AI+ Renᴬᴵssance Conference 2026
The AI era is entering its Renaissance.
AI+ Renaissance 2026 is the headline AI conference held annually to bring together the highest signal founders, researchers, investors and engineers defining the next decade of intelligence.
On the Sunday between GDC and Nvidia’s GTC, we convene 40 AI leaders, 30+ top AI startups, and 2,000 founders, builders & investors to explore frontier breakthroughs across Multimodal Intelligence, Agents, AI Infrastructure, Embodied AI and Robotics.
Headline Speakers
Join the convergence of the best minds in AI, all in one place, including founders from leading startups, researchers from frontier labs at the cutting edge, and leaders from enterprises.
To request product showcase slots, exhibition booths and VIP dinner access, email us at [email protected] for more information.
The Agenda
We will be having a packed agenda tacking key topics in AI, from multimodality to agentic systems and enterprise AI.
Catch headline speakers at the leading AI companies making waves, all in one room:
Parag Agrawal - Founder, CEO of Parallel Web Systems and the previous CEO/CTO of Twitter/X
Michele Catasta - President & Head of AI of Replit
Philip Rathle - CTO of Neo4j
Matt White - Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation
Jorge Torres - Co-founder, CEO of MindsDB
Lenjoy Lin - Co-founder, CEO of Genspark
Jeff Wang - CEO of Windsurf
Jason Lopatecki - Founder, CEO of Arize AI
Tanay Kothari - Co-founder, CEO of Wispr Flow
Emily Xue - Head of Enterprise AI at Scale AI
Selin Kocalar - Co-founder, COO of Delve
Andrew Dai - Research Director of Gemini
Mike Smith - Tech Lead, A2A Protocol at Google
Hassaan Raza - Co-founder, CEO of Tavus
Ryan Wang - Co-founder, CEO of Assembled
Sudarshan Kamath - Co-founder, CEO of Smallest.ai
Karan Vaidya - Co-founder of Composio
Michelle Lim - Co-founder, CEO of Flint AI
Michael Grinich - Founder of WorkOS
Linda Sheng - GM, Global Business of Minimax
Sudheesh Nair - Co-founder, CEO of TinyFish
Steve Frey - Co-founder, Product at AGI Inc
Nathan Xu - Founder, CEO of PLAUD
Huang Xia - Founder, Agent Kit of Google Cloud AI
Ankur Bhatt - Head of AI at Rippling
Nishkarsh Srivastava - Founder, CEO of Cortex
Brian Zhan - General Partner at Striker Venture Partners
Josh Sirota - Founder, CEO of Eragon
Shaheen Lavie-Rouse - Forward Deployed Engineer at ElevenLabs
Denise Umubyeyi - Head of Partnerships, AGI, Inc.
Lynn Duan - Founder of AI+
Spencer - CEO of Cloudmile
Peter Pan - Founding Partner at Hat-Trick Capital
Aiswarya Sankar - Founder, CEO of Entelligence
Paula Vivas - US Head of Marketing at Freepik
Wanzheng Zhu - Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Akash Saraf - Founder, CEO of TheAgentic
Vinod Joseph - Investor at Samsung NEXT
Wei Wei - Managing Director at Accenture
Joshua Sum - Co-founder of AI+
The full list of speakers can be found here:
Community Partners
The AI+ Renaissance conference is supported by our network of community partners including Bay Area Founders Club, Z Potentials, Frontier Tower, Founders Bay, Founder Coho, and AIify
The merch and swag for AI+ Renaissance 2026 is brought to you by Wayo
Road to SuperAI
The AI+ Renaissance conference is also an official stop in the Road to SuperAI.
SuperAI is Asia's largest AI event. Showcasing the transformative power of artificial intelligence, SuperAI brings together frontier technology visionaries, developers, startups, enterprises, researchers, and policymakers to shape the future.
What to Expect
Main Stage: Keynotes, deep dives, and fireside conversations with the teams pushing AI’s technical frontier
Innovation Sessions: Demos and live product launches from the next wave of AI infra, agent, multimodal, and robotics startups
Dedicated spaces for investors, deal-making, and ecosystem matchmaking
Side events and night-time gatherings and partner-hosted events across SF - more info on our official luma calendar
The official AI+ Renaissance after party will be held in partnership with Sky9 Capital, Smallest.ai and Eragon
Renaissance 2026 is the one stage to launch anything in AI; Where the next generation of AI companies, research directions, and founder collaborations begin.
Join us in San Francisco.
March 15, 2026.
About AI+
AI+ has hosted 200+ events since 2023 and built a community of 70,000+ founders and builders. Our recent AI+ Multimodal & Agent Summit featured 30+ unicorn founders from Windsurf, Eve, Genspark, Luma AI, Tavus, Browserbase, and more.
Renaissance is the next chapter - bigger, deeper, and engineered for the people actually building the future.