Past eventHeld October 17, 2026
MIT AI Conference 2026
The Age of Agency convened AI researchers, engineers, executives, and founders to discuss practical applications and strategy.
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
- Held
- October 17, 2026
- Venue
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA
TL;DR
- MIT AI Conference 2026 took place on October 17, 2026, at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
- The event was billed as featuring 16 confirmed speakers including executives from Microsoft, Databricks, Andreessen Horowitz, Mozilla, and AI-focused startups.
- The program was scheduled to address AI strategy, applications, and the emerging era of agentic AI systems.
About
This one-day gathering was billed as putting more than 500 people from executive, founder, research, and technical product and engineering roles in one room to discuss where AI is heading. Speakers were scheduled to come from companies and institutions such as Microsoft, Sierra, Databricks, Mozilla, and Andreessen Horowitz, along with MIT economist Daron Acemoglu.
Who was in the room
executives
founders
researchers
technical product and engineering leaders
Featured speakers
16 listedAparna Chennapragada
Chief Product Officer · Microsoft
Hugo Barra
Dreamer (acquired by Meta)
Daron Acemoglu
Economist · MIT
Bret Taylor
Sierra
Omar Khawaja
Databricks
Julie Yoo
Andreessen Horowitz
James Cham
Bloomberg Beta
Raffi Krikorian
Mozilla
Ann Miura-Ko
Floodgate
DJ Patil
Devoted Health
Anvisha Pai
Founder & CEO · Moda
Anna Sun
Co-Founder · Nowadays
Bhawna Singh
Lightspeed Commerce
Reshma Khilnani
Medplum
Sam Schillace
Microsoft
Shishir Mehrotra
Superhuman
Venue & travel
Venue
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CaliforniaQuestions people ask
6 answeredThe 11th Annual MIT AI Conference has been announced for 2027. Dates are not published yet.
The conference took place on October 17, 2026.
The event was held at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Keynote speakers were scheduled to include Aparna Chennapragada (Chief Product Officer, Microsoft), Daron Acemoglu (Economist, MIT), Hugo Barra (Dreamer), and Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz).
Most tech industry conferences favor business casual to smart casual dress. The organizer did not publish a specific dress code.
It suited founders, product leads and engineering managers who wanted a single day of exposure to people building and funding AI, since the speakers were scheduled to span companies such as Microsoft, Databricks and Sierra, investors from Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate and Bloomberg Beta, and the MIT economist Daron Acemoglu. Academic researchers wanting deep technical paper sessions would have gotten less from a one-day event of roughly 500 attendees that was billed as drawing mainly executives, founders and product leaders.
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