AI Events & Conferences 2026

Microsoft’s annual developer conference. This year’s edition focuses heavily on AI Copilot development, Azure AI services and the Phi-3 model family.

Google’s flagship developer conference, featuring major announcements on Gemini Ultra, Google AI Studio, NotebookLM and Android AI integration.

Europe’s largest startup and tech event. Strong AI track covering generative AI in industry, EU AI Act compliance and French AI startup ecosystem.

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Expected major announcements on Apple Intelligence, on-device LLMs and AI integration across iOS, macOS and visionOS.

Leading enterprise AI event in Europe. 5,000+ attendees, 300+ speakers from Google, DeepMind, HSBC, AstraZeneca and the UK Government AI Safety Institute.

One of the largest tech conferences in North America. Major AI track featuring founders, VCs and researchers from Cohere, Vector Institute and leading North American AI labs.

International Conference on Machine Learning, the premier academic venue for ML research. Over 9,000 papers submitted; essential for researchers and serious ML practitioners.

UN-organised summit on AI for sustainable development. Focuses on AI applications in healthcare, climate, education and governance. Strong policy and ethics track.

One of the world’s largest technology conferences with 70,000+ attendees. Strong AI startup and investment track, featuring hundreds of AI companies from 160 countries.

Neural Information Processing Systems, the world’s top AI research conference. Accepting 15,000+ attendees. If you work in ML research, this is the unmissable annual event.

The biggest AI and accelerated computing event of the year. Jensen Huang’s keynote alone draws hundreds of thousands of viewers globally. Sessions cover everything from GPU architecture to LLM inference optimisation, robotics and autonomous systems. If you work anywhere near the AI infrastructure stack, this is worth attending in person.

One of the fastest-growing AI business conferences, HumanX brings together 6,500+ AI leaders, founders and investors for four days at Moscone Center. The focus is squarely on applied AI: how companies are actually deploying it, what’s working, and where the real opportunities are. Strong track on AI and the workforce, making it particularly relevant for careers in the field.

The International Conference on Learning Representations is where the most cited deep learning papers land. This year it moves to Brazil for the first time, opening the conversation to Latin America’s growing research community. Workshops on the final two days cover topics from AI safety to efficient transformers. Student registration is genuinely affordable.

The flagship AI event for European business, part of London Tech Week. 4,500 senior professionals across 10 stages and 14 content tracks. Strong representation from financial services, healthcare and public sector alongside the usual tech giants. The Future AI Leaders programme within the event is worth checking out specifically if you’re building a career in AI.

800+ sessions across data engineering, ML, governance and AI applications at Moscone Center. Virtual access is free, making it accessible regardless of where you are. The hallmark of this conference is the depth of technical content: the sessions go well beyond surface-level demos into real production architectures. Apache Spark and Delta Lake contributors are heavily present.

The International Conference on Machine Learning heads to Seoul this year, the second time the conference has been held in Asia. Over 10,000 researchers are expected. This edition is notable for its new strict policy banning LLMs as listed authors on papers, a response to growing concerns about AI-generated research. Tutorial day on July 6th is a good entry point for practitioners.

The European edition of HumanX brings the same format to Amsterdam: senior AI decision-makers, applied case studies and serious networking. Particularly strong on the EU AI Act implications for business and how European companies are navigating regulation while staying competitive. A good alternative to the San Francisco edition for those based in or near Europe.

Two days of applied AI across machine learning, NLP, computer vision and enterprise automation. The exhibition floor puts you in the same room as 200+ vendors, which makes it unusually good for seeing the actual product landscape in one place. Stronger on implementation and tooling than pure research, so well suited to practitioners and engineers.

70,000 attendees across 160 countries make this one of the largest tech gatherings in the world. The AI track has grown substantially each year and now features hundreds of AI startups alongside established players. The NIGHT Summit side event is where much of the real networking happens. Job seekers often find the startup exhibition more productive than any dedicated careers event.

NeurIPS moves to Sydney this year, with satellite events in Atlanta and Paris for those who can’t make the trip to Australia. The main conference runs Sunday through Saturday with workshops extending the week. Registration opens in the autumn and sells out fast. Satellite locations offer a more accessible option at a fraction of the cost and with the same live paper presentations.