Ultimate Guide to 2019 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Conferences

Interested in learning the latest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Neural Networks or Machine Learning? Trying to decide how to configure your model or which learning algorithm to use? Exploring how to use GPUs or upcoming Neural Network Chips to accelerate your AI’s learning time? Look no further. We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of upcoming AI and AI-related conferences so you can explore, learn and hone your AI skill set.

With AI permeating many aspects of our lives (e.g. smart speakers, voice recognition, turn-by-turn mapping) and with AI predicted to affect our future (e.g. autonomous cars, job prospects), it’s no wonder that AI is the current hot technology. The job market for AI talent is also red hot.  According to indeed.com in their March 2018 article, the demand for AI skills has grown by 119% in the last three years. Where better to network for your next AI position then at a local AI conference?

With an unending number of AI conferences, symposiums and workshops, we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of more than 100 conferences concentrating on the United States and Canada while still acknowledging many notable conferences in Europe and Asia.

Since AI is a computer technology essential to the effectiveness of Big Data – you’ll also find many Big Data conferences among our listings. In addition, we added a few notable Computer Vision, Natural Language and Autonomous Car conferences. As AI could have wide reaching impact, we’ve included general conferences like CES and social impact conferences like the SingularityU summits.  Finally, with AI turning 62 years old this year, we have also included a few long running conferences such as AAAI and IJCAI (first conference in 1969).

The first AI conference was held in 1956 at Dartmouth College with notable speakers such as John McCarthy from Dartmouth, Marvin Minsky from Harvard, and Claude Shannon from Bell Telephone Laboratories. The naming of this first conference over 60+ years ago is attributed with coining the term Artificial Intelligence. While any single conference today is unlikely to draw as many notable researchers, who’s to say where the collaboration and ideas will take AI 60+ years from now.

Enjoy our compilation and let us know if you found this helpful.  Also, if we missed your favorite AI conference – let us know in the comments.

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Recent Updates

With over 100 listed events and weekly changes and additions, I’ve added this section to help readers navigate this comprehensive list more easily.

• 1/25/2019: Added January 2020
• 1/21/2019: Added Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL (October)
• 1/21/2019: Added ICLR in New Orleans, LA (May)
• 1/21/2019: Added QCon.ai in San Francisco, CA (April)
• 1/21/2019: Added AI Tech World in London, England (March)
• 1/21/2019: Added Global AI Conferences in Seattle (April) and in Boston (October)
• 1/17/2019: Added Amazon’s reMARS in Las Vegas (June)
• 1/11/2019: Corrected dates for Deep Learning Summits in Boston, MA (May)
• 1/09/2019: Added AI NextCon in Bellevue, WA (January)

January 2019

8-11: Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV

This massive conference covers all aspects of consumer electronics. With 170,000+ attendees viewing 3,900 exhibitors, it’s not surprising that there’s specializations in AI, drones and robotics as well as the opportunity to see how AI might touch all aspects of our lives.

22: Women in AI Dinner in San Francisco, CA

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

23-25: 3rd Annual Global Artificial Intelligence Conference in Santa Clara, CA

This three day conference is organized by Global Big Data Conference and they have held similar conferences across the US in NYC, Santa Clara and Seattle.  If you decide to attend, you should be in good company with projected attendance of over 3000 and with more than 100 speakers.  Plans includes focus on industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Energy and Manufacturing.

23-27: AI NextCon in Bellevue, WA

This intimate 4 day AI gathering includes workshops, training and a conference and is geared towards engineers, developers and data scientists.

24-25: Deep Learning Summit in San Francisco, CA

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

27-February 1: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Honolulu, HI

This is the 33^rd AAAI conference and is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Focused on promoting research and scientific exchange, both the depth of the discussions as well as the location will surely facilitate a collaborative exchange of ideas.

31-February 1: AI & Future of Work in San Francisco, CA

This two day conference is part of a series with the East coast location being Philadelphia. In addition to “cutting-edge practices” and what’s next in AI, they’ll also look into ML trends and the effect of AI on “how work will be measured and organized”.

February 2019

12-15: IBM Think in San Francisco, CA

Developers, cloud services and IBM Watson – need we say more. This conference covers all services, tools and breakthroughs for developers using IBM technology including Watson.

19-21: 11^th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence in Prague, Czech Republic

Join your fellow AI researchers, engineers and practitioners for 3 days of collaboration on agents and AI. This conference is co-located with International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) and International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems.

21-22: Data Science Salon in Austin, TX

This multi-city conference brings together AI specialists to collaborate on best practices, recent innovations and solutions.

March 2019

8-10: World Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Xi’an, China

In addition to presentations, keynotes, discussions and panels from your AI colleagues in industry and academia, local tours of AI labs in the Beijing area is also planned.

11-12: Conversational Interaction Conference in San Jose, CA

Natural Language Understanding is the focus of this conference.   So if the automated understanding of human text or speech is an integral part of your system plans through ai assistants, chatbots or any human interface, then this event should be on your list.

12-13: AI Tech World in London, England

Held in Excel, London, this Big Data and AI event strives to inspire all attendees with the latest developments, case studies and success stories.  This event is also co-located with 6 other events: Block Chain Technology World, Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, Smart IOT, Cloud Expo Europe, DevOps Live and Data Centre World.

17-21: NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, CA

Given that GPUs have demonstrated their indispensability to Deep Learning, this conference from the leading GPU would naturally make our list. With developers, researchers and technologists in mind, the planned topics related to AI include Deep Learning & AI, Developer Tools, GPU Virtualization, Autonomous Driving, AI For Business and Data Center & Cloud.

19: Women in AI Dinner in London, England
21-22: Deep Learning in Finance Summit in London, England

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

20-22: REINFORCE AI Conference in Budapest, Hungary

This Ericsson sponsored conference includes a day of workshops followed by two days of presentations providing insight from leading experts and practitioners.

25-26: MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Digital in San Francisco, CA

Advertised with “Artificial Intelligence is here.  Own what happens next.”, this speaks to their emphasis on the impact of AI as much as to the technology itself.  Don’t miss this rare gathering of AI business and research leaders as they explore three themes: What’s Next for AI?, AI’s Economic Impact, and A Global View.

25-28: Strata Data Conference in San Francisco, CA

Strata is O’Reilly’s Big Data conference for London, New York and San Francisco. Since data is essential to training neural networks, this Big Data conference would be a great place to learn and understand AI. Expect to see training and sessions on machine learning sessions.

26-27: Future of AI in Tel Aviv, Israel

Tagged as Israel’s largest AI conference, the organizers are expecting over 2,000 attendees from 25 countries.  Expect to hear from distinguished speakers on the latest in AI developments and the impact across industries.  Organized by People and Computers, this conference also includes a competition of AI startups.

April 2019

3-5: AI EXPO in Tokyo, Japan

This is the third year of this conference and is supported by the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence and the Japan Deep Learning Association.  This may be the world’s largest AI conference with 50,000 attendees and 250 exhibitors.

9-11: Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, CA

Training your neural network quickly typically involves cloud services and who is better equipped to show us than Google? Over 5 days, this conference will cover AI specific topics such as Cloud Machine Learning in addition to the plethora of cloud services Google has to offer.

11: Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA

Held since 2012, this one day conference attended by ML researchers, entrepreneurs and practitioners is part of a larger week long celebration (Tom Tom Festival April 8-14) of entrepreneurship, culture, innovation and small cities.  With 300 speakers over the course of the week, five other one day conferences and a weekend long music festival, this unique conference includes depth, breadth and an opportunity to let your hair down.

15-17: QCon.ai – Applied AI Software Conference for Developers in San Francisco, CA

QCon.ai is focused on practical AI and ML – patterns and practices, tools and software engineering (versus data science).  Planned tracks include AI Meets the Physical World, Groking Time Series & Sequential Data, DL in Practice, Solving S/W Engineering Problems with ML, Papers in Production: Modern CA in the Real World and Predictive Architectures in the Real World.

15-18: Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, NY

The demand for AI conferences is clearly global and across industries. Recognizing this, O’Reilly has organized their AI conferences in the technology centers of the world including New York.

18: Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, CA

Organized by Bootstrap Labs, this conference is focused on learnings from real world applications of AI and connecting with your fellow AI professionals for discussions and recruitment.

23-25:Global Artificial Intelligence Conference in Seattle, WA

This three day conference is organized by Global Big Data Conference and they have held similar conferences across the US in NYC, Santa Clara and Seattle.  If you decide to attend, you should find plenty of topics of interest including DL, NLP, Video Understanding, Robotics, AutoML, ChatBots, Speech Recognition and Security.  Plans includes focus on industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Enterprise, Insurance and Manufacturing.

25-26: AI and Big Data Expo in London, England

With expected attendance of 12,000, over 300 exhibitors and with 24 tracks, this conference will likely satisfy your need to network, learn and explore the latest developments in AI. This conference is co-located with IoT Tech Expo, Blockchain Expo and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo.

29-May 2: Strata Data Conference in London, UK

Strata is O’Reilly’s Big Data conference for London, New York and San Francisco. Since data is essential to training neural networks, this Big Data conference would be a great place to learn and understand AI. Expect to see training and sessions on machine learning sessions.

30-May 3: ODSC East in Boston, MA

Touted as the “World’s Largest Applied Data Science Conference”, this 5,000 attendee conference covers many AI topics including Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NL Processing, and Self-driving Vehicles. ODSC stands for Open Data Science conferences and holds several conferences during the year throughout the world.

May 2019

6-9: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) in New Orleans, LA

This conference has one focus (Deep Learning) and is known for publishing “cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning.”  That said, with over 4,000 participants, you’re sure to mingle with a wide range of colleagues including academics, industrial researchers, entrepreneurs and engineers.

16: Data Science Salon** in Los Angeles, CA

This one day, multi-city conference is a more intimate get together with workshops for both technical and non-technical audiences.

21: Women in AI Dinner in Boston, MA

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

22-23: LDV Vision Summit in New York City, NY

This computer vision conference includes all thing related to helping computers understand the environment around them. For 2018, topics included Medical Imaging, Facial Analysis, Deep Learning, Evolution of Image Sensors, AI and Retail and a startup competition.

23-24: Deep Learning Summit in Boston, MA
23-24: Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit in Boston, MA
23-24: Deep Learning for Robotics Summit in Boston, MA

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

27-28: SingularityU Nordic Summit in Helsinki, Finland

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

28-31: Computer and Robot Vision Conference** in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
28-31: Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
28-31: Graphics Interface 2019 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada

With AI thought leaders like Hinton and the AI research being conducted at the University of Toronto, it’s no surprise that this research-oriented conference would be held in Toronto. Held since 1976, this 4 day AI conference is co-located with two other conferences related to AI.  Together the three conferences are known as AI GI CRV 2019.

TBA*: Microsoft Build** in Seattle, WA

Join 7,000 fellow professional developers as you explore and learn Microsoft tech including topics on Cloud, AI and Data. In 2018, there were 35 session just on AI.

June 2019

4-7: Amazon re:MARS in Las Vegas, NV

MARS stands for Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space and will be Amazon’s first AI conference.  With Amazon’s dominance of smart speakers and as a leading AI Cloud service, they are sure to draw recognized speakers and renowned experts in the AI and ML field.

10-11:  CogX in London, England

Taglined with “The Festival of All Thing AI, Blockchain and Emerging Technologies”, this conference goes beyond just AI.  If 2018’s seven tracks of presentations, workshops and panels are any indication of what the organizers have in store, 2019 attendees will surely be engaged throughout the two days.

10-12: World Conference on Robotics and AI (WCRAI) in Osaka, Japan

This year’s theme is the “Future Scope in the Field of Robotics and AI”.  WCRAI strives to promote research, real-world impact and international cooperation among scientist and engineers.  Join in the discussion over three days in one of Japan’s most scenic venues.

10-13: LiveWorx in Boston, MA

Join 11,000 of your colleagues as you discover the latest in CAD, AR and IoT in workshops, training/certification, presentations and demonstrations.  While not an AI conference, last year’s conference is run by PTC (the owner of the popular AR library Vuforia) included 3 full days of presentations on AI and Robotics.

10-15: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)** in Long Beach, CA

This week long conference is sponsored by the International Machine Learning Society and is in its 36^th year. If the 2019 response is similar to the 2018 conference, there will be hundreds of academic and practical talks on Machine Learning.

11-12: MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Next in Cambridge, MA

Don’t miss a rare gathering of the world’s leading AI and Robotics researchers as they explore the theme “AI and robotics are changing the future of work.  Are you ready?”  This event will be held at the MIT Media Lab so soak in the birthplace of AI milestones like Lisp and Lisp Machines while learning more about AI, ML and the potential societal and business impact of this disruptive technology.

12-13: AI Toronto in Toronto, Canada

This two day conference and exhibition is held in the hot bed of AI research in Canada, my hometown – Toronto CANADA. One highlight of this conference is an AI Startup Battle that could result in 1-to-1 meetings with mentors and investors. This conference is also co-located with the Big Data Toronto conference.

12-13: The AI Summit in London, England

Advertised as “The World’s Largest AI Event for Business”, this 2 day event focuses on the practical implications of AI for enterprise. AI Summit is a series of AI events held in several worldwide locations.

13: Data Science Salon** in New York, NY

This one day affair brings AI together with media and entertainment for business development professionals, data scientists and developers to educate and innovate.

15-21: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018) in Long Beach, CA

With over 5,000 attendees, 140+ exhibitors/sponsors, 3,300 submitted conference papers, almost 70 tutorials and workshops in 2018, most if not all subjects in Computer Vision will be covered. Couple this with this conference being preceded by ICML, Long Beach will likely be a popular destination for AI in June 2019. This conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Computer Vision Foundation.

18-21: Artificial Intelligence Conference in Beijing, China

Like the other occurrences of this conference in the USA and Europe, O’Reilly’s AI Conference in Beijing is designed to address the cross industry demands of AI in Asia.

19-20: AI and Big Data Expo in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Like it’s Asian counterpart, this European conference is huge with a projected attendance of 10,000.  With 300+ speakers, 350+ exhibitors and 24 tracks, there will surely be enough content to keep everyone interested and engaged.  This conference is also co-located with IoT Tech Expo, Blockchain Expo and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo.

20-21: AI for Good Summit in San Francisco, CA
20-21: Applied AI Summit in San Francisco, CA

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

28: Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) in London, England

The mission of this one day event and the organizing non-profit (RAAIS) is to advance education and research in AI for the common good.  In its fifth year, this conference has drawn researchers and scientists from notable companies and universities like Google Brain, University of Toronto, Deep Mind, and Stanford University.

TBA*: Intel AI DevCon** in San Francisco, CA

As chip manufacturers accelerate ANNs through advancements directly on the chip, conferences like this become an important opportunity to learn about Intel’s AI and chip strategy directly from the source.

July 2019

15-18: Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR

This annual open source conference from O’Reilly also includes sessions and tutorials on TensorFlow, Machine Learning and other AI topics.

28 – August 1: SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, CA

The first SIGGRAPH conference was held in 1974 and had 600 attendees. Fast forward four decades later, and it’s an event that attracts over 15,000 attendees. This conference continues to be THE conference for all things computer graphics.

30-31: The AI Summit** in Hong Kong, China

Advertised as “Asia’s largest AI event for business”, this 2 day event expects more than 100 speakers. AI Summit is a series of AI events held in several worldwide locations.

August 2019

10-16: International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI)  in Macao, China

This is a joint conference with the European Conference on AI (ECAI). Held every other year since 1969, this is the premier conference for AI researchers and practioners. This full-week conference includes an extensive list of tutorials, workshops, and of course, exhibitions, panels and papers.

TBA*: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2019)** in London, UK

This premiere conference on Data is sponsored by the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Inaugurated in 1989, this the oldest and largest data mining conference. This weeklong conference includes extensive coverage of Deep Learning and AI as well as a dedicated day on Deep Learning.

TBA*: 6^th Annual Global Big Data Conference** in Santa Clara, CA

While not exclusively AI, a significant portion is dedicated to AI. This how-to learning event with over 75 speakers includes 50 sessions on topics such as Industry Vertical Big Data Use Cases, Hadoop & Beyond, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Blockchain, AI, NLP and more.

TBA*: Intel AI DevCon (AIDC)** in Bangalore, India

As chip manufacturers accelerate ANNs through advancements directly on the chip, conferences like this become an important opportunity to learn about Intel’s AI and chip strategy directly from the source.

TBA*: Singularity University Global Summit** in San Francisco, CA

Led by leading AI researcher and futurist, Ray Kurzweil, this 3 day conference considers the impactful changes coming as a result of AI.  This is the flagship conference of multiple worldwide one day summits.

September 2019

3: Women in AI Dinner in New York, NY
5-6: AI in Finance Summit in New York, NY

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

9-12: Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose, CA

With training sessions and tutorials, you’ll discover how to apply the latest breakthroughs and best practices to your business. Topic areas include AI in the enterprise, Impact of AI on business and society, Implementing AI projects, Interacting with AI and Models and methods. Added for this year is the “AI Business Summit”.

10-12: The AI Summit (Part of TechXLR8) in Singapore

Advertised as “Asia’s Largest AI Event for Business”, this 3 day event focuses on the practical implications of AI for enterprise. The AI Summit in Singapore is one part of 5 other co-located shows including IoT World Asia, 5G Asia and Network Virtualization & SDN. AI Summit is also a series of AI events held in several worldwide locations.

19-20: Deep Learning Summit in London, England
19-20: AI Assistant Summit in London, England
19-20: AI in Retail & Advertising Summit in London, England

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

23-26: Strata Data Conference** in New York City, NY

Since data is essential to training neural networks, this Big Data conference from O’Reilly would be a great place to learn and understand AI. Training at this conference includes several machine learning sessions.

24-28: Microsoft Ignite** in Orlando, FL

With more than 700 sessions and 100 workshops, this is the conference to learn and collaborate on all of Microsoft’s services, frameworks, tools and tech. Join 26,000 of your fellow IT professionals and enterprise developers to learn about all of Microsoft’s available tech including Azure AI. This event is co-located with their invitation-only Microsoft Envision conference for thought leaders.

TBA*: Emotion AI Summit** in Boston, MA

From self-driving cars to robotics to smart speakers and smartphone assistants, AI technology is suddenly permeating into many aspects of our lives. This conference takes a timely look at our “Trust in AI”.

TBA*: ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision)** in Munich, Germany

Computer vision is essential to AI systems like autonomous cars, object recognition and Augmented Reality. This seven day conference has historically provided attendees with both a breadth and depth in tutorials, technical and poster sessions.

TBA*: AI Innovation Summit** in San Francisco, CA

This focused two-day conference has three AI tracks on Machine Learning, Data Products and Cyber Security. This conference is brought to you by the organizers of the AI and Future of Work conferences in Philadelphia and San Francisco.

TBA*: The AI Summit** in San Francisco, CA

Advertised as “The World’s Largest AI Event for Business”, this 2 day event focuses on the practical implications of AI for enterprise. AI Summit is a series of AI events held in several worldwide locations.

TBA*: ODSC Europe** in London, UK

Touted as the “Europe’s Fastest Growing Data Science Community”, With 2,000 attendees, this conference covers many AI topics including Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NL Processing, AI Research, Conversational AI, and Self-driving Vehicles. ODSC stands for Open Data Science conferences and holds several conferences during the year worldwide. This conference is co-located with Accelerate AI which focuses on AI startups and larger innovative corporations.

TBA*: Global Artificial Intelligence Conference** in Boston, MA

Focused on AI practitioners in industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Telco, Media, Government, and Transportation, this smaller conference should provide a more intimate setting for networking.

October 2019

1-3:Global Artificial Intelligence Conference in Boston, MA

This three day conference is organized by Global Big Data Conference and they have held similar conferences across the US in NYC, Santa Clara and Seattle.  If you decide to attend, you should find plenty of topics of interest including DL, NLP, Video Understanding, Robotics, AutoML, ChatBots, Speech Recognition and Security.  Plans includes focus on industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Enterprise, Insurance and Manufacturing.

2-4: Disrupt SF 2019 in San Francisco, CA

While not focused on AI, there will undoubtedly be a wide variety of startups who either incorporates AI or are focused on AI. And of course, what’s been more disruptive to traditional tech than AI?

8-9: SingularityU Summit in Milan, Italy

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

9-10: World Summit AI in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Join “140 of the World’s Top AI Brains” along with 4,500 attendees to discuss and collaborate on AI ethics, AI for good as well as the latest AI innovations.

14-17: Artificial Intelligence Conference in London, UK

With training and tutorial, you’ll discover how to apply the latest breakthroughs and best practices to your business. AI topic areas include the enterprise, Impact on business and society, and interacting with models and methods. Added for this year is the “AI Business Summit”. This conference has a similar organization to O’Reilly’s San Francisco conference.

16-17: SingularityU Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

19-23: Neuroscience 2019 in Chicago, IL

This international conference is the premier gathering of neuroscientists with over 28,000 attendees in 2018 from 73 countries.  Organized by the Society of Neurscience, the research papers from conferences such as this have proven to be foundational (e.g. synapse, brain and nervous system) to AI as we know it today (Neural networks).

23-25: NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Munich, Germany

This European regional conference has several international dates and regional locations so don’t fret if Germany is not convenient. Other locations include Taiwan, Japan, Europe, Silicon Valley and Washington DC. Given that GPUs are indispensability to Deep Learning, this conference from the leading GPU vendor would naturally make our list. The advertised topics related to AI include Deep Learning & AI, AI for Business, Developer Tools, Autonomous Machines & Robotics, and Intelligent Video Analytics. Note that topics do vary by region.

23-25: AI World Conference and Expo in Boston, MA

This 3,000 person conference is focused on the enterprise and includes tracks on Big Data, IoT, Pharma, Healthcare to name a few.

22: Women in AI Dinner in Montreal, Canada
24-25: Deep Learning Summit in Montreal, Canada

This intimate event is part of RE•WORK’s series of international summits, workshops and dinners focused on AI and related emerging technologies.

TBA*: AI & Future of Work in Philadelphia, PA

This two day conference is part of a series with the West coast location being San Francisco. In addition to “cutting-edge practices” and what’s next in AI, they’ll also look into ML trends and the effect of AI on “how work will be measured and organized”.

TBA*: SingularityU Summit in Cascais, Portugal

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

TBA*: Google Cloud Next in London, England

Training your neural network quickly typically involves cloud services and who is better equipped to show us than Google? This conference will cover AI specific topics such as Cloud Machine Learning in addition to the plethora of cloud services Google has to offer.

TBA*: NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington, DC

Organized by the leading GPU vendor, the advertised topics related to AI include Deep Learning & AI, Developer Tools, Autonomous Machines & IOT, Autonomous Vehicle Tech and AI Policy.

TBA*: 4th International Chatbot Summit in Berlin, Germany

Advertised as the “World’s #1 Bot Conference”, this 2 day conference will all topics related to AI in chatbots including Natural Language Processing and Conversational AI.  The topics plus the opportunity to network with 1500+ attendees and 100+ speakers makes this a can’t miss conference for chatbot developers and product managers.

TBA*: ODSC West in San Francisco, CA

Along with the east coast conference earlier in the year, both conferences are touted as the “World’s Largest Applied Data Science Conference”. With over 4,000 attendees, expect this conference to cover many AI topics including Deep Learning, Machine Learning, NL Processing, AI Research, Conversational AI, and Self-driving Vehicles. ODSC stands for Open Data Science conferences and holds several conferences during the year throughout the world. . This conference is co-located with Accelerate AI which focuses on AI startups and larger innovative corporations.

November 2019

TBA*: SingularityU Summit in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

TBA*: The AI Summit in Cape Town, South Africa

Advertised as “Africa’s Largest AI Event For Business”, this inaugural 2 day event is co-located with Africa.com.  The combined attendance is expected to be over 13,000 attendees.

TBA*: AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment in Edmonton, Canada

Focusing on “entertainment software developers interested in AI”, this conference held at the University of Alberta is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). AAAI holds a larger, more general conference annually.

TBA*: MLconf – The Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco, CA

This one day event will focus on one thing – machine learning.  From discussion with leading experts at Google Brain, Facebook and Tesla to examinations of real-world applications, this single-track, single-minded conference will surely expand your mind on ML techniques and algorithms.

TBA*: SingularityU Summit in Athens, Greece

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

TBA*: AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, NV

While not focused on AI, there’s no doubt that this 6 day conference will cover Amazon Web Services’ growing cloud services for AI and Deep Learning with workshops, presentations and exhibits. As the premiere cloud service provider, this conference is not to be missed.

TBA*: SingularityU Summit in Bogota, Colombia

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

TBA*: AI & Big Data Expo in Santa Clara, CA

Since Big Data and AI are intertwined, it’s no wonder this conference is expected to be the largest conference of its kind.  With 13,000 attendees, 500+ speakers and 350+ exhibitors, your need to network and learn will surely be addressed.  This conference is also co-located with the Blockchain Expo, IoT Tech Expo and Cyber Security & Cloud Expo.

December 2019

11-12: The AI Summit in New York, NY

Advertised as “The World’s Largest AI Event for Business”, this 2 day event focuses on the practical implications of AI for enterprise. AI Summit is a series of AI events held in several worldwide locations.

TBA*: 32^nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems in Montreal, Canada

This multi-track week-long conference includes refereed papers, invited talks, demonstrations and workshops on machine learning and computational neuroscience.

TBA*: SingularityU Summit in Lima, Peru

Don’t let the title scare you.  This two day event brings leaders together to discuss the potential impact and opportunities for humans and for the planet with new technology.  While not solely focused on AI and Machine Learning always leads the discussions.  These summits are part of an international series organized by SingularityU whose leadership includes Ray Kurzweil.

TBA*: AIMed North America in Dana Point, CA

For three days, immerse yourself in workshops and discussions on the evolution of AI medicine and healthcare.  Explore innovations and new ideas with fellow clinicians and physicians.

TBA*: International Symposium on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in Hong Kong, China

Collaborate with fellow international academics and researchers at this second annual conference. This conference is supported by several international institutes including the Institute of Data Science and AI and the International Engineering and Technology Institute.

January 2020

7-10: Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV

This massive conference covers all aspects of consumer electronics. With 170,000+ attendees viewing 3,900 exhibitors, it’s not surprising that there’s specializations in AI, drones and robotics as well as the opportunity to see how AI might touch all aspects of our lives.

TBA*: 3rd Annual Global Artificial Intelligence Conference** in Santa Clara, CA

This three day conference is organized by Global Big Data Conference and they have held similar conferences across the US in NYC, Santa Clara and Seattle.  If you decide to attend, you should be in good company with projected attendance of over 3000 and with more than 100 speakers.  Plans includes focus on industry verticals such as Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Energy and Manufacturing.

TBA*: AI NextCon** in Bellevue, WA

This intimate 4 day AI gathering includes workshops, training and a conference and is geared towards engineers, developers and data scientists.

TBA*: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence** in Honolulu, HI

This is the 33^rd AAAI conference and is sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Focused on promoting research and scientific exchange, both the depth of the discussions as well as the location will surely facilitate a collaborative exchange of ideas.

TBA*: AI & Future of Work** in San Francisco, CA

This two day conference is part of a series with the East coast location being Philadelphia. In addition to “cutting-edge practices” and what’s next in AI, they’ll also look into ML trends and the effect of AI on “how work will be measured and organized”.

* At the time of publication, the dates for these conference have not been announced. When this conference was last held, it was at about this time.

** A link to the upcoming event was not available at time of publication so for reference purposes, either a more general link or a link to the previous year’s event has been included.