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State of AI Developer Events · snapshot Sep 4, 2026

21,856 cumulative registrations across 33 completed AI developer events.

This report counts registration records on the public tokens& event calendar between Feb 16, 2024 and Oct 17, 2026. It measures how many people asked to attend, which is a measure of demand for a topic in a city. It is not attendance, not unique individuals, and not evidence that any product was adopted.

Snapshot taken Sep 4, 2026 from the public tokens& event calendar.

MethodologyAdoption report

Completed events hosted by tokens&

33

42 events on the calendar, including 6 still upcoming

Cumulative registrations

21,856

Registration records, not unique people

Cities

4

San Francisco 32 · New York 4 · London 2 · Zürich 1

Registrations by year

Completed events hosted by tokens&. 2026 is a partial year at the snapshot date.

YearEventsRegistrations
20245975
2025128,851
20261612,030

Which vendors show up in AI developer events

Number of events whose public description names each vendor. These are mentions, not sponsorships: a name can appear because a judge works there or because the tool was suggested in a build path.

VendorEvents mentioning
AWS21
NVIDIA14
Google DeepMind11
Anthropic8
Airbyte7
Tavily6
Datadog4
Redis3
Temporal3

Every event in the dataset

All 42 events on the calendar, including 3 community-submitted events excluded from the tokens&-hosted totals above. Counts are published only for events that have already happened; the 6 upcoming events are still open, so a partial signup total would not describe the room.

DateEventCityRegistrationsHost
Feb 16, 2024Founder x Investor MatchmakingSan Francisco138tokens&
Apr 19, 2024Founders and FuturesSan Francisco8tokens&
May 29, 2024GenAI ZurichZürich1tokens&
Oct 20, 2024Vertical Specific AI Agents HackathonSan Francisco466tokens&
Dec 7, 2024Voice & Video AI Agents HackathonSan Francisco362tokens&
Feb 16, 2025Multimodal AI Agents - 2 day HackathonSan Francisco715tokens&
Mar 22, 2025AI Agents Hackathon - GTC 2025 EditionSan Francisco563tokens&
May 2, 2025MCP and A2A Hackathon - AWS EditionSan Francisco805tokens&
May 30, 2025AWS MCP Agents HackathonSan Francisco806tokens&
Jul 25, 2025MCP - AWS - Enterprise Agents ChallengeSan Francisco692tokens&
Jul 26, 2025A2A - Agents HackathonSan Francisco643tokens&
Sep 19, 2025MCP - AI Agents HackathonSan Francisco773tokens&
Oct 4, 2025NYC - AI Agents HackathonNew York638tokens&
Oct 10, 2025AWS AI Agents HackathonSan Francisco833tokens&
Oct 17, 2025The Future of AgentsSan Francisco642tokens&
Nov 15, 2025Self-Evolving Agents HackSan Francisco849tokens&
Nov 21, 2025Production Agents - HackSan Francisco892tokens&
Jan 16, 2026Agentic Orchestration HackSan Francisco881tokens&
Jan 16, 2026[Workshop] Build Production-Ready AI AgentsSan Francisco129tokens&
Feb 21, 2026Self Improving Agents Hack - NYCNew York796tokens&
Feb 27, 2026Autonomous Agents HackathonSan Francisco880tokens&
Mar 27, 2026Agents & APIs SF Developer MeetupSan Francisco376Community
Mar 27, 2026Deep Agents Hackathon - RSAC 2026San Francisco755tokens&
Mar 28, 2026Multimodal Frontier HackathonSan Francisco654tokens&
Mar 29, 2026TinyFish Accelerator: Build SprintNot published223Community
Apr 23, 2026AI Agents in Prod - Ship Demo DaySan Francisco571tokens&
Apr 24, 2026Ship to Prod - Agentic Engineering HackathonSan Francisco827tokens&
Apr 25, 2026tokens& Founder DinnerSan Francisco23tokens&
May 23, 2026Agentic Engineering HackNew York704tokens&
Jun 3, 2026Agents & BagelsSan Francisco64Community
Jun 12, 2026Harness Engineering HackSan Francisco1,154tokens&
Jun 18, 2026Agentic Engineering SummitSan Francisco2,577tokens&
Jun 19, 2026AfterglowSan Francisco87tokens&
Jun 26, 2026Multiagents HackathonLondon401tokens&
Jul 17, 2026Loop Engineering HackathonSan Francisco948tokens&
Jul 24, 2026Self-Evolving Agents HackathonSan Francisco643tokens&
Sep 12, 2026Open Model Hack - Gradient x Google DeepMindupcomingSan FranciscoOpen for registrationtokens&
Sep 25, 2026Long Horizon Agents HackathonupcomingSan FranciscoOpen for registrationtokens&
Oct 2, 2026Real-Time Video Agents Hack - VAST (San Francisco)upcomingSan FranciscoOpen for registrationtokens&
Oct 9, 2026Real-Time Video Agents Hack - VAST (New York)upcomingNew YorkOpen for registrationtokens&
Oct 9, 2026Cyberdefense HackathonupcomingSan FranciscoOpen for registrationtokens&
Oct 17, 2026Real-Time Video Agents Hack - VAST (London)upcomingLondonOpen for registrationtokens&

Citation-ready summary

“Between Feb 16, 2024 and Sep 4, 2026, 33 completed AI developer events hosted by tokens& drew 21,856 cumulative registrations across 4 cities, with the largest single event, Agentic Engineering Summit, drawing 2,577.”

Cite with the snapshot date above and link the current methodology.

Methodology and what this number does not prove

Registration counts are derived from the public per-ticket-type num_guests field on each Luma event, summed within each event and then across events. On the two events that publish a guest list, the independent guest_count field matches the summed figure.

The figure counts registration records, not people. It includes registrations still pending host approval and those on a waitlist, it does not exclude no-shows because Luma exposes attendance only through a non-public check-in field, and because guest lists are private on 40 of the 42 events, a person who registers for multiple events is counted once per event. It therefore measures cumulative registration volume, not unique individuals or verified attendance.

Headline figures cover the 33 completed events hosted by tokens&. The full calendar carries 42 events and 22,729 registrations, which includes 6 upcoming events still open for registration and 3 community-submitted events (663). The calendar has no events in the Asia-Pacific region, so this dataset supports no claim of reach there.

Per-event footnotes

  • Founder x Investor Matchmaking — Only paid-ticket event in the dataset; not comparable to the free hackathon series.
  • GenAI Zurich — Single registration. Too small to support any claim of European reach.
  • AI Agents Hackathon - GTC 2025 Edition — 563 registrations against a declared 560-seat tier, which is how the counter is known to include waitlisted registrations.
  • Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup — Community-submitted by Postman Developer Events.
  • TinyFish Accelerator: Build Sprint — Displayed host is external, so it is excluded from tokens&-hosted totals, though the event record was created by the same internal account behind many hosted events.
  • Agents & Bagels — Community-submitted by Scalekit.
  • Agentic Engineering Summit — Largest event in the dataset. Registrations split across Founders 1,361, Operators 1,044, and Investors 172.
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