SuperAI 2026 Recap: What Actually Happened at Marina Bay Sands
June 10-11, 2026
SuperAI 2026 sold out at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on June 10-11, 2026, not June 9-10 as this page previously said. The third edition drew 10,000-plus attendees, 1,500-plus AI companies from 150-plus countries,...
SuperAI 2026 sold out at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on June 10-11, 2026, not June 9-10 as this page previously said. The third edition drew 10,000-plus attendees, 1,500-plus AI companies from 150-plus countries, and 150-plus speakers across three exhibition floors (checked 2026-08-24, superai.com). Balaji Srinivasan, Benedict Evans, and Max Tegmark headlined. FORMAS.AI won the $2.3M Genesis prize. The next edition shifts to September 8-9, 2027 at the same venue.
I track SuperAI because the founders and infrastructure vendors who ship in Asia-Pacific show up here two years before they show up in the US press. Two other pages in this batch of event refreshes had outright fabricated details, so I verified SuperAI against two dated PR Newswire releases from the organizer plus independent Tech in Asia reporting from the floor. The June 9 date on the old ACF field was the NEXT Hackathon opening, not the main conference. Same one-day-off pattern I keep finding across this batch.
The dates on this page were wrong by one day, and here is why
The main conference ran June 10-11, 2026. The separate NEXT Hackathon ran June 9-11 alongside it, and June 9 (the hackathon’s opening) got compressed into the ACF date field as if it were day one of the main event. Two SuperAI press releases three months apart both state the main dates as June 10-11 (checked 2026-08-24, prnewswire.com). Any third-party page still showing “June 9-10, 2026” is echoing the same compression error the old version of this page carried.
SuperAI 2026 by the numbers
Every figure below traces to SuperAI’s June 9, 2026 sellout release corroborated by independent Tech in Asia coverage.
| Detail | Verified figure |
|---|---|
| Event | SuperAI 2026 (3rd edition) |
| Dates | June 10-11, 2026 |
| Venue | Marina Bay Sands, Singapore |
| Attendees | 10,000+ (officially sold out) |
| AI companies represented | 1,500+ |
| Countries represented | 150+ |
| Speakers | 150+ |
| Exhibition floors | 3 (first time in event history) |
| Genesis Startup prize pool | $2.3M |
| NEXT Hackathon builders | 200 (from ~2,000 applicants) |
| NEXT prize pool | $200,000+ |
| Next edition | September 8-9, 2027, Marina Bay Sands |
The third floor is the concrete scale receipt. Attendee counts round easily; adding a physical floor does not. The jump from a $100,000 Genesis prize pool in earlier framing to $2.3M by the sellout release also tracks with the “bigger, bolder” 2026 positioning, though that framing is coming from the organizer.
I could not find an independent audit that puts the attendance at exactly 10,000. That level of precision essentially never exists for conferences this size, and I would not trust any recap that claims otherwise.
The three keynotes were genuinely different, which is rare
Most conferences this size ship three variations on “AI is transformative” with different logos. SuperAI 2026 did not.
Balaji Srinivasan opened with “Personal, Private, Programmable,” extending his Network State decentralization argument to how individuals will own AI instead of renting it from centralized platforms. The full session is on SuperAI’s YouTube channel.
Benedict Evans debuted an updated “AI Eats the World.” Tech in Asia caught him directly on the floor for its own interview, which matters because it means the substance got scrutinized by an outlet with no promotional stake, not just the organizer’s recap.
Max Tegmark closed with the safety-and-governance angle, framing the question as keeping AI development oriented around human flourishing rather than pure capability scaling.
Beyond the headliners, confirmed speakers included Andy Hock (CSO, Cerebras Systems), Ramine Tinati (Google DeepMind), Min-Liang Tan (co-founder and CEO, Razer), Robbie Schingler (co-founder, Planet Labs), Will Bryk (co-founder, Exa), and Ned Koh (co-founder, Aaru).
The deployment throughline was the real story
Tech in Asia’s own headline for the event was AI deployment, not AI hype. That is a meaningful signal from a publication that owes SuperAI nothing.
A handful of session titles carry the point. Soo Lee (Snowflake) argued that data governance, not model capability, is the enterprise AI bottleneck. Damien Tampling (Sierra) framed most public agent discussion as the visible tip of a much larger deployment problem. Juras Juršėnas (Oxylabs) opened with the pointedly skeptical “Agentic Future of the Web: Within Reach or Cancelled?” from a web-data infrastructure vendor’s angle.
Alibaba Cloud’s Ken Xu and BytePlus’s Kan Yang both presented on enterprise-to-agent transitions, reflecting SuperAI’s stated pitch: Chinese and Western AI vendors sharing a program in Singapore’s neutral position. That is the load-bearing reason the event is in Singapore at all.
FORMAS.AI won Genesis with an applied, vertical product
The Genesis Startup Competition ran on a $2.3M prize pool powered by Microsoft for Startups and OpenAI, with judges from OpenAI, Canonical, Plug and Play, and Microsoft Asia. From 700-plus applicants and 10 finalists (checked 2026-08-24, superai.com/genesis-startup-competition):
- FORMAS.AI (winner): AI-native design workspace for architects and the built-environment industry.
- Drylab (2nd): biomedical research AI unifying data discovery, bioinformatics, and workflow.
- Studio Lab (3rd): AI plus robotics for product photography and e-commerce content.
None of the top three are frontier-model companies. All three are applied, vertical, specific-niche tools. That tracks with the deployment-over-hype throughline running across the session program.
Was it worth it, and who should plan for 2027
For infrastructure vendors, enterprise buyers evaluating deployment partners, early-stage founders chasing Genesis or NEXT exposure, and investors scouting Asia-Pacific AI, SuperAI 2026 delivered real substance at real scale. You get exposure to US, Chinese, European, and Southeast Asian AI ecosystems in one room, which is genuinely hard to replicate elsewhere given tightening export controls and sovereign AI strategies.
Skip it if you want peer-reviewed research or deep technical benchmarks. There is no submitted-paper program, no acceptance rate, and the sessions I verified skewed toward vendor positioning and deployment framing. That is a legitimate value proposition, not a lesser one, but know what you are buying.
SuperAI 2027 runs September 8-9, 2027 at Marina Bay Sands, a calendar shift from the June dates the first three editions used. Book Singapore hotels early for a September window (it is peak MICE season there), and check for a Genesis 2027 call for applications through spring 2027. I do not have a discount code for SuperAI, so what is on the official registration page is what you pay.