Nexus 2026 · San Francisco

The futurein the room

Three days where technology, business and creativity meet in public.

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October 24–26, 2026

Bayline Center · Mission Bay

Doors 08:30 PT

A woman in a dark suit speaking on a wide bright stage before a pale blue screen, a seated audience in front and the bay and its bridge through the tall windows

01 / Opening frame

Why Nexus

The important work happens between disciplines.

Nexus brings builders, researchers, founders and creative leaders into one shared frame. Hear what is changing. Test what is emerging. Leave with sharper questions and people to call.

Technology / Business / Creativity

The edition in numbers

One waterfront venue. One programme built for useful collisions.

Days

50+

Speakers

Stages

Workshop rooms

Start-ups

City

Programme / 24–26 Oct

Three days. One continuous conversation.

Day 01 · Oct 24

Keynotes

Doors at 8:30. Alex Rivera opens the Main Stage, followed by talks on AI, climate tech and the next decade of the web. Welcome reception after dark.

A bearded speaker in a dark suit seen from the side of the stage, gesturing to a large audience under white lights

Day 02 · Oct 25

Panels & demos

Maya Chen and Liam Johnson lead panels on research and product. The demo floor opens with forty start-ups.

Hands pointing at a translucent architectural prototype on a white table while a young woman listens

Day 03 · Oct 26

Workshops

Hands-on sessions in rooms of thirty, from prompt design to pitching. Sophia Patel closes with a talk on building companies that last.

Participants at a long table with laptops in a bright room over the city, a woman in the middle explaining

See the workshops

Voices / 50+ across three days

People moving the conversation forward.

Alex Rivera, a man with curly dark hair in a black jacket, backstage among steel and small white lights — 01

Maya Chen, her dark hair tied back, in a black blazer with a lanyard by a laboratory window — 02

Liam Johnson, a man with glasses and a beard in a black T-shirt, explaining with both hands at a table — 03

Sophia Patel, with long dark wavy hair and a dark blazer, smiling on a waterfront terrace with the skyline and a bridge behind — 04

Alex RiveraCEO, Nebula
Maya ChenAI researcher
Liam JohnsonProduct leader
Sophia PatelFounder, Loop
Noor AdeyemiClimate systems lead, Tideline
Elias ParkCreative director, Field Unit
Ana TorresRobotics founder, Kin
Jon BellResearch partner, Commonform

Spaces for every scale

From the main stage to a table of thirty.

Two stages carry the shared programme. Six workshop rooms bring the questions closer. Between them, the demo floor turns emerging ideas into objects you can inspect.

Main Stage — keynotes & panels
Studio Stage — conversations
06 workshop rooms — 30 seats each
Demo floor — 40 start-ups

The main stage seen from the back of a large audience: a wide pale blue screen, a small figure speaking and steel and glass walls

Keynotes & panels

A workshop room of long tables with laptops and notebooks, windows over the skyline, a man and a woman listening in front

Thirty seats each

Three attendees with lanyards talking by tall waterfront windows in a busy concourse, the city skyline beyond

Where people meet

Field notes / Nexus 2025

Last year, in contact sheets.

A record of ideas becoming conversations — and conversations becoming work.

A woman speaking on stage before a large pale blue screen, audience heads in the foreground — 001 — Opening keynote

A panel on stage: a bearded man speaking with his hands, a woman and another man seated beside him — 002 — Panels in session

A woman wearing a plain white virtual-reality headset on a busy, bright demo floor — 003 — VR on the demo floor

Hands testing a small white robotic arm on a workbench, people gathered around — 004 — Prototypes, up close

A man with glasses pointing at a laptop screen while a woman and a bearded man watch — 005 — Workshop tables

A smiling woman with a glass talking with a man in a dark jacket at an evening reception — 006 — The evening reception

40 start-ups / Day 02

See the prototype. Ask the hard question.

The demo floor is built for close inspection: early systems, physical experiments and product ideas presented by the people making them.

Live demonstrations

Founder conversations

Hardware & interfaces

Research in practice

People gathered close around a white robotic arm on a steel workbench, a woman concentrating, hands gesturing in front

Day 03 / Hands on

Small rooms. Practical work.

Six rooms. Thirty seats in each. Bring the question you are working through and leave with something made, mapped or rehearsed. Pro passes include two workshops; VIP passes include everything in Pro.

Looking down a long workshop table of laptops, sketched diagrams, sticky notes and coffee, people working together

Prompt design

From intent to system

Climate prototyping

Measure what matters

Product critique

Make the decision visible

Pitching

The clear three minutes

Research ops

Signal without noise

Creative computing

Tools for new form

Side events / Seats to reserve

The sessions that need a seat.

Workshops, dinners and the meetups the week before seat a limited number. Reserve each one on its own — your pass covers everything else on the programme.

March 2027

Fri, 12 Mar 2027
Autumn wine tasting
19:00The Barn HallFree
Six wines from small vineyards, poured and explained by the people who made them.
Sun, 21 Mar 2027
Sunday garden walk
10:30Orchard gateFree2 dates
A slow hour through the orchard and the kitchen garden, with tea at the end.

April 2027

Sat, 17 Apr 2027
Long-table supper
Sold out
19:30The Barn HallFree
One table, forty guests and a four-course menu from the season's harvest.

May 2027

Thu, 6 May 2027
Planning your day: an online evening
18:00OnlineFree
Questions answered live — timings, suppliers and what to book first.
Sat, 22 May 2027
Lantern evening in the orchard
20:00The OrchardFree
Music, lanterns and hot cider under the old trees.