Conference Series · Summer 2026
One Week Across the Future of AI: Stanford → Berkeley → AI4
In eight days at the start of August 2026, three very different conferences told one story from three angles. At Stanford, the money people talked about programmable settlement. At Berkeley, the researchers talked about agents that plan, execute, and coordinate. In Las Vegas, the enterprises are deciding what to actually deploy. I attended all three — this page connects the coverage.
Stop 1 · July 30, 2026 · Stanford, CA
Stanford BASS at SBC 2026
Blockchain, payments, identity — and Visa’s stablecoin push
The Blockchain Application Stanford Summit, co-located with the Science of Blockchain Conference, is where crypto’s builders meet traditional finance. This year the conversation that mattered most: Visa’s Head of Crypto on how stablecoins move from pilot to production.
Read the Stanford BASS recap →
Stop 2 · August 1–2, 2026 · UC Berkeley
Agentic AI Summit 2026
Autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, and the research frontier
Berkeley RDI’s summit brought thousands of researchers and builders across four stages to one question: what happens when AI stops assisting and starts doing the work? Coverage from the room — including what it validates about running a real agent team.
Read the Berkeley summit recap →Stop 3 · August 4–6, 2026 · The Venetian, Las Vegas
Ai4 2026
Enterprise AI adoption, production deployments, and governance
America’s largest AI industry event: 12,000+ attendees and 1,000+ speakers on how enterprises actually deploy AI. The questions I’m carrying from Stanford and Berkeley — orchestration, memory, permissions, payments — get their enterprise stress test here.
Read the Ai4 preview →Live from Las Vegas: the Ai4 2026 hub
During Ai4 (August 4–6), daily recaps, keynote notes, startup discoveries, and a running prediction scorecard land on the live coverage hub.
Open the Ai4 2026 hubGo Deeper
- From Copilots to Coworkers: How Autonomous AI Teams Are Changing Software Development
- The Rise of the Autonomous Company
- What Is OpenClaw? A Technical Guide for CTOs and Engineering Teams
After Ai4 wraps, the series concludes with “Three Conferences, One Conclusion” — a synthesis of all three events.