Vercel Ship 2026 in San Francisco: Date, Speakers and What to Expect

On October 15, Vercel brings Ship, its annual conference, to the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. This year the focus is agents: how to build them, deploy them and scale them in production.

Our CEO, our CTO and our Principal Engineer will be in the room. Here's what the event is, who's speaking, how to follow it online, and where to find us that week.

What is Vercel Ship?

Ship is Vercel's yearly conference for the people building on the web: developers, engineering leaders and product teams. It's where Vercel shows what's new on its platform and where companies running on it share how they build.

The 2026 edition, under the line "Ship what's next", is centered on AI agents in production: agentic patterns, AI-first infrastructure, and frameworks for building agents.

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Vercel Ship 2026: date, venue and tickets

• When: October 15, 2026
• Where: Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
• In person: tickets at vercel.com/ship
• Online: Vercel offers a free virtual ticket for anyone who can't make it to San Francisco
• Format: talks on the main stage plus a hands-on session

Who's speaking

• Guillermo Rauch, Founder and CEO, Vercel
• Tobias Lütke, CEO, Shopify
• Katelyn Lesse, Head of Platform Engineering, Anthropic
• Prashant Ratanchandani, VP of Engineering, Meta Superintelligence Labs
• Olawale Oladehin, Managing Director, AWS
• Matt Palmer, Developer Experience, SpaceXAI
• Diogo Almeida, Co-Founder and CEO, TypeSafe AI

What to expect

• Building an agent with Eve, Vercel's open agent framework, in a hands-on session that starts from an empty folder.
• Running AI at scale, with SpaceXAI on how Grok's app surface runs on Vercel.
• Agentic patterns in production on AWS and Vercel.
• How Notion built its agentic platform on Vercel.

The full agenda is on vercel.com/ship.

Why Streaver is going

We build, deploy and scale AI and agentic workflows for product teams. A lot of that work runs on Next.js and Vercel, including the site you're reading this on. streaver.com is built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel from GitHub, and developed with Claude Code. Engineering, design and marketing all ship changes to it through pull requests, with an AI assistant connected to the tools the team already uses. It's a small version of what we build for clients: AI in the daily work of a real team, in production.

Streaver is also a Vercel partner, and this trip is a good chance to meet the team behind the platform in person.

This year Ship is about exactly the kind of work we do: taking agents from a demo to something people use every day. We're going to hear how the teams on that stage are doing it, bring back what applies to the products we build, and meet in person the founders and engineering leaders we usually talk to on a screen.

Meet us in San Francisco

Fabián Larrañaga (CEO), Federico Kauffman (CTO) and Agustín Tornielli (Principal Engineer) will be at Vercel Ship and in meetings around the city from October 13 to 18. If you're building something with AI and want to sit down over a coffee, book a time with us.