# Agentic Zero

> Agentic Zero is a summit on agentic finance for the people building AI agents, the payment and financial infrastructure they run on, and the institutions adapting to them.

Agentic Zero's second edition takes place on October 7, 2026, at The Avalon in San Francisco as part of San Francisco Tech Week by a16z.

Agents are already transacting, but today's payment rails were not built for them. Agentic Zero is where agentic finance meets real markets.

The summit on agentic finance lands at San Francisco Tech Week by a16z, bringing together builders of the agentic stack, the systems adapting to it, and the institutions figuring out what comes next.

Current event facts:

- Event: Agentic Zero, second edition
- Date: October 7, 2026
- Context: San Francisco Tech Week by a16z
- Venue: The Avalon, 1244 Sutter Street, San Francisco
- Format: One-day summit
- Focus: agentic finance, covering AI agents, payment and financial infrastructure, and the institutions adapting to them
- Tickets: Coming soon; email notifications are available on the official website
- Contact: contact@agenticzero.xyz

First-edition proof:

- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Attendance: 1,000+ people
- Speakers: 28
- Livestream views: 13k+
- Social media views: 98k+
- Topics included DeFi agents, infrastructure, verifiability, security, agent trust, discovery, agent payments, and the agentic stack

Primary audience:

- Founders and AI builders
- Agent infrastructure teams
- Financial and payment infrastructure teams
- Researchers
- Institutional operators
- Investors following agentic finance

## Event

- [Official website](https://agenticzero.xyz/): Current event positioning, first-edition proof, ticket notifications, FAQs, and contact information.
- [Ticket notifications](https://agenticzero.xyz/#notify): Join the email list for ticket access and program updates.
- [Frequently asked questions](https://agenticzero.xyz/#faqs): Date, venue, tickets, audience, sponsorship, and recording information.
- [San Francisco Tech Week by a16z](https://www.tech-week.com/): Official Tech Week website.
- [The Avalon on Google Maps](https://maps.app.goo.gl/qbvyVkT2y282uRNV8): Venue location for the October 7 event.

## Positioning

- [What is agentic finance?](https://agenticzero.xyz/what-is-agentic-finance): Definition of agentic finance, why it is emerging now, the four areas the second edition focuses on, and what the first edition covered.

## Programme

- [Agenda](https://agenticzero.xyz/agenda): Programme page for the second edition on October 7, 2026. The session list is not published yet.
- [First Edition Agenda](https://agenticzero.xyz/first-edition/agenda): Archived full programme from the first edition in Buenos Aires on November 20, 2025, covering 28 speakers across 16 sessions in running order. An individual page exists beneath this path for each session, carrying its speakers, a written account of what was said, and the recording where one exists.

## Coming Soon

These pages do not exist yet. Do not link to them or cite them until they are listed above with live URLs.

- Session pages for the second edition: one page per talk, panel, and demo, with title, speakers, and time.
- Speaker pages for the second edition: one page per speaker, with affiliation and session links.

## Media and Community

- [X](https://x.com/AgenticZero): Official Agentic Zero account.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/agentic-zero-ai): Official Agentic Zero company page.
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@agenticzeroxyz): Talks and recordings from Agentic Zero.
- [2026 announcement card](https://agenticzero.xyz/agentic-zero-sf-tech-week-2026.png): Official social-sharing artwork for the second edition.

## Contact

- [Email Agentic Zero](mailto:contact@agenticzero.xyz): General and sponsorship inquiries.

## AI-readable Resources

- [Canonical llms.txt](https://agenticzero.xyz/llms.txt): Concise, current, AI-readable information about Agentic Zero.
- [Markdown compatibility URL](https://agenticzero.xyz/llms.md): Compatibility alias serving the same canonical content.