Apple will ring in its AGI era with a livestreamed event on Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. Taking the stage will be John Ternus, successor to Tim Cook and the second CEO to lead Apple since Steve Jobs’ death in 2011.

Ternus takes the helm of the tech giant as the company tries to catch up in the AI race. Among the expected announcements are an upgraded Siri powered by Google Gemini AI and Apple’s first foldable iPhone.

The Apple event typically begins in what’s known as tech season, a slew of industry-produced events packed with back-to-back product announcements stretching for months and setting the tone for innovation in the year ahead.

Developing stories include the knock-on effects of planned AI IPOs , with Anthropic reported to go public this October , OpenAI in 2027 or sooner , and other AI unicorns including Notion, Harvey and Plaid on the watch list. Also, watch for hints to looming questions, like whether frontier models like Astra and Fable can help find cures for diseases without their agentic AGI swarms taking down the Internet .

Other key themes include skyrocketing investment in the data center building boom and how it can keep pace with the soaring power demands of the rapidly expanding AI ecosystem.

I’ll be watching for advancements in conversational smart spaces, streaming shows, humanoids and robotaxis. Also, I want to know more about systems I can chat with candidly and buy things from without them being scripted or remote-controlled. And I’ll be reporting on the future of work and humanity as AI agents takeover increasingly more complex tasks.

When tracked closely, the conference circuit can provide insight into which technologies are moving from hype to adoption, and where marketing might cloud the conversation with overstatements on the capabilities of AI agents, humanoids, chips and enterprise cybersecurity monitoring software. Companies face growing pressure to show that their enormous AI investments are actually producing products consumers and developers want to use.

The events also offer an early read on which startups are breaking out, which legacy companies are faltering and where the next wave of capital is likely to flow.

Lastly, the shows can reveal where regulation, infrastructure constraints, consumer skepticism and protests are delaying adoption, even as competition pushes the industry towards increasingly ambitious and expensive bets with uncertain long-term returns.

From Apple to CES and beyond, more than 40 events pack the 2026/2027 conference calendar. Will this truly be a transformational year, or an incremental one? For those planning to participate, add your top picks and insights in the comments.

2026/2027 Events Calendar

9/9 Apple Event (SF) 9/15-17 Dreamforce (SF) 9/22-24 Snapdragon Summit (Maui) 9/23-25 WeAreDevelopers (SJ) 9/24-25 Reuters MomentumAI (Austin) 9/28-10/2 SF AI Week (SF) 9/29-10/1 The AI Conference (SF) 10/5-11 SFTW (SF) 10/8 Gemini at Work (SV) 10/12-15 Workday Rising (Vegas) 10/12-18 LATW (LA) 10/13-15 Disrupt (SF) 10/19-21 Paley Summit (NYC) 10/20-22 Masters of Scale (SF) 11/4-6 Startup World Cup (SF) 11/9-12 Web Summit (Lisbon) 11/20-21 F1 (Vegas) 11/30-12/4 Amazon reInvent (Vegas) 12/2 Artist and the Machine (LA) 12/4-6 Art Basel Miami (South Beach) 12/7-8 Fortune Brainstorm AI (SF) 12/9-10 AI Summit (NYC) 1/3-6 CES (Vegas) 1/18-22 WEF (Davos) 1/21-31 Sundance (Boulder) 2/14 Super Bowl (Los Angeles) 3/1-4 TED (San Diego) 3/1-5 GDC (SF) 3/7-10 HumanX (Vegas) 3/9-10 Montgomery Summit (LA) 3/14-18 Nvidia GTC (SJ) 3/15-21 SXSW (Austin) 4/5-8 RSA (SF) 4/5-7 Possible (Miami) 4/17-25 SF Climate Week (SF) 4/19-20 WSJ FOE (NYC) 4/27-28 Reuters MomentumAI (NYC) 5/2-5 Milken (LA) 5/4-6 ServiceNow Knowledge (Vegas) 5/25-28 Web Summit (Vancouver) 6/1-7 NYTW (NYC) 6/6-8 Raise Summit (Paris) 6/21-25 Cannes Lions (France)