Vercel Ship 2026

What this countdown tracks

The clock above counts down to Vercel Ship 2026, Vercel's annual product conference, scheduled for June 30, 2026 in New York City. The keynote from Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch anchors the morning at 09:00 ET.

About this event

Vercel Ship is the company's flagship platform event, where it sets the year's roadmap across the AI Cloud, Vercel Functions, AI SDK, AI Gateway, v0, Sandbox, Workflow, and the broader Next.js / frontend ecosystem. The format is a tightly produced single-day keynote, an after-keynote demo lounge, and parallel deep-dive technical sessions with the engineering team.

The 2026 edition arrives with Vercel's AI Cloud positioning fully formed: Fluid Compute as the underlying serverless model, AI Gateway as a unified provider routing layer, AI SDK 6 as the canonical framework for agentic apps, and v0 / Sandbox / Workflow as the AI-native development surface. Ship 2026 is the venue for the next round of roadmap reveals across that stack.

What to expect

Expect Guillermo Rauch's keynote to cover the AI Cloud direction, new Vercel Functions and Fluid Compute capabilities, AI SDK upgrades, AI Gateway routing and observability, v0 model and template updates, Sandbox enhancements, and Vercel Workflow features. Marketplace integrations (Neon, Upstash, Clerk, Supabase) typically receive prominent placement.

Ship is also where Vercel often previews changes to the Next.js framework that ship in the autumn release. Expect demos of agentic UX patterns, AI Elements components, and observability tooling.

Past editions

• Vercel Ship 2025 (June 2025, New York) launched the AI Cloud positioning, Fluid Compute GA, AI Gateway, Sandbox, and the Workflow DevKit.
• Vercel Ship 2024 introduced the AI SDK 3 and expanded the Marketplace integration model.
• Vercel Ship 2023 launched Vercel Storage (KV, Postgres, Blob) and the Edge Functions GA pricing.
• Vercel Ship 2022 was the first edition of the conference, focused on the Edge Network and ISR improvements.

How to watch

The keynote streams free on vercel.com/ship and Vercel's YouTube channel. The keynote begins at 09:00 ET on June 30, 2026, which is 06:00 PT, 14:00 BST, 15:00 CEST, 18:30 IST, and 22:00 JST. Session recordings publish to the Ship on-demand library shortly after.

Related countdowns

Ship pairs naturally with Next.js Conf 2026 on Vercel's calendar and shares the developer-AI window with GitHub Universe 2026 and Microsoft Build 2026.

FAQ

When does Vercel Ship 2026 start? Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 09:00 ET in New York City. Where is Vercel Ship 2026? New York, New York; the venue is announced via vercel.com/ship. How can I watch Vercel Ship 2026? Live on vercel.com/ship and Vercel's YouTube channel; on-demand sessions follow shortly after. What is the focus of Ship 2026? AI Cloud, Fluid Compute, AI SDK, AI Gateway, v0, Sandbox, Workflow, and the broader frontend developer experience.