# The AI Conference: Shaping the Future of AI

> The AI Conference 2026 returns to San Francisco Sept 29–Oct 1\. Join thousands of builders, researchers, and leaders shaping applied AI\.

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## Pages
- [Startup Showdown 2026](https://aiconference.com/startups/): Eight early\-stage founders take the stage to pitch in front of thousands of attendees and some of the sharpest investors in the industry\.
- [Alumni Early Access](https://aiconference.com/alumni/): As a past attendee, you get first access to tickets before they go on sale to the public\.
- [2026 Media](https://aiconference.com/2026-media/): Relive The AI Conference 2026 with photos of speakers, demos, Hack Day, Startup Showdown, and networking across three days in San Francisco\.
- [The AI Conference 2026 \- Shaping The Future of AI](https://aiconference.com/): The AI Conference™ is a groundbreaking multi\-day event exploring Agentic AI, AGI, frontier models, infrastructure, security, governance, evaluation, AI startups, emerging architectures, and real\-world enterprise applications\.
- [About \- The Project and it's Creators](https://aiconference.com/about/): Learn about The AI Conference—our mission, team, and how Day ZERØ \+ two days in SF bring builders, researchers, and leaders together\.

## Posts
- [Your Agent's Next Thousand Tools \- Mike Chambers](https://aiconference.com/plaud-day-2/your-agents-next-thousand-tools-mike-chambers/)
- [The Post\-Transformer Frontier \- Adrian Kosowski](https://aiconference.com/plaud-day-2/the-post-transformer-frontier-adrian-kosowski/)
- [Robot Foundation Models \- Sergey Levine](https://aiconference.com/plaud-day-2/robot-foundation-models-sergey-levine/)
- [Shortlisting and Evaluating Open Models \- Rochelle Mattern](https://aiconference.com/plaud-day-2/shortlisting-and-evaluating-open-models-rochelle-mattern/)
- [Why We Need User\-Owned AI \- Illia Polosukhin](https://aiconference.com/plaud-day-2/why-we-need-user-owned-ai-illia-polosukhin/)

## Categories
- [Speakers](https://aiconference.com/category/speakers/)
- [2025](https://aiconference.com/category/speakers/2025/)
- [2024](https://aiconference.com/category/speakers/2024/)
- [Guest Blog](https://aiconference.com/category/guest-blog/)
- [Uncategorized](https://aiconference.com/category/uncategorized/)

## Tags
- [2025](https://aiconference.com/tag/2025/)
- [2024](https://aiconference.com/tag/2024/)
- [Blog](https://aiconference.com/tag/blog/)
- [startup2025](https://aiconference.com/tag/startup2025/)

## Optional
- [Sitemap index](https://aiconference.com/sitemap_index.xml)