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.

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.