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GenAI Summit SF 2026

The flagship gathering of the Bay Area AI community — two days of frontier research, applied AI and the people building it.

Jul 18 – Jul 19, 2026
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM PT
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
From $499

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GenAI Summit SF returns to the Palace of Fine Arts for its biggest edition yet. Across two days, 200+ speakers cover everything from frontier model research and inference infrastructure to agentic products shipping to millions. Expect deep technical tracks, hands-on labs, a sprawling expo floor, and the side events that make summit week the center of gravity for AI in San Francisco.

Agenda

  1. Jul 18 · 9:30 AM

    Opening keynote: the state of frontier models

    Amara Okafor · Main hall

  2. Jul 18 · 10:30 AM

    Serving 100B-parameter models at single-digit latency

    Lena Vasquez · Stage B

  3. Jul 18 · 11:30 AM

    Designing agents that plan, not just react

    Omar Haddad · Stage C

  4. Jul 18 · 2:00 PM

    From demo to ten million users: shipping consumer AI

    Grace Lin · Main hall

  5. Jul 19 · 9:30 AM

    Retrieval architecture for production RAG

    Tomás Ferreira · Stage B

  6. Jul 19 · 10:30 AM

    Evaluation you can trust: beyond vibes

    Priya Nandakumar · Stage C

  7. Jul 19 · 2:00 PM

    Closing fireside: where developer tooling goes next

    Kenji Watanabe · Main hall

Speakers

Amara Okafor

VP of AI Research, Northwind Labs

Kenji Watanabe

Founder & CEO, Synthflow

Lena Vasquez

Distinguished Engineer, Helix Compute

Priya Nandakumar

Research Scientist, Open Horizon

Tomás Ferreira

CTO, Layercake

Omar Haddad

Principal Researcher, Northwind Labs

Grace Lin

Product Lead, AI, Meridian

Marcus Bell

Head of Applied ML, Cedar Health