Assembling 2026 | AI Summit
Assembling 2026
AI is moving faster than ever. The people building its future need more than another conference. They need the right room.
Assembling 2026 is a focused, high-signal AI summit bringing together founders, builders, creators, researchers, operators, investors, and ecosystem partners for one day in San Francisco.
Expect candid conversations, practical insight, hands-on sessions, and meaningful connections with the people building what comes next.
One day. Three tracks. One shared conversation about what it takes to build what matters next.
Speakers
More leading voices will be announced on a rolling basis.
Alongside invited speakers, we’re accepting a limited number of speaker and founder demo applications!
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
CFP Links:
Location & Logistics
Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Venue: TERRA Gallery, San Francisco
Format: Talks, workshops, selected founder demos, and open networking
Lunch: Provided
What We’ll Explore
Founders Track
Building an AI company in 2026 means confronting questions few founders discuss openly: whether your product survives the next model release, whether your unit economics are real, and whether your layer of the stack will still matter three years from now.
These are the conversations founders have at 1 AM, but rarely onstage.
Conversations We’re Bringing Onstage
Why haven’t OpenAI & Anthropic killed you yet?
Where can AI startups build durable value as frontier labs move further up the stack?
Who’s Going to Sell What You Built?
From enterprise sales to product-led adoption, how do AI products make their way into real company workflows?
Per seat, per token, or per outcome?
All about token economics. A candid look at inference costs, model routing, pricing, margins, and the myths behind token economics.
What your ARR isn’t telling you.
What do revenue quality, pricing, and customer behavior reveal about the durability of an AI business?
WTF is “taste” in AI, anyway?
When anyone can generate, remix, and ship, do judgment and point of view become the real differentiators?
Build something agents want.
What should we build when agents need their own search, web, browser, and software infrastructure?
Founder Demo
Selected early-stage founders take the stage to show what they’ve built—live and without the standard pitch-deck theater.
Builders Track
AI builders are working on constantly shifting ground. The abstraction shipped last quarter may already be absorbed into the model, while new frameworks appear faster than teams can evaluate them.
This track focuses on the decisions and tradeoffs builders face in pull requests, architecture reviews, and late-night Slack threads.
Conversations We’re Bringing Onstage
Open Source at the Frontier
Can open source keep pace—and where does it win?
AI Infrastructure is Art
How do teams build reliable systems while models, workloads, and abstractions keep changing?
Beyond Coding Agents
Do coding agents really point toward general-purpose agents?
Creators Track
AI has compressed months of creative work into days—but speed doesn’t automatically create meaning, originality, or an audience.
The Creators Track explores new creative workflows, authorship, storytelling, and what it means to build a distinct creative identity in the age of generation.
Hands-On Workshops
Practical, hands-on sessions with creators working across AI filmmaking, visual storytelling, and emerging creative tools.
Workshop leaders and full session details will be announced soon.
Who It’s For
AI founders and startup operators
Engineers and technical builders
Product, GTM, and business leaders
Researchers and students
Investors and ecosystem partners
Creators, media, and culture-shapers
For more information, please check our official website
Photography and video will be present for community highlights.
About GenAI Assembling
GenAI Assembling is a vibrant, fast-growing global community dedicated to advancing AI innovation and collaboration. Launched in July 2024 in Silicon Valley, we bring together researchers, developers, and industry leaders in a dynamic environment where breakthrough ideas thrive.