The Agent Open: AI's pickleball tournament

​The inaugural Agent Open SF 2026 is happening. An afternoon of AI conversations and a pickleball tournament full of engineers that take both their agents and backhand seriously.

​Play pickleball? Come show us your skills. First come, first serve to play.

​We open at 3PM for co-working, hanging, and skills warmups before the tournament begins across two pickleball courts. We’ll also host a State of AI panel and closing party.

​Location is 700ft from Moscone.

​Day Schedule

​3:00 PM — Doors open
3:15 PM — Pickleball skills rounds
5:00 PM — State of AI panel
6:00 PM — Tournament & party starts
10:00 PM — Closing time

​Speakers

• ​Ankur Goyal, CEO at Braintrust

• ​Jerry Liu, Co-founder and CEO at LlamaIndex

• ​Simon Hørup Eskildsen, Co-founder and CEO at turbopuffer

• ​Erik Bernhardsson, CEO at Modal

• ​Travers Nisbet, Co-founder at Parallel Web Systems

• ​Gergely Orosz, Author, The Pragmatic Engineer

​This event is hosted by LlamaIndex, Braintrust, turbopuffer, Cursor, Parallel Web Systems, Modal, and Browserbase.