Schedule of AI & Web Summits in 2025:
World AI Show Malaysia 2025
Dates: October 28-29, 2025
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Overview: The World AI Show Malaysia 2025 is part of a global series of summits that bring together government leaders, enterprise decision-makers, technology experts, and innovators to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence. This edition in Kuala Lumpur will spotlight Malaysia’s role as a rising hub for AI adoption in Southeast Asia, focusing on applications in governance, business, healthcare, finance, and smart cities.
Website: World AI Show Malaysia 2025
FutureTech World Cup Malaysia Regionals
Dates: October 29, 2025
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Overview: The FutureTech World Cup is a global innovation challenge designed to spotlight cutting-edge startups, breakthrough technologies, and disruptive solutions shaping the future of industries. The Malaysia Regionals will serve as a qualifying stage where some of the most promising startups and innovators in Southeast Asia will compete for a chance to advance to the global finals.
Website: FutureTech World Cup Malaysia Regionals
Chatbot Summit 2025
Date: November 2025 (TBD)
Location: Berlin, Germany
Overview: As a leading international conference on conversational AI, chatbots, and voice technologies, the summit brings together industry professionals, innovators, and decision-makers to explore the future of conversational experiences.
Website: Chatbot Summit 2025
DATE KSA
Date: November 8–9, 2025
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview: DATE (Digital Acceleration & Technology Expo) MENA focuses on digital transformation across industries in the Middle East and North Africa. The event convenes technology leaders, solution providers, and government representatives to discuss AI, cloud, IoT, and emerging technologies driving business and societal change.
Website: DATE KSA
Web Summit 2025
Date: November 10–13, 2025
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview: DATE (Digital Acceleration & Technology Expo) KSA highlights the Kingdom’s digital innovation journey, offering a platform for stakeholders to exchange insights on smart cities, AI, 5G, cybersecurity, and the digital economy’s role in Vision 2030.
Website: Web Summit 2025
CIO Roundtable Series
Dates: November 12, 2025
Location: Prince Waikiki, Honolulu
Overview: Exponential technologies such as generative AI are changing organizations and industries at a rapid pace and bringing unprecedented opportunities and risks for IT. In response, IT must alter its linear pace of change – immediately and strategically – to remain the leading technology provider for its organization. Discover the future of IT in an engaging keynote session! Learn about the latest trends, and how they’ll shape your organization. Then, join top CIOs for a roundtable discussion. Share insights, gain strategies, and connect with peers. Don’t miss this chance to transform your IT leadership.
Website: CIO Roundtable Series
Smart Retail Expo
Date: November 12-13, 2025
Location: London, England
Overview: This expo serves as a comprehensive platform for retailers aiming to enhance their businesses by connecting with suitable partners and exploring solutions across various categories.
Website: Smart Retail Expo
Big Data Conference Europe
Date: November 18-21, 2025
Location: Hybrid – Vilnius, Lithuania, and available online.
Overview: This is the 9th time this conference has run, and the agenda includes important topics in AI like ChatGPT, deep learning, and predictive analytics. This conference hosts attendees from all backgrounds from both inside and outside Europe.
Website: Big Data Conference Europe
DATE MENA
Date: November 26–27, 2025
Location: Dubai, UAE
Overview: DATE (Digital Acceleration & Technology Expo) MENA focuses on digital transformation across industries in the Middle East and North Africa. The event convenes technology leaders, solution providers, and government representatives to discuss AI, cloud, IoT, and emerging technologies driving business and societal change.
Website: DATE MENA
HODL Dubai 2025
Dates: November 26-27, 2025
Location: Dubai, UAE
Overview: HODL Dubai 2025 is a premier blockchain and crypto-focused event bringing together investors, entrepreneurs, regulators, and innovators from across the globe. The conference is designed to explore the evolving world of digital assets, Web3, decentralized finance (DeFi), and tokenized economies, while positioning Dubai as a global hub for blockchain innovation and adoption.
Website: HODL Dubai 2025
CARE MENA
Date: November 26–27, 2025
Location: Dubai, UAE
Overview: The CARE (Climate Action, Responsibility & Environment) MENA conference brings sustainability and technology together, spotlighting climate solutions, ESG initiatives, and innovations that foster a greener future. Leaders from business, government, and NGOs collaborate to address regional sustainability challenges.
Website: CARE MENA
ClimateTech World Cup MENA Regionals
Date: November 27, 2025
Location: Dubai, UAE
Overview: ClimateTech World Cup is a unique pitch competition that brings together environmental pioneers and sustainability visionaries with bold planet-saving innovations that challenge conventional thinking and shape our future. This is where climate action turns into global impact.
Website: ClimateTech World Cup MENA Regionals
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
Dates: December 2025 (Exact dates to be announced)
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Overview: A premier machine learning and computational neuroscience conference, including invited talks and presentations of refereed papers.
Website: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
Future Tech Event 2025
Date: December 8–9, 2025
Location: Muscat, Oman
Overview: This premier technology event serves as a hub for innovation, digital transformation, and emerging technologies in the Middle East.
Website: Future Tech Event 2025
CARE KSA
Date: December 8–9, 2025
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview: The CARE (Climate Action, Responsibility & Environment) MENA conference brings sustainability and technology together, spotlighting climate solutions, ESG initiatives, and innovations that foster a greener future. Leaders from business, government, and NGOs collaborate to address regional sustainability challenges.
Website: CARE KSA
ClimateTech World Cup Saudi Arabia Regionals
Date: December 9, 2025
Location: Riyadh, KSA
Overview: ClimateTech World Cup is a unique pitch competition that brings together environmental pioneers and sustainability visionaries with bold planet-saving innovations that challenge conventional thinking and shape our future. This is where climate action turns into global impact.
Website: ClimateTech World Cup Saudi Arabia Regionals
NeurIPS 2025
Date: December 9-15, 2025
Location: San Diego, California, USA
Overview: Renowned for its rigorous peer-review process and is considered one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of machine learning and AI.
Website: NeurIPS 2025
CIO Roundtable Series
Dates: December 10, 2025
Location: Quebec City, QB – Fairmont Le Château Frontenac
Overview: Exponential technologies such as generative AI are changing organizations and industries at a rapid pace and bringing unprecedented opportunities and risks for IT. In response, IT must alter its linear pace of change – immediately and strategically – to remain the leading technology provider for its organization. Discover the future of IT in an engaging keynote session! Learn about the latest trends, and how they’ll shape your organization. Then, join top CIOs for a roundtable discussion. Share insights, gain strategies, and connect with peers. Don’t miss this chance to transform your IT leadership.
Website: CIO Roundtable Series
AAAI 2026 (40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Dates: January 20–27, 2026
Location: Singapore EXPO, Singapore
Overview: Flagship AI research conference spanning the breadth of AI with peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, workshops, and industry/academic networking.
Website: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/
AI & Big Data Expo Global 2026
Dates: February 4–5, 2026
Location: Olympia London, London, UK
Overview: Large enterprise-focused expo covering AI, GenAI, and data use cases across industries with multi-track content and exhibition.
Website: https://www.ai-expo.net/global/
Global AI Show – Riyadh 2026
Dates: February 9–10, 2026
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Overview: Major Middle East exhibition and conference showcasing enterprise AI solutions, public-sector initiatives, and ecosystem partnerships.
Website: https://globalaishow.com/riyadh/
CARE India
Date: February 9-10, 2026
Location: New Delhi, India
Overview: It fosters collaboration between innovators, companies, and investors, providing actionable insights and forming strategic partnerships. CARE is designed for those dedicated to driving measurable change.
Website: CARE India
ClimateTech World Cup India Regionals
Date: February 10, 2026
Location: New Delhi, India
Overview: ClimateTech World Cup is a unique pitch competition that brings together environmental pioneers and sustainability visionaries with bold planet-saving innovations that challenge conventional thinking and shape our future. This is where climate action turns into global impact.
Website: ClimateTech World Cup India Regionals
Big Data & AI World London 2026 (Tech Show London)
Dates: March 4–5, 2026
Location: ExCeL London, London, UK
Overview: Enterprise data and AI conference focused on platforms, governance, security, and skills, co-located with broader Tech Show London.
Website: https://www.techshowlondon.co.uk/big-data-ai-world
HumanX 2026
Dates: April 6–9, 2026
Location: San Francisco, USA
Overview: Industry-centric AI conference with tracks for builders, governance, customer applications, and ecosystem strategy.
Website: https://www.humanx.co/
Dubai AI Festival
Dates: April 7–8, 2026
Location: Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE
Overview: Part of Dubai AI Week, a city-wide platform featuring exhibitions, dialogues, competitions, and startup showcases focused on accelerating AI adoption.
Website: https://dubaiaifestival.com/
GITEX AFRICA 2026
Dates: April 7–9, 2026
Location: Place Bab Jdid, Marrakech, Morocco
Overview: Africa’s flagship GITEX show convening governments, tech leaders, startups, and investors across AI and frontier tech.
Website: https://gitexafrica.com/ gitexafrica.com+2tradefairdates.com+2
GITEX ASIA 2026
Dates: April 9–10, 2026
Location: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Overview: Asian edition of GITEX x AI Everything, uniting enterprises, startups, and investors around AI, cybersecurity, cloud, data centres and more.
Website: https://gitexasia.com/ gitexasia.com+2tradefairdates.com+2
GITEX Future Health Africa (Morocco)
Dates: April 21–23, 2026
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Overview: New GITEX vertical spotlighting AI-driven healthcare innovation across Africa—diagnostics, connected care, and scalable healthtech.
Website: https://gitexfuturehealth.com/ gitexafrica.com
ICLR 2026 (International Conference on Learning Representations)
Dates: April 23–27, 2026
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Overview: Top venue for deep learning and representation learning featuring cutting-edge research, workshops, and tutorials.
Website: https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2026
AISTATS 2026 (Artificial Intelligence and Statistics)
Dates: May 2–5, 2026
Location: Tangier, Morocco
Overview: Premier venue at the intersection of machine learning/AI and statistics, with rigorous theoretical and applied work.
Website: https://aistats.org/aistats2026/
AI Everything Kenya x GITEX Kenya 2026
Dates: May 19–21, 2026
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Overview: Africa’s largest public–private AI gathering, accelerating adoption across sectors like finance, health, agriculture, and education.
Website: https://www.aieverythingkenya.com/
AAMAS 2026 (Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems)
Dates: May 25–29, 2026
Location: Paphos, Cyprus
Overview: Leading conference on multi-agent systems, agentic AI, game theory, and human–agent interaction.
Website: https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/
ICRA 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation)
Dates: June 1–5, 2026
Location: Vienna, Austria
Overview: Flagship robotics conference with strong overlaps in embodied and agentic AI, featuring papers, demos, and industry forums.
Website: https://2026.ieee-icra.org/
GITEX Central Asia & Caucasus 2026
Dates: June 2–4, 2026
Location: Astana, Kazakhstan
Overview: Regional tech and startup platform (with Ai Everything Kazakhstan) for AI policy, digital infrastructure, and venture deal-making across Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Website: https://www.gitexcac.com/ astanahub.com+1
CVPR 2026 (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
Dates: June 3–7, 2026
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Overview: Premier computer vision conference covering SOTA research in vision, multimodality, and generative AI.
Website: https://cvpr.thecvf.com/2026/
AI Con 2026
Dates: June 7–12, 2026
Location: Seattle, USA (Hybrid)
Overview: Hybrid conference with keynotes, technical sessions, and tutorials on LLMs, MLOps/AIOps, and AI application development.
Website: https://aiconusa.techwell.com/
The AI Summit London 2026
Dates: June 10–11, 2026
Location: London, UK
Overview: Enterprise AI summit with strategy tracks, case studies, and an expo floor; part of London Tech Week.
Website: https://london.theaisummit.com/
GITEX EUROPE 2026
Dates: June 30 – July 1, 2026
Location: Berlin, Germany
Overview: Continental showcase for AI, cybersecurity, and deep-tech; a deal-making hub for startups, enterprises, and investors.
Website: https://www.gitexeurope.com/ event.gitex-europe.com
ACL 2026 (Association for Computational Linguistics)
Dates: July 2–7, 2026
Location: San Diego, USA
Overview: Top NLP/LLM conference for language understanding, generation, evaluation, and multimodal language AI.
Website: https://2026.aclweb.org/
ICML 2026 (International Conference on Machine Learning)
Dates: July 6–12, 2026
Location: COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea
Overview: One of the “big three” ML conferences, spanning theory, algorithms, and applications at scale.
Website: https://icml.cc/Conferences/2026
RSS 2026 (Robotics: Science and Systems)
Dates: July 13–17, 2026
Location: University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Overview: Selective robotics/embodied-AI research conference featuring technical sessions and focused workshops.
Website: https://roboticsconference.org/
WAIC 2026 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference)
Dates: July 2026 (TBA)
Location: Shanghai, China
Overview: Large government-backed global AI forum with expo, academic-industry panels, and awards.
Website: https://www.worldaic.com.cn/
KDD 2026 (ACM SIGKDD Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining)
Dates: August 9–13, 2026
Location: ICC Jeju, Jeju, South Korea
Overview: Premier venue for data mining, large-scale ML systems, and applied AI across industries.
Website: https://kdd2026.kdd.org/
IJCAI–ECAI 2026 (International Joint Conference on AI + European AI Conference)
Dates: August 15–21, 2026 (main conference begins August 18)
Location: Bremen, Germany
Overview: Broad-scope, historic AI conference uniting global research communities across all areas of AI.
Website: https://2026.ijcai.org/
ECCV 2026 (European Conference on Computer Vision)
Dates: September 8–13, 2026
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Overview: Europe’s flagship computer vision and machine learning conference (biennial).
Website: https://eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/2026
INTERSPEECH 2026
Dates: September 28 – October 1, 2026
Location: Sydney, Australia
Overview: World’s largest speech technology conference covering ASR, TTS, spoken dialogue, and audio-LLMs.
Website: https://interspeech2026.org/en-AU
GITEX VIETNAM 2026
Dates: October 1–2, 2026
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
Overview: ASEAN expansion of GITEX bringing AI, data centres, cybersecurity, cloud, semiconductors, and more to Vietnam’s fast-growing tech economy.
Website: https://gitexvietnam.com/ GITEX VIETNAM+1
World Summit AI 2026
Dates: October 7–8, 2026
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Overview: Global summit bringing together enterprises, startups, researchers, and regulators across the AI ecosystem.
Website: https://worldsummit.ai/
AI & Big Data Expo Europe 2026
Dates: October 20–21, 2026
Location: RAI Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Overview: European edition of TechEx’s AI/data expo with strategy, developer, and operations tracks.
Website: https://www.ai-expo.net/europe/
NeurIPS 2026 (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)
Dates: Late November – Early December 2026 (TBA)
Location: TBA
Overview: One of the largest and most influential ML/AI conferences covering cutting-edge research, workshops, and tutorials.
Website: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/FutureMeetings
GITEX GLOBAL 2026
Dates: December 7–11, 2026 (Summit: Dec 7; Expo: Dec 8–11)
Location: Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City Dubai, UAE
Overview: The flagship—the world’s largest tech, AI & startup show—reuniting GITEX GLOBAL and Expand North Star at a new venue with reimagined program and expo.
Website: https://www.gitex.com/gitex-global-2026