GTC 2026 Welcome Party
Before the keynotes, the demos, and the back-to-back meetings, we start GTC with the people who are actually building the future of marketing.
Whether you're deep in GEO, experimenting with agentic distribution, or just curious what "Vibe Marketing" even means, you're in the right room.
Come for the people. Stay for the ideas. The drinks don't hurt either.
⚡ What's Happening
6:00 PM — Doors Open & Networking
6:30 PM — Panel: The Growth Shift
7:15 PM — Open Mic
7:45 PM — Social Hour
🎯 Who This Is For
Founders, marketing leaders, growth builders, and anyone in the AI space who wants to kick off GTC week right.
📅 Monday, March 16 · 6:00 - 8:30 PM
📍 Santa Clara, CA
🍸 Bites and drinks provided
🔶 Hosts
Topify
Topify is the leading AI search optimization company in San Francisco, helping brands become the first choice for AI systems. Trusted by 50+ enterprises and startups.
Sky9 Capital
Sky9 Capital is a global venture capital firm investing from early-stage to growth-stage, focusing on the AI-driven disruption across the consumer, fintech, enterprise, Web3, and biotech sectors. With offices in San Francisco, Shanghai, and Singapore, the partners bring deep technical expertise and a proven track record of building companies, managing a total of $2 billion in AUM.
AI Global Campus (AGC)
AI Global Campus is an AI and robotics innovation hub located in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley. AGC connects AI founders, developers, investors, and researchers through community events, collaborative space, and innovation programs.
Trae
TRAE is a leading AI IDE developed by ByteDance. TRAE supports the full software development lifecycle, from everyday code completion to complex engineering tasks. Since its launch in January 2025, TRAE has reached over 6 million registered users across nearly 200 countries. With over 100 feature updates shipped in a year and the #1 ranking on SWE-bench Verified, TRAE showcases how AI coding enables faster product iteration and continuous delivery at scale.
AdsGency AI
AdsGency AI is an agentic operating system for advertisers, helping brands automate data, insights, profiling, and creative workflows. It has supported clients including RapidFort, TAL Education, Allstate, Kenneth Cole, Warner Brothers, and PeopleConnect, managing $50M+ in ad spend with up to 10x ROI.
TikTok Symphony
TikTok Symphony is TikTok's end-to-end AI creative platform, built to turn ideas into high-quality videos with ease. From image- and text-based generation to avatar-led storytelling and in-flow editing, Symphony brings the entire creation journey into one seamless experience. Everything works together to help advertisers create TikTok-ready videos faster, simpler, and more intuitively.
EPIC Connector
An innovation hub focused on tech commercialization and globalization. We build the ecosystem that links Builders and Founders to markets worldwide.