Delivery, robotics & last-mile events for California operators, 2026–2027

The largest delivery-adjacent events in California in 2026 are the California Restaurant Show (August 23 to 25 in Anaheim), RoboBusiness (October in Santa Clara), and CoMotion LA (November 18 to 19 in Los Angeles). NVIDIA GTC in San Jose (March 2027) is the anchor AI and robotics event for delivery technology teams. Most national last-mile delivery trade shows (Home Delivery World, LMD, Manifest, MODEX, ProMat) are located outside California.

RoboBusiness (Santa Clara, October 2026) is the West Coast commercial robotics conference. The ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle Technology Expo (San Jose, August 27 to 28, 2026) covers perception and sensor stacks for autonomous fleets. IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2026 (Santa Clara, December 7 to 9) covers humanoid robotics research. CoMotion LA (November 18 to 19) covers urban autonomous delivery policy. NVIDIA GTC 2027 (San Jose, March) anchors the AI robotics stack.

The California Restaurant Show (August 23 to 25, 2026, Anaheim Convention Center) is the largest West Coast foodservice gathering, co-located with the Pizza Tomorrow Summit. Winter FancyFaire (January 17 to 19, 2027, San Francisco) gathers specialty food buyers and CPG brands. Dreamforce (September 15 to 17, San Francisco) draws restaurant operators for Commerce Cloud and Service Cloud tracks.

California delivery teams attend eight national last-mile events that fall within the 2026 to 2027 window: Home Delivery World (Philadelphia, June 2026), Groceryshop (Las Vegas, September 2026), LMD Conference (Las Vegas, October 2026), NRF Big Show (New York, January 2027), Manifest (Las Vegas, February 2027), MURTEC (Las Vegas, March 2027), Shoptalk Spring (Las Vegas, March 2027), and ProMat (Chicago, March 2027). These complement the California-based anchors. MODEX 2026 ran before the window start; the next MODEX is in 2028.

The national last-mile and parcel trade show circuit runs in the Midwest, Southeast, New York, and Las Vegas. Manifest, LMD, MURTEC, Shoptalk, and Groceryshop anchor in Las Vegas. NRF is in New York. ProMat is in Chicago. Home Delivery World runs on the East Coast. California hosts the technology companies that power delivery (Google, Apple, Snowflake, Databricks, NVIDIA) and the West Coast operator community, which is why this directory covers both California-based events and the national shows CA operators travel to.

AWS Summit Los Angeles (June 10, 2026) is free with registration and covers logistics ML, IoT tracking, and fleet software. Google Marketing Live (May 20, 2026) is free and virtual. SF Tech Week and LA Tech Week (October 5 to 18, 2026) run hundreds of mostly-free individual gatherings hosted by startups, including robotics and delivery companies. Google I/O (May 19 to 20) offers a free livestream.

Snowflake Summit (June 1 to 4, Moscone) and Databricks Data + AI Summit (June 15 to 18, Moscone) both host fleet operations and ML workloads relevant to delivery. Dreamforce (September 15 to 17, Moscone) draws retail and restaurant operators. TechCrunch Disrupt (October 13 to 15, Moscone West) features robotics and delivery startups. RoboBusiness (October, Santa Clara) is the anchor commercial robotics event. IEEE-RAS Humanoids (December 7 to 9, Santa Clara) covers humanoid robotics research.

AWS Summit LA (June 10, LA Convention Center) covers cloud and AI for logistics. LA Tech Week (October 12 to 18) runs mobility and delivery startup gatherings across the city. CoMotion LA (November 18 to 19) is the urban mobility and autonomous delivery anchor. The California Restaurant Show in nearby Anaheim (August 23 to 25) pulls LA-area QSR and foodservice operators.

Robot.com editorial verifies this directory weekly. Every event is sourced from a tier-1 publisher or the official event website: organizer domains (robobusiness.com, nvidia.com/gtc, comotionglobal.com, westernfoodexpo.com), technical publishers (therobotreport.com, ieee-ras.org), and venue sources. Aggregator sites (clocate.com, 10times.com, vendelux.com) 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).