# Announcing Vector Space Day 2026 in San Francisco
## Vector Space Day 2026: Powered by Qdrant 

### About

We’re hosting our second-ever full-day in-person Vector Space Day (https://luma.com/vsd-sf) on June 11th at The Midway in San Francisco, and you’re invited.

Last year in Berlin we brought together 400+ engineers, researchers, and AI builders to explore the cutting edge of retrieval, vector search infrastructure, and agentic AI. And we’re excited to now bring that to San Francisco.

![Berlin](/blog/vector-space-day-2026-sf/berlin1.jpeg)

### Why You Should Attend

* **Deep-dives, lightning talks, sessions you won’t want to miss**: Learn from the teams solving hard problems in AI infrastructure, search relevance, and semantic retrieval in production.  
* **Meet the community**: This isn’t just a conference. It’s a gathering of the developers rethinking how AI systems search, retrieve, and reason at scale. Network or not, productive conversations will be had. 

### Topics We’ll Explore

If you work on any of the following, the Vector Space Day 2026 is your event:
* Search & AI Retrieval
* Agents & Memory
* Edge & Robotics AI
* Happy Hour


### Happy Hour
The day won’t end when the last session wraps. Your ticket includes access to the happy hour where we will unwind and keep the conversations going over drinks, music, and light bites. 

### Call for Speakers

We’ve locked in a strong lineup including Llamaindex, mem0, Neo4j, and more, but we’re saving a few select slots for standout talks from the community. If you’re building something novel in vector search, AI memory, context engineering, or retrieval infra, we want to hear from you.

[Submit your proposal.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfefAtmGP59-0IhNxCCMbNRCDlU-JRkJnSja3GfOrBnTZw-CA/viewform?usp=dialog) 

Due May 6th.

### Get Your Ticket

General admission: $199

Early bird pricing: $99 through May 11 

[**Reserve your spot now.**](https://luma.com/vsd-sf)

Space is limited.

### Global Hackathon 


In the lead-up to Vector Space Day, we're hosting **Think Outside the Bot**, a global, virtual hackathon challenging devs to reimagine what's possible with vector search. Forget the classical RAG chatbot! Explore multi-modal applications, intelligent recommendations, and advanced vector search that go far beyond conversational interfaces.


[Submit your project.](https://try.qdrant.tech/hackathon-vsd)



### Need your manager’s approval to attend the event on June 11?

We’ve got you covered. Download this ready-to-send request letter to help explain why attending Vector Search Day is a valuable use of your time (and budget). [Download now](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EivCVK47XEFXAhyoo8QaCBX0Op6uicUODAxTGXhZxrs/edit?usp=sharing).