Agents
48 keynotes · 28 conference series · 2023 to 2026
AI agents, agentic workflows, agent platforms and protocols such as MCP and A2A.
Keynotes where agents was a key theme
48 keynotes
| Date | Keynote | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 |  Meta Connect 2026Mark Zuckerberg · 55m · 5 announcedAssistants, Devices, Agents | Assistants, Devices, Agents | Zuckerberg said personal superintelligence is now within reach, with a capable personal agent for everyone | 5 |
| Sep 15, 2026 |  Salesforce Dreamforce 2026Marc Benioff, Dario Amodei · 1h 48m · 4 announcedAgents, Enterprise apps, Governance | Agents, Enterprise apps, Governance | Salesforce is going headless: apps and semantic intelligence stay, while agents and new interfaces sit on top | 4 |
| Jul 23, 2026 |  AMD Advancing AI 2026Lisa Su · 2h 14m · 4 announcedAI infrastructure, Agents | AI infrastructure, Agents | Helios combines the MI455 GPU, Venice EPYC CPUs and Pensando DPUs in one rack-scale system | 4 |
| Jun 24, 2026 |  Figma Config 2026Dylan Field · 1h 12m · 4 announcedAI coding, Platforms, Agents | AI coding, Platforms, Agents | Code layers let designers create and branch real code directly on the Figma canvas | 4 |
| Jun 17, 2026 |  Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026Ali Ghodsi · 58m · 6 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Security | Agents, Data platforms, Security | The problem is not AGI in labs but that agents are not yet doing autonomous work inside companies, Ghodsi argued | 6 |
| Jun 16, 2026 |  HPE Discover 2026Antonio Neri · 53m · 5 announcedAI infrastructure, Agents, Cloud | AI infrastructure, Agents, Cloud | With Juniper Networks, HPE extended its networking leadership into the data center and critical networks | 5 |
| Jun 2, 2026 |  Microsoft Build 2026Satya Nadella · 2h 23m · 8 announcedAgents, AI coding | Agents, AI coding | Build 2026 relocated from Seattle to San Francisco for the first time, running June 2-5, 2026. | 8 |
| Jun 2, 2026 |  Cisco Live 2026Chuck Robbins, Jeetu Patel · 2h 1m · 3 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agentic operations with Cisco Cloud Control were set up as the day's central theme | 3 |
| Jun 2, 2026 |  Snowflake Summit 2026Christian Kleinerman · 1h 38m · 13 announcedAgents, AI coding, Data platforms | Agents, AI coding, Data platforms | Snowflake Data Stream introduced: Kafka wire-compatible event capture that lands topics as Snowflake tables, private preview soon | 13 |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Snowflake Summit 2026Sridhar Ramaswamy, Daniela Amodei, Julie Sweet · 1h 1m · 1 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Governance | Agents, Data platforms, Governance | Ramaswamy declared "the era of the agentic enterprise", built on four parts: enterprise data and context, models, applications and a control plane | 1 |
| May 19, 2026 |  Google I/O 2026Sundar Pichai · 1h 51m · 8 announcedModels, Assistants, Agents | Models, Assistants, Agents | Gemini 3.5 Flash launched, combining frontier intelligence with agentic action for coding tasks | 8 |
| May 12, 2026 |  Red Hat Summit 2026Matt Hicks · 1h 35m · 2 announcedOpen source, Agents, Governance | Open source, Agents, Governance | "Every AI agent runs on Linux," Hicks said, the open source foundation built over decades | 2 |
| May 12, 2026 |  SAP Sapphire 2026Christian Klein · 1h 25m · 7 announcedAgents, Enterprise apps, Data platforms | Agents, Enterprise apps, Data platforms | The SAP Business AI Platform merges SAP's AI foundation, Business Data Cloud and Business Technology Platform | 7 |
| May 5, 2026 |  ServiceNow Knowledge 2026Bill McDermott, Jensen Huang · 1h 26m · 3 announcedAgents, Governance, Enterprise apps | Agents, Governance, Enterprise apps | AI Control Tower was pitched as a strategic defense shield with visibility across every human and non-human identity and device | 3 |
| Apr 22, 2026 |  Google Cloud Next 2026Thomas Kurian, Sundar Pichai · 1h 39m · 8 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Thomas Kurian outlined a unified stack of chips, models, agents and security for enterprise AI | 8 |
| Feb 25, 2026 |  Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026TM Roh · 1h 7m · 2 announcedDevices, Assistants, Agents | Devices, Assistants, Agents | Samsung framed Galaxy AI around reach, openness and confidence about where data goes | 2 |
| Dec 3, 2025 |  AWS re:Invent 2025Swami Sivasubramanian · 1h 41m · 7 announcedAgents, Models, Open models | Agents, Models, Open models | Swami opened by declaring agentic AI as a fundamentally new way of using AI. | 7 |
| Dec 2, 2025 | AWS re:Invent 2025Matt Garman · 2h 8m · 7 announcedAI infrastructure, Agents, Pricing | AI infrastructure, Agents, Pricing | Garman highlighted how AWS customers like Pfizer chose AWS to transform their business. | 7 |
| Nov 18, 2025 | Microsoft Ignite 2025Judson Althoff, Asha Sharma · 2h 28m · 8 announcedAgents, Security | Agents, Security | Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft Commercial Business, opened the keynote, not Satya Nadella. | 8 |
| Oct 29, 2025 |  Confluent Current 2025Jay Kreps · 1h 48m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents | Data platforms, Agents | Jay Kreps opened Current 2025 in New Orleans on building intelligent systems with real-time data | 8 |
| Oct 28, 2025 |  Adobe MAX 2025Shantanu Narayen, David Wadhwani · 3h 6m · 5 announcedModels, Agents, Enterprise apps | Models, Agents, Enterprise apps | Adobe apps let creators work with partner models like Google Gemini, Veo and Imagen, OpenAI, Flux, Runway and Microsoft MAI | 5 |
| Oct 28, 2025 |  GitHub Universe 2025Kyle Daigle · 1h 0m · 5 announcedAI coding, Agents, Governance | AI coding, Agents, Governance | Mission Control is a single view to assign, steer and track agent sessions across projects | 5 |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Salesforce Dreamforce 2025Marc Benioff · 1h 21m · 6 announcedAgents, Enterprise apps | Agents, Enterprise apps | Benioff opened Dreamforce 2025 by declaring Salesforce is entering the age of the Agentic Enterprise | 6 |
| Oct 14, 2025 |  dbt Coalesce 2025Tristan Handy · 1h 38m · 4 announcedData platforms, Open source, Agents | Data platforms, Open source, Agents | dbt Labs had announced its merger with Fivetran the day before; Handy explained what it means for the community | 4 |
| Oct 14, 2025 |  Oracle AI World 2025Larry Ellison · 1h 34m · 3 announcedData platforms, AI infrastructure, Agents | Data platforms, AI infrastructure, Agents | Leading models like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Llama are trained on public internet data; the next step is reasoning over private data | 3 |
| Oct 6, 2025 |  OpenAI DevDay 2025Sam Altman · 53m · 5 announcedAgents, AI coding, Models | Agents, AI coding, Models | DevDay 2025 was held October 6, 2025 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. | 5 |
| Sep 18, 2025 |  MongoDB.local 2025Dev Ittycheria · 1h 18m · 5 announcedData platforms, Agents | Data platforms, Agents | Dev Ittycheria opened MongoDB.local NYC 2025 on what the ideal database for the AI era looks like | 5 |
| Jun 25, 2025 |  Vercel Ship 2025Guillermo Rauch · 45m · 5 announcedCloud, Agents, Pricing | Cloud, Agents, Pricing | Vercel called its platform the AI Cloud, purpose-built for AI apps and agents | 5 |
| Jun 24, 2025 | HPE Discover 2025Antonio Neri · 1h 12m · 6 announcedAgents, Cloud, AI infrastructure | Agents, Cloud, AI infrastructure | A new agentic AI mesh in Aruba Central brings AI agents to network operations | 6 |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025Ali Ghodsi · 22m · 11 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Databricks now counts more than 15,000 customers running on the platform across every major cloud | 11 |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Cisco Live 2025Chuck Robbins, Jeetu Patel · 1h 55m · 5 announcedAgents, Security, AI infrastructure | Agents, Security, AI infrastructure | Cisco brought Cisco XDR and Splunk closer together and announced agentic AI applications in security | 5 |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Snowflake Summit 2025Christian Kleinerman · 1h 41m · 8 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Pricing | Agents, Data platforms, Pricing | Adaptive Compute announced: Snowflake picks cluster sizes and scaling automatically instead of users sizing warehouses | 8 |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Snowflake Summit 2025Sridhar Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Sarah Guo · 58m · 3 announcedAgents, Data platforms, Models | Agents, Data platforms, Models | Snowflake highlighted deeper Apache Iceberg support, used by companies like Booking.com, via Catalog Linked Databases | 3 |
| May 22, 2025 |  Anthropic events 2025Mike Krieger, Dario Amodei · 1h 40m · 6 announcedModels, AI coding, Agents | Models, AI coding, Agents | Mike Krieger opened Code with Claude, Anthropic's first developer conference, in front of a live audience | 6 |
| May 20, 2025 | Google I/O 2025Sundar Pichai · 1h 55m · 8 announcedModels, Assistants, Agents | Models, Assistants, Agents | Google now processes over 480 trillion tokens per month across its products | 8 |
| May 20, 2025 | SAP Sapphire 2025Christian Klein · 1h 44m · 4 announcedEnterprise apps, Agents, Data platforms | Enterprise apps, Agents, Data platforms | Klein argued fragmented data breaks down in the age of AI, so data must come with end-to-end business context | 4 |
| May 19, 2025 | Microsoft Build 2025Satya Nadella · 1h 59m · 8 announcedAgents, AI coding, Open source | Agents, AI coding, Open source | Satya Nadella framed the event around building an open agentic web at scale. | 8 |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Google Cloud Next 2025Thomas Kurian · 1h 40m · 8 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Models | Agents, AI infrastructure, Models | Google Cloud shipped over 3,000 product advancements in the prior year | 8 |
| Jan 6, 2025 |  CES 2025Jensen Huang · 1h 32m · 5 announcedAI infrastructure, Robotics, Agents | AI infrastructure, Robotics, Agents | The GeForce RTX 50 Series on Blackwell launched, with the RTX 5070 claimed at 4090 performance for $549 | 5 |
| Nov 19, 2024 | Microsoft Ignite 2024Satya Nadella · 1h 16m · 9 announcedAgents, AI infrastructure, Security | Agents, AI infrastructure, Security | Zero Day Quest, a hacking event with $4 million in rewards focused on cloud and AI security, was announced | 9 |
| Nov 12, 2024 | Snowflake BUILD 2024Christian Kleinerman · 59m · 8 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | Streaming and read-write support for Apache Iceberg tables became generally available | 8 |
| Oct 29, 2024 | GitHub Universe 2024Thomas Dohmke · 50m · 5 announcedAI coding, Models, Agents | AI coding, Models, Agents | OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini became available to Copilot users in Copilot Chat | 5 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Confluent Current 2024Jay Kreps · 1h 37m · 3 announcedData platforms, Agents, Open source | Data platforms, Agents, Open source | AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued | 3 |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Salesforce Dreamforce 2024Marc Benioff · 1h 41m · 2 announcedAgents, Enterprise apps | Agents, Enterprise apps | Salesforce repositioned itself as "your Agentforce": agents alongside people across sales, service, marketing and commerce | 2 |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Snowflake Summit 2024Benoit Dageville, Christian Kleinerman · 1h 56m · 10 announcedData platforms, Governance, Agents | Data platforms, Governance, Agents | Dynamic tables, the declarative incremental pipelines used by more than 3,000 customers, became generally available | 10 |
| May 14, 2024 | Google I/O 2024Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis · 1h 53m · 9 announcedModels, Assistants, Agents | Models, Assistants, Agents | AI Overviews, the revamped Search results with generative answers, began rolling out to everyone in the US | 9 |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Google Cloud Next 2024Thomas Kurian, Sundar Pichai · 1h 41m · 8 announcedModels, Agents, AI infrastructure | Models, Agents, AI infrastructure | NVIDIA Grace Blackwell (B200 and GB200) comes to Google Cloud early in 2025; TPU v5p became generally available | 8 |
| Nov 6, 2023 | OpenAI DevDay 2023Sam Altman · 46m · 7 announcedModels, Agents, Pricing | Models, Agents, Pricing | GPT-4 Turbo supports up to 128,000 tokens of context, 16 times GPT-4's 8K, with knowledge updated to April 2023 | 7 |
By year and related themes
Often together with: Data platforms (15), AI infrastructure (12), Models (12), AI coding (8), Enterprise apps (7)
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