Thursday, September 17. San Francisco. One evening.
Assets & Access is our monthly series: the same night out, in different cities across the globe. Founders, investors, and operators, one room per city.
This week, the Bay, at Rickhouse.
Past rooms have drawn leaders from J.P. Morgan, SpaceX, Anthropic, Paramount, Grayscale, and the NBA.
London is on deck. We recently hosted our first Assets & Access there, and the full chapter opens soon.
If your city belongs on the map, tell us. The next room could be yours.
Come see what one introduction can do
Where You’ll Find Us
San Francisco: Assets & Access @ Rickhouse, Thu Sept 17
Seoul: KBW2026 Closing Reception, Thu Oct 1
Tampa: Assets & Access @ The Copper Shaker, Thu Oct 1
The Industry
New York
Crypto · Avalanche Summit NYC, Sept 16-17
Avalanche's US flagship, aimed at tokenization and Wall Street's move onchain.
Fintech · NYC Bar FinTech Conference, Sept 17
Fintech counsel and regulators map the rules on stablecoins, lending and payments.
AI · MLcon New York, Sept 28-Oct 2
Hands-on generative AI and ML engineering for the people shipping models to production. (Brooklyn)
San Francisco
Enterprise · Dreamforce, Sept 15-17
40,000 people and the bellwether for how enterprise is really deploying AI agents.
AI · AI Infra Summit, Sept 15-17
An NVIDIA keynote and everyone fighting over how AI compute gets built. (Santa Clara)
Product · Product-Led Summit SF, Sept 22-23
Senior PMs trade playbooks on AI-driven, product-led growth. (Burlingame)
Los Angeles
Venture · SuperReturn US West, Sept 14-15
West Coast private capital's dealmaking room for LPs and GPs. (Beverly Hills)
Enterprise · SoCal Deep Tech Week, Sept 14-18
Hard-tech founders and funders on scaling American manufacturing. (Long Beach)
Washington DC
Crypto · Freedom Tech DC, Sept 22-23
Policymakers and technologists on the future of money and open compute.
AI · Government & AI Summit, Sept 15
Where federal AI budgets get shaped.
Chicago
Fintech · MoneyLIVE North America, Sept 14-15
The Midwest's best room for retail-banking and payments leaders.
Europe
Crypto · European Blockchain Convention, Sept 16-17
6,000 people and the VCs and MiCA-era regulators setting Europe's agenda. (Barcelona)
Enterprise · Nordic Business Forum, Sept 16-17
Europe's largest leadership event, 7,000+ execs. (Helsinki)
Product · DMEXCO, Sept 23-24
40,000 at Europe's largest martech and commerce show, now AI-first. (Cologne)
Venture · Bits & Pretzels, Sept 28-30
7,500 founders and investors at one table as Oktoberfest opens. (Munich)
Middle East & Asia
Fintech · Money20/20 Middle East, Sept 14-16
The Gulf edition, sovereign capital behind it. (Riyadh)
Venture · Tech in Asia Conference, Sept 15-16
Southeast Asia's founders, VCs and operators in one dealmaking room. (Singapore)
Enterprise · GISEC Global, Sept 16-18
The region's largest cybersecurity gathering, now centered on AI threats. (Dubai)
Fintech · Seamless Middle East, Sept 22-24
The Gulf's biggest payments, fintech and commerce expo. (Dubai)
LAST WEEK’S VERDICT
Room of the week
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Dreamforce (29%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 StableCon USA (29%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 All-In Summit (29%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ None of the above (14%)
Where you were
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 New York (25%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Somewhere overseas (25%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Heads down this week (25%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ San Francisco (13%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Washington DC (13%)
THE MARQUEE SCORECARD
Which room will everyone be talking about next week?
Make the call, then tell us why in the box. Dark horse? Make the case.
ROLL CALL
Which city are you working this week?
Reply with your city. We’ll open the right door.
Have an event you think should be on here? Let us know.