The Agent Open: AI's pickleball tournament

The inaugural Agent Open SF 2026 is happening. An afternoon of pickleball, food, drinks, AI conversations, and a tournament bracket full of people that take both their agents and backhand seriously.

Play pickleball? Come show us your skills.

We open at 3PM for co-working, hanging, and warmups before matches begin across two pickleball courts. We’ll also host a Future of AI panel before rolling into the party and championship rounds.

Location is 700ft from Moscone.

Lineup

3:00 PM — Doors open
4:00 PM — Tournament begins
5:00 PM — Future of AI panel
6:00 PM — Party starts
8:00 PM — Championship rounds
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

Tournament bracket times to come.

This event is co-hosted by LlamaIndex, Braintrust, turbopuffer, Cursor, Parallel Web Systems, Modal, and Browserbase.