// SFF

The gathering place for software factory practitioners.

The foundation convenes summits, intensives, standards working sessions, and research symposiums for the people building production software factories.

Software Factory Intensive

Three-day hands-on workshop where teams build a working factory and ship a real project through it.

Industry Summit

Annual flagship conference. Keynotes, working group sessions, and ecosystem updates.

Standards Working Sessions

Focused virtual sessions where working groups deliberate on drafts and resolve cross-group dependencies.

Research Symposium

Academic and industry research presentations on multi-agent software development.

Upcoming foundation events.

Standards

June 11, 2026

Virtual · Zoom

Joint Session — Agent Memory × Agent Integration

Coordinated working session between WG-01 (Memory for Coding Agents) and WG-07 (Coding Agent Integration) to reconcile the memory exchange surface area in the Agent Capability Manifest.

WG-01WG-07Virtual
Intensive

June 18–19, 2026

San Francisco, CA

Software Factory Intensive — San Francisco

Two-day training intensive. Engineering teams build a working multi-agent software factory and ship a real project through it.

Hands-onTwo-dayTraining
Intensive

July 21–22, 2026

New York, NY

Software Factory Intensive — New York

Two-day training intensive. Engineering teams build a working multi-agent software factory and ship a real project through it.

Hands-onTwo-dayTraining
Workshop

July 23, 2026

Virtual

Factory Deployment Manifest Workshop

Focused workshop with WG-09 (Code Deployment) authors to walk through draft 0.2 of the Factory Deployment Manifest and collect implementation feedback from teams deploying to production.

WG-09Implementer
Intensive

August 18–20, 2026

New York, NY

Software Factory Intensive — Cohort Q3

Three-day hands-on workshop. Engineering teams build a working multi-agent software factory and ship a real project through it. Limited to 60 participants across 12 pods.

Hands-onEngineeringPods
Symposium

September 8–9, 2026

Cambridge, MA

Research Symposium on Multi-Agent Software Development

Academic and industry research presentations on multi-agent software engineering, factory orchestration, and AI-augmented development workflows.

ResearchAcademic
Summit

October 14–16, 2026

San Francisco, CA

Software Factory Industry Summit 2026

The annual gathering of the software factory ecosystem. Three days of standards deliberation, keynotes from the practitioners building production factories, and structured working sessions across all ten foundation working groups.

AnnualStandardsIndustry

Co-organize foundation programming.

Member organizations can co-organize public workshops, regional summits, and standards working sessions with the foundation. Foundation events are open to participation by the public on the same substantive terms offered to members; member-only sessions are limited to operational working-group activity.

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Sponsorship

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Foundation events accept qualified sponsorship payments under IRC §513(i). Acknowledgment is limited to neutral name, logo, location, contact information, a product list, and a hyperlink. The foundation does not provide advertising, endorsements, qualitative product claims, or exclusive provider designations in exchange for sponsorship.

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