SIGNAL 2026 is scheduled for May 6 and 7 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, bringing Twilio’s annual flagship event back to the city for two days of keynotes, breakout sessions, workshops, demos, and networking. Twilio’s official event page says the conference is built around developers, business leaders, and innovators, and will feature more than 100 sessions ranging from lightning talks to two-hour workshops.
Twilio is framing the event around customer engagement and product development, with programming focused on how companies build customer relationships using the company’s communications and data tools. The official site says attendees can expect a live keynote, product demos, hands-on support from Twilio’s DevNet team, and sessions led by Twilio experts and customers.
The speaker lineup is led by Twilio’s top executive bench. The official speakers section lists Khozema Shipchandler, Twilio’s chief executive officer; Inbal Shani, chief product officer and head of research and development; and Chris Koehler, chief marketing officer. That gives the conference a leadership trio spanning overall company strategy, product direction, and go-to-market messaging.
The event page also lists several senior product and engineering leaders who help define Twilio’s platform roadmap. Those include Kathryn Murphy, senior vice president of product; Chris Lyon, senior vice president of engineering; Robin Grochol, senior vice president of product; Asha Chakrabarty, vice president of product; and Omar Paul, vice president of product. Together, they suggest SIGNAL will lean heavily into platform direction, developer tooling, and product execution across Twilio’s communications and customer engagement stack.
The broader speaker bench extends into Twilio’s developer community as well. The site lists Mica Swyers, principal developer educator; Nathaniel Okenwa, developer evangelist; Kaelyn Chresfield, evangelist; and Kelley Robinson, developer evangelist. Their inclusion points to a conference structure that is not limited to executive presentations, but also includes technical education and community-facing programming.
That mix gives SIGNAL a somewhat different profile from the larger Bay Area conferences centered on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, or semiconductors. Twilio’s event is more directly tied to communications infrastructure, customer engagement, developer workflows, and software implementation. The company describes SIGNAL as a place where customers can hear Twilio’s vision and announcements directly, while also learning how to implement products and strengthen business operations.
The published agenda reinforces that emphasis. On May 6, the schedule includes a Vision and Product Keynote, breakout content, a Customer and Partner Keynote, and a Closing Keynote, followed by a reception. On May 7, the program continues with breakout content, a Builder Keynote, and a closing activity. Twilio says full details will be published closer to the event.
The conference also reflects how Twilio wants to position itself in a competitive software market. Its event page emphasizes data-driven customer engagement, live demos, community-building, and direct interaction with both product teams and developer support staff. In practical terms, that places SIGNAL at the intersection of communications software, SaaS, customer experience, and developer infrastructure.
For San Francisco, SIGNAL adds another major technology event to a 2026 conference calendar already packed with gatherings across AI, cybersecurity, gaming, and enterprise software. Twilio’s decision to stage the event at the Marriott Marquis keeps a major customer engagement and communications platform conference in the city’s downtown core, close to the same convention and hotel corridor that hosts many of the Bay Area’s largest business technology events.
With Khozema Shipchandler, Inbal Shani, Chris Koehler, Kathryn Murphy, Chris Lyon, Robin Grochol, Asha Chakrabarty, and Omar Paul all listed on the official speakers page, alongside Mica Swyers, Nathaniel Okenwa, Kaelyn Chresfield, and Kelley Robinson, SIGNAL 2026 is shaping up as a concentrated showcase for Twilio’s executive, product, and developer leadership. In San Francisco in May, it will bring together the people responsible for how Twilio is pitching the future of customer engagement, communications, and developer-led software.
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