Computex, Microsoft Build, Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase All Start This Week

The most consequential seven days in tech this year begin right now. From Monday, June 1, through Sunday, June 7, 2026, developers, researchers, engineers, and gamers across every time zone will need to track simultaneous events on three continents — a robotics summit in Vienna, an AI hardware show in Taipei, a developer conference in San Francisco, a computer vision gathering in Denver, gaming showcases at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and a 1,035-event startup festival across New York City. This guide covers every event, every keynote time, and every livestream link so nothing worth watching goes by unnoticed.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered the week's opening salvo Sunday night at the Taipei Music Center, announcing the N1X — the company's first ARM-based laptop chip for Windows PCs, pairing an RTX 5070-class GPU with the full CUDA software stack. That keynote kicks off NVIDIA's GTC Taipei run alongside Computex 2026, which opens its exhibition floors Tuesday morning local time. The rest of the week builds from there.

ICRA 2026: Premier Robotics Research Arrives in Vienna

Dates: Monday, June 1 – Friday, June 5 | Location: VIECON Conference Center, Vienna, Austria

The 43rd annual IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is underway in Vienna, bringing together the world's leading robotics researchers and industry practitioners for five days of peer-reviewed paper sessions, workshops, competitions, and exhibitions. A Welcome Reception takes place tonight, June 1, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. local Vienna time (noon to 2:00 p.m. ET) at VIECON.

Workshop tracks opening Wednesday include sessions on world models for Vision Language Action models, emerging directions in data for multimodal foundation models, and 3D language-vision-action environments. Thursday and Friday sessions go deeper into computer vision, generative models, and multi-agent systems. The IERA Award Final Session, recognizing excellence in entrepreneurship and enabling robotics technology, is scheduled for June 4. A Tech Talk Stage bridges academia and industry, and an Innovation Stage, introduced by the Industrial Activities Board, provides a platform for emerging robotics entrepreneurs.

For robotics practitioners and researchers, ICRA remains the highest-prestige peer-reviewed venue in the field. The Vienna edition covers every major subfield, from physical AI and manipulation to autonomous vehicles and human-robot interaction.

New York Tech Week: 1,035 Events Across Seven Days

Dates: Monday, June 1 – Sunday, June 7 | Location: Various venues, New York City

New York Tech Week, presented by a16z, runs all week with more than 1,035 individually organized events spanning hackathons, pitch competitions, founder dinners, and technical sessions across Manhattan and Brooklyn. Major participants include OpenAI, Stripe, NVIDIA, and dozens of local hosts.

Among the anchor events still ahead: the Scale AI "Human in the Loop" live recording features researchers and operators discussing post-training and evaluation for frontier models. A technical session on Model Context Protocol in production — covering multi-tool agent systems at scale — is co-presented by NVIDIA's developer-relations team. The a16z AI Faire offers a demo-heavy afternoon of AI and entertainment companies presenting to a16z partners.

The Proof of Concept Fest (Monday, June 1, 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Midtown), hosted by GoTogether.ai and Valiron.co, includes a Copilot masterclass, a build sprint, demos, and a $25,000 Azure credit prize from Microsoft for Startups. Other highlights include an ElevenLabs East Coast event featuring live audio-agent demos and Q&A with the research team, a Cloudflare and Shopify session on building for the agent era (Tuesday, June 2, SoHo), and the Pinecone Nexus AI Launch Party (Wednesday, June 4, Flatiron).

SXSW London 2026: Technology, Film, and Music in East London

Dates: Monday, June 1 – Saturday, June 6 | Location: Shoreditch and Hoxton, East London

SXSW London returns to East London for its second year, running six days across venues in Shoreditch and Hoxton. The edition features more than 800 speakers, 200 music performances, and 100 film screenings. Daily programming runs from 9:30 a.m. local time through approximately midnight.

Confirmed speakers include Michelle Obama, Ant and Dec, and Brian Eno. The conference organizes programming across themed tracks: AI and Emerging Technology, Health Tech and MedTech, Screen, Story and Sound, Design and Architecture, and a Youth Mental Health Hub — the inaugural edition of which is presented by the Child Mind Institute in partnership with Wellcome. The event runs through Saturday, June 6.

Computex 2026: AI Hardware Show Opens in Taipei

Dates: Tuesday, June 2 – Friday, June 5 | Location: Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (Halls 1 and 2) and Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan

Computex 2026, themed "AI Together," expects 1,500 exhibitors across 6,000 booths and organizes its programming around three pillars: AI and Computing, Robotics and Mobility, and Next-Gen Tech. Exhibition hours run 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, with the general public admitted on Friday only.

The keynote schedule spans four days. Cristiano Amon, President and CEO of Qualcomm, delivers the opening Computex keynote Tuesday afternoon at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. Matt Murphy, Chairman and CEO of Marvell, follows on Wednesday to address AI data infrastructure. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan will also keynote — public registration has reportedly sold out. Cisco joins the Computex keynote lineup for the first time in 2026: Senior Vice President Jeremy Foster will present Cisco's approach to deploying AI as a mission-critical capability. NXP's Rafael Sotomayor rounds out the confirmed roster.

The COMPUTEX Forum 2026, running June 2 through 4, covers six major theme sessions including Robotics and Physical AI, Generative AI, and Data Intelligence and Security, with more than 30 senior executives presenting. A single Forum ticket covers all six sessions, and recordings will be available on demand for 90 days. The InnoVEX startup pavilion in TaiNEX 2 includes matchmaking with more than 800 venture capital firms. A Robotics and TechXperience Zone in TWTC Hall 1 will feature live robot demos and autonomous vehicle showcases.

NVIDIA GTC Taipei at Computex: AI Infrastructure Deep Dives

Dates: Tuesday, June 2 – Friday, June 5 | Location: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taiwan

NVIDIA's GTC Taipei runs June 2 through 4 at the Taipei International Convention Center with sessions covering physical AI, AI factories, inference, and agentic AI. A separate GTC Taipei Conference pass is required for TICC sessions; the pass also grants access to the Computex exhibition floors.

Jensen Huang delivered the opening GTC keynote Sunday night at the Taipei Music Center, confirming the N1X, NVIDIA's first Windows ARM laptop chip. The N1X pairs a MediaTek-designed ARM CPU with a Blackwell GPU connected via NVLink at 300 GB/s — delivering RTX 5070-class graphics in a thin laptop form factor. Dell, Lenovo, ASUS, and MSI are among the manufacturers preparing first-wave N1X devices. Huang also outlined NVIDIA's Vera Rubin AI computing platform, which delivers approximately 3.5 times the training performance and five times the inference performance of its predecessor, the Blackwell platform, and entered full production earlier in 2026.

Sessions at TICC will go deep on NVIDIA's inference and agentic AI infrastructure. Computex badge holders can access the TICC exhibition floor without a separate pass.

Microsoft Build 2026: Agents Go Into Production

Dates: Tuesday, June 2 – Wednesday, June 3 | Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA | Streaming: build.microsoft.com (free) and Microsoft's YouTube channel

Microsoft Build 2026 opens Tuesday at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco — the first time the conference has been held in that city since 2016. In-person attendance is capped at roughly 2,500 developers; the keynote streams free online. In-person tickets are priced at $1,099.

CEO Satya Nadella delivers the opening keynote Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT). The session catalog is structured around seven tracks — Agents and Apps, Azure AI Platform, GitHub and Developer Productivity, Microsoft Fabric, Responsible AI, Windows Development, and Microsoft 365 — all oriented toward production-ready AI deployment rather than proof-of-concept demos.

Microsoft has confirmed no Windows 12 announcement is on the agenda. Microsoft Agent 365, the enterprise control plane for AI agents, reached general availability on May 1, 2026, and Build sessions are expected to expand on that foundation. GitHub Copilot CLI reached general availability in March 2026, and Build is expected to extend that into multi-agent terminal workflows. Sessions will also cover advances in GitHub Copilot's agentic coding capabilities, Azure AI Foundry platform updates, and Windows-native AI development. All sessions will be available on demand after the event.

PlayStation State of Play: Marvel's Wolverine Gameplay Reveal

Date: Tuesday, June 2 | Time: 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 p.m. BST | Streaming: PlayStation YouTube and Twitch channels

Sony opens gaming season with one of its largest State of Play broadcasts in recent years — more than 60 minutes of updates, announcements, and gameplay reveals from studios worldwide. The headline act is confirmed: Insomniac Games will open the show with new gameplay for Marvel's Wolverine, focused on Logan's combat system and new story details. The game launches exclusively on PS5 on September 15, 2026, and is set within the same Earth-1048 universe as Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man series.

For the first time since E3 2018, PlayStation is also bringing a showcase to movie theaters — Sony has partnered with Alamo Drafthouse to host free live watch parties in six US cities: Raleigh, Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, and New York City. Tickets are free but require a refundable food and beverage voucher.

Beyond Wolverine, industry speculation includes possible appearances from Naughty Dog's Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, Haven Studios' multiplayer title, and Phantom Blade Zero, which is approaching its September 2026 release window.

CVPR 2026: Computer Vision's Premier Peer-Reviewed Conference

Dates: Wednesday, June 3 – Sunday, June 7 | Location: Denver Convention Center, Denver, Colorado

The 43rd annual IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition opens Wednesday at the Denver Convention Center for five days of peer-reviewed research, workshops, tutorials, and an industry exhibition. With acceptance rates in the 22 to 25 percent range, CVPR remains one of the most selective venues in computer science.

The exhibit hall opens Friday, June 5, through Sunday, June 7. Workshop tracks spanning the week include the GigaBrain Challenge 2026 on World Models and Vision Language Action Models, DataMFM on emerging directions for multimodal foundation models, and the 3rd 3D-LLM/VLA Workshop bridging language, vision, and action in 3D environments. Featured sessions include "See the World in a Different Light: Physical Appearance Modeling and Relighting in the Age of Generative AI" and "1st Workshop on Journey to the Awards: Generative AI for Movie-Grade Video Production," examining the crossover between AI tools and cinematic production.

Skift Data and AI Summit: Travel Industry Tackles AI Governance

Date: Wednesday, June 3 | Time: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET | Location: City Winery, Pier 57, New York City

The third annual Skift Data and AI Summit runs one day at City Winery in New York City, concurrent with NY Tech Week. Following last year's sold-out event, the summit brings travel industry leaders together to discuss AI applications, data strategies, and governance frameworks.

Confirmed speakers include David Thompson (Chief Information Technology Officer, American Express Global Business Travel), Shilpa Ranganathan (Chief Product Officer, Expedia Group), Richard Valtr (Founder, Mews), Jie Zheng (Technology Team Lead, TUI Group), and Wei Manfredi (Senior Vice President of AI and Architecture, IHG Hotels and Resorts). Key themes include AI-powered pricing and demand forecasting, next-generation travel search and personalization, governance and trust frameworks, and the path from pilot to production at scale.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Launches on Xbox and Nintendo Switch 2

Date: Wednesday, June 3 | Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC (with Play Anywhere), Nintendo Switch 2

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the recipient of more than 125 perfect scores and 40 Game of the Year awards, arrives Wednesday on Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S. The Xbox version includes Xbox Play Anywhere and Xbox Cloud Gaming support. The game first launched on PlayStation 5 in February 2024 and PC in January 2025.

The new ports include a Streamlined Progression feature that removes MP and HP limits, sets ATB and limit gauges to full during battles, enables 9,999 damage, and simplifies weapon ability acquisition — allowing players to focus on the story-driven experience and hybrid combat. Physical Nintendo Switch 2 buyers from the first production run receive a special Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Zack Fair card featuring variant art by Tetsuya Nomura.

Code With Claude Tokyo: Anthropic's Developer Conference Reaches Asia

Dates: Friday, June 5 – Saturday, June 6 | Location: Tokyo, Japan (with simultaneous livestream)

Anthropic's Code With Claude series makes its Asia-Pacific debut in Tokyo on June 5 and 6, following stops in San Francisco (May 6) and London (May 19). The June 5 agenda runs from 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. local Japan time and includes a product keynote, breakout sessions, workshops, demos, and office hours with Claude teams.

Key speakers include Angela Jiang (Product Lead at Anthropic), Katelyn Lesse (Head of API Engineering at Anthropic), and Cat Wu (Product Lead, Claude Code). All Day 1 keynotes and breakout sessions will be livestreamed. Virtual registration remains open. A Code With Claude Extended Tokyo event follows on June 11, designed for independent developers and early-stage founders, featuring founder stories and hands-on workshops from Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Summer Game Fest 2026: Year's Biggest Gaming Showcase Live from Los Angeles

Date: Friday, June 5 | Time: 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET / 10:00 p.m. BST | Location: Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles (also livestreamed globally)

Summer Game Fest, hosted by Geoff Keighley and Lucy James live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, is the year's largest gaming showcase — approximately two hours of world premieres and major announcements across all platforms.

Pre-show teasers have included Blood of the Dawnwalker and Lara Croft: Legacy of Atlantis in a sizzle reel. Day of the Devs follows the main show on Friday at 4:00 p.m. PT (7:00 p.m. ET), featuring more than 60 upcoming independent games.

The broader Summer Game Fest week includes satellite showcases: the Latin American Games Showcase (Thursday, June 4, 2:00 p.m. PT), Women Led Games Showcase (Thursday, June 4, 4:00 p.m. PT), Access-Ability Summer Showcase (Friday, June 5, 8:00 a.m. PT), Wholesome Direct, Story Rich Showcase, and the Gayming Pride Parade (Saturday, June 6). The Black Voices in Gaming showcase took place Monday, June 2, at 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET.

Future Games Show Summer Showcase: Troy Baker and Alix Wilton Regan Host 40-Plus Reveals

Date: Saturday, June 6 | Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. BST | Streaming: Future Games Show YouTube, Twitch, X, Steam

GamesRadar's Future Games Show Summer Showcase is hosted by Troy Baker (Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle) and Alix Wilton Regan (Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis). The two-hour broadcast will feature world premieres, exclusive trailers, and stealth demo drops across more than 40 games, plus the extended gameplay reveal of sci-fi action-adventure RPG Exodus immediately following the main show.

FGS Live From Los Angeles follows directly after the main showcase, with the editorial team hosting additional world premieres and deeper dives from the events of the week.

Xbox Games Showcase 2026: Gears E-Day, Fable, and Halo Mark 25th Anniversary

Date: Sunday, June 7 | Time: 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. BST | Streaming: Xbox YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and 40-plus language streams

Microsoft closes out the week with the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Xbox brand. The main showcase — featuring first gameplay looks and news on upcoming titles from Xbox first-party studios and third-party partners — begins at 1:00 p.m. ET and streams in more than 40 languages with American Sign Language and British Sign Language support.

Xbox's Matt Booty has confirmed that Fable, which was delayed to February 2027, will receive a new look at the showcase. Updates on Halo: Campaign Evolved and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 are also expected. The Gears of War: E-Day Direct follows the main showcase immediately, coming directly from developer The Coalition Studio and taking players into Emergence Day with new gameplay and story details on the prequel.

PC Gaming Show 2026: Fifty-Plus Games on the Platform Built for Depth

Date: Sunday, June 7 | Time: 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET / 8:00 p.m. BST | Streaming: YouTube, Twitch, X, Steam

The PC Gaming Show, running concurrently with the Xbox showcase on Sunday, celebrates everything that makes PC gaming distinctive. The 2026 edition is the first of three PC Gaming Show events this year, with a Tokyo Direct and a Most Wanted edition also scheduled later in 2026. More than 50 PC games are featured, including world premiere trailers, exclusive announcements, developer interviews, and updates on new and upcoming titles.

Full Week at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

When is Summer Game Fest 2026?

Summer Game Fest 2026 takes place Friday, June 5, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET, streaming live from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The show is approximately two hours long and is hosted by Geoff Keighley and Lucy James. It is followed immediately by Day of the Devs at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7:00 p.m. ET.

How do I watch Microsoft Build 2026 online for free?

The Microsoft Build 2026 opening keynote on June 2 streams free at build.microsoft.com and on Microsoft's YouTube channel, starting at 12:30 p.m. ET (9:30 a.m. PT). All sessions will be available on demand after the event at no cost. In-person tickets are $1,099 and the venue is Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

What is the Xbox Games Showcase 2026 date and time?

The Xbox Games Showcase 2026 airs Sunday, June 7, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. BST, streaming on Xbox YouTube, Twitch, and Facebook in more than 40 languages. It will be followed immediately by the Gears of War: E-Day Direct from developer The Coalition Studio. New looks at Fable, Halo: Campaign Evolved, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 are also expected.

What gaming showcases are happening in June 2026?

The main gaming showcases this week are the PlayStation State of Play (Tuesday, June 2, 5:00 p.m. ET), Summer Game Fest (Friday, June 5, 5:00 p.m. ET), the Future Games Show Summer Showcase (Saturday, June 6, 3:00 p.m. ET), the Xbox Games Showcase (Sunday, June 7, 1:00 p.m. ET), and the PC Gaming Show (Sunday, June 7, 3:00 p.m. ET).