2026 World Cup x World's Fair Kickoff

presenter: AI Engineer

date: Thu Jun 11

location: San Francisco

day: Jun 11

description: World Cup opening ceremony + Mexico vs. South Africa match. NOTE: This is during mid day. Light snacks and drinks but not heavy lunch.

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AAuth Night: Moving Beyond OAuth

presenter: Insecure Agents

date: Wed Jul 1

location: 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco

day: Jul 1

description: AAuth is a new auth protocol designed for agents, built by the author of OAuth, Dick Hardt. Lightning talks and live demos on how agents can call resources without API keys, mission-bounded authority, and multi-agent delegation chains. Panel Q&A moderated by Allie Howe (Insecure Agents Podcast).

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Agent Run

presenter: Entire

date: Mon Jun 29

location: Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco

day: Jun 29

description: Join AI builders for a chill, easy group fun run before AI Engineer World's Fair! We'll end at a coffee shop nearby — enjoy coffee on Entire!


Agentic After Hours, SF

presenter: Buildify

location: San Francisco, CA

description: After AI Engineer World's Fair, join founders, operators, GTM leaders & AI builders for an evening of conversations around Agents, Sales & the future of revenue teams. Hosted by Buildify. Capacity is intentionally limited — register early to secure your spot.


name: Agents & Bagels: AIEWF'26 Breakfast Meet Up

presenter: Scalekit, Ref, Telnyx & PromptQL

location: Moscone Center, San Francisco

description: A special edition of Agents & Bagels running alongside AI Engineer World's Fair. Scalekit, Ref, Telnyx, and PromptQL are bringing together AI engineers and founders in town for the conference — for bagels, real talk, and the kind of hallway conversations that don't happen on the main stage. Space is limited.


AI Engineer Kids Day

date: Sun Jun 28

location: Digital Jungle SF, 972 Mission St, San Francisco

day: Jun 28

description: A special event for parents, teachers, and curious young minds! Hands-on AI and coding workshops for kids aged 9–15 led by Cassandra Chin and Kaitlyn Hornbuckle. Kids will build with Arduino sensors and create games with Claude + Godot. Parents are encouraged to join.

callout: For Parents & Teachers


AI Engineer Morning Run

presenter: Justin Poehnelt

location: Moscone West, San Francisco

description: An easy morning group run before the AI Engineer World's Fair. Route TBD. Social run.


AI Engineer Trivia Night

presenter: Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI & Entire.io

date: Thu Jul 2

location: Standard Deviant Brewing Pier 70, San Francisco

day: Jul 2

description: The anti-networking event: a night of trivia built for people actually shipping AI products. "Vibe Coding disasters" round, "Hallucination fascination" guessing game, rad tool demos, cold beer, real food, and serious prizes. Buses run from Moscone to the venue. Hosted by Sanity, Temporal, OpenAI & Entire.io.


name: AI Engineer World Fair Demos & Happy Hour

presenter: Cerebral Valley & Shack15

date: Tue Jun 30

location: Shack15, San Francisco

day: Jun 30

description: Join CV and Shack15 for a private evening at Shack15 to end the second day of the AI Engineer World's Fair. Founders, engineers, and researchers share ideas and learnings post conference, with demos running through the night. Private 21+ event — all attendees must apply and be approved.

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name: AI Engineer World's Fair Afterparty w/ Tailscale, Aikido Security, Docker, Inngest & Rootly AI

description: The expo floor is closing, your brain is full of vector databases, and it's time to trade the keyboard for some competitive throwing. Join Tailscale, Docker, Aikido Security, Inngest, and Rootly AI for an exclusive evening of high-tech digital darts, custom cocktails, and sharp networking at a premier interactive darts lounge.


AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon 2026

presenter: Cerebral Valley

date: Sat Jun 27 – Sun Jun 28

day: Jun 27

description: The second official AI Engineer World's Fair Hackathon, hosted with Cerebral Valley. Explore recursive self-improvement: build systems that learn from their own outputs and AI that becomes more capable through continuous iteration. Winners receive $10,000+ in cash prizes, partner credits, and tickets to AIE World's Fair.


name: AI Engineer World's Fair Rooftop Afterparty w/ Apify × Massive × TopK

presenter: Apify, Massive & TopK

location: European Startup Embassy, 461 Bryant St, San Francisco

description: Post-conference afterparty at the European Startup Embassy, a short walk from Moscone West. Rooftop hangs, music, karaoke, and the World Cup quarter final at 8 PM live from Vancouver. No panels, no product demos — just AI builders, founders, operators, and friends decompressing after the busy week. Capacity is limited.


AI Happy Hour - July 4th Edition

presenter: You.com, ERIA, AI Insiders & Founders Bay

description: Join founders, investors, engineers, researchers, and AI enthusiasts for a special Independence Day edition of AI Happy Hour in San Francisco. Expect great conversations around startups, venture capital, foundation models, AI applications, agentic systems, enterprise AI, and the future of technology — alongside drinks, networking, and a vibrant community of builders.


AI Infra After Dark

presenter: Amplify & Vermilion Cliffs Ventures

location: Founders Garage, San Francisco

description: A casual happy hour for the engineers and founders building the infrastructure behind modern AI. Hosted at the Founders Garage, founded by Jeff Lawson. Bringing together people working across the stack: agents, model tooling, data systems, evals, observability, and everything required to actually run AI in production.


AI + Infrastructure Leaders Dinner

presenter: Cleric

location: KAIYŌ Rooftop, San Francisco

description: Cleric is hosting a private dinner for 15-20 senior engineering and infrastructure leaders (VPs, directors, and technical founders) during AI Engineer World's Fair, who are shaping how their orgs build, ship, and run software in production. Topics include agents in production workflows, AI tooling adoption, org structure shifts, and reliability when AI is in the loop. Hosted by Cleric CEO Shahram Anver and CTO Willem Pienaar. By approval only.


AI Leaders Dinner - SF

presenter: Daytona, Infinum & Aikido Security

time: Evening

description: Join us for an evening of food, drinks, and real conversations, hosted by Daytona, Infinum, and Aikido Security on the sidelines of AI Engineer World's Fair. Connect with founders, CEOs, CTOs, senior engineers, and GTM leaders who are building and scaling AI in the real world.


presenter: Scott Reed

description: Informal get together for AIE SF attendees with interest in the AI4Science space.


AIE USA World Cup Watch Party

presenter: Exa, Fastino Labs, LanceDB & Extend

description: Come cheer on team USA! Take a break from AI Engineer World Fair to root for Team USA with a curated group of AI data stack builders and operators off the conference floor for a relaxed evening of good food, cold drinks, and soccer (football).


name: AIE World's Fair — Unofficial Speaker Warmup

presenter: HumanLayer

date: Wed Jun 24

location: San Francisco (TBD)

day: Jun 24

description: Practice your talk in front of a small, trusted audience the week before the World's Fair. Lightning talks, feedback rounds, drinks and pizza. Primarily for AIE World's Fair 2026 speakers and previous AIE speakers.


All-Day World Cup Viewing Lounge

presenter: Baseten, Reducto & LangChain

location: The Harlequin, 68 4th St, San Francisco

description: An all-day World Cup viewing lounge for AI engineers and builders! Free flowing food, drinks, big screens, and wifi for co-working all day, right across from Moscone Center during AI Engineer World's Fair. Come in and out throughout the day as matches happen constantly. Hosted by Baseten, Reducto, and LangChain.


Cafe Compute: Multi-Modal Edition

presenter: Cerebras & Google DeepMind

description: Cerebras and Google DeepMind present Cafe Compute, cohosted with Modern Capital. A pop-up coffeeshop with a barista bar, cozy snacks and couches. Experience Cerebras' world-fastest AI inference and try Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 multi-modal models. Free compute at cerebras.ai.


Cloudflare Run Club // SF 5K

presenter: Cloudflare

location: Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco

description: Come move your body and meet some awesome humans to start your day! A scenic 5K loop from Yerba Buena Gardens to the Ferry Building and back. Limited-edition swag for the first 50 attendees!


Coffeeflare

location: Sightglass Coffee, San Francisco

description: Pre-game Day 2 of AI Engineer World's Fair with the Cloudflare crew! We're taking over Sightglass Coffee to talk all things AI, agents, and architecture. Come grab a brew, tell us what you're building, and peer into our product pipeline. Plus score some limited-edition swag while it lasts!


name: Deploy, Scale, Score: DigitalOcean + Vermilion AI Infra Social

presenter: DigitalOcean & Vermilion Cliffs Ventures

location: Woodbury, 685 3rd St, San Francisco

description: Cap off the first day of AI Engineer World Fair with some World Cup viewing and a stellar group of startups, operators, and founders. DigitalOcean and Vermilion Cliffs Ventures team up with key AI Infra startups including Aranya, Atomic, Baz, Cognee, Keycard, Lemma, and Paper Compute.


name: Engineers Night Out w/ Unblocked & Comet, AIE After Party

presenter: Unblocked & Comet

location: San Francisco

description: Join Unblocked and Comet, creators of Opik, for an Engineers Night Out — exclusively for AI Engineer World's Fair attendees. Drinks, light bites, and rooftop views. RSVP only — spots are limited.


name: Future Code: Rewriting the Developer Frontier

presenter: GitHub

location: GitHub HQ, San Francisco

description: An evening at GitHub HQ dedicated to rewriting the developer frontier. A micro summit curated with engineers, open source maintainers, and founders rethinking the next generation of code. Speakers include Ryan Lopopolo (OpenAI), Alex Zenla (CTO of Edera), and Thomas Dohmke (founder and CEO of Entire). Spots are limited.


Game On: The AI Stack Social

presenter: Arize AI, AWS, Band AI, CrewAI & YugabyteDB

description: Skip the stuffy networking. Come hang with the builders. Join Arize, AWS, Band AI, CrewAI, and YugabyteDB for an after-conference happy hour just a 10-minute walk from Moscone. Come for arcade games, World Cup on the big screen, food, drinks, swag, and actual conversations with people building the future of AI infrastructure. Space is limited.


name: Harness Engineering: Building Reliable AI Systems

presenter: Tessl (AI Native Dev)

description: A fireside conversation on Harness Engineering with Guy Podjarny (Tessl) and Steve Yegge, exploring how engineering teams can move beyond experimentation and build AI-powered systems that are reliable, trustworthy, and ready for production. Followed by audience Q&A and community networking.


name: Harness Engineering: State of the Art in Agent Harnesses

presenter: Agentic Engineering

description: A highly technical event focused on Harness Engineering for AI agents, especially coding agents. Talks from Dat Ngo (Arize AI), Arun Kumar (RapidFire AI), Myeongsoo Kim (AWS AI Labs / Kiro), and Linghua Jin (CocoIndex) on planning loops, context management, verification mechanisms, and error recovery in agent harnesses.


name: Harness the Agent. Happy Hour by Orkes @ Chotto Matte

presenter: Orkes

location: Chotto Matte San Francisco, 50 O'Farrell St, San Francisco

description: You spent the day talking about building agents. Now let's talk about keeping them from going off the rails. Join Orkes at Chotto Matte for drinks and real conversation about what it actually takes to ship agents in production: deterministic, durable, and built to last. Meet the team behind Netflix Conductor, now powering enterprise AI orchestration at scale across some of the world's most demanding engineering organizations. Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.


Human Connection in the Age of AI

presenter: Joyce Zhang & Carole Robin

description: A workshop on developing effective relationships, featuring a live demo of connection tools from Stanford's Touchy Feely course and Leaders in Tech programs. Practice the skills yourself and leave with tools to be more effective in your professional and personal relationships. Hosted by Joyce Zhang and Carole Robin (Distinguished Stanford GSB Teacher & Co-Founder of Leaders in Tech).

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Innhouse with E2B & Inngest

presenter: E2B & Inngest

description: Join E2B and Inngest for lunch on Wednesday, July 1st from 12–2pm, just steps away from Moscone West. Grab-and-go lunch from Señor Sisig, matcha & coffee, swag, and a rooftop DJ. Space is limited, request to join!


name: Inside The AI Coding Stack: Models, Inference, Agents, and GPUs

presenter: FriendliAI, NVIDIA, MiniMax & Kilo

location: San Francisco, CA

description: An invite-only evening exploring the full AI coding stack, from hardware to agentic workflows. Talks from NVIDIA, FriendliAI, MiniMax, and Kilo on GPU trends, inference performance, reasoning models, and agentic coding workflows in production. Space limited to 80 attendees.


name: Keycard Workshop @ AI Engineer World's Fair

presenter: Keycard

location: 111 Minna Gallery and Event Space, 111 Minna St, San Francisco

description: Your agents are reaching for real tools and real data. The risk isn't the capable agent, it's the standing secret it holds. Join Keycard for a hands-on workshop where you'll build a custom support-escalation MCP server in TypeScript and lock it down end to end. Lunch provided. Bring a laptop with Node/npm and your local coding agent.


Model Independence Day

presenter: Factory Events

description: Celebrate being independent of model choice! Join Factory at The Melody for food, drinks, lightning talks from model-agnostic builders (Factory, Merge, Fireworks, E2B & more), networking, and a party.


name: No Half-Baked Agents: Breakfast with Inngest & Nebius

presenter: Inngest & Nebius

description: The last day of AI Engineer World's Fair calls for a proper breakfast. Breakfast tacos, coffee & matcha, good music, and the people building the GPU infrastructure and reliability layer your agents depend on — just steps from the show. No agenda, just food and good company before the final day!


name: Private Leadership Dinner — Human Data & AI

presenter: G2i.ai & AI Circle

description: An evening of fine dining, connection, and conversation with leaders driving innovation in Human Data and AI during AI Engineer in San Francisco. This invite-only dinner brings together executives, researchers, and founders from the world's top AI labs and companies. Hosted by G2i.ai and AI Circle. By approval only.


Qodo: AIE Opening Night VIP Event

presenter: Qodo

location: Grand Hall, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco

description: AI Engineer World's Fair kicks off Monday, June 29, and Qodo is making it a night to remember. 7:00–9:00 PM — Exclusive evening reception at the Grand Hall with AI engineering leaders and practitioners. Capacity is limited to 100 guests; attendance is reserved for approved invite requests. 9:00 PM — Qodo hosts a private drone show just outside the Ferry Building, lighting up the SF sky.


name: Retrieval for Agents: Building Retrieval Infrastructure for the New and Powerful User

description: A Hornet evening at AI Engineer World's Fair. Jo Kristian Bergum, Hornet's CEO, will talk about what the next generation of retrieval systems for agents look like: workload shape, retrieval tool abstractions, relevance across turns, and the unreasonable effectiveness of primitives for agentic retrieval. Special guests on stage, Q&A, drinks, food, and technical conversations. Space is limited.


SG in SF (an aie crossover episode)

presenter: Pebblebed VC & 65Labs

description: SG builders are in SF for AI Engineer World's Fair — so naturally, it's a crossover episode! Join the team behind AI Engineer Singapore and 65Labs for behind-the-scenes stories, a look at Singapore's builder community, and the most random conversations you'll have all week. Come for the food and drinks, stay for the vibes.


Snyk Community Jam: San Francisco

presenter: Snyk

location: 260 California St, San Francisco

description: AI is changing the game. Is your security strategy keeping up? As AI expands across the development lifecycle, so do new risks and unknowns. Join us in San Francisco for an in-person gathering focused on practical AI security insights, real-world challenges, and the community shaping what comes next.

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name: {SoMa} AI Conspiracy Dinner by Superlinked

presenter: Riley Johnson & Daniel Svonava

location: Marlowe, San Francisco, CA

description: Claude tokens are busting budgets. Come conspire with us to get them under your control. Superlinked is building the token offload layer for AI agents. Invite-only dinner at a private patio @ Marlowe near Moscone Center.


name: Sonar's Sunset Cruise at AI Engineer World's Fair

presenter: Sonar

description: Sonar is hosting a sunset cruise during AI Engineer World's Fair. Board at 7:15 PM for drinks, views, and good times on the water. You don't have to attend the conference to register. Seats are limited.


Stripe x Metronome Startup Night

presenter: Stripe & Metronome

location: SPIN San Francisco, 690 Folsom St. #100

description: Calling all founders: join the Stripe and Metronome after-party at AI Engineer World's Fair. We're taking over SPIN SF, minutes from Moscone West — off-the-clock networking with AI leaders and builders, food, drinks, and connections over ping-pong, plus the World Cup on view. Space is limited. RSVP to request a spot.


name: Teaching AI the "Why" Behind Decisions: A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity

location: DG717, San Francisco

description: AI Agents backed by context graphs could be the next big opportunity. The value lies in capturing rich decision traces—the “why” behind every action. By embedding these nuances into AI agents, organizations unlock smarter, more trustworthy decision-making at scale.


The Agent Open

presenter: Braintrust

description: The first ever Agent Open! An afternoon of pickleball, food, drinks, AI conversations, and a tournament bracket. Doors open at 3PM for co-working and warmups, with a Future of AI panel, party, and championship rounds. Co-hosted by LlamaIndex, Braintrust, turbopuffer, Cursor, Parallel Web Systems, Modal, and Browserbase.


The AI Builders Mixer

presenter: Hetz Ventures, Valley Capital Partners, Flox & Willow

location: Joujou, San Francisco

description: Join Hetz Ventures, Valley Capital Partners, Flox, Willow, and friends for an intimate evening of cocktails and conversation during AI Engineer World's Fair week. Connecting founders, engineering leaders, data executives, operators, and investors building and backing the next generation of AI systems. Attendance is limited and subject to approval.


name: The Low Latency Lounge @ AI Engineer World Fair

presenter: Deepgram, Together AI & Runware

description: The expo hall closes and the Low Latency Lounge begins. Join Deepgram, Together AI & Runware for an evening built for the engineers and builders shipping the fastest AI on the planet. Open bar, light bites, and trade notes with the people behind the models you actually use — plus a special surprise in store. No conference badge required, but registration approval is needed.


name: Tokenmaxxing Arcade Night & Happy Hour to Celebrate AI Engineer World's Fair

presenter: Span

location: Thriller Social Club, San Francisco

description: The only token spend with immediate ROI. Come waste tokens the old-fashioned way and decompress after a full day of talking AI at work or the AI Engineer World's Fair. No panels, no demos. Just games, drinks, food and some human-in-the-loop competition. Only a 10-minute walk from the Moscone Center!


name: Vercel x Merge x Factory: AI Engineer After Dark

presenter: Vercel

location: SF MOMA, 151 3rd St, San Francisco

description: The official AI Engineer after-party. Meet the builders and founders shaping AI engineering while unwinding with the community. DJ spinning all night, drinks and bites on the house, art, and lightning talks from Vercel and partners (Runlayer, MiniMax, Neon, Browserbase, Factory & Fireworks).


name: Warp and Sequoia: AI Engineer After Hours | Crafting Software Factories

presenter: Warp and Sequoia

location: Novela, 662 Mission St., San Francisco

description: Join Warp and Sequoia for an exclusive evening of exciting conversation, handcrafted cocktails, and exceptional company. A fireside chat with Zach Lloyd from Warp and Paige Bailey from Google Deepmind on Crafting Software Factories will be followed by networking, food, handcrafted cocktails, and entertainment.


name: What open agents can actually do: a happy hour with Together AI & NVIDIA

presenter: Together AI & NVIDIA

description: What happens when AI agents stop working in isolation and start working together? A fireside chat between James Zou (Head of Frontier Agents, Together AI) and Venkat Srinivasan (Research Scientist, NVIDIA) on collective agent intelligence, open models for agentic systems, and what open infrastructure makes it all possible. Live Q&A, food, drinks, networking, and the World Cup on the big screen.


name: When DevEx Meets AI: An Off-the-Record Gathering

presenter: Hangar DX powered by Aviator

description: An evening of delicious food and insightful conversations with senior engineering leaders who are rethinking developer productivity in the age of AI, on the sidelines of AI Engineer World's Fair. Hosted by The Hangar, a curated community of engineering leaders focused on developer experience and solving productivity challenges at scale.


Women in Frontier AI - SF Park Edition

presenter: Rajlaxmi (RJ)

location: Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA

description: An open-invite meetup at Dolores Park for women working at the frontier of AI. Come hang out, make new friends, and enjoy the park!


name: World Cup x AI Engineer — A Night by G2i

location: Splash Sports Bar, San Francisco

description: Join us after AI Engineer's second day for a small VIP dinner + World Cup watch party. A curated group of leaders across AI, human data, infrastructure, evals, and frontier labs for a relaxed night of conversations, drinks, food, and soccer. Hosted by G2i.co, G2i.ai & Orc.ai. Limited spots available.


Agents that compound

presenter: Optiver

location: SoMa, San Francisco, CA

description: Most teams can get a single agent working — scaling beyond that is harder. Join Matt Nassr, Head of Global Data Engineering and AI Transformation at Optiver, and senior engineers from Optiver's global team for a discussion on building shared foundations for agentic software development, from context and evaluation to execution and governance. In-person; space is limited and attendance is confirmed following review of registrations.

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