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AI Council San Francisco 2026

AI Council San Francisco 2026 is a three-day, vendor-neutral, community-led technical AI conference running May 12–14 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. The event features 10 specialized tracks with 60+ talks covering AI engineering, inference systems, agent infrastructure, model systems, and more — all delivered by practitioners from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and Snowflake. Attendees are engineers, researchers, founders, and technical leads (70% senior IC or above), and the event has been running annually since 2015. Tickets include workshops, speaker office hours, a community party, lunches, and talk recordings.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Date

May 12th, 2026

Attendees

1 500

Starting price

$799

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AI Council 2026 San Francisco was the three-day edition of the technical, vendor-neutral AI Council conference, held May 12–14 at the SF Marriott Marquis. It brought together engineers, researchers, founders, and data and technical leaders building real-world AI systems, with 50+ speakers from companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity, Databricks, Replit, and DuckDB Labs. Hosting it in San Francisco placed attendees alongside the foundation-model labs and AI infrastructure teams the program focuses on, with talks, engineering office hours, and hands-on workshops rather than an expo-hall format.
AI Council 2026 was held in San Francisco at the SF Marriott Marquis (near Moscone, in the heart of the city’s AI and infrastructure ecosystem), running May 12–14. The conference uses a hotel conference venue rather than a sprawling convention-center expo, in keeping with its practitioner-focused, talks-and-workshops format. Check the upcoming events section above for venue and date details of the next AI Council edition.
AI Council 2026 San Francisco sold tickets directly through its ticketing partner rather than using a free or invitation-only model, with pricing that varied by tier and by how early you registered — earlier passes were typically cheaper, and tickets sold out as the event approached. Separate sponsor packages were available for companies wanting a presence at the event. Check the upcoming events section above for current ticket pricing and availability for the next edition.
AI Council 2026 San Francisco continued the conference’s technical, vendor-neutral format that has run every year since 2015, with tracks spanning inference systems, AI engineering, agent infrastructure, coding agents, model systems, data engineering and databases, and AI security. The 2026 program leaned heavily into agent infrastructure and coding agents, reflecting where practitioners had moved since earlier editions, while keeping the signature mix of talks, engineering office hours, and hands-on workshops consistent across years.

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