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Human+Tech Week Summit 2026: The Global Convening for Human-Centered AI

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Where the people building human-centered AI meet.

Five days. One city. Build the future we want to live in.

Human+Tech Week convenes builders, operators, researchers, and investors working on applied AI across work, health, and cities. The emphasis is practical: turning ideas into systems that improve how people live, work, and thrive.

If you’re building, funding, or implementing technology that advances human potential, this is the room.


What You'll Do:

  • Learn from founders who've shipped Human+AI systems at scale

  • Connect with investors backing the next wave of human potential tech

  • Work alongside operators solving real problems in real organizations

  • Shape what human-centered AI actually looks like in practice

Who's in the Room:

  • Founders building Human+AI products

  • Investors deploying capital into human potential

  • Enterprise operators implementing at scale

  • Researchers pushing the frontier

  • Public sector leaders shaping policy

  • Humans building Human+AI innovation

Who You’ll Hear From:

After convening the top founders, researchers, and leaders in human-centered AI in 2025, Human+Tech Week advances that work through the Top 100 Human+AI Innovation Challenges—bringing forward the most consequential products, solutions, and frameworks shaping human flourishing in the age of AI.

This is not a spectator event.


How the Week Works

Human+Tech Week takes place in San Francisco from May 11–15, 2026 and is anchored by three ticketed Summit days, each focused on one of the core domains defining the human+technology future: work, health, and cities.

The Summits are full-day, in-depth experiences designed for leaders and builders who want to engage seriously with the ideas, challenges, and decisions defining these domains in the age of AI.

Surrounding the Summits, partner-led and city-wide events extend conversations across the city, creating space for continued learning, exchange, and collaboration throughout the week.

Week at a Glance:

  • Monday — Investor Briefing, Grand Opening

  • Tuesday — Work Summit

  • Wednesday — Health Summit

  • Thursday — Cities & Society Summit

  • Monday–Friday — City-Wide Partner Events

Monday – Grand Opening

The week opens Monday evening at Hibernia Bank.

  • Investor Briefing (3:00–5:00 PM): A closed session for investors covering the Human+Tech opportunity landscape.

  • Grand Opening Reception (5:00–8:30 PM): Open to all ticket holders. A fireside conversation you won’t want to miss with leading AI voices, followed by a reception to mark the start of the week.

Tuesday – Thursday: The 3 Summits

Each day is built around the one question that matters: How do we ensure humans thrive in the age of AI?

The daily summits are designed for people who want more than surface-level conversation—bringing together shared perspective and focused discussion around real challenges, practical use cases, and decisions that shape what happens next.

You can expect:

  • Main Stage Sessions that surface key patterns and emerging directions

  • Focused Workshops and Breakouts examining real problems in depth

  • Daily Synthesis Sessions connecting insights and clarifying what matters most

AGENCY: The Future of Work Summit

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Work is changing faster than most organizations can adapt. AI is reshaping roles, decision-making, and how value gets created. The AGENCY Summit brings together operators, founders, and people leaders to examine what's actually working — and how to design organizations where people stay capable, relevant, and effective alongside AI.

HOPE: The Future of Health Summit

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Health systems face rising costs, uneven access, and growing demand. The HOPE Summit is where builders and leaders in physical, mental, and cognitive health come to work through what prevention-first systems can actually look like — and how AI can expand access without hollowing out the human core of care.

REACH: The Future of Cities & Society Summit

Thursday, May 14, 2026 · 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Cities are where health, work, housing, and economic opportunity converge. The REACH Summit brings together civic leaders, builders, and operators to examine how urban, suburban, and rural systems are being redesigned to improve coordination, access, and reliability as AI becomes part of everyday civic life.

Afternoon programming includes ecosystem talks from hosts of select partner event hosts.

▶️ FULL AGENDA ◀️

▶️ PARTNER EVENTS ◀️


The grand opening and all three summits take place at Hibernia Bank — a Beaux-Arts landmark in San Francisco dating to 1892. Across four floors, the space holds both large shared sessions and smaller, more focused conversations, designed to keep contributors moving between ideas all day.


The Speaker Lineup You Can’t Miss

Meet the speakers of Human+Tech Week 2026 — a visionary lineup of founders, innovators, and thought leaders pioneering AI across work, health, and cities.

They are driving real-world applications of AI and emerging technologies that enhance human potential and redefine how we live, work, and thrive.

  • Dr. Daniel Kraft — Chair, NextMed Health

  • Saeju Jeong — Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Noom

  • Naoko Okumoto — Founder and Managing Partner, Niremia Collective

  • DeCarlos Love — CEO and Founder, Thrive Health

  • Nadya Direkova-Pell — Director of User Experience, Panasonic Well

  • Nanea Reeves — CEO and Founder, TRIPP, Inc.

  • Katherine Newman — Provost and EVP, Academic Affairs, University of California; UC System

  • Rich Hua — Chief EQ Officer (Amazon) & CEO (Epiq)

  • Marquesa Finch — Founder, Pyrium & Jet Capital

  • Rosanna Durruthy — Vice President, Belonging, Learning, and Employee Experience, LinkedIn

  • Peter Hirshberg — Co-founder and Executive Director, City Science Lab, SF

  • Manuela Travaglianti — Project Lead for the Ethics Toolkit, McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society

  • Dean Ornish — Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute

  • Wei Wu — Executive Chairman, Human Longevity

  • Alison Ryu — General Partner, Able Partners

  • Dorothy Kilroy — Chief Commercial Officer, Oura

  • Elissa Eppel — Professor, UCSF Breast Care Center

  • Pelin Throgood — Co-founder & Executive Chair, Radicle Science

  • Craig Donato — Chief Business Officer, Roblox

  • Adam Gazzalley — MD / Ph.D Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

  • Chuck Baker — Assistant City Administrator, City of Oakland

  • Larry Green — Dir, Health & Performance [Work/Health], Google

  • Dean Carter — CEO, Instill

  • Jennifer Turner — Dir, Organizational Strategy, Alphabet/Google

  • Gianna Driver — Chief People Officer, OpenTable

  • Q Hamirani — CPO; Future of Work Investor, HighLevel

  • Lauren Nunes — Chief People Officer, Twitch / Amazon

  • Van Jones — Host at CNN; President, Magic Labs Media

  • Kristina Francis — CEO and Chief Possibility Officer, Kin & Commons Strategy Group

  • Karla Ballard — Founder and CEO, HUMN

  • David Muhammad — Executive Director, National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform

  • Dr. Karina Alexanyan — Founding Executive Director, Positive Technology Institute

Stay tuned! More exciting speakers to be announced soon.


We Look Forward to Seeing You

Human+Tech Week brings together builders, leaders, and investors focused on advancing human-centered outcomes across work, health, and cities.

As AI reshapes every layer of society, this is a moment to focus deliberately on human capability, wellbeing, and long-term impact.


Questions?

For more information, to host a partner event, or to explore sponsorship, visit humantechweek.com.

P.S. The people in this room are not waiting to see what AI does to the world. They are deciding what it does for people.

See you in May.


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