From May 11 to 15, 2026, Human+Tech Week (HTW) will unite over 5,000 leaders in San Francisco, transforming the city into a living lab for human flourishing. HTW 2026 is a global Human+AI innovation engine, where builders, buyers, and backers collaborate to turn human-centered ideas into real-world solutions. The platform’s mission: generate $1 trillion in flourishing outcomes globally by 2030.
HTW: A Year-Round Living Innovation Engine
HTW is a global real-time innovation engine, driving the adoption of AI best practices for human flourishing. It is built on three core pillars:
- Signals: Global Summits (VITAL Health & Wellness, PEAK Future of Work & EdTech, CITY Abundant Smart City) and 100+ partner events that surface breakthroughs and validated results.
- Labs: Implementation Labs (problem‑led pilots) and Inflection Labs (product‑led sprints) that match challenges with startups, researchers and enterprise buyers.
- Enablers: Capital‑formation models (in partnership with NativelyAI, LabLabAI, Niremia Collective and a range of traditional and defi funding models) and an AI‑first community app that provides the infrastructure to scale.
Evolved Tracks Tackle Society’s Biggest Challenges
HTW 2026 is focused on urgent societal challenges:
- Workforce Transformation extends the PEAK track to include future-of-work pilots, AI-powered talent upskilling, and organizational adoption strategies as companies navigate the human+AI workplace transition.
- Longevity & Preventive Health combines AI with biotech advances and mental health innovations through the VITAL track, addressing the intersection of technology and human lifespan extension.
- Abundant Smart City & Energy integrates HTW’s original CITY flourishing track with NativelyAI and Champion 24/7 projects on smart-grid innovation, affordable housing solutions, and civic resilience planning, offering cities actionable pathways to sustainable human-centered urban development.
- A breakthrough municipal integration layer will connect these pilot programs directly with city governments and sovereign wealth funds, ensuring successful innovations can scale across civic systems worldwide.
In addition, decentralized events will advance innovation in MESH (Mental, Emotional, and Social Health), SYNC (Collective Intelligence, Collaboration, and Digital Wellbeing), and SOUL (Purpose, Meaning, and Human Consciousness).
From Prototype to Impact: Numbers That Matter
Solutioning at Scale: We will convene more than 250,000 developers and 20,000 teams from NativelyAI and LabLabAI will build and test prototypes during HTW 2026 and throughout the year. The platform’s selective approach—limiting sponsorships to fewer than 60 slots—ensures partners invest in the top tier pilots, partnerships, and capital formation. HTW 2026 will convene 5,000+ participants, 300+ speakers, and 100+ partner events, each contributing to the $1 trillion flourishing mission.
HTW’s focus on human outcomes sets the benchmark: every pilot begins with one question: "Where do humans thrive in the Age of AI?" Every lab, session, and partnership is designed to turn scale into outcomes with human well-being as the success metric, ensuring technology enhances rather than replaces human potential.
“In a world chasing artificial intelligence, Human+Tech Week asks, 'What do humans need?'" said Nichol Bradford, founder and executive producer of HTW. “By bringing builders, buyers and backers into one continuous system, we ensure that every keynote, workshop and lab uses human well‑being as the benchmark for progress. HTW 2026 shows how we turn that principle into pilots, partnerships and capital at scale.”
Join the Human+AI Future
HTW 2026 will feature 300+ speakers including tech executives, researchers, policymakers, and founders leading breakthroughs in AI, health, workforce development, and urban innovation. Partners include Fortune 500 companies, sovereign funds, and mission-driven investors committed to human-centered technology advancement.
The event runs May 11–15, 2026, across multiple San Francisco venues, with detailed programming and speaker announcements forthcoming.
About Human+Tech Week
Human+Tech Week is the world’s premier platform where human potential and technology converge, operating year-round to accelerate human-centered innovations. Through its Signals, Labs, and Enablers model, HTW connects builders, buyers, and backers to move breakthrough technologies into real-world adoption—driving measurable impact in health, work, education, and urban living.
HTW 2026 sponsor opportunities are limited and filling quickly. Organizations seeking to join the Human+AI innovation ecosystem are encouraged to apply early at www.humantechweek.com.
About Nichol Bradford
Nichol Bradford is a futurist, strategist, and builder of ecosystems designed to amplify human flourishing in the AI era. As founder of Human+Tech Week, she convenes global leaders, builders, and investors to bring vision to life and ensure technology strengthens humanity. She is executive-in-residence for AI + Human Intelligence (AI+HI) at SHRM and co-founder and partner at Niremia Collective. Nichol also serves as a trusted advisor on boards and councils worldwide and is known for bringing both foresight and heart to stages across the globe.
About NativelyAI
NativelyAI is the world’s most advanced AI orchestration system, accelerating prototypes into enterprise adoption. Purpose-built for the enterprise, its AI-native platform helps teams build, integrate, and scale AI solutions from prototype to production. The global platform enables companies and developers to launch and monetize applications with AI at the core. To date, it has supported 3.5K+ product launches, an average 72-hour prototype-to-production cycle, and up to 10x faster development across sectors. Previous partnerships include Google Cloud, AWS, IBM, Intel, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and Stability.ai.
About LabLabAI
LabLabAI is the largest AI builder community, powering rapid experimentation with 200,000+ developers, 20,000 teams, and 150+ hackathons worldwide. It supports the modern AI ecosystem and the innovators behind it by accelerating real-world innovation through hands-on hackathons, mentorship, and a platform that removes friction for teams to create with state-of-the-art AI. LabLabAI also runs lablab NEXT, a global accelerator for top AI teams to advance their prototypes.
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