Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 is the sixth annual edition of Fortune's flagship artificial-intelligence conference, held 7-8 December 2026 at The St. Regis San Francisco. It is a small, invitation-only, single-mainstage event rather than a trade show: Fortune's own editors interview Fortune Global 500 executives, frontier-lab leaders, investors and policymakers on stage across two days, then move delegates into meals and closed-door networking. The recurring editorial line is deployment rather than demos — the 2025 edition, chaired by Fortune's Andrew Nusca, Jeremy Kahn, Allie Garfinkle and Jason Del Rey, ran on how AI agents are changing productivity, how companies are moving from planning to implementation, how policy shifts are reshaping that work, and what AI's energy and capital demands mean for the people paying for them. The 2026 agenda and speaker roster are published closer to the date; Fortune announced the 2025 lineup roughly three weeks out.

Date

December 7–8, 2026

Location

The St. Regis San Francisco, 125 3rd Street, California

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Fortune

Added

Jul 10, 2026

Updated

Aug 6, 2026

• ✓Chief Executive Officer
• ✓Chief Technology Officer
• ✓Chief Information Officer
• ✓Chief AI Officer
• ✓Venture and growth investor
• ✓Head of AI / VP Data Science
• ✓Policy and regulatory affairs lead

This is the room where you can ask an OpenAI or Google Cloud principal a hard question in front of peers who are buying the same thing, then compare notes over lunch with a Fortune 500 CIO two years into the same programme. Because Fortune curates and approves the delegate list rather than selling booths, the ratio of operators to sales staff is unusually good for an AI event. Bring an unresolved decision — build-versus-buy on agents, how much capital to commit to inference, how to answer a board on AI risk — and expect to leave with three or four comparable data points rather than a vendor roadmap.

• ✓Two-day mainstage programme at The St. Regis San Francisco, 7-8 December 2026
• ✓Sixth annual edition; 2026 agenda and speaker roster published closer to the event
• ✓Fortune editorial co-chairs run the mainstage — Andrew Nusca, Jeremy Kahn, Allie Garfinkle and Jason Del Rey chaired the 2025 edition
• ✓Frontier-lab and hyperscaler interviews (2025: OpenAI, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, CoreWeave, Databricks, Arm)
• ✓Enterprise deployment case studies from sitting CEOs (2025: Intuit, Exelon, Rivian, Calm, insitro, Amazon)
• ✓Autonomy and robotics sessions (2025: Waabi, Zoox, Serve Robotics)
• ✓AI-and-creativity mainstage sessions (2025: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natasha Lyonne of Asteria Film Co.)
• ✓Scheduled meals and networking activities included in the registration fee

• ★Invitation-only and subject to approval — the delegate list is curated by Fortune rather than sold, so the room skews to sitting Fortune 500 operators instead of vendors
• ★Fortune journalists conduct the mainstage interviews themselves, which produces adversarial questioning rather than the sponsored keynote format most AI conferences run
• ★Single mainstage, no parallel tracks — every delegate sees the same sessions, which is what makes the hallway conversations converge
• ★Consistently lands frontier-lab and hyperscaler principals: the 2025 stage included OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, Arm CEO Rene Haas and Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi
• ★Deliberately mixes buyers with builders — 2025 paired those vendor CEOs with Intuit, Exelon, Rivian and Amazon leadership on the same stage

Attendance is by invitation and subject to approval — you apply through conferences.fortune.com rather than buying a ticket. Fortune has not published a rate for the 2026 edition. Its last publicly listed Brainstorm AI San Francisco fee was US$3,500, described as covering 'the complete program, activities, scheduled meals, and conference materials'; the London edition was listed at US$1,200. Treat those as the last confirmed figures, not a 2026 quote, and confirm via BrainstormAI@fortune.com or 1-866-661-3840.

When is Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026?

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 takes place December 7–8, 2026 in San Francisco, California.

Where is Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 held?

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 is held in San Francisco, California. The event format is in-person.

How much does Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 cost?

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 is paid. Attendance is by invitation and subject to approval — you apply through conferences.fortune.com rather than buying a ticket. Fortune has not published a rate for the 2026 edition. Its last publicly listed Brainstorm AI San Francisco fee was US$3,500, described as covering 'the complete program, activities, scheduled meals, and conference materials'; the London edition was listed at US$1,200. Treat those as the last confirmed figures, not a 2026 quote, and confirm via BrainstormAI@fortune.com or 1-866-661-3840.

Who should attend Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026?

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 is aimed at Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief AI Officer, Venture and growth investor, Head of AI / VP Data Science, Policy and regulatory affairs lead.

What topics does Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 cover?

Fortune Brainstorm AI San Francisco 2026 covers Enterprise AI deployment, AI agents and autonomy, AI infrastructure and energy demand, AI policy and regulation, Responsible and ethical AI, AI investment and venture funding, Generative AI and creativity, Robotics and autonomous vehicles.

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