Annual conferences in San Francisco

TiE Silicon Valley's flagship annual conference and one of the world's largest entrepreneurship gatherings. TiEcon 2025 (spring) drew ~3,000 attendees, 150 speakers, and 50 sponsors on an AI theme with keynotes from Satya Nadella, Shanta...

Salesforce's mega-conference and the Bay Area's largest tech event, taking over downtown SF. Dreamforce 2025 ran Oct 14–16 with 40,000+ in person, 200,000+ online, and 1,500+ sessions, positioned as a giant AI (Agentforce) showcase. Form...

NVIDIA's marquee AI/accelerated-computing conference anchored in downtown San Jose, headlined by Jensen Huang's keynote. GTC 2026 runs Mar 16–19 (keynote Mar 16), centered on agentic and physical AI, robotics, and AI-factory infrastructu...

The world's largest SaaS/cloud community conference, co-located with a dedicated AI Summit. SaaStr Annual 2025 ran May 13–15 in San Mateo with ~13,000–15,000 founders, VCs, and execs. Format: 3-day annual conference, spring.

The leading conference for AI engineers (organized by Swyx / Latent Space). The 2025 edition ran Jun 3–5 at the SF Marriott Marquis; the 2026 edition is set for Jun 29–Jul 2 in SF, with tracks on agents, evals, and in-production AI. Form...

An invite-only, high-density gathering of AI founders and lab leaders (hosted by Newcomer + Volley). The SF edition returned Nov 12, 2025 with leaders from Anthropic, xAI, Vercel, Replit, and more; run ~twice yearly (one SF, one elsewher...

YC's free, hand-picked event for top CS/AI students. The inaugural 2025 edition (Jun 16–17, SF) gathered 2,500 top undergrads, master's, and PhD candidates to hear Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Andrew Ng, Fei-Fei...

A decentralized week-long festival powered by Andreessen Horowitz's Tech Week platform; SF Tech Week 2025 ran Oct 6–12 with hundreds of community-hosted fireside chats, investor panels, demo days (e.g., SPEEDRUN), and parties across the ...

TechCrunch's flagship startup conference, home of the Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition. Disrupt 2025 ran Oct 27–29 at Moscone West with 10,000+ attendees from 40+ countries and 250+ sessions. Format: 3-day annual conference, Oct...

Startup Grind's flagship annual gathering in the heart of Silicon Valley; the 2025 edition (Apr 29–30, Fox Theatre, Redwood City) convened ~5,000 startups from 150+ countries for mainstage talks, workshops, and deal-making on GenAI, GTM,...

A vendor-neutral AI conference organized by Ben Lorica and the MLconf team. The 2025 edition ran Sep 17–18 at Pier 48 (Mission Rock), covering AGI, LLMs, infra, alignment, and AI startups. Format: 2-day annual conference, September.

GitHub's annual developer conference. The 2025 edition ran Oct 28–29 at Fort Mason, SF, focused on AI-assisted development (Copilot) and the developer platform; the 2026 edition returns to SF Oct 28. Format: 2-day annual developer confer...

The world's largest cybersecurity conference and a major magnet for security startups and investors. RSAC 2025 ran Apr 28–May 1 at Moscone; RSAC 2026 is set for Mar 23–26, SF. Format: 4-day annual conference, spring.