AI Conferences in the US 2026 and 2027: The Live List

The US has more AI events than any other country, and the range is wide: trade shows in Las Vegas, developer conferences in San Jose, one-day summits in hotel ballrooms, research flagships that happen to be in the country this year. This guide pulls the US dates from our AI events calendar, so the list is current, then helps you pick the one that is worth a flight and a week out of the business.

Every US event 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 travel.

If an event you were looking for is missing, its current edition has probably finished and the next one is not in our data yet. Ai4, The AI Summit New York, Boston AI Week and the AIAI one-day summits all run on a yearly rhythm, so check back or look at the organiser's site for next year's dates.

Business shows. Ai4 in Las Vegas, The AI Summit New York, HumanX. A large exhibition, several stages, and an audience of people deciding what to adopt and buy. If your question is what is on the market, start here.

Developer and infrastructure conferences. NVIDIA GTC, The AI Conference in San Francisco, infrastructure summits such as infra/STRUCTURE. Technical sessions, product launches and an audience that builds things. Worth it if you build or buy at the infrastructure layer.

One-day and city summits. The AIAI events in Boston and Los Angeles, Boston AI Week. Short trips, focused programmes, a higher share of practitioners. Often the best value for a small team, because the cost is a day rather than a week.

Sector summits. AI in finance, energy, agriculture. Narrow, practical and full of people who share your regulator and your problems. If you work in one of these sectors, one good sector event beats two general ones. The AI in healthcare conference guide covers that sector specifically.

Research flagships. CVPR, ICLR, NAACL and others meet in the US in some years. Excellent for research teams and recruiting, poor value for business readers. The NLP and machine learning and robotics guides explain when they are worth it.

CES sits on its own. It is a consumer electronics show, not an AI conference, but so much of what is shown there now involves AI, from devices to robots to cars, that it belongs on the list for anyone working on physical or consumer products.

In a country this size, where an event is held changes the cost of going more than the ticket does. It is worth knowing the four places the calendar clusters.

Las Vegas. The big shows, because the convention centres and hotels are built for them. Easy to reach, easy to find a room if you book early, and a hard place to have a quiet conversation. Book meeting rooms or dinners in advance.

San Francisco and San Jose. Developer and research events, and a high density of AI companies. Hotels near the venues get expensive when a large conference is in town, so book as soon as you commit.

New York. Business and finance events. Good if your buyers are enterprise or financial services, since many of them are based there and can come for an afternoon.

Boston. A mix of research, health and enterprise, with Boston AI Week spreading events across Massachusetts. Good for hiring from the universities and for health and life sciences conversations.

Everywhere else. Chicago, Austin, Houston, Orlando, Seattle and Los Angeles all host AI events, often sector summits or a research flagship in a given year. For a team based nearby, these are the easiest wins on the calendar: no flight, no hotel, and a room full of people from your own region, who are the ones most likely to become customers, partners or hires. Check the list above for the city closest to you before you look at anything that needs a plane.

You run a small or mid-sized business. A business show or a one-day summit. Go with three problems you need solved, walk the hall, and leave with a shortlist. Skip the keynotes you can watch online.

You lead marketing or sales. The business shows and sector summits, where your buyers and peers are. Our guide to AI conferences for marketing and sales leaders goes through them one by one.

You run engineering or data. GTC or a developer conference, plus one practitioner summit. The hallway at these is the best place to hear what actually works in production.

You work in a regulated sector. Finance, healthcare, energy and the public sector all have their own AI events, and the sessions there deal with the questions that stall adoption in practice: audit trails, data residency, who signs off when a model makes a decision. A general show will mention those in one panel. A sector summit spends the whole day on them.

You are raising money. HumanX and the large shows, where investors go to meet many founders in a few days. Book the meetings before you fly.

For a small team, a US conference trip is a large discretionary expense, and it is easy to see the whole cost at once. Make the request easy to say yes to.

Two to three weeks before: book meetings. Speakers and exhibitors are reachable and expect to be contacted. Give each person a specific reason and a proposed time.

During: after every useful conversation, write one line about what was said. The renewal date, the problem, the vendor they want to leave. That line is what makes the follow-up feel like a continuation.

Within 72 hours after: send the follow-ups, before triage, before the debrief, before catching up on email. The event lead follow-up guide explains why the first three days decide most of it, and the same logic as responding to any lead quickly applies.

This is the step that breaks for small teams, because the person who went is behind on everything when they get back. Wysera is built for it: Wyse drafts each follow-up from the note you captured and asks before anything sends. If your team already follows up inside a few days without help, you do not need a tool for this.