About this Event
🚀 Build the Next Intelligence Layer at GenAI Summit 2026
📅 July 18–19, 2026
📍 Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
🌐 Hosted by Silicon Valley’s leading GenAI Community
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🧠 Be in the Room With the People Defining AI
This is the single highest concentration of AI decision-makers on the West Coast this year.
🔬 Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT — the people writing the papers everyone else will be reading next year.
🏢 Industry leaders from Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, NVIDIA, and Apple — the operators shipping AI at planetary scale.
💰 Global capital from a16z, Sequoia, Benchmark, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, and BlackRock — the same funds behind Hugging Face, Perplexity, and the breakout companies of this cycle.
🚀 Founders building the next generation of AI-native products, agent infrastructure, and autonomous systems.
Two days. One venue. Direct access.GenAI Summit 2026 is where this new paradigm comes alive.
🚀 Big Tech & Frontier Labs
Rohan Varma — Engineering, Codex @ OpenAI
Prakhar Bhargava — Go-To-Market @ OpenAI
Yuandong Tian - Co-Founder @Recursive Superintelligence
Carol S. Scott — Global AI Growth & Success Leader @ Microsoft
Yichong Xu — Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind
Turakhia — Head of Eng, Wallet + AI @ Coinbase
Emery Han — Go-To-Market, Platforms @ Stripe
🌟 Founders Building the Future
Daksh Gupta — Co-Founder & CEO, Greptile ↳ AI code review · Y Combinator
Joshua McKibben — Head of Trust & AI Risk, Harvey ↳ Legal AI unicorn
Zihan Wang — CTO, O2 AI ↳ Ex-DeepSeek
Jia Li — Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer & President, LiveX AI ↳ Ex-Google AI · Ex-Fei-Fei Li team
Shannon McClenaghan — CEO, StartX ↳ Stanford accelerator · $40B+ founder network
Sophie Ren — Founder & CEO, ChatSlide, Forbes 30U30, 2017
Qing Yin — Founder, Visko
Jonathan Buckheit — CEO, PayAll
💰 Investors & Capital
Vanessa Larco — Partner & Cofounder, Premise VC (Ex-NEA)
Jeremiah Owyang — General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures
Ronald Ratcliffe — Managing Director, BlackRock Shesh
Amathnadu — Senior Investment Director, SK Telecom Ventures
Viki Huang — Investor, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco Growth Fund)
Gloria Zhang — Vice President, DCM Ventures
Holly Zheng — Founding Partner, EnvisionX Capital
🛡️ Security & Trust Leaders
Bryan Green — CISO, MGM Resorts International (Ex-a16z CISO)
Ty Sbano — CISO, Webflow
John Donovan — Head of Security, IT & Compliance, ZEDEDA
Wickey Liu — Emerging Tech Advisor, ISACA
🎓 Academic Voices
Yubei Chen — Assistant Professor, ECE @ UC Davis
Ruizhe Jia — Assistant Professor, Management Science @ Stanford
🎓 2. Learn What's Actually Working — From the People Who Built It
Skip the trend reports. Get the unfiltered version, straight from the source.
The headline theme: The Rise of OpenClaw — the shift from "AI assists you" to "AI executes for you," and the defining transition of 2026.
Deep-dive tracks include:
- Vertical Claws — execution-grade agents in Coding, Finance, Security, Infra, Legal, and Healthcare
- Agent Orchestration — multi-agent coordination and the emerging middleware stack
- Autonomous Workflows — full end-to-end systems already running in production
- AI-Native Enterprises — companies rebuilt from the ground up around agents
- Multimodal Models at Scale — what's actually deployed, and what's still hype
No vaporware. No demo-stage theater. Only systems already generating value.
🎤 3. Pitch on the Main Stage — Applications Open
If you're building a category-defining AI company, this is your direct line to the investors who actually move markets.
We're convening the same networks behind Hugging Face, Perplexity, and other breakout names — Sequoia, Lightspeed, BlackRock, and more.
First-round selection is already underway.
👉 Apply now: https://forms.gle/CWmSm11wqHzcmWS96
All applications subject to review. Selected teams notified directly.
💼 4. Where Capital, Talent, and Partnerships Actually Move
What happens at the Summit — beyond the stage:
✅ Term sheets signed on-site ✅ Strategic partnerships locked in ✅ Critical hires made in days, not quarters ✅ Cross-border ecosystems formed in hours
Not conversation. Outcomes.
🌍 5. A Global Network, Concentrated Into 48 Hours
- 15,000+ global attendees
- 300+ frontier startups exhibiting
- 30+ countries represented
- 200+ speakers
- 2 days of high-density signal
GenAI Summit 2026 is where this new paradigm comes alive.
🌍 Not a Conference — A Living Intelligence System
With 15,000+ attendees, 300+ startups, and the world’s top AI minds in one place,
this is not just an event.
It’s a live intelligence network.
You’re not just attending —
you’re stepping inside a system where ideas, capital, and execution converge in real time.
💡 Why Attend GenAI Summit 2026?
🤖 Witness the Rise of OpenClaw
From “AI assists you” → to “AI executes for you”
Explore:
- Vertical Claws (Coding, Finance, Security, Infra)
- Agent orchestration systems
- Fully autonomous workflows already in production
🚀 Meet the Builders of the Next Paradigm
Connect with leaders from:
OpenAI · Google · Meta · Microsoft · Tesla · Stanford · a16z · Sequoia · and more
Not just talks —direct access to how they think and build
🔬 Explore AI in Production
No fluff. No demos-for-show.
Real systems, already deployed:
- Multimodal models
- AI agent infrastructure
- Autonomous enterprise workflows
- AI-native products
🎤 From Idea to Execution
See what actually works:
- What gets funded
- What scales
- What fails quietly
This is where signal replaces noise.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
3301 Lyon St, 3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco, United States
USD 160.83 to USD 6403.21
