AI events in California, 2026–2027

The four anchor AI events in California for 2026 to 2027 are Databricks Data + AI Summit (San Francisco, June 15 to 18, 2026), AI Engineer World's Fair (San Francisco, June 2026), Dreamforce with Agentforce (San Francisco, September 15 to 17, 2026), and NVIDIA GTC (San Jose, March 2027). Additional major AI events include Google I/O (Mountain View, May 19 to 20, 2026), Snowflake Summit (SF, June 1 to 4, 2026), and OpenAI DevDay (SF, November 2026).

AWS Summit Los Angeles (June 10, 2026) is free with registration and covers Bedrock, SageMaker, and AI infrastructure. Google I/O offers a free livestream (May 19 to 20). Google Marketing Live (May 20) is free and virtual. SF Tech Week and LA Tech Week (October 5 to 18, 2026) include hundreds of mostly-free AI-specific gatherings.

AI Engineer World's Fair (SF, June 2026) is the primary event for engineers shipping AI into production, with heavy content on agents, evals, and LLM application patterns. Databricks Data + AI Summit (SF, June) covers ML Ops and production data workflows. Ray Summit (SF, September) focuses on distributed AI training and serving. OpenAI DevDay (SF, November) covers the OpenAI developer platform.

NVIDIA GTC (San Jose, March 2027) is the anchor event for robotics AI, with Isaac robotics tooling and Omniverse simulation tracks. IEEE-RAS Humanoids (Santa Clara, December 7 to 9, 2026) is the humanoid robotics research conference. ADAS and AV Technology Expo (San Jose, August 27 to 28, 2026) and SDV & AV Silicon Valley Summit (Santa Clara, September 29 to October 1, 2026) cover perception AI and autonomous vehicle stacks.

Dreamforce (SF, September 15 to 17, 2026) is the largest enterprise AI event, with Agentforce headlining. Snowflake Summit (SF, June 1 to 4) and Databricks Data + AI Summit (SF, June 15 to 18) both draw enterprise data and AI platform buyers. SaaStr Annual (San Mateo, September 2026) covers AI for SaaS go-to-market.

The Bay Area hosts the majority of California's AI events: Google I/O (Mountain View), Snowflake Summit (SF), WWDC (Cupertino), AI Engineer World's Fair (SF), Databricks Data + AI Summit (SF), The AI Conference (SF), SaaStr Annual (San Mateo), Ray Summit (SF), Dreamforce (SF), TechCrunch Disrupt (SF), TED AI SF, OpenAI DevDay (SF), IEEE-RAS Humanoids (Santa Clara), and NVIDIA GTC (San Jose).

AWS Summit LA (June 10, 2026, LA Convention Center) is the primary LA AI event. LA Tech Week (October 12 to 18, 2026) runs dozens of AI-specific gatherings across the city, with emphasis on generative media and creative AI. NeurIPS 2026 is likely San Diego in December; verify before relying on it.

Robot.com editorial verifies this directory weekly. Every event is sourced from a tier-1 publisher or the official event website: organizer domains (nvidia.com, databricks.com, snowflake.com, blog.google, apple.com, ai.engineer, aiconference.com, anyscale.com, openai.com, ted.com) and research bodies (ieee-ras.org, neurips.cc). Aggregator sites are used only for cross-reference, never as primary sources. The directory covers a rolling 12-month window and is maintained by Natalia Gutierrez, Communications and PR Lead at Robot.com (ng@robot.com).