AI & ML Conferences: Oct 2026

Key Takeaways

Flagship research venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR continue to shape cutting-edge theory, foundation models, and long-term AI direction through late 2026 and 2027.

Applied and enterprise events such as World Summit AI and The AI Summit New York focus on production systems, ROI, and commercial deployment.

Infrastructure and open-source events like PyTorch Conference highlight the tooling and frameworks powering modern AI development.

Several 2027 dates are still pending official confirmation. Therefore, this list is updated as organizers announce them.

Introduction

Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than ever, making it more difficult to keep up. However, one right conference can put you at the center of that momentum.

Whether you are a researcher, engineer, or leader, this calendar covers every major AI and ML conference over the next 15 months. We have covered all types of conferences from breakthrough academic research to hands-on industry deployment, so you can plan your travel and submissions well ahead of time.

Quick reference: all events at a glance

Conference	Date	Location
World Summit AI 2026	Oct 7–8, 2026	Amsterdam, Netherlands
PyTorch Conference 2026	Oct 20–21, 2026	San Jose, California, USA
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026)	Nov 9–12, 2026	Austin, Texas, USA
The AI Summit New York 2026	Dec 9–10, 2026	New York City, USA
NeurIPS 2026	Dec 6–13, 2026	Sydney, Paris & Atlanta
IEEE Big Data 2026	Dec 14–17, 2026	Phoenix, Arizona, USA
WACV 2027	Jan 4–8, 2027	Orlando, Florida, USA
WSDM 2027	Feb 15–19, 2027	Hong Kong SAR, China
AAAI-27	Feb 16–23, 2027	Montreal, Canada
ICASSP 2027	May 16–21, 2027	Toronto, Canada
ICRA 2027	May 24–28, 2027	Seoul, South Korea
ICLR 2027	Apr 26–30, 2027	San Francisco, USA
NAACL 2027	Jun 1–5, 2027	San Francisco, USA
CVPR 2027	Jun 20–24, 2027	Seattle, Washington, USA
AI Con USA 2027	Jun 6–11, 2027 (provisional)	Seattle, Washington, USA
ICML 2027	Mid-July 2027 (est.)	South America (TBA)
ACL 2027	Aug 17–22, 2027	Kyoto, Japan
AISTATS 2027	TBA	TBA
IJCAI 2027	Aug 7–17, 2027	Kyoto & Hengqin
ICCV 2027	Oct 2–8, 2027	Hong Kong
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2027	Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2027	Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Late 2026 (October – December)

World Summit AI 2026

Location	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date	October 7–8, 2026
Website	World Summit AI
Cost	Packages starting at €1,099 to €2,299, with group discounts.

Overview of the Conference

World Summit AI is one of the largest enterprise-facing AI gatherings globally, marking its 10th anniversary in 2026. Rather than academic paper presentations, the summit focuses on applied enterprise AI, startup innovation, and investment, bringing together big tech, founders, and policymakers under one roof.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Enterprise AI adoption and strategy AI safety, sovereignty, and governance Startup and investor ecosystems Frontier research announcements Creative industries and AI	Enterprise AI and technology leaders Startup founders and investors Policymakers and governance professionals Business development and partnerships teams

PyTorch Conference 2026

Location	San Jose, California, USA
Date	October 20–21, 2026
Website	PyTorch Events
Cost	Academic seat: $249; Attendee: $999.

Overview of the Conference

Hosted by the PyTorch Foundation, this conference gathers the open-source AI community around PyTorch and adjacent projects like vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray. It blends deep technical talks with hands-on workshops spanning the full AI stack, from infrastructure to agent-based applications.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Core PyTorch framework development Training and inference optimization Kernel engineering, compilers, and DSLs Responsible AI, security, and privacy Open-source AI ecosystem tooling	ML engineers and framework developers Infrastructure and platform teams Open-source contributors Applied researchers building on PyTorch

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026)

Location

Austin, Texas, USA

Date

November 9–12, 2026

Website

CoRL

Cost

Full Conference (incl. workshops)
Academic	$400
Student	$200
Industry	$1,200
Workshop Only
Academic	$150
Student	$75
Industry	$450
Late Registration (full conference, on/after Nov 1)
All attendees	$1,500

Overview of the Conference

CoRL is the leading academic conference at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. It is a selective, single-track venue addressing the theory and practice of learning-based approaches to robot perception, control, and decision-making, increasingly relevant as robot foundation models move from research demos toward deployment.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Robot foundation models and generalist policies Imitation and reinforcement learning for robotics Sim-to-real transfer Manipulation and navigation Model-based and model-free control	Robotics and ML researchers PhD students and postdocs in embodied AI Robotics startup founders and engineers Industrial AI labs working on physical systems

The AI Summit New York 2026

Location	New York City, New York, USA
Date	December 9–10, 2026
Website	The AI Summit
Cost	Expo starting at $99; Delegate: $2,099; VIP All Access: $2,799.

Overview of the Conference

Now in its 11th year, The AI Summit New York is Informa's flagship North American enterprise AI event. It's deliberately commercial rather than academic, focused on case studies of AI already in production across financial services, healthcare, retail, and media.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Enterprise AI deployment case studies Data governance, privacy, and AI risk Generative and agentic AI in business AI in financial services and healthcare Start-up and investor programming	Chief AI/Data/Information Officers VPs of engineering and digital transformation leads Enterprise product and innovation leaders Venture investors and solution providers

NeurIPS 2026

Location	Distributed across Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta
Date	Main conference (Dec 6–12) in Sydney; satellite events in Atlanta and Paris (Dec 9–13)
Website	NeurIPS
Cost	Virtual pass from $50; event and workshop pass from $200. Pricing varies by student, academic, and industry registration.

Overview of the Conference

NeurIPS is the world's most influential and highest-attended machine learning conference. The 2026 edition is notable for running as a distributed, multi-city event rather than a single host location; confirm your regional venue directly on the official site before booking travel.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Deep learning and foundation models Reinforcement learning and control Computer vision and NLP AI safety, fairness, and ethics Large-scale ML systems and infrastructure	Senior researchers and research engineers AI practitioners at scale-focused organizations Policymakers and AI ethics researchers Founders building research-driven AI products

IEEE Big Data 2026

Location	Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Date	December 14–17, 2026
Website	IEEE BigData 2026
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

Running since 2013, IEEE Big Data is a top-tier research conference covering the "5Vs" of big data, that is volume, velocity, variety, value, and veracity, with strong overlap into machine learning, data mining, and scalable AI systems.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Data mining and scalable systems Machine learning and federated learning on big data Privacy and security of big data Healthcare and IoT/sensor data Data-centric AI	Data scientists and ML researchers Systems and database engineers Academic researchers publishing peer-reviewed work Industry practitioners working with large-scale data

January – March, 2027

WACV 2027

Location	Orlando, Florida, USA
Date	January 4–8, 2027
Website	WACV / CVF
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

The Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) is CVF-sponsored and focuses specifically on applied, real-world computer vision, the application-focused counterpart to CVPR.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Applied computer vision systems Low-resource and edge vision models Vision for robotics and autonomous systems Medical and industrial imaging applications Vision-language applications	Applied computer vision engineers Researchers with a deployment focus Robotics and imaging practitioners Startups building vision products

WSDM 2027

Location	Hong Kong SAR, China
Date	February 15–19, 2027
Website	WSDM Conference
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

The ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) is a premier venue for research on web-scale search, recommendation systems, and data mining.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Search and information retrieval Recommender systems Web-scale data mining Graph and network learning User modeling and behavioral data	Search and recommendation engineers Data mining researchers Applied scientists at web-scale companies Graduate students in IR and data science

AAAI-27

Location	Montreal, Canada
Date	February 16–23, 2027
Website	AAAI
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

AAAI is one of the longest-running and broadest general AI conferences, spanning the entirety of artificial intelligence and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-27's theme continues the "bridges within and beyond AI" focus, covering everything from core technical research to AI alignment and social impact tracks.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
General and foundational AI research AI alignment and safety AI for social impact Multi-agent systems and reasoning Applied and industry AI track (IAAI)	AI researchers and professors across all subfields PhD students and doctoral consortium participants Industry researchers submitting to the applied track Policy and alignment-focused researchers

ICASSP 2027

Location	Toronto, Canada
Date	May 16–21, 2027
Website	IEEE ICASSP
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

ICASSP is IEEE's flagship conference on acoustics, speech, and signal processing, a key venue for speech recognition, audio ML, and signal-processing-adjacent deep learning research. The 2027 edition is confirmed for Toronto after running as TBA at the submission stage.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Speech and audio processing Signal processing for machine learning Multimodal and audio-visual learning Deep learning for acoustic modeling Hardware-aware signal processing	Speech and audio ML researchers Signal processing engineers Academic researchers in acoustics Industry teams building voice/audio products

ICRA 2027

Location	Seoul, South Korea (COEX)
Date	May 24–28, 2027
Website	IEEE ICRA
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

The International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is one of the two flagship IEEE robotics conferences, covering the full breadth of robotic systems, from mechanical design to learning-based control. The 2027 edition is confirmed for Seoul after running as TBA at the submission stage.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Robot perception and manipulation Learning-based robotic control Autonomous navigation Human-robot interaction Robotics hardware and automation	Robotics researchers and engineers Roboticists working on learning-based control Robotics startup teams Academic labs publishing robotics research

April – June, 2027

ICLR 2027

Location	San Francisco, California, USA
Date	April 26–30, 2027 (main conference April 26–28; workshops April 29–30)
Website	ICLR
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

ICLR is one of the "big three" deep learning venues alongside NeurIPS and ICML, and the only one that runs entirely public, open review via OpenReview. It's the fastest-growing of the major ML conferences and a key venue for representation learning research.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Representation and deep learning Reinforcement learning AI for science (biology, materials, climate) Multi-agent systems and generative AI Open, public peer review	Deep learning researchers and practitioners AI startup CTOs and technical leads Enterprise AI adoption leaders Graduate students and postdocs in ML

NAACL 2027

Location	San Francisco, California, USA
Date	June 1–5, 2027
Website	NAACL 2027
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

NAACL is the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a leading venue for human language technology research, with submissions routed through the shared ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Natural language processing and understanding Large language models Computational linguistics Machine translation and multilingual NLP NLP evaluation and benchmarking	NLP researchers and engineers Computational linguists LLM application developers Graduate students in language technology

CVPR 2027

Location	Seattle, Washington, USA
Date	June 20–24, 2027
Website	CVPR / CVF
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

CVPR is the leading global conference for computer vision research, and one of the fastest-moving venues in terms of research-to-production timelines. The breakthroughs here quickly show up in autonomous vehicles, medical imaging, robotics, and AR.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Computer vision and image understanding Vision-language and multimodal models Deep learning for visual recognition Autonomous systems and robotics vision Real-world vision deployment	Computer vision researchers and engineers Applied ML practitioners in vision-heavy domains Robotics and autonomous systems developers Industry teams deploying visual AI

AI Con USA 2027

Location	Seattle, Washington, USA (hybrid, in-person and virtual)
Date	Dates officially listed as TBD; provisionally June 6–11, 2027
Website	AI Con USA
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

AI Con USA is a hybrid, practitioner-oriented conference combining in-person Seattle attendance with a large virtual audience. It covers applied AI and ML topics across governance, MLOps, and application development rather than academic research. Treat the June dates as provisional until the organizer confirms the full program.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
AI transformation and agentic AI AI governance, regulation, and compliance MLOps and AIOps AI application development and LLMs AI security and safety	AI practitioners and engineering leaders Product and platform teams adopting AI Compliance and governance professionals Hybrid/virtual attendees seeking flexible access

July – September, 2027

ICML 2027

Location	South America (host city not yet announced)
Date	Estimated mid-July 2027
Website	ICML
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

ICML is one of the world's leading machine learning research conferences, known for a rigorous peer-review process and highly selective acceptance rate. The 2027 edition is set to be held in South America for the first time in the conference's history.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Machine learning theory and optimization Deep learning architectures and training methods Reinforcement learning and decision-making Interpretability, robustness, and alignment Foundation models	Academic researchers and PhD students Research scientists at AI labs and tech companies Applied ML researchers working on novel algorithms Graduate students pursuing research careers

ACL 2027

Location	Kyoto, Japan
Date	August 17–22, 2027
Website	ACL
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

The Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the flagship global NLP conference. The 2027 edition is confirmed for Kyoto, coordinated with the AACL chapter for its Asia/Pacific programming.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Computational linguistics and NLP Large language models Multilingual and low-resource language processing NLP ethics and evaluation Dialogue and generation systems	NLP and computational linguistics researchers LLM developers and applied scientists Academic and industry language technology teams Graduate students in NLP

AISTATS 2027

Location	TBA (location under confirmation)
Date	TBA (submission deadline in early October 2026)
Website	AISTATS
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

AISTATS (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics) sits at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and applied probability. It is a smaller, highly technical venue popular with researchers focused on statistical learning theory; the organizers have not yet finalized the 2027 dates and location.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Statistical machine learning Probabilistic modeling Learning theory Bayesian methods Optimization for ML	Statisticians and ML theorists Academic researchers in learning theory PhD students in statistics and ML Applied researchers in probabilistic modeling

IJCAI 2027

Location	Kyoto, Japan (Aug 7–13) and Hengqin, China (Aug 15–17)
Date	August 7–17, 2027
Website	IJCAI
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is one of the oldest and most prestigious general AI conferences, covering the full breadth of AI research from knowledge representation to multi-agent systems. The 2027 edition runs across two linked locations, Kyoto and Hengqin.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Machine learning and data-driven AI Knowledge representation and reasoning Multi-agent systems and game theory Planning and decision support AI applications in industry and society	AI researchers and professors ML practitioners working in complex systems Doctoral candidates presenting foundational research Industry professionals seeking research-backed insights

October – December, 2027

ICCV 2027

Location	Hong Kong
Date	October 2–8, 2027
Website	ICCV / CVF
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

ICCV is the computer vision community's other flagship, alternating years with ECCV. It draws a global audience of vision researchers and stands alongside CVPR as one of the two most influential CV venues.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Computer vision and pattern recognition 3D vision and reconstruction Video understanding Vision-language models Generative vision models	Computer vision researchers and engineers PhD students and postdocs in vision Applied ML practitioners in vision-heavy industries Robotics and AR/VR developers

IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2027

Location	Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Date	November 30 – December 2, 2027
Website	IEEE CAI
Cost	Not yet disclosed.

Overview of the Conference

IEEE CAI bridges academic AI research with industrial application, jointly sponsored by four IEEE societies. It's positioned as an applied, industry-facing counterpart to purely academic venues, with a strong exhibition component.

Key Focus Areas	Who Should Attend
Applied AI across industry verticals AI engineering and deployment Human-AI interaction AI for healthcare and smart cities Ethical and societal implications of AI	Applied and interdisciplinary AI researchers Engineers building production AI systems Industry professionals exploring AI adoption Academics collaborating across engineering domains

Ready to Attend the Next Conference?

The AI landscape in 2026 and 2027 is defined by scale, responsibility, and real-world impact. The conferences cover everything from foundational research to enterprise strategy. So, if you are aiming to publish breakthrough research, deploy AI at scale, or shape responsible policy, the right event can accelerate your trajectory.

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