AI Events

European AI Events

We think you grow fastest in the room: meeting the people building this technology, trading what actually works, and carrying it back to the team. This is the map of AI gatherings across Europe we keep an eye on, and you are welcome to use it too.

AI Events Calendar

October

20261 event
14 Oct 14 – Nov 17

European AI Innovation Month 2026

🇪🇺 EU-wide Regulation / Policy Policymakers

European Commission initiative, a month of online & in-person events showcasing AI innovation, adoption and governance across Europe.

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November

202621 events
2 Nov 2 – 6

W-JAX 2026

🇩🇪 Munich, Germany GenAI / LLM Technical

Conference for Java, software architecture and innovation, featuring an Enterprise AI Day and tracks on Enterprise AI & Agentic Systems.

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3 Nov 3 – 4

Lisbon AI Conference 2026

🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal GenAI / LLM Technical

Practitioner conference across five tracks (foundation models, platforms, tooling, physical AI, ethics), moving models to production.

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4 Nov 4 – 5

FT Future of AI Summit

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom AI Economy / Business Enterprise

Financial Times senior-executive summit on scaling AI investment, workforce transformation and measuring business value (87% decision-makers).

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4 Nov 4 – 5

Big Data & AI World Madrid 2026

🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain AI Economy / Business Enterprise

Major meeting point for advances in Big Data, advanced analytics and AI, part of the Tech Show Madrid series.

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7 Nov 7 – 11

CIKM 2026: Information & Knowledge Management

🇮🇹 Rome, Italy Research / Academic Researchers

Top-tier ACM conference bridging information retrieval, databases and knowledge management.

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9 Nov 9 – 12

Web Summit Lisbon 2026

🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal AI Economy / Business Mixed

Europe's largest tech conference (70,000+ attendees, 1,200 investors) with a dedicated AI Summit track on deploying AI profitably.

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16 Nov 16

Swiss AI Summit 2026

🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland AI Economy / Business Enterprise

One-day enterprise AI summit at Kunsthaus Zürich around Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Strategy, plus specialised workshops.

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16 Nov 16

GenAI Summit South East Europe (5th)

🇬🇷 Athens, Greece GenAI / LLM Mixed

Generative AI summit at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, multiple stages, hands-on demos, case studies and workshops.

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17 Nov 17

Apply AI Summit 2026 (European Commission)

🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium Regulation / Policy Policymakers

Flagship EU institutional summit at The EGG marking one year of the Apply AI Strategy and closing European AI Innovation Month.

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18 Nov 18 – 19

Slush 2026

🇫🇮 Helsinki, Finland AI Economy / Business Investors

The world's most founder-focused startup event at Messukeskus Helsinki, 12,000+ founders & investors, AI-driven matchmaking. Largest gathering of institutional capital in Europe.

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18 Nov 18 – 19

IAPP Europe Congress 2026

🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium Regulation / Policy Legal/compliance

Leading European conference for privacy, AI governance and cybersecurity law, Global Privacy Assembly (GPA48) co-located in Brussels.

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18 Nov 18

AI Summit 2026 (Legal Business / Legal500)

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom Regulation / Policy Legal/compliance

Summit gathering lawyers and innovators on AI's evolving impact on law, regulation and legal practice.

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19 Nov 19

AI in Business Conference London

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom AI Economy / Business Enterprise

Enterprise one-day conference turning AI ambition into measurable business impact via keynotes and case studies.

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19 Nov 19

AI Poland 2026

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland AI / ML Technical

Developer-focused AI conference held in Warsaw and online, on understanding and applying AI.

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23 Nov 23 – 24

FARI Brussels Conference 2026

🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium Regulation / Policy Mixed

FARI AI for the Common Good Institute, 'Brussels, Capital of AI?' on responsible and sovereign AI, robotics, ethics and regulation.

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23 Nov 23 – 27

MLcon Berlin 2026

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany GenAI / LLM Technical

Five-day machine learning & generative AI engineering conference around GenAI, ML development and MLOps, with hands-on workshops.

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23 Nov 23 – 26

BMVC 2026: British Machine Vision Conference

🇬🇧 Lancaster, United Kingdom Research / Academic Researchers

The UK's premier computer vision and image analysis research conference, hosted by Lancaster University.

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24 Nov 24 – 26

SPS: Smart Production Solutions

🇩🇪 Nuremberg, Germany Automation / Robotics Enterprise

World-leading industrial automation trade fair, 1,000+ exhibitors on control tech, robotics, industrial software and a focus on Industrial AI.

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24 Nov 24 – 25

AI World Congress 2026

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom AI / ML Mixed

Applied AI conference in Kensington, generative models, AI ethics, creative AI and practical enterprise implementation.

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24 Nov 24 – 27

Big Data Conference Europe / AI Summit Europe

🇱🇹 Vilnius, Lithuania AI / ML Technical

Hybrid conference on data engineering, analytics, ML and AI use cases (incl. a responsible-AI track); co-located with AI Summit Europe.

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26 Nov 26 – 27

Data Science Summit 2026 (Autumn)

🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland AI / ML Mixed

The largest independent data science conference in CEE, 16 tracks and 200+ talks across data science, ML and AI.

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December

20266 events
1 Dec 1 – 3

apidays GenerationAI Paris 2026

🇫🇷 Paris, France GenAI / LLM Technical

Developer- & product-focused generative AI conference at CNIT Forest, 4,000+ participants deploying GenAI at scale.

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1 Dec 1 – 2

DeepTech Alliance Manufacturing 2026

🇭🇺 Budapest, Hungary Automation / Robotics Investors

DeepTech summit connecting manufacturing startups/scaleups, corporates and investors around AI-driven, sustainable industrial production.

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2 Dec 2

The International AI Summit 2026

🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium Regulation / Policy Policymakers

Full-day Brussels summit on evolving AI regulation, global governance, international standards, fairness and access.

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2 Dec 2

The Ireland AI Conference 2026

🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland AI Economy / Business Enterprise

Evening gathering of ~300 of Ireland's AI, business and tech leaders at The Convention Centre Dublin.

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2 Dec 2

EU AI Act: Synthetic content marking deadline

🇪🇺 EU-wide Regulation / Policy Policymakers

Milestone: providers of AI systems generating synthetic content placed on the market before Aug 2026 must comply with machine-readable marking (postponed from 2 Aug 2026).

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8 Dec 8 – 9

Global AI Security Summit 2026

🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom Regulation / Policy Mixed

Two-day summit on AI security, safety and governance frameworks for enterprises and public institutions.

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