Global AI conferences

Ai4 2026

Las Vegas, USA · America's largest AI industry conference; ~12,000 attendees, 1,000+ speakers

KDD 2026

Jeju, South Korea · 32nd ACM SIGKDD, the premier data mining and data science conference

IJCAI-ECAI 2026

Bremen, Germany · 35th International Joint Conference on AI, held jointly with ECAI

Ray Summit 2026

San Francisco, USA · Anyscale's Ray and distributed AI infrastructure conference

Techsauce Global Summit 2026

Bangkok, Thailand · Southeast Asia's flagship startup-tech summit with a heavy AI agenda

DeepFest 2026

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · AI event inside LEAP (170k+ visitors), which moved from February to the Aug-Sep slot

The AI Summit Australia 2026

Melbourne, Australia · Informa's AI Summit Series Australian debut, co-located with Data Center World

ECCV 2026

Malmo, Sweden · Europe's biennial top-tier computer vision conference

AI Infra Summit 2026

Santa Clara, USA · Formerly AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit; ~8,000 attendees; free for enterprise end-users

Global AI Summit (GAIN) 2026

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · SDAIA's state AI summit under Crown Prince patronage, 4th edition

AI Engineer Paris 2026

Paris, France · AI Engineer series European edition, organised with Mistral

Meta Connect 2026

Menlo Park, USA · Meta's AI + XR developer conference; keynote livestream free, in-person by invitation

RecSys 2026

Minneapolis, USA · 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

EmTech Future 2026

Cambridge, USA · MIT Technology Review's flagship emerging-tech event (formerly EmTech MIT)

OpenAI DevDay 2026

San Francisco, USA · OpenAI's flagship developer day; 8-city DevDay Exchanges world tour to follow

The AI Conference 2026

San Francisco, USA · 5,500+ builders and researchers; AGI, LLM, agentic AI and infra tracks

Ai Everything Abu Dhabi 2026

Abu Dhabi, UAE · Abu Dhabi AI Summit day (5 Oct) plus two-day expo (6-7 Oct)

COLM 2026

San Francisco, USA · 3rd Conference on Language Modeling; single-track LLM research venue

World Summit AI 2026

Amsterdam, Netherlands · 10th anniversary edition; 10,000+ attendees, anchor of World AI Week

AI Engineer New York 2026

New York, USA · East-coast flagship of the AI Engineer series

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

San Francisco, USA · 10,000+ attendees; Startup Battlefield 200; AI is the dominant stage theme

TechSparks 2026

Bengaluru, India · YourStory's flagship startup-tech summit; 10,000+ attendees, 500+ speakers

AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2026

Amsterdam, Netherlands · TechEx series; 8,000+ attendees across eight co-located expos

NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026

Berlin, Germany · NVIDIA's European GTC with Jensen Huang keynote

PyTorch Conference 2026

San Jose, USA · PyTorch Foundation flagship covering the PyTorch, vLLM and Ray ecosystem

EMNLP 2026

Budapest, Hungary · Top-tier NLP research conference; hybrid format

Dubai AI Festival 2026

Dubai, UAE · Third edition, part of Dubai AI Week; 20,000+ attendees expected

ODSC AI West 2026

Burlingame, USA · Open Data Science Conference west-coast edition, rebranded ODSC AI

SWITCH 2026

Singapore, Singapore · Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology; 30,000+ participants, deep-tech focus

AI Expo Africa 2026

Johannesburg, South Africa · Africa's largest enterprise AI trade show, 9th edition, ~3,500 delegates

GitHub Universe 2026

San Francisco, USA · GitHub's flagship developer conference in the agentic era; virtual attendance free

Web Summit 2026

Lisbon, Portugal · ~70,000 attendees; Europe's largest tech gathering, AI-dominated agenda

NexTech Week Tokyo Autumn 2026 (AI EXPO TOKYO)

Chiba, Japan · RX Japan trade fair cluster incl. AI EXPO TOKYO NEO; spring edition drew 33,600 visitors

Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2026

San Francisco, USA · Invite-only founder/VC summit hosted by Newcomer and Volley

Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026

Bengaluru, India · Karnataka government's flagship tech summit with a deep AI programme

Microsoft Ignite 2026

San Francisco, USA · Microsoft's enterprise and AI conference; city per venue listing, official page says week of Nov 17

Slush 2026

Helsinki, Finland · ~13,000 attendees; the founder-investor matchmaking flagship (Day 0 on Nov 17)

AWS re:Invent 2026

Las Vegas, USA · ~60,000 attendees; AWS's cloud and AI mega-conference across multiple Strip venues

NeurIPS 2026

Sydney, Australia · Flagship ML research conference; official satellite events in Atlanta and Paris, Dec 9-13

GITEX Global 2026

Dubai, UAE · World's largest tech show (~200,000 visitors); moved from October to December for 2026

The AI Summit New York 2026

New York, USA · Informa's flagship US commercial AI event; ~5,000 attendees, 9 stages

Web Summit Qatar 2027

Doha, Qatar · Web Summit's Middle East edition, ~25,000 attendees

AI & Big Data Expo Global 2027

London, UK · TechEx global edition; 9,000+ innovators, 200+ speakers

World AI Cannes Festival 2027

Cannes, France · Now run by Informa alongside The AI Summit Series; trimmed to two days

AAAI-27

Montreal, Canada · 41st AAAI Conference on AI, with IAAI-27 and EAAI-27 co-located

HumanX 2027

Las Vegas, USA · 9,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers; returns to Las Vegas after SF 2026

Big Data & AI World London 2027

London, UK · UK's largest data and AI trade event, part of Tech Show London (19,000+ visitors)

NVIDIA GTC 2027

San Jose, USA · NVIDIA's flagship ~25,000-person AI conference with Jensen Huang keynote

AI EXPO KOREA 2027

Seoul, South Korea · Korea's largest AI exhibition, 10th edition; ~48,700 visitors in 2026

AAMAS 2027

Hanoi, Vietnam · 26th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

ODSC AI East 2027

Boston, USA · East-coast edition of the Open Data Science Conference series

EmTech AI 2027

Cambridge, USA · MIT Technology Review's dedicated AI event; ~400 senior executives

AI & Big Data Expo North America 2027

San Jose, USA · TechEx North America edition

AI+ Expo 2027

Washington, D.C., USA · SCSP's AI and national security expo; 18,000+ registrants projected

Web Summit Vancouver 2027

Vancouver, Canada · Web Summit's North American edition

Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2027

Cairo, Egypt · GITEX-run second Cairo edition; site pages inconsistently show 7-8 June, homepage says 1-2

The AI Summit London 2027

London, UK · Informa's commercial AI flagship in London Tech Week orbit

VivaTech 2027

Paris, France · Europe's biggest startup-tech fair (165,000+ visitors) with a heavy AI programme

CVPR 2027

Seattle, USA · Largest computer vision conference (~12,000 attendees)

AI for Good Global Summit 2027

Geneva, Switzerland · UN/ITU flagship AI summit; officially the week of 21-25 June 2027, exact days TBC

Data + AI Summit 2027

San Francisco, USA · Databricks' ~20,000-attendee data and AI conference

Geneva AI Summit 2027

Geneva, Switzerland · Swiss-hosted successor in the Bletchley / Paris / New Delhi intergovernmental AI summit series

AI Engineer World's Fair 2027

San Francisco, USA · Largest technical AI engineering conference; 7,000+ engineers expected

RAISE Summit 2027

Paris, France · Europe's fastest-growing AI conference; 9,000+ attendees at the 2026 edition

ACL 2027

Kyoto, Japan · 65th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

SuperAI 2027

Singapore, Singapore · Asia's largest AI event (~10,000 attendees); moved from June to September for 2027

ICCV 2027

Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Biennial top-tier computer vision conference, counterpart to CVPR/ECCV