The Agent Open: AI's pickleball tournament

the vibe

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.