SponsorExa 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 · SponsorGumloop 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 connectionDatabricks 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 · SponsorDeepgram 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 / SpeakerOpenRouter 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 · SponsorVESSL 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 · SponsorAgentic 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 / SpeakerO'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 · SponsorNICE 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 / ExhibitorKeysight 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 · SpeakerOpenAI 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 · SpeakerAnthropic 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 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 · SpeakerMicrosoft 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 · SpeakerNVIDIA 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 · SpeakerJPMorgan 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 · SpeakerNetflix 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 · SpeakerMeta 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 · SpeakerIntuit 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 · SpeakerArm 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 · SpeakerCharacter.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 · SpeakerWeaviate 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 · SpeakerUnstructured 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 · SpeakerReltio 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.
| Startup | What it is building |
|---|---|
| BrainStorm Therapeutics | AI-assisted CNS drug discovery |
| DATApoint AI | Multimodal model evaluation |
| Guava AI Systems | Voice AI for regulated industries |
| Hamming AI | Voice-agent testing and red teaming |
| Helen's Foundry | Governance for AI-generated software |
| Rein Security | Runtime security for enterprise AI agents |
| Wafer | Inference optimization for open-weight models |
| Hack Day Winner | Final participant selected from Day ZERØ |
BrainStorm Therapeutics
AI-assisted CNS drug discoveryBrainStorm Therapeutics combines human brain organoids with multimodal AI to improve drug discovery for neurological diseases.
DATApoint AI
Multimodal model evaluationDATApoint 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 industriesGuava 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 teamingHamming 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 softwareHelen'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 agentsRein 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 modelsWafer 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.
| Category | Representative companies |
|---|---|
| Frontier models and model development | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, Character.AI, Together AI, Fireworks AI, SambaNova, and IBM |
| AI cloud and inference infrastructure | AWS, Baseten, Nebius, DigitalOcean, Vultr, VESSL AI, FriendliAI, Tensormesh, Vast.ai, and Databricks |
| Agents and automation | Gumloop, Vapi, Agentic Fabriq, OpenRouter, Greptile, You.com, Hamming AI, and Rein Security |
| Data, retrieval and context | Neo4j, CData, Graphwise, Denodo, Chalk, Exa, Weaviate, Unstructured, StreamNative, and Reltio |
| Developer tools and observability | Postman, LaunchDarkly, Sentry, Dash0, Dynatrace, Coder, Fiddler, Greptile, and Unblocked |
| AI security and governance | Fiddler, Skyflow, Agentic Fabriq, Rubrik, Thorn, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, and Rein Security |
| Enterprise AI | JPMorgan Chase, Netflix, Meta, Intuit, Dropbox, Expedia Group, Freshworks, NICE, IBM, and Microsoft |
What topics does The AI Conference 2026 cover?
| AI Frontiers | Emerging model capabilities, reinforcement learning, multimodal systems, interpretability, AI governance, safety, and societal impact. |
| AI Builders | Building agentic and multi-model systems, including tool use, RAG, fine-tuning, context, orchestration, and production engineering. |
| The AI Stack | Model training, distributed inference, accelerators, data infrastructure, evaluations, MLOps, and the systems required to run AI reliably. |
| Applied AI | Real deployments across workflow automation, edge AI, enterprise applications, evaluation, and production use cases. |
| AI Strategy | Enterprise 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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