HumanX 2026 is scheduled for April 6 through April 9 in San Francisco, bringing a large AI-focused conference back to the city as executives, founders, technologists, investors, and enterprise leaders gather for four days of sessions, networking, and product-focused programming. HumanX calls itself “the #1 AI conference” and says this year’s event is expected to draw more than 6,500 attendees, more than 350 speakers, more than 400 sponsors, and more than 350 journalists.
The event’s published speaker roster gives it one of the deeper executive benches on the Bay Area conference calendar. Among the speakers listed on HumanX’s official page are Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI; Bret Taylor, co-founder of Sierra; Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom; Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks; Kanjun Qiu, co-founder and CEO of Imbue; May Habib, co-founder and CEO of WRITER; Jennifer Tejada, CEO and chairperson of PagerDuty; and Sarah Franklin, CEO of Lattice.
The broader lineup extends well beyond those headline names. HumanX’s official materials also feature Dr. Fei-Fei Li of World Labs and the Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute, Matt Garman of Amazon Web Services, Sarah Guo of Conviction, Francis deSouza of Google Cloud, Srinivas Narayanan of OpenAI, Christina Cacioppo of Vanta, Bryan Catanzaro of NVIDIA, and Mark Papermaster of AMD. That mix brings together leaders from major AI labs, cloud providers, chip companies, enterprise software firms, and venture capital.
The company framing around the event is similarly broad. HumanX positions the conference as a gathering for AI leaders across business functions, including technology, marketing, product, customer experience, sales, operations, and startups. The event site highlights tracks, networking programs, pitch competitions, and programs such as VentureConnect and SolutionBridge, suggesting the conference is built not just for technical audiences but also for buyers, operators, and investors trying to evaluate where AI is moving next.
That structure helps explain why the speaker list cuts across so many corners of the industry. Ng brings one of the best-known names in AI education and applied machine learning. Taylor adds a prominent Silicon Valley product and enterprise software voice through Sierra. Yuan gives the conference a recognizable communications-platform leader, while Ghodsi represents one of the biggest companies in enterprise data and AI infrastructure. Qiu and Habib add startup and application-layer perspectives through Imbue and WRITER, and Tejada and Franklin bring in leaders from enterprise operations and workforce software.
HumanX is also leaning heavily into the idea that San Francisco remains one of the main live meeting points for the AI economy. The conference site places the event in San Francisco and promotes it as a global gathering for AI leaders, while its homepage emphasizes the scale of sponsor, speaker, and media participation. In practical terms, that puts HumanX in the same broader Bay Area conference cycle as other major events tied to AI, developer tools, cybersecurity, and enterprise software.
The speaker lineup underscores how much the AI conference market now overlaps with the wider technology industry. Alongside dedicated AI companies such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, WRITER, Imbue, Fireworks AI, and ElevenLabs, the HumanX roster includes leaders from AWS, Google Cloud, Zoom, Databricks, PagerDuty, Lattice, Vanta, and Mercedes-Benz. That kind of cross-industry representation suggests the event is as much about enterprise adoption and operational strategy as it is about frontier models themselves.
For San Francisco, HumanX adds another high-profile AI gathering to a year already crowded with major tech conferences. With Ng, Taylor, Yuan, Ghodsi, Qiu, Habib, Tejada, and Franklin all listed on the official speaker page, alongside figures such as Fei-Fei Li, Matt Garman, Sarah Guo, Francis deSouza, Srinivas Narayanan, and Bryan Catanzaro, HumanX 2026 is shaping up as one of the city’s more prominent AI events of the spring. At a moment when nearly every major technology company is trying to define its place in the AI market, the conference will bring a large slice of that conversation to San Francisco in April.
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