Every conference has an AI track now, which makes AI conferences hard to search for. Some are research events, some are developer events, and many are business events with AI in the title.
This shortlist ranks the upcoming AI, machine learning and data events by the size of their published line-up, and shows how many speakers are data and AI practitioners rather than general business speakers.
The 15 below are the biggest line-ups out of 241 upcoming AI conferences. The full calendar has every one of them by month.
Big Data & AI World Madrid is an event focused on data innovation, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence in Spain.
353 speakers · 14 sponsors and exhibitors · 22 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (42), Marketing (31), Data & AI (22)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America brings together maintainers, platform teams, AI infrastructure engineers, and end users to solve production problems across Kubernetes, cloud native, and AI.
77 speakers · 250 sponsors and exhibitors
Most common roles on stage: Engineers (20), Founders & execs (6), DevRel (4)
Cloud & AI Infrastructure Madrid is a premier event for companies aiming to advance their tech architecture toward agile, scalable, and AI-oriented models.
245 speakers · 6 sponsors and exhibitors · 10 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (29), Marketing (27), Sales (23)
The AI & Big Data Expo North America is an event for enterprise AI and big data leaders, innovators, and global technology partners.
115 speakers · 130 sponsors and exhibitors · 13 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (28), Data & AI (13), CTO / VP Eng (10)
TechEx Global is an annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing and conference designed for technology leaders such as CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors.
64 speakers · 160 sponsors and exhibitors · 10 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (12), Data & AI (10), Security (4)
The AI for Education Summit 2026 is a free online event dedicated to AI literacy for educators and students.
3 speakers · 218 sponsors and exhibitors
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (1)
The Data Centre & AI Leaders Summit 2027 is a conference and exhibition for leaders building, powering, and investing in AI infrastructure.
64 speakers · 96 sponsors and exhibitors · 4 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (17), Sales (5), Data & AI (4)
TechEx North America is an annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing and expo for CIOs, CTOs, IT directors, and enterprise architects.
95 speakers · 13 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Founders & execs (16), Data & AI (13), Engineers (4)
Accelerate Tomorrow AI Summit is an event for business leaders focused on turning artificial intelligence into real business value.
52 speakers · 41 sponsors and exhibitors · 13 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Data & AI (13), CTO / VP Eng (4), Product (3)
The AI Coding Summit brings together engineers and technical leaders to explore how AI is transforming software engineering through talks and workshops.
53 speakers · 33 sponsors and exhibitors · 3 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Engineers (10), DevRel (6), Founders & execs (5)
Cloud & AI Infrastructure brings together cloud architects, IT directors, and infrastructure leaders to explore automation, sovereign cloud strategy, FinOps, and AI workload readiness.
3 speakers · 66 sponsors and exhibitors
Most common roles on stage: Engineers (1), CTO / VP Eng (1), Founders & execs (1)
The AI Coding Summit is an event focusing on how artificial intelligence is transforming software engineering, agentic programming, and developer workflows.
42 speakers · 24 sponsors and exhibitors · 7 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Engineers (15), Data & AI (7), DevRel (3)
KHIPU 2027 is the Latin American Meeting in Artificial Intelligence taking place in São Paulo.
65 speakers · 1 sponsors and exhibitors · 1 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Academic (2), Data & AI (1), Founders & execs (1)
The MarTech Summit London 2026 brings together marketing technology professionals to explore strategies for smarter stacks and stronger growth.
54 speakers · 3 sponsors and exhibitors · 3 of the speakers are data and AI practitioners
Most common roles on stage: Marketing (29), Data & AI (3), Sales (2)
AI EXPO KOREA 2027 is Korea's representative artificial intelligence exhibition showcasing cutting-edge AI technologies, industry innovation cases, and global business networking.
55 sponsors and exhibitors
Ranked by the size of the published line-up: speakers plus sponsoring and exhibiting companies, as each event lists them on its own site. It is the best public signal of how many decision-makers will be in the room. One edition per event series, upcoming events only, refreshed monthly.
The events at the top of this list have the largest published line-ups. Check the share of data and AI practitioners to tell technical events from business ones.
Some are, when they publish speakers and sponsors. The full AI calendar lists every event.
Monthly, and again as event dates get close.
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