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| With DJ Jin (VP of AI-Training, Nebius), Chirag Mahapatra (VP & General Manager, Mercor), Alan Du (Partner, M12), David Placek (President, Lexicon Branding), Jim Chen (Engineering Leader, Microsoft AI), Jenny Xiao (Partner, Leonis Capital), Srijan Lacoul (Principal Data Scientist, Character.ai), Alex Chen (Director, Qualcomm). |
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Oct 02 (Fri) @ 10:00 AM
$89
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Assembling 2026
AI is moving faster than ever. The people building its future need more than another conference. They need the right room.
Assembling 2026 is a focused, high-signal AI summit bringing together founders, builders, creators, researchers, operators, investors, & ecosystem partners for one day in San Francisco.
Expect candid conversations, practical insight, hands-on sessions, & meaningful connections with the people building what comes next.
One day. Three tracks. One shared conversation about what it takes to build what matters next.
Alongside invited speakers, we're accepting a limited number of speaker & founder demo applications!
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
CFP Links:
Speaker Opportunity
Demo Opportunity
Location & Logistics
Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Venue: TERRA Gallery, San Francisco
Format: Talks, workshops, selected founder demos, & open networking
Lunch: Provided
What We'll Explore
Founders Track
Building an AI company in 2026 means confronting questions few founders discuss openly: whether your product survives the next model release, whether your unit economics are real, & whether your layer of the stack will still matter three years from now.
These are the conversations founders have at 1 AM, but rarely onstage.
Conversations We're Bringing Onstage
Why haven't OpenAI & Anthropic killed you yet?
Where can AI startups build durable value as frontier labs move further up the stack?
Who's Going to Sell What You Built?
From enterprise sales to product-led adoption, how do AI products make their way into real company workflows?
Per seat, per token, or per outcome?
All about token economics. A candid look at inference costs, model routing, pricing, margins, & the myths behind token economics.
What your ARR isn't telling you.
What do revenue quality, pricing, & customer behavior reveal about the durability of an AI business?
WTF is taste in AI, anyway?
When anyone can generate, remix, & ship, do judgment & point of view become the real differentiators?
Build something agents want.
What should we build when agents need their own search, web, browser, & software infrastructure?
Founder Demo
Selected early-stage founders take the stage to show what they've built-live & without the standard pitch-deck theater.
Builders Track
AI builders are working on constantly shifting ground. The abstraction shipped last quarter may already be absorbed into the model, while new frameworks appear faster than teams can evaluate them.
This track focuses on the decisions & tradeoffs builders face in pull requests, architecture reviews, & late-night Slack threads.
Conversations We're Bringing Onstage
Open Source at the Frontier
Can open source keep pace-and where does it win?
AI Infrastructure is Art
How do teams build reliable systems while models, workloads, & abstractions keep changing?
Beyond Coding Agents
Do coding agents really point toward general-purpose agents?
Creators Track
AI has compressed months of creative work into days-but speed doesn't automatically create meaning, originality, or an audience.
The Creators Track explores new creative workflows, authorship, storytelling, & what it means to build a distinct creative identity in the age of generation.
Hands-On Workshops
Practical, hands-on sessions with creators working across AI filmmaking, visual storytelling, & emerging creative tools.
Workshop leaders & full session details will be announced soon.
Who It's For
AI founders & startup operators
Engineers & technical builders
Product, GTM, & business leaders
Researchers & students
Investors & ecosystem partners
Creators, media, & culture-shapers
For more information, please check our official website
Photography & video will be present for community highlights.
GenAI Assembling is a vibrant, fast-growing global community dedicated to advancing AI innovation & collaboration. Launched in July 2024 in Silicon Valley, we bring together researchers, developers, & industry leaders in a dynamic environment where breakthrough ideas thrive.
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