SF Climate Week — citywide climate summit
- What: A citywide series of 650+ events, panels, exhibitions and networking focused on climate action and solutions. - When: Runs Apr 18–26, 2026 with programming across the week and multiple keynote sessions. - Where: Events across San Francisco — full schedule and tickets at sfclimateweek.org
San Francisco Climate Week is underway, turning the city into a nine-day climate summit with events spread across neighborhoods, campuses, offices and public venues. (sfclimateweek.org) The 2026 edition runs from April 18 through April 26, and the official site says more than 1,000 speakers are appearing across hundreds of events. Organizers said before the opening weekend that attendance could top 60,000 people across more than 650 events around the Bay Area. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) The schedule mixes free and paid programming, from the April 18 welcome day at Yerba Buena Gardens to issue-specific sessions on energy, wildfire, finance, food systems and transportation. Flagship listings include a Sustainable1 climate-risk summit on April 22, an energy summit on April 23, and Project Drawdown’s Climate Solutions Summit later that day at The Melody of San Francisco. (sfclimateweek.org) (climateweeknetwork.org) SF Climate Week is built as a decentralized event, which means hundreds of outside groups host their own sessions under one shared calendar rather than gathering in a single convention hall. Climatebase, the jobs-and-networking platform that co-founded the week, says that format is meant to pull in investors, startups, policymakers, students and community groups at the same time. (prnewswire.com) (sfclimateweek.org) That matters in San Francisco because the Bay Area already concentrates climate software companies, venture capital firms, university labs and state energy agencies, and the week’s program reflects that mix. Speaker listings on the official site include former Vice President Al Gore, former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, investor John Doerr and former federal loan chief Jigar Shah. (sfclimateweek.org) (prnewswire.com) The week is also serving as a launchpad for other conferences that plug into the same audience. Accelerating the Transition, a three-day conference at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, bills itself as the kickoff event and focuses on clean-energy deployment, financing and state-level policy. (acceleratingthetransition.com) Its keynote roster shows the policy-and-industry mix that defines the broader week: Granholm, California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, PG&E Chief Executive Patti Poppe and Stanford engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson are all listed. Other SF Climate Week events on the calendar range from community strategy panels at the Commonwealth Club to a Grist storytelling event at Manny’s in the Mission. (acceleratingthetransition.com) (climateweeknetwork.org) For attendees, the practical point is that SF Climate Week is less one conference than a temporary citywide grid of meetups, panels, demos and recruiting stops. The calendar continues through Saturday, April 26, with the full event list and registration handled through the official site. (sfclimateweek.org)
