Signal Summit
Oct 14–16, 2026 The Foundry, San Francisco

Where builders meet the future.

Three days of talks, workshops, and hallway conversations for the people shipping what's next — engineers, designers, and founders.

3

Days

60+

Speakers

12

Tracks

1,800

Builders

What is Signal

A working conference, not a trade show.

Signal Summit started as a meetup in a co-working space and grew into the gathering builders actually clear their calendars for. No vendor floor, no badge scanning theater — just deep technical talks, hands-on workshops, and enough unstructured time to actually meet the people in the room.

Every talk is selected by a program committee of working engineers, reviewed blind, and rehearsed once before the stage. We'd rather have forty great sessions than four hundred mediocre ones.

AI Systems Infrastructure Design Engineering Open Source Founders

Lineup

Speakers

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Maya Okafor

Maya Okafor

Staff Engineer · Lumen Labs

Shipping AI Agents to Production

Diego Ramirez

Diego Ramirez

CTO · Northwind Systems

Zero-Trust Architecture for Startups

Priya Natarajan

Priya Natarajan

Head of Design · Fathom

Design Systems at Scale

Elena Voss

Elena Voss

Founder · Driftwood AI

From Side Project to Series A

Marcus Chen

Marcus Chen

Principal Architect · Vector Cloud

The Future of Edge Compute

Aisha Bello

Aisha Bello

DevRel Lead · Kepler

Open Source Sustainability: Who Pays the Maintainers?

Tom Whitfield

Tom Whitfield

VP Engineering · Anchorpoint

Migrating a Decade of Legacy Without Stopping

Noah Kessler

Noah Kessler

Research Scientist · Helio Labs

Evaluating Models You Don't Control

Agenda

Three days, twelve tracks.

9:00 AM Registration & Coffee Main Atrium
10:00 AM Opening Keynote: The Next Decade of Developer Tools Main Stage
11:15 AM Shipping AI Agents to Production — Maya Okafor Track A
11:15 AM Zero-Trust Architecture for Startups — Diego Ramirez Track B
1:00 PM Lunch & Lightning Talks Main Atrium
2:30 PM Workshop: Building a RAG Pipeline From Scratch Workshop Room 1
4:00 PM Design Systems at Scale — Priya Natarajan Track A
6:00 PM Opening Night Reception Rooftop

Signal 2025

Last year, in numbers.

1,500

Attendees

45

Speakers

28

Countries

92%

Would return

"The first conference in years where I left with actual notes I used the following week, not just a tote bag."

— Jordan Pak, Senior Engineer,Attendee 2025

Audience applauding a speaker at Signal Summit 2025

Tickets

Save your seat.

Prices rise as we get closer to October. All tiers include full access to talks, workshops, meals, and the opening reception.

Standard

$599

Through Aug 31

  • Full 3-day access
  • All workshops (first-come)
  • Meals & opening reception
  • Session recordings, 90 days
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Full Access

$899

Through Sep 30

  • Everything in Standard
  • Priority workshop seating
  • Speaker dinner invite
  • Session recordings, 1 year
  • Signal Summit merch box
Buy Full Access

Student

$99

Valid student ID required

  • Full 3-day access
  • All workshops (first-come)
  • Meals & opening reception
  • Limited to 150 tickets
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Bringing a team? Email us for group rates of 5 or more.

Venue

The Foundry, San Francisco.

1 Innovation Square, San Francisco, CA 94103. Fifteen minutes from SFO via BART, with discounted rooms held at three nearby hotels for attendees.

  • Doors open 8:30 AM each day
  • Step-free access throughout the venue
  • Hotel blocks open until rooms run out

Map — 1 Innovation Square, SF

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