It is almost October, but there are still major conferences and other events upcoming that will shape the discussion in the upcoming months. Here is my subjective round-up of the most impactful ones.
The AI Conference 2026 | San Francisco AI Conference: Sept 29 – Oct 1, San Francisco. Five tracks (Applied AI, AI Strategy, AI Builders, The AI Stack, AI Frontiers). Most exciting in my view: Peter Norvig (Stanford HAI) delivers a keynote on „Beyond the Breakthrough: What Comes Next for AI„.
World Summit AI: Oct 7 – Oct 8, Amsterdam. Nine tracks (including my favorite one „Physical AI“). One of the highlights: Harrison Chase will hold a keynote on „The State of Agent Development„. And the Physical AI track, like… everything in it.
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America: Oct 22 – Oct 23, San Jose, California. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, here is the Agentic AI flagship event in Q4. The speaker list is packed: Tim O’Reilly, Thomas Dohmke, David Soria Parra, Sarah Drasner, and many more. And the agenda is packed as well.
AWS re:Invent 2026: Build what’s next: Nov 30 – Dec 4, Las Vegas. The title is the program, but there are many sessions with relevance far beyond the AWS techstack. Agentic AI is featured prominently, including governance and safety issues (which is great).
NeurIPS 2026: Nov 30 – Dec 4, Sydney (satellite events in Atlanta and Paris). Never heard of it? This is a long-running annual academic conference series „to foster the exchange of research advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning„. Without a doubt, plenty of great insights this year.