HumanX 2026
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Previous Sessions
HumanX 2026 San Francisco
Google Cloud Pitch Competition
Cohort 1 - 10:20–11:20 AM
A kickoff showcase of AI-first startups building across automation, developer infrastructure, service intelligence, enterprise data, and revenue operations. Founders pitch live, face judge Q&A, and compete for a spot in the Google Cloud Finals on Thursday.
A kickoff showcase of AI-first startups building across automation, developer infrastructure, service intelligence, enterprise data, and revenue operations. Founders pitch live, face judge Q&A, and compete for a spot in the Google Cloud Finals on Thursday.
Cohort 2 - 11:30 AM–12:20 PM
This cohort spotlights startups applying AI across healthcare, diagnostics, women’s health, education, and senior care. Expect fast-paced pitches, sharp investor and operator questions, and one founder advancing to the finals.
Best for:
Capital ProviderStartup Founder
Sponsored by Google for Startups
Google Cloud Pitch Competition
Cohort 3 - 9:40–11:00 AM
This cohort spotlights startups applying AI across healthcare, diagnostics, women’s health, education, and
senior care. Expect fast-paced pitches, sharp investor and operator questions, and one founder advancing
to the finals.
Cohort 4 - 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
The final Google Cloud qualifying session brings together startups working in airline pricing, controllable AI,
reverse logistics, healthcare automation, and AI-enabled manufacturing. The winner joins the top founders
from Cohorts 1–3 in the championship round.
This cohort spotlights startups applying AI across healthcare, diagnostics, women’s health, education, and
senior care. Expect fast-paced pitches, sharp investor and operator questions, and one founder advancing
to the finals.
Cohort 4 - 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
The final Google Cloud qualifying session brings together startups working in airline pricing, controllable AI,
reverse logistics, healthcare automation, and AI-enabled manufacturing. The winner joins the top founders
from Cohorts 1–3 in the championship round.
Best for:
Capital ProviderStartup Founder
Sponsored by Google for Startups
Masterclass: Building Autonomous AI Agents on Google Cloud
This masterclass delivers a deep dive into building sophisticated, autonomous AI agents. We bridge the gap between basic chatbots and advanced agent orchestration. Through live demonstrations, developers will learn how to efficiently perform supervised fine-tuning using Google TPUs. We will then cover how to seamlessly integrate this fine-tuned model into the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) to power practical tool-calling and API execution from scratch.
Best for:
Technology
Sponsored by Google for Startups
Presented by
Ivan Nardini
Developer Relations Engineer
Google
Annie Wang
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Pitch Competition Finals
A security- and enterprise-focused bracket featuring startups tackling AI governance, application security,
fraud prevention, and product marketing. One startup from this group will move on to the Thursday finals.
fraud prevention, and product marketing. One startup from this group will move on to the Thursday finals.
Best for:
Capital ProviderStartup Founder
Sponsored by Google for Startups
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