The Agent Open: AI's pickleball tournament
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June 30, 2026 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
The inaugural Agent Open SF 2026 is happening. An afternoon of AI conversations and a pickleball tournament full of engineers that take both their agents and backhand seriously.
Play pickleball? Come show us your skills. First come, first serve to play.
We open at 3PM for co-working, hanging, and skills warmups before the tournament begins across two pickleball courts. We’ll also host a State of AI panel and closing party.
Location is 700ft from Moscone.
Day Schedule
3:00 PM — Doors open
3:15 PM — Pickleball skills rounds
5:00 PM — State of AI panel
6:00 PM — Tournament & party starts
10:00 PM — Closing time
Speakers
Ankur Goyal, CEO at Braintrust
Jerry Liu, Co-founder and CEO at LlamaIndex
Simon Hørup Eskildsen, Co-founder and CEO at turbopuffer
Erik Bernhardsson, CEO at Modal
Travers Nisbet, Co-founder at Parallel Web Systems
Gergely Orosz, Author, The Pragmatic Engineer
This event is hosted by LlamaIndex, Braintrust, turbopuffer, Cursor, Parallel Web Systems, Modal, and Browserbase.
Date:
June 30, 2026
Time:
3:00 PM
10:00 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/the-agent-open
Event type:
Workshops and Education
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