Tech Conferences in San Francisco

An apply-to-attend summit from the AI Engineer team on AI coding agents and AI-assisted software development. It runs one workshop day followed by two days of talks and an expo.

An invite-only AI summit hosted by Newcomer Media that gathers venture-backed AI founders, investors, and industry leaders for talks and networking.

InfoQ's senior software practitioner conference with 60+ curated talks on AI engineering, distributed systems, platform engineering, and architecture. No vendor pitches, only practitioners who have shipped at scale. Includes 2 days of hands-on training workshops.

Microsoft's flagship conference for IT leaders, developers, and enterprise decision-makers. The 2026 edition centers on AI agents, Microsoft Copilot, Azure cloud, and enterprise security, drawing 15,000+ in-person attendees plus a large global digital audience.

An in-the-room-only, single-day conference dedicated to Generative Engine Optimization, how brands gain visibility inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Capped at roughly 150 practitioners with no recordings or livestream.

Community-run security conference in San Francisco, one of the largest BSides events, featuring talks, villages and CTF.

The world's largest cybersecurity conference returns to Moscone. 44,000+ attendees, Innovation Sandbox startup competition, CISO bootcamps, and the largest cybersecurity expo floor globally.

The International Conference on Learning Representations, a major academic machine learning conference focused on deep learning and representation learning.

The world's largest B2B SaaS community event returns. 10,000+ founders, VCs, and executives across two days of tactical content, workshops, AI Summit co-located event, and operator-to-operator networking.

Snowflake's flagship data + AI conference. 20,000+ data leaders explore agentic AI, Cortex, Snowpark, and the AI Data Cloud through 500+ sessions, hands-on labs, and enterprise AI keynotes.

Databricks' annual conference on data engineering, analytics, machine learning and generative AI, held in person with virtual access.

The flagship conference of the AI Engineer series, for AI engineers, founders and VPs of AI building production AI systems.

Salesforce's flagship event returns to Moscone. 170,000+ attendees, Agentforce + Data Cloud keynotes, hundreds of sessions on AI, sales, service, and marketing automation.

OpenAI's flagship developer conference unveiling new models, APIs, and tooling for building on its AI platform. Official 2027 dates pending; typically late September or October in San Francisco.

Premier startup conference featuring the famous Startup Battlefield pitch competition, exhibitor floor, and content tracks on AI, SaaS, and emerging tech. 10,000+ founders, VCs, and operators. Official 2027 dates pending, typically mid-October.

Microsoft's flagship conference for IT leaders and developers, covering Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, Azure, and enterprise security. Official 2027 dates and host city pending; typically mid-November.