Runway AI Summit Heads to San Francisco for the First Time
Runway and its founder Cristóbal Valenzuela announced that the Runway AI Summit — dubbed 'the Coachella of AI' — will be held in San Francisco for the first time on September 30, with tickets priced at $350 and still available a week before opening.
Confirmed
- The agenda focuses on physical AI, world models and robotics, while also covering real-time video generation in enterprise creative workflows and the direction of US AI policy.
- The session 'Grounding Intelligence in the Physical World' features NVIDIA's Ming-Yu Liu, Google DeepMind researchers, and a Wayve representative.
- The roundtable 'AI Diplomacy in a Divided World' includes Julian Simcock of Harvard's diplomacy program and Google DeepMind's Rick, among others, making AI diplomacy and US regulation a discussion focus.
Why it matters
- This marks the summit's San Francisco debut and signals Runway's expansion beyond its video-generation tooling ecosystem: by incorporating robotics, physical AI, geopolitics and regulation, Runway is positioning itself at the center of a broader AI industry conversation.
2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-24 · 5 related posts
Primary sources
- Runway AI Summit lineup revealed: Nvidia's Ming-Yu Liu, DeepMind's Jon Barron, Wayve's Alex Toshev — runwayml · 2026-09-23
- Runway AI Summit lineup: AI diplomacy and US rulemaking sessions revealed — runwayml · 2026-09-23
- [source] Runway AI Summit Lands in SF Sept 30 With Physical Intelligence, NVIDIA, DeepMind Speakers — runwayml · 2026-09-23
- [source] Runway AI Summit debuts in SF on 9/30 with physical AI and world models focus — c_valenzuelab · 2026-09-24
1 near-duplicate retellings: runwayml