ClawCon Shenzhen · December 4–6, 2026.
你好，深圳。
OpenClaw is coming to Shenzhen, and we’d love you to join us. On December 4–6, 2026 we’re putting on a three-day festival of claws: Claw Hack, the OpenClaw hackathon, followed by ClawCon, our flagship conference.
Our mission is to keep things open, support the wider AI ecosystem and bring people together. Our Shanghai event was amazing, with thousands of you attending. Now we’re back in China, this time in Shenzhen, the heart of hardware, partnering locally and internationally around open hardware, open source and open-weight models. Everyone raises their lobster differently, and we want to see yours.
Claw Hack: two days of building
The festival starts with Claw Hack. For two days, members of our core team will be in the room to pair-program, review PRs and troubleshoot. Bring the feature you’ve always wanted or the bug you’ve been stuck on, and we’ll work through it together.
There are two tracks. The software track covers Skills, Plugins, integrations, local knowledge tools and new interfaces. The hardware track brings agents into the physical world, with M5Stack development hardware, Seeed Studio’s open-source reBot Arm B601, Pamir’s Lapis One and the Autonomous Lamp. Build with devices and sensors, or give a robot arm an idea for a drawing and see whether it reaches the paper. Some hardware is unreleased, with a few surprises in store. You’re welcome to bring your own devices, too.
Claw Hack opens with workshops from OpenClaw, M5Stack and Seeed Studio, and then it’s time to build. It ends with demos and prizes, and we’ll announce the prizes and the judging panel soon. Builders can also demo their projects at ClawCon.
Come solo or with a team. Applications close on November 25.
ClawCon: the main event
Sunday afternoon is ClawCon, our flagship conference, with leading experts and community leaders from across AI. It runs on two tracks.
Expect talks and live demos on open-source AI, open-weight models, building and evaluating agents, and taking them beyond the screen into hardware. We’ll explore what’s next for OpenClaw and what it really takes—and costs—to run agents locally and in the cloud.
Come to meet the builders, try robots and AI devices, and swap ideas with the community. Bring your laptop to the Claw Clinic for hands-on help with your setup. Full programme to follow.
Here’s who you’ll hear from so far, from open-source and hardware teams to founders and academia:
- Vincent Koc Chief Architect at OpenClaw
- Allen Chao Director of Sales & Marketing at M5Stack
- Mark Shan Director of Open Source at Tencent
- Lao Mai founder of sspai
- Helena Rong Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai
- Yu Youjiang Applications Engineer at Seeed Studio
- Louka Ewington-Pitsos co-founder of Parsewave
- Sun founder of TheMu
With thanks to our partners
Thank you to our host, community partners and every partner helping us put these three days together. More partners and speakers will be announced.
Join us
- Claw Hack, Friday and Saturday, December 4–5, 2026: apply on Luma by November 25
- ClawCon, Sunday afternoon, December 6, 2026: register on Luma
The two events have separate registrations, so sign up for both if you want all three days. We confirm places by email.
See you in Shenzhen.