App Growth Summit San Francisco

About the event

App Growth Summit San Francisco is the Bay Area stop of the App Growth Summit conference series, a set of invite-only, one-day events held in several cities around the world. Attendance is curated and the number of vendors is kept limited, so most of the room comes from app publishers and brand marketing teams rather than from sellers.

The program covers how mobile apps acquire, keep and monetize users: Apple Ads and paid acquisition, localization, community channels, retention, creative testing and measurement. Speakers are usually practitioners from well-known consumer apps. The 2026 edition took place on September 24 at The Midway in San Francisco, with more than 300 attendees and over 35 speakers spread across a main stage and a smaller experts corner. Dates for the next San Francisco edition have not been published yet.

Who should attend

Best suited to growth, user acquisition, ASO and monetization leads at consumer app companies, as well as app founders who run growth themselves. Attendees get practical case studies from people running large apps, a sense of which acquisition and retention tactics are working right now, and a curated room for meeting peers and a small number of vendors.