SF Climate Week: Conferences & Festivals
- A week-long packed program of 650+ climate events, panels, and talks with keynote speakers including Al Gore and Alex Honnold. - Runs Apr 18–26, 2026 with sessions, workshops, and activations across the city (events continue through this weekend). - Happening throughout San Francisco; schedule and details at prnewswire.com.
San Francisco Climate Week is filling venues across the city this week with a nine-day run of climate conferences, panels, workshops and festivals through Saturday, April 26. (sfclimateweek.org) Organizers say the 2026 program includes more than 650 events, over 1,000 speakers and more than 60,000 attendees, with featured names including former Vice President Al Gore, climber Alex Honnold and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie. (prnewswire.com) The gathering is organized by Climatebase and billed as a decentralized event, which means hundreds of separate groups host their own sessions rather than funneling everyone into one convention hall. The public calendar lists talks on clean energy, transportation, food systems, finance, policy, biodiversity and climate jobs in San Francisco and around the Bay Area. (sfclimateweek.org) That format has turned the week into a citywide mix of industry networking and public programming. The official schedule for April 22 and April 23 includes an S&P Global climate-risk summit, a wildfire-and-utilities panel, an energy summit, a Project Drawdown solutions event and a Grist storytelling program at Manny’s. (climateweeknetwork.org) The timing lines up with Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, when climate groups, investors, startups and local institutions are already staging events across San Francisco. The schedule also extends past Earth Day into the weekend, with closing events and additional sessions still listed through April 26. (sfclimateweek.org) SF Climate Week has also grown fast by the organizers’ own count. Climatebase said this year’s event is approaching nearly three times the size it was a few years ago and could reach about 70,000 participants by the end of the week. (prnewswire.com) The program is not limited to ticketed conference rooms. The official listings include a Green Business Expo and Yerba Buena Gardens Earth Day festival, happy hours, arts-and-culture events and sports tie-ins such as an Oakland Roots Earth Day match at the Coliseum. (sfclimateweek.org) For anyone trying to catch it before it wraps, the main question is no longer whether SF Climate Week is happening but which corner of the city it lands in next. The live calendar is still adding and updating events as the week moves toward its April 26 finish. (sfcw.climate-week.org)
