Second edition · SF Tech Week 2026SF Tech Week 2026

Agentic Zero

Agents are already transacting, but today's payment rails were not built for them. Agentic Zero is where agentic finance meets real markets.

Agents are already transacting, but today's payment rails were not built for them. Agentic Zero is where agentic finance meets real markets.

2025 supported by

Agentic Zero returns,
this time in San Francisco.

The summit on agentic finance lands at SF Tech Week, bringing together builders of the agentic stack, the systems adapting to it, and the institutions figuring out what comes next. Our previous edition in Buenos Aires drew 1,000+ attendees and 28 speakers across DeFi agents, infrastructure, verifiability, and security, with 13k more watching live.

Second edition

San Francisco

When

San Francisco Tech Week by a16z

Where
1244 Sutter Street, San Francisco
The
Avalon
First edition

Featured Speakers

Nader Dabit

Nader Dabit

Cognition, prev. Eigen Labs

Sam Green

Sam Green

Founder & CEO, Cambrian Network

Ken Ng

Ken Ng

Head of Research & Co-Founder, Uniswap Foundation

Marco De Rossi

Marco De Rossi

AI Lead, MetaMask

Shaw Walters

Shaw Walters

Founder, Eliza Labs

Nicolás Montone

Nicolás Montone

Software Engineer, Vercel

E. G.

E. G.

Co-founder, Infura & DIN (Consensys)

Juan Irungaray

Juan Irungaray

Google Cloud Architect

Nick Emmons

Nick Emmons

Founder & CEO, Allora Labs

Gauthier Vila

Gauthier Vila

Core Contributor & Founder, ZyFAI

Stefano Bury

Stefano Bury

Head of US, Virtuals Protocol

Renç Korzay

Renç Korzay

CEO, Giza

Jessy

Jessy

Fast, prev. Ethereum Foundation dAI

Mooly Sagiv

Mooly Sagiv

Chief Scientist, Certora

Rahul Kothari

Rahul Kothari

Ethereum Foundation, prev. Aztec

Valentin Mihov

Valentin Mihov

Co-founder, Daedalus Angels & Finexify

Davide Crapis

Davide Crapis

AI Lead, Ethereum Foundation (dAI Team)

Artem Kotelskiy

Artem Kotelskiy

Head of Blockchain Research, cyber•Fund

Shafu

Shafu

Smart Contract Engineer, Merit Systems

Lukasz Stoczynski

Lukasz Stoczynski

Head of GTM, Mimic

Chris Wessels

Chris Wessels

Founder, GraphOps & Summerstone

Sandi Fatic

Sandi Fatic

CEO, Calimero Network

Ricky Esclapon

Ricky Esclapon

Data Agent Architect, Cambrian Network

Quintus Kilbourn

Quintus Kilbourn

Cryptoeconomics Researcher, Flashbots

Michael Sena

Michael Sena

Co-founder, Recall Labs

Sumeet Chougule

Sumeet Chougule

Team Lead, ChaosChain (Nethermind)

Simon Emanuel Schmid

Simon Emanuel Schmid

Developer Relations, ENS

Clemens

Clemens

Head of Marketing & AI, DIN

First Edition AgendaBuenos Aires, November 2025 · 28 speakers

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Frequently Asked Questions

Agentic Zero is a one-day summit on agentic finance. It brings together the people building AI agents, the payment and financial infrastructure they run on, and the institutions adapting to them.

Agentic Zero takes place on 7 October 2026 at The Avalon in San Francisco, during SF Tech Week by a16z.

Agentic Zero will be hosted at The Avalon. See the venue on Google Maps.

Tickets are not on sale yet. Join the list and we will email you when they go on sale.

Founders and AI builders, agent infrastructure teams, financial and payment infrastructure teams, researchers, institutional operators, and investors following agentic finance.

We welcome sponsors who want to back Agentic Zero's mission of building open, permissionless infrastructure for AI. To discuss sponsorship opportunities, please email us with your company details and sponsorship interests.

Yes, all main stage talks will be recorded and published on our YouTube channel after the event.