AI meet-ups and events

These events offer great opportunities for networking, learning, and exploring the latest breakthroughs and trends in the field. We will continue to add events to this list as they are confirmed. If you have an event or conference that you think we should feature, please get in touch with the team.

ECML PKDD 2025 – Porto, Portugal (15-19 September 2025)

Why attend: Europe’s leading machine learning and knowledge discovery event, packed with peer-reviewed research and real-world applications. Get deep insights into novel algorithms, theory, and applied systems from top-tier researchers in one of Europe’s most vibrant tech scenes.
Who it’s for: ML researchers, statisticians, and academic data scientists.

The AI Conference SF – San Francisco, USA (17-18 September 2025)

Why attend: A cutting-edge, vendor-neutral forum for exploring practical AI. From AI product development to infrastructure scaling, this is where top minds share how to bring AI from idea to production – without the fluff.
Who it’s for: Applied AI professionals, ML engineers, and enterprise AI teams.

ACM RecSys 2025 – Prague, Czech Republic (22–26 September 2025)

Recommenders run the modern web – this is where their future’s argued and measured. Expect rigorous papers, industry case studies (cold start to fairness), and workshops on LLM-enabled ranking and evaluation leakage. A sharp crowd for recruiting applied scientists and sensing where regulation meets product.

MICCAI 2025 – Daejeon, South Korea (23–27 September 2025)

Medical imaging’s flagship bridges labs and clinics: segmentation, generative synthesis, multimodal fusion, privacy-preserving learning. Clinical partners show what survives contact with radiology and surgery; startups test whether their AUCs become better outcomes. Come to gauge reimbursement reality and hospital adoption curves.

AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2025 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (24-25 September 2025)

Why attend: A high-impact event on the business of AI and data. Discover how large enterprises and disruptive start-ups are using AI to create smarter operations, better services, and measurable value.
Who it’s for: Industry practitioners, analysts, and solution providers.

COLM 2025 (Conference on Language Modeling) – Montréal, Canada (7–10 October 2025)

Single-track and deep on LLMs: alignment, evals, interpretability, retrieval, safety and scaling laws – plus a full workshops day. It’s where the field debates best practice beyond benchmarks. Strong mix of academia + industry; ideal to reality-check your model roadmap and hiring needs.

World Summit AI 2025 – Amsterdam, Netherlands (8-9 October 2025)

Why attend: A massive international gathering of the global AI ecosystem. With deep content and a festival-like atmosphere, this event is where breakthroughs are launched, deals are made, and ethical debates are sparked.
Who it’s for: AI policy experts, innovation teams, tech leads, and academic researchers.

Data & AI Conference Europe 2025 – London, UK (13-16 October 2025)

Why attend: Delve into the challenges and opportunities of data and AI integration at scale. Ideal for those developing governance strategies, building enterprise AI platforms, or leading organisational change through data.
Who it’s for: Data leaders, CDOs, AI/ML platform strategists.

GITEX Global (AI mega-stage) – Dubai, UAE (13–17 October 2025)

Massive and unapologetically commercial. The AI stages convene buyers from government, telco, finance, and industry; expo aisles show everything from sovereign AI stacks to vertical copilots. Come if you want scale: partner discovery, MENA go-to-market, and a fast read on enterprise demand.

ODSC AI West – San Francisco, USA (28–30 October 2025)

Hands-on by design: training, tutorials, and talks across LLMOps, responsible AI, vector search, vision and time series. Great for upskilling teams and meeting practitioners who run models in anger. Expo floor skews tools: orchestration, monitoring, evals, and data-centric AI.

EMNLP 2025 – Suzhou, China (4–9 November 2025)

If language is your product, this is essential. From instruction-tuned models to evaluation reform and low-resource NLP, EMNLP blends bleeding-edge methods with hard questions on bias and safety. Workshops are a gem for niche depth; job boards and socials help you hire fast.

Future of AI 2025 – London, UK (5-6 November 2025)

Why attend: Hosted by the Financial Times, this event unpacks the real business value of AI. Hear from global industry leaders how AI is transforming decision-making, customer experience, and competitiveness.
Who it’s for: Executives, business strategists, and transformation leaders.

NeurIPS 2025 – San Diego, USA (2-7 December 2025)

Why attend: The world’s most prestigious ML research conference. Discover early insights into tomorrow’s algorithms and systems before they go mainstream. If you’re publishing or researching, this is your stage.
Who it’s for: ML researchers, neuroscientists, computational theorists, and AI PhDs.

The AI Summit New York – New York, USA (10–11 December 2025)

Enterprise-grade pragmatism: transformation playbooks, risk and governance, and procurement-friendly case studies. The Javits crowd mixes Fortune 500 buyers, scaleups and systems integrators – useful for US pipeline and partner mapping, with side events for investors and C-suite peer exchange.

AAAI-26 – Singapore (20–27 January 2026)

A foundational research venue with a widening bridge to real-world deployment. Expect strong tracks on planning, reasoning, agents, vision+language, and trustworthy AI–plus workshops/tutorials that turn papers into practice. A great spot to recruit and to sanity-check your R&D bets.

AI & Big Data Expo Global – London, UK (4–5 February 2026)

Olympia hosts a high-density showcase of enterprise AI: governance, safety, MLOps, data platforms, and sector tracks (FSI, retail, health, public). If you’re building partnerships or shopping for tooling, this is a two-day shortcut with London’s investor and buyer ecosystem on tap.

World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) – Cannes, France (12–13 February 2026)

Sun, sea, and serious AI. WAICF blends a broad program (GenAI, robotics, ethics, sovereignty) with a busy expo and one-to-one meetings. French and EU policy voices are visible; start-ups meet corporates with real budgets. Good for EMEA narratives, media moments and BD.

NVIDIA GTC – San Jose, USA (16–19 March 2026)

Where AI hardware, platforms, and enterprise use-cases converge. The keynote sets the year’s infra agenda; labs and customers go deep on GPUs, networking, inference, digital twins, and agents. If you touch AI stacks – from silicon to software to deployment – this is priority travel.

ICLR 2026 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (23–27 April 2026)

Learning representations at the frontier: optimisation, robustness, interpretability, self-supervision, and generative modelling. ICLR is increasingly translational – great for aligning teams with state-of-the-art and seeding collabs with top labs. Latin America locale = fresh networks.

AISTATS 2026 – Tangier, Morocco (2–5 May 2026)

A crisp intersection of statistics and machine learning. Methodologically rich sessions (causal, Bayesian, online learning, theory) with growing applied threads. Compact size = high serendipity; excellent for founders and funders who want real depth without getting lost.

CVPR 2026 – Denver, USA (6–12 June 2026)

Vision’s main stage – now thoroughly multimodal. Tracks span foundational vision, diffusion, 3D/NeRFs, embodied AI, and safety. The expo features a who’s-who of sensors, compute and perception stacks. If your roadmap touches perception or synthetic data, block the week.

ACL 2026 – San Diego, USA (2–7 July 2026)

NLP’s cornerstone conference: LLMs, retrieval, speech-text, evaluation, low-resource, safety, and policy. Workshops offer sharp verticals (law, health, education). Great for meeting the next cohort of research stars and tracking where the field is pushing beyond leaderboard gains.

ICML 2026 – Seoul, South Korea (6–12 July 2026)

The big summer summit for ML research. From theory and optimisation to scalable training, agents and robustness – plus an ecosystem of workshops that test ideas against reality. Sponsors and exhibitors bring hiring heat; Asia-Pacific venue widens partnership options.

AI for Good Global Summit – Geneva, Switzerland (7–10 July 2026)

Policy meets practice under the UN’s umbrella: safety, standards, and societal impact alongside demos in health, climate, cities, and education. Good for NGOs, corporates and investors mapping responsible AI and cross-border collaborations – with a strong European and global-south mix.