Best AI & Machine Learning Conferences

One of the world's largest tech conferences with 70,000+ attendees. Massive platform for visibility, partnerships, and international expansion across SaaS, AI, and media.

The CNCF's flagship North American conference for the cloud-native and open-source community. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2026 brings together 9,000+ platform engineers, developers, and DevOps practitioners around Kubernetes, observability, and AI on cloud-native infrastructure.

An apply-to-attend summit from the AI Engineer team on AI coding agents and AI-assisted software development. It runs one workshop day followed by two days of talks and an expo.

An invite-only AI summit hosted by Newcomer Media that gathers venture-backed AI founders, investors, and industry leaders for talks and networking.

InfoQ's senior software practitioner conference with 60+ curated talks on AI engineering, distributed systems, platform engineering, and architecture. No vendor pitches, only practitioners who have shipped at scale. Includes 2 days of hands-on training workshops.

Asia's most influential technology summit, now in its 29th edition. Theme: AI & Beyond. 60,000+ business visitors, 1,800+ exhibitors, 1,000+ startups, and 600+ speakers from 75+ countries across eight thematic tracks.

Amazon Web Services' flagship cloud conference with 50,000+ attendees. 2,000+ sessions, hands-on labs, certifications, and major product launches across cloud, AI/ML, security, and developer tools. For 2026, AWS re:Inforce merges into re:Invent.

The world's premier AI and machine learning research conference. Essential for understanding the bleeding edge of AI with lottery-based registration due to demand.

The world's largest technology and startup event, spanning AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise tech. GITEX Global 2026 draws 200,000+ attendees and 6,800+ exhibitors from 180+ countries, making it a premier global stage for B2B tech and AI.

The flagship commercial AI conference in North America, now in its 11th year. 5,000+ attendees from 75 countries, 539 speakers across 9 content stages, 50+ exhibitors, and a startup showcase focused on real-world AI deployment in business.

The world's most powerful tech event, marking its 60th anniversary. CES 2027 draws 140,000+ attendees and 4,000+ exhibitors across AI, robotics, advanced mobility, digital health, and smart home, setting the year's consumer and enterprise technology agenda.

The Middle East edition of Web Summit, bringing together startups, investors and technology companies in Doha.

A developer conference and expo covering AI engineering, developer tools, APIs and cloud. PRO workshops run on day one, followed by two days of conference and expo.

The 41st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, one of the major academic AI research conferences, with technical tracks, workshops and tutorials.

The European flagship conference of the AI Engineer series, for engineers building with LLMs and AI agents.

The world's largest connectivity event, organized by the GSMA. MWC Barcelona 2027 gathers 100,000+ attendees and 2,900+ exhibitors across mobile, 5G, AI, and enterprise tech, with 1,700+ speakers shaping the future of telecommunications.

HumanX 2027, the flagship enterprise AI conference returns to Mandalay Bay. 9,500+ enterprise AI leaders, 350+ speakers, 700+ sponsors, functional tracks across marketing/product/technology/operations, plus curated matchmaking.

Gartner's North American conference for data, analytics and AI leaders. The 2027 theme is 'Intelligence Unleashed: The Fast Track to Enduring Value'.

A data and AI exhibition and conference held as part of Tech Show London, aimed at data leaders, data scientists and AI practitioners.

NVIDIA's flagship AI developer conference. GTC 2027 covers accelerated computing, generative and agentic AI, robotics, and the GPU infrastructure powering modern machine learning, drawing tens of thousands of developers, researchers, and enterprise leaders.

South by Southwest converges tech, film, music, and culture in downtown Austin. SXSW 2027 features 850+ conference sessions on AI, startups, and the future of technology, plus film premieres, music showcases, and major brand activations.

Google Cloud's flagship annual conference for developers, IT leaders, and business executives. Next 2027 showcases enterprise AI, Gemini models, data analytics, and cloud infrastructure innovations.

The International Conference on Learning Representations, a major academic machine learning conference focused on deep learning and representation learning.

A regional AI Engineer partner conference in downtown Miami, run with React Miami, for engineers building AI applications.

Microsoft's flagship developer conference for AI, Azure, Windows, and developer tooling. Build is where Microsoft unveils Copilot, AI agent platforms, and developer APIs for the year ahead. Official 2027 dates pending, typically held in May.

Google's flagship developer conference and a key venue for Gemini AI, Android, and developer platform announcements. Official 2027 dates pending; typically mid-to-late May at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

A Nordic conference for data, analytics and AI practitioners and leaders from industry, the public sector and academia.

The North American edition of Web Summit, a technology conference for startups, investors and large tech companies.

The first London edition of SuperAI, a two-day AI conference for founders, investors and enterprise technology leaders.

Snowflake's flagship data + AI conference. 20,000+ data leaders explore agentic AI, Cortex, Snowpark, and the AI Data Cloud through 500+ sessions, hands-on labs, and enterprise AI keynotes.

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, unveiling iOS, macOS, and platform updates including Apple Intelligence AI features. Free online for millions of developers, with an invited in-person experience at Apple Park. Official 2027 dates pending, typically early-to-mid June.

An enterprise AI conference and expo held during London Tech Week, focused on applied AI in business.

The Latin American edition of Web Summit, bringing together startups, investors and technology companies in Rio de Janeiro.

TechEx North America co-locates the AI & Big Data Expo with Cyber Security, IoT, and Cloud expos. The 2027 edition gathers 8,000+ enterprise technologists across 250+ sessions on applied AI, data, and security.

Databricks' annual conference on data engineering, analytics, machine learning and generative AI, held in person with virtual access.

The flagship conference of the AI Engineer series, for AI engineers, founders and VPs of AI building production AI systems.

A large North American AI industry conference for business and technology leaders adopting AI across industries.

A two-day AI conference in Singapore for founders, investors and enterprise technology leaders across APAC and beyond.

The second European edition of HumanX, an AI conference for executives, founders, investors and policymakers.

Meta's annual developer event for AI, mixed reality, and smart glasses, showcasing Llama models and the next computing platform. Official 2027 dates pending; typically mid-to-late September.

OpenAI's flagship developer conference unveiling new models, APIs, and tooling for building on its AI platform. Official 2027 dates pending; typically late September or October in San Francisco.

One of the world's largest AI summits, convening startups, enterprises, investors, and researchers across the full AI ecosystem.

Premier startup conference featuring the famous Startup Battlefield pitch competition, exhibitor floor, and content tracks on AI, SaaS, and emerging tech. 10,000+ founders, VCs, and operators. Official 2027 dates pending, typically mid-October.

One of the world's largest tech conferences returns to Lisbon. 70,000+ attendees from 160+ countries, 25+ content stages, Night Summit networking events, and Startup ALPHA program. Official 2027 dates pending, typically early-mid November.

The CNCF's flagship North American conference for the cloud-native and open-source community, centered on Kubernetes, observability, platform engineering, and AI on cloud-native infrastructure.

AWS's flagship cloud and AI conference returns to Las Vegas. 60,000+ attendees, Adam Selipsky keynote, hundreds of new service announcements, and 2,000+ technical sessions. Official 2027 dates pending, typically late November / early December.

The world's largest technology and startup event, spanning AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise tech across 180+ countries. Official 2027 dates pending; historically held in the second half of the year in Dubai.