AI Conferences in Asia 2026 and 2027: The Live List

A lot of the world's AI hardware, manufacturing and enterprise adoption is happening in Asia, and the conference calendar there is harder to follow from outside the region than Europe's or the US's. This guide pulls the Asian dates from our AI events calendar, so the list stays current, then explains where events cluster, which suit which reader, and what a trip from outside the region involves.

Every event in Asia still to come in the calendar, in date order. Each name opens a page with the venue, format and organiser's site. Confirm dates there before booking.

Several regional events run in the second half of the year and drop off the list once they finish: the AI Summit Seoul and Expo, AIMX Singapore, the AIBP conference in Bangkok, the regional KubeCon and PyTorch conference in Shanghai, and CIIF. If one is missing, its current edition is over and next year's is not in our data yet. Australian events such as OpenSummit.AI in Sydney and CDAO Melbourne sit on the main calendar rather than here.

Singapore. A common base for regional headquarters, with English as the business language and a convention infrastructure built for international visitors. Enterprise events, connectivity and infrastructure events such as ITW Asia, and research conferences in some years. For a first trip to the region, this is the easiest place to start.

Seoul. A strong consumer technology and hardware ecosystem, with the AI Summit Seoul and Expo held at COEX and research flagships visiting in some years. Good for semiconductors, devices, and the large Korean technology groups.

Shanghai. Industrial and open source events: CIIF for manufacturing and automation, and the regional KubeCon and PyTorch conference for the infrastructure and open model community. If your work touches hardware supply chains or factory automation, this is where the conversation is.

Hong Kong and Japan. Research flagships rotate through both, and in our current data they carry several of the major research conferences. Kyoto in particular has a strong research tradition and a calendar to match.

Southeast Asia. Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta host regional enterprise summits such as AIBP, aimed at companies adopting technology rather than building it. Smaller, more focused, and good for meeting buyers in fast-growing markets.

India. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi have large technology workforces and a busy local events scene, much of it run by developer communities, industry bodies and the large IT services firms. Few of those events are in our calendar yet, so if India is your market, ask your local partners which ones their customers attend. That question usually produces a better shortlist than any directory, ours included.

The names do not tell you much, so it helps to sort by audience.

Research conferences. ICCV, ACL, IJCAI, ICRA, WSDM, IEEE CAI and others when they meet in the region. Peer-reviewed, technical, and the best place to recruit researchers. Our guides to computer vision conferences, NLP and machine learning and robotics explain each family.

Industry and infrastructure events. CIIF, ITW Asia, the open source conferences. Aimed at people who build, run and supply the systems AI depends on: factories, networks, data centres, model infrastructure.

Enterprise adoption events. AI Summit Seoul, AIMX, AIBP. Business audiences, case studies and vendor halls. The right choice for a company deciding what to adopt or looking for customers in the region.

You sell into Asia. An enterprise event in the market you are targeting, not a general one in a neighbouring country. Buyers in Seoul, Singapore and Bangkok have different procurement norms and different incumbents, and a regional summit puts you in front of the ones that matter for your market.

You source hardware or manufacturing. CIIF and the industrial fairs. Seeing suppliers in person, and seeing their competitors in the next aisle, is hard to replicate any other way.

You run infrastructure. ITW Asia and the open source conferences, where carriers, data centre operators and platform teams meet.

You lead marketing or sales outside the region. Probably none, unless Asia is a market you are entering. For general learning, the guide to AI conferences for marketing and sales leaders and the US conference guide list closer options.

You are hiring researchers. Whichever research flagship is in the region that year. When a flagship comes to Asia, the regional research community attends in force, which makes it an unusually good recruiting opportunity.

A trip to Asia from Europe or the Americas is long and expensive, so make it count for more than one event.

On budget, the case is the same as for any conference, with the travel cost made explicit: the decision the trip supports, the meetings booked, the full cost including days away, and a written debrief within a week. For a long-haul trip, add the second purpose, because a request that combines a conference with three customer meetings is far easier to approve than one that does not.

Before: book meetings two to three weeks out, and confirm them a few days before. Exhibitor and speaker lists are public. If you are meeting people whose first language is not yours, send a short written agenda in advance. It makes the conversation easier for everyone.

During: write one line after every useful conversation. On a long trip with several events and a time difference, conversations blur faster than usual.

After: follow up within three days, accounting for time zones so the message arrives in their working morning. The event lead follow-up guide covers why speed matters. If the follow-up is the part that slips for your team, Wysera helps: Wyse drafts each message from your note, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

For other regions, see the guides to AI conferences in the Middle East and Africa and the US, or browse the full AI events calendar.