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2025 AI Conferences

Wondering what AI conferences you should attend in 2025? You’ve come to the right place! Every year we curate and update a list of AI conferences to help you figure that out.

2025 is set to be a landmark year for AI—and the right conferences can help you stay ahead, grow your network, and discover breakthrough tools. Our curated list features top events with hands-on workshops, real-world case studies, and insider access to the latest trends.

Below, explore the most anticipated AI-focused conferences of 2025, plus key tech events with major AI tracks.

Arize:Observe

Arize:Observe

June 25, 2025

San Francisco, CA

$100 Early Bird until April 15

First we want to drop a quick plug for our very own observability and evaluation conference happening in June in San Francisco. This year the theme will focus on agent and assistant evaluation, and the event has panels and talks on improving the quality and performance of AI in production. Last year presenters included heads of AI, founders, engineers, and researchers from Microsoft, OpenAI, Mistral AI, Anthropic, Vectara, Wayfair, DSPy and more.

Large AI Conferences

World AI Conference

World AI Conference

February 13 – 15, 2025

Cannes, France (and Virtual)

Free–1290€

Big conference that’s expecting over 12,000+ attendees. Every year speakers include top AI leaders from companies like IBM, AMD, HP, and Google, as well as startups, and government organizations from around the world. There are workshops, talks, an exhibition open to the public. This year there are specific industry focuses in AI for Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Finance.

AI Dev World

AI Dev World

February 11 – 13, 2025

Santa Clara, CA

$820+

Mid-sized conference for AI developers with tracks on chatbots, ML, open source libraries, enterprise AI, and more. Emphasis on executive presence and entrepreneurs. There’s a startup showcase and a hackathon.

Developer Week

Developer Week

February 11 – June 13, 2025

San Jose, CA

Tickets start at $1000

Developer week draws over 8000 developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers, and executives. This conference allows attendees to discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, There’s also a hackathon, hiring expo, workshops, technical talks, and keynotes.

Deep Learning & Advanced ML Summit

February 11 – 12, 2025

San Jose, CA

Tickets are $449–$1499+

Programming this year is dedicated to deep learning and advances in ML and AI applications. There are presentations, talks, panel discussions, and access to reports that are exclusive to attendees. The lowest ticket price gets you on-demand access.

NVIDIA GTC

March 17 – 20, 2025

San Jose, CA and virtual

Free–$2000+

Huge conference with hundreds of sessions on deep learning, data science, data centers, and other topics with a focus on NVIDIA technology and the innovation it enables.

Google Cloud Next

April 9 – 11, 2025

Las Vegas, Nevada

$999+ (Early Bird ends in February)

Google Cloud’s annual conference that covers the latest and greatest in AI innovations and product launches. Includes lightning talks, demos, technical talks, workshops, and an exhibition hall. This year there’s also a Gemini API hackathon.

QCon

April 7 – 11, 2025

London, England

£2,250+

Huge conference for emerging trends, use cases, and best practices in software development that’s been running for 19 years. Tracks include AI and ML for software engineers, the path to senior engineering leadership, emerging trends in frontend and mobile, and more.

World Data Summit

May 21 – 23, 2025

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1290€+

Conference for data pioneers, industry leaders, policymakers, and other data practitioners to help shape the future of data governance, privacy, and innovation. This year the conference has multiple AI focuses including Ai metadata management, ethics and privacy in data & AI, and LLM implementation.

RAISE Summit

July 8 – 9, 2025

Paris, France (in the Louvre, too)

399€–1699€ (early bird)

They’re expecting 5000 attendees, 1500 companies, and more than 250 speakers, most being C-suite. Learn about real-world use cases, or find the right partners to deliver solutions. There will also be a hackathon.

Ai4

August 11 – 13, 2025

Las Vegas, Nevada

Free–$2895 (prices will go up after early bird rates end)

Ai4 organizers are expecting more than 8000 attendees this year for a conference that bills itself as “the industry’s only must-attend annual event.” 2024 speakers  included Geoffrey Hinton, Andrew Yang, fortune 500 companies, and researchers from top universities.

Ray Summit

San Francisco, CA

Anyscale’s annual event for anyone who wants to talk about building and deploying large-scale AI applications. Includes hands-on training and tutorials, and big name speakers.

World Summit AI

October 8 – 9, 2025

Amsterdam, Netherlands

€349

Large conference that targets the entire AI ecosystem: enterprise, startups, investors, builders, and researchers. Networking, high-profile plenary sessions, curated panels, and smaller meetings.

MLOps World/Generative AI World

Austin, Texas

Big event for the generative AI community with technical workshops, panel discussions, case studies, and lots of networking opportunities. Partnership with the MLOps World team.

The AI Summit New York

New York, NY

Large general interest AI conference every year in NYC. Convenes AI experts and researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and business leaders for multiple days. Includes an expo and a networking cafe.

Mid-Sized, Regional AI Conferences

Data Science Salon Austin

February 19 – 20, 2025

Austin, TX + Virtual

$295 (On-Demand), $695 (In Person)

Intimate conference with use-cases, technical talks and workshops. This year they added a Future of ML & AI Startups + Showcase that will include VC and startup panels, and a start-up showcase with a prize awarded. Speakers from FAANG, fortune 500 and government.

Data Science Salon San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

The focus for this small, one-day conference is around generative AI and ML in enterprise. Described as a mix of TedX, Foo Camp and Summit that includes curated sessions for AI researchers, c-suite, and senior managers.

MLConf

March 27, 2025

New York, NY

$263.69 (Early Bird rate)

One-day conference on applications of ML techniques and practices, ML/AI algorithms, platforms, tools, and lessons learned. Best for data scientists, devs, researchers, startup founders, investors, and anyone else who wants to stay current.

Data Council

April 22 – 24, 2025

Bay Area, CA

Early bird is $1299 until February

Long-running conference dedicated to no hidden sales pitches. Technical focus with talks that share industry knowledge, best practices, and cutting-edge systems and tools for practitioners in data and AI.

CDAO Spring

April 10, 2025

San Francisco, CA

Free-$2499

Niche conference for chief data and analytics officers and other data and analytics leaders, practitioners, and data scientists. Covers AI, data security, and digital transformation.

AI Expo

April 18, 2025

Austin, Texas

$29.00–$75.00

One-day conference dedicated to the latest in AI trends and technologies. Includes a conference, trade show, and networking opportunities. Sessions are less technical and geared toward decision makers and enthusiasts. Estimated 2000 attendees.

ODSC East

May 13 – 15, 2025

Boston, MA

$479 (Early Bird)–$1399 (VIP)

Great mid-size technical conference for practitioners: data scientists, researchers, ML engineers, AI engineers, etc. This year there’s an agents track. Every year there is a mini-bootcamp prior to the conference.

The Data Science Conference

May 29 – 30, 2025

Chicago, IL

$1600

No vendors, sponsors, or recruiters. Two days of back to back talks by data scientists and researchers on a single track.

AI Engineer World’s Fair

June 3 – 5, 2025

San Francisco, CA

$799 (Early Bird)+

Technical AI conference for generalist software engineers, AI engineers, and AI VPs. There will be up to 5 tracks. This was a buzzworthy event last year that sold out to 2K engineers.

Venture Beat Transform

San Francisco, CA

Free–$999

Small conference for enterprise executives across industries, with talks that focus on Ai advances for enterprise.

Toronto Machine Learning Summit (TMLS)

Toronto, Cananda

Free–$700

This will be the 8th year of this mid-sized conference, which includes a mix of workshops, case studies, and research presentation. Audience is typically 50% ML practitioners, and a mix of researchers and business leaders.

ODSC West

Burlingame, CA

Large event for AI and data science practitioners with workshops, hands-on training, insightful panels, and networking opportunities.

Technical & Hands-On AI Conferences

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Virtual

Tecton’s annual virtual conference for ML and AI engineers. Features workshops and technical sessions with a focus on applied AI and machine learning.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon

April 1 – 4, 2025

London, England

Free–$2000+

Huge in-person conference for devs, technical leaders, and c-suite who are invested in open-source with a focus on kubernetes and  broader DevOps trends. There are panels, poster sessions, lightning talks, and tutorials.

AI in Finance Summit

April 15 – 16, 2025

New York, NY

$1395+

Attendees include data scientists, AI Directors, ML and AI engineers, other technical leads in banking, financial services, and insurance. Themes include generative AI, ML for fraud detection, ethics and regulations, deep learning and other topics

Optimized AI Conference

April 14 – 16, 2025

Atlanta, Georgia

$250 and up

Formerly the Southern Data Science Conference, Optimized AI conference is a multi-track AI event that attracts top speakers in the industry—past speakers include Chip Huyen, Francois Chollet, and Sebastian Raschka.

Big Data & Analytics Summit

June 4 – 5, 2025

Toronto, Ontario

$999+

Event for data leaders and practitioners. This year the conference will focus on deploying AI with ethics and sustainability, driving democratization, agile governance frameworks, and AI talent pipelines. Includes networking events, keynotes, exhibitions, panels, and more.

MLCon

June 23 – 27, 2025

Munich, Germany

503€+

Includes workshops, sessions, keynotes, networking sessions. Main topics include advanced ML development, ML basics, generative AI, and business strategy.

Coalesce

Las Vegas, Nevada

Annual conference by dbt Labs that shows a wide range of applications for analytics engineering. Highly interactive with workshops and lots of opportunities to learn.

AI Infra Summit

September 9 – 11, 2025

Santa Clara, CA

Free–$999

Formerly the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, the conference has rebranded as a full-stack AI & ML infrastructure event. Topics covered include hardware & systems, data centers, edge AI and enterprise AI. Advertised as an opportunity to connect with partners whether you’re an enterprise end-user, hyperscaler, or part of the wider tech ecosystem.

Voice & AI

Brings together the generative AI and conversational AI communities along with enterprise leaders and other innovators. Last year there were 100+ speakers from Fortune 500 companies and beyond.

Academic & Research Focused AI Conferences

CVPR

June 11 – 15, 2025

Nashville, Tennessee

$TBA

Major computer vision and pattern recognition conference for academics and industry researchers. 10000+ attendees, keynotes, panels, papers, and workshops.

ICLML

July 13 – 19, 2025

Vancouver, Canada

$TBA

Long-running ML conference. Papers span AI, data science, and statistics, with applications like CV, computational biology, robotics, and much more.

InterSpeech

August 17 – 21, 2025

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Niche conference on human speech processing. The theme this year is about fair and inclusive speech science and technology. There are challenges, special sessions, panels, workshops, and tutorials.

NeurIPS

Location TBA

An important conference on neural information processing systems. Keynotes, poster sessions, competitions, a journal showcase, an expo, and opportunities to learn from the latest research and top researchers in neural information processing.

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