For founders & executives: Ai4 (Las Vegas), SuperAI (Singapore), RAISE Summit (Paris), AI Summit London
CVPR 2026 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
Dates: June 3–7, 2026
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Best for: For researchers and academics, particularly Vision/ML researchers.
Registration fees: Full access registration $950 for IEEE/CVF members
and $1,200 for non-members. Discounts for students are available.
EEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 is the premier annual academic conference in computer vision. While the roots of the event are tied to image and video understanding, the conference has expanded alongside the broader AI ecosystem and now covers areas such as multimodal models, robotics, embodied AI, spatial computing, and AI-powered perception systems.
The 2026 edition runs at the Colorado Convention Center and remains the top venue for publishing and discovering vision research - with peer-reviewed paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and live demos. The event attracts researchers from leading universities, major AI labs, and technology companies, making it one of the best places to see emerging research before it reaches commercial products. So, if your work touches visual AI in any form, from generative image models to robotics perception, this is where the most significant announcements of the year get debuted.
AI Con USA
Dates: June 7–12, 2026
Location: Seattle, Washington
Best for: ML engineers and practitioners, particularly those looking for hands-on technical training in applied AI and MLOps.
Registration fees: from $1995 for a simple two-day pass to $3945 for a full week of training classes, tutorials, sessions, and more.
AI Con USA is designed for practitioners who want to build AI systems rather than simply hear about them. This year's event is no exception, it’s a hybrid conference focused on real-world AI implementation, held at the Hyatt Regency Seattle. The six-day program combines keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on tutorials, and dedicated training classes covering topics such as generative AI, RAG, agentic systems, LLMs, and MLOps. Past speakers have included experts from Microsoft, Apple, DoorDash, and S&P Global.
The event sits in an interesting middle ground. It isn't as research-focused as CVPR, ICML, or IJCAI, but it is considerably more technical and hands-on than business-oriented events like SuperAI or many executive AI summits. The experience is closer to a professional training program than a traditional industry summit, making it particularly valuable for engineers, technical leads, and teams looking to deepen their AI capabilities.
The AI Summit London
Dates: June 10–11, 2026
Location: London, UK
Best for: Founders and executives, particularly European enterprise leaders.
Registration fees: Entry-level expo access starts at £149, while full conference pass is £2,699, Startups, investors, academics, and government professionals qualify for discounted rates.
The AI Summit London is a flagship commercial AI event of London Tech Week and one of Europe's leading events for enterprise AI adoption. It brings together executives, technology leaders, founders, investors, and policymakers to discuss how AI is being deployed across industries today.
In contrast to research-focused conferences, this event put an emphasis on practical business outcomes: scaling AI initiatives, measuring ROI, navigating governance requirements, and integrating AI into existing operations. The agenda is shaped in collaboration with major organizations, including Mastercard, Vodafone, IBM, EY, AstraZeneca, and Google DeepMind, which helps provide attendees with real-world case studies rather than theoretical discussions. The event also features tracks for startups, investors, and enterprise leaders, offering a view of the European AI ecosystem. For decision-makers who are evaluating AI strategy, partnerships, or deployment opportunities, it's one of the most relevant conferences on the summer calendar.
SuperAI 2026
Dates: June 10–11, 2026
Location: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Best for: For founders and executives, and particularly for Asia expansion.
Registration fees: Standard conference passes are $999. There is also a special Access Pass with VIP benefits and exclusive networking opportunities priced at $2,999.
SuperAI has quickly established itself as one of the largest and most influential AI gatherings in the Asia-Pacific region. It runs as part of Singapore AI Week, which lasts between June 8 and June 14 and brings together founders, investors, enterprise leaders, policymakers, and technology builders to discuss the commercial future of artificial intelligence.
The agenda spans foundation models, robotics, AI infrastructure, fintech, healthcare, and regulation, while side events include startup competitions, developer hackathons, investor networking, and community meetups. Unlike research-focused conferences, SuperAI places a strong emphasis on business opportunities, partnerships, and ecosystem building. For companies considering expansion into Asia, few events offer comparable access to regional investors, enterprise buyers, government stakeholders, and startup founders. If Asia-Pacific is part of your growth strategy, SuperAI is one of the most valuable networking opportunities of the summer.
Databricks Data + AI Summit
Dates: June 15–18, 2026
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Best for: Engineers, AI builders.
Registration fees: From $195 for a Keynote & Expo Pass to $1,895 for a Full Conference Pass. 50% discount is offered for Government, military, education, and nonprofit attendees.
Databricks' annual flagship conference is one of the most important gatherings for teams working at the intersection of data infrastructure and AI. The 2026 program focuses on agentic AI systems, the Lakehouse Platform, Unity Catalog, data governance, analytics, and modern AI application development. Attendees can expect more than 800 sessions, hands-on training opportunities, certifications, product announcements, and case studies from organizations deploying AI in production. The agenda also covers open-source technologies such as DSPy, LangChain, Apache Spark, and related ecosystem projects.
While Data + AI Summit is vendor-hosted, it has built a reputation for delivering highly practical technical content. For data engineers, platform teams, and ML practitioners responsible for operating AI systems at scale, it remains one of the most valuable events of the year. If you're building production AI systems rather than experimenting with prototypes, few conferences offer a deeper look at the tools, infrastructure, and operational practices used by leading organizations.
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026
Date: June 29 - July 2, 2026
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Best for: AI engineers and technical leaders, particularly those building LLM applications, agents, RAG systems, and production AI infrastructure.
Registration fees: Range from $299 for Expo-only access to $2,399 for the Full pass.
AI Engineer World's Fair has quickly become one of the most important gatherings for people building AI products in production. Unlike research conferences that focus on future breakthroughs or executive summits centered on strategy, this event is designed for engineers, founders, AI leaders, and practitioners working with today's tools and models. The 2026 program covers foundation models, coding agents, evals, RAG, agentic systems, MLOps, and enterprise AI across dozens of technical tracks. Attendees can expect presentations from major AI labs, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, as well as infrastructure providers, fast-growing startups, and teams sharing lessons from real-world deployments.
New for 2026 is a partnership with ACM CAIS that introduces peer-reviewed research presentations, adding a stronger academic component without changing the conference's practitioner-first focus. If your job involves building, deploying, or scaling AI systems, few events offer a more concentrated view of the tools, techniques, and companies shaping the industry right now.
ICML 2026(International Conference on Machine Learning)
Dates: July 6–11, 2026
Location: Seoul, Korea
Best for: ML researchers, PhD students, and research-focused engineers.
Registration fees: General registration is effectively closed for 2026 due to high demand and capacity limits. Access is still available to workshops and for category-based attendance (authors, sponsors, invited participants).
CML is one of the three premier machine learning conferences globally, alongside NeurIPS and ICLR. It is where many of the foundational ideas in modern AI, from optimization methods to deep learning architectures and reinforcement learning advances, are first introduced before influencing the broader industry. While highly academic in nature, ICML remains a key signal for where machine learning research is heading over the next 2–5 years, often before those ideas appear in commercial systems.
The 2026 edition takes place in Seoul, bringing one of the most important AI research gatherings to Asia and offering closer access to research communities across Korea, Japan, and the wider Asia-Pacific region. ICML's 2026 location in Seoul is notable - it reflects the growing ML research output from Korean institutions and labs. It brings a different regional perspective than the usual North American or European settings. If you're publishing, tracking foundational research, or hiring from the academic pipeline, this is a required stop.
RAISE Summit(AI Summit Paris)
Dates: July 7–9, 2026
Location: Paris, France
Best for: European founders, enterprise leaders, and policy-aware executives.
Registration fees: Prices range depending on level of networking and summit access and start from €599 for specialized tracks (such as robotics-focused access) to €4999+ for full VIP Access.
Held at the Carrousel du Louvre, RAISE Summit has quickly become one of Europe’s notable enterprise AI gatherings, bringing together executives, policymakers, and investors focused on how AI is being deployed under the EU regulatory framework.
The 2026 agenda is structured around practical enterprise themes, including AI infrastructure, agentic systems, ROI measurement, compliance under the EU AI Act, and large-scale adoption strategies. The conference sits at the intersection of business transformation and regulation, making it particularly relevant for teams navigating both innovation pressure and tightening European policy requirements. Its timing in early July along with its central Paris location, also makes it a natural fit for attendees combining business travel with summer time in Europe.
Ai4 2026
Dates: August 4–6, 2026
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Best for: Enterprise AI leaders, corporate innovation teams, and founders focused on large-scale adoption.
Registration fees: Range from approximately $1,995 for a Standard Pass (early rate) to $3,195 at full price, with VIP passes priced up to $5,995.
Ai4 is America’s largest enterprise-focused AI conference. It brings together thousands of attendees from across industry, government, and technology. Rather than focusing on research breakthroughs, Ai4 centers on practical deployment at scale. The 2026 edition returns to Las Vegas with a broad program spanning industries like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, retail, manufacturing, energy, and national security.
The agenda includes applied AI case studies, infrastructure discussions, governance frameworks, and industry-specific implementation strategies. Major technology companies, financial institutions, and public-sector organizations like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, J.P. Morgan, and NASA regularly participate, making it a dense environment for cross-industry networking. Beyond the sessions, the conference is structured around high-volume networking: an executive summit for senior leaders, structured meeting opportunities, and evening events aimed at developing partnerships and facilitating deal flow.
IJCAI 2026(International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Dates: 15-21 August, 2026
Location: Bremen, Germany
Best for: AI researchers, PhD students, and academic-focused ML practitioners.
Registration fees: Main conference passes are $980- $1,150 for member registration in advance, to $1,300 for non-member on-site registration, with workshops and tutorials priced separately.
IJCAI–ECAI 2026 is a joint edition of two major academic conferences - the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), which combine every four years. The event brings together one of the most established research communities in AI, and now in its 35th edition, the conference remains one of the longest-running and most respected venues in artificial intelligence research.
The program spans peer-reviewed papers, workshops, tutorials, and keynote sessions across areas such as human-centered AI, robotics, healthcare, AI for social good, and critical AI systems. IJCAI–ECAI is primarily an academic conference that attracts researchers, PhD students, and applied scientists. It offers a broad view of AI research beyond deep learning, including symbolic reasoning, knowledge representation, and hybrid approaches. It is best suited for those tracking long-term AI research directions and looking to engage directly with the academic community shaping the field beyond commercial applications.
How to Pick?
Before opening the conference website, answer one question: what outcome do you need from this trip? A signed partnership, a submitted paper, a hired engineer, or a clearer picture of where the field is going?
If you're a CTO: AI Engineer World's Fair to recruit, and one regional anchor like RAISE Summit or AI Summit London. If you're an ML engineer or practitioner: AI Engineer World's Fair, plus one builder-focused event - skip the executive-heavy summits. If you're a researcher: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or CVPR depending on your subfield - industry events are mostly recruiting venues from your perspective. If you're a founder or operator: The AI Conference SF for applied startup content, Ai4 for volume of conversations, and one European event if you're expanding there.
