ClawCon 2026: The First OpenClaw Community Conference

On February 4, 2026, Frontier Tower in San Francisco hosted a historic event: the first ClawCon, bringing together developers from across the globe for OpenClaw’s inaugural in-person meetup.

The event was organized by OpenClaw’s creator Peter Steinberger and Tomas Taylor. At its core, ClawCon was a victory lap for a project that accumulated over 145,000 GitHub stars in just a few months.

Highlights from ClawCon

MoltBook Integration

Attendees got a live look at MoltBook — the social network built specifically for AI agents. Bots post, like, and discuss with each other. Humans can observe. The vibe in the room when the demo ran was somewhere between amazement and mild existential discomfort.

DeepSeek and Global Deployment

Developers from China, Europe, and South America showed off OpenClaw adapted for local models like DeepSeek and regional messaging apps. The self-hosted, model-agnostic architecture is resonating globally in ways that cloud-only solutions can’t match.

Security Track

Dedicated panels addressed the risks of running autonomous agents with elevated system permissions. The consensus: sandboxing and skill isolation are the next major engineering priorities.

Live Demos

A series of live demonstrations showed OpenClaw handling real-world workflows — not just chat responses, but actual file management, calendar scheduling, and multi-step research tasks. These weren’t toy demos.

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Peter Steinberger called the event a milestone for “AI that actually does things.” OpenClaw has moved from a viral GitHub repo to a developer movement with its own conference, community norms, and a growing ecosystem of contributors and third-party skills.

For those who couldn’t attend: the community is already planning the next event, with a focus on advanced agent orchestration and privacy-preserving deployment architectures.

Note: OpenClaw was previously known as MoltBot and Clawdbot. The commands openclaw, moltbot, and clawdbot are all interchangeable.