Bay Area Conferences

Aug – Dec 2026 · as of Jul 31, 2026

Buyers with budget

Executive summits clustered at the SFO airport hotels in September. Department heads who sign for software, not engineers.

Sep 2, 2026 Product Marketing Summit Burlingame Product marketing leads.
Sep 9, 2026 Chief Marketing Officer Summit Burlingame CMOs. Marketing budgets buy a lot of custom software.
Sep 10, 2026 HR Star Conference, SF Bay Area SF Bay Area 22nd year. HR directors from large regional employers.
Sep 16–17, 2026 Customer Success Summit Hyatt Regency SFO, Burlingame Senior customer success decision makers.
Sep 22–23, 2026 AI for Customer Support Summit Hyatt Regency SFO, Burlingame Support leaders buying AI. Direct fit for AI dev work.
Sep 24, 2026 Chief Customer Officer Summit Hyatt Regency SFO, Burlingame C-level, one day.

Government and civic

Closest fit for civic and public-sector AI work. Buyers are city, county, state and transport agencies.

Aug 18, 2026 Bay Area Digital Government Summit Embassy Suites SFO Waterfront, Burlingame Bay Area city and county CIOs, tech directors, cybersecurity staff. Attendance is public-sector only; companies get in as sponsors.
Aug 25, 2026 California Government Innovation Summit SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, Sacramento State and local government tech leaders. AI, data governance, digital service delivery. Free registration.
Nov 3–6, 2026 9th IRF Global R2T Conference & Exhibition Santa Clara Convention Center Road and transport agencies from around the world. Public infrastructure budgets, not vendor tech.
Dec 9–11, 2026 GovAI Coalition Summit San Jose McEnery Convention Center Public-sector AI governance. City of San José + Government Technology. 900+ agencies, 7 countries.

Public contracts and procurement

Where contracts are actually let, rather than where technology is demoed.

Sep 30, 2026 CPUC Small Business Expo South San Francisco Conference Center Procurement officers from utilities and government agencies. Also covers small and diverse business certification, which opens utility contracts.

Health and medical devices

Sep 28–29, 2026 20th Annual Pain Therapeutics Summit Hilton SFO Bayfront, Burlingame Biotech, pharma, academia, government, CROs and investors. Non-opioid drug development, biomarkers, trial methodology.
Nov 18–19, 2026 MEDevice Silicon Valley Santa Clara Convention Center ~150 exhibitors, filtered for what Bay Area medtech buys: software as a medical device, connected device infrastructure, regulatory. Smaller and more targeted than MD&M West.

Workforce and education

Sep 8–10, 2026 California Workforce Association Annual Conference Monterey 1,200+ leaders from California's public workforce boards. Public money, civic mission, chronically underserved by software.

Software, AI and infrastructure

Sep 1–3, 2026 API World / CloudX Santa Clara Convention Center APIs, integration, cloud.
Sep 15–17, 2026 AI Infra Summit Santa Clara Convention Center Full-stack AI infrastructure. 8,000 attendees, 400+ speakers.
Sep 16, 2026 Access MBA San Jose Hyatt Place San Jose Downtown Business education and MBA recruiting.
Sep 23, 2026 WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America San Jose McEnery Convention Center Developer and software engineering.
Sep 29 – Oct 1, 2026 SDV & AV Silicon Valley Technology Summit Santa Clara (venue TBC) Software-defined vehicles, autonomous stacks, OEM and supplier software relationships. Dates listed differently by different sources; confirm before booking.
Oct 12–15, 2026 OCP Global Summit San Jose McEnery Convention Center Open hardware, data center, AI-ready high-density infrastructure. ~5,000 attendees.
Oct 19, 2026 US-RSE’26: Advancing Science in the Age of AI San Jose Marriott Research software engineering. University and national lab budgets.
Oct 27–29, 2026 ODSC AI West Hyatt Regency SFO, Burlingame Applied AI and data science, practitioner heavy.
Dec 6–9, 2026 IEEE-RAS Humanoid Robots Santa Clara Convention Center 25th edition, theme is humanoids and the future of work. Public forums and hackathon Dec 6, industry forum and exhibition Dec 8–9.