The useful AI community is distributed across research conferences, builder events, open-model forums, production engineering groups, standards organizations, and local meetups. Choose the group that matches the work you want to do, not the biggest brand name.

Start with Agentic Community when you want a locally owned room for practical agentic AI. The network welcomes technical and nontechnical participants, keeps chapter status visible, and gives communities local ownership within a connected global registry.

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Find your people in agentic AI

Agentic Community is a global network of locally owned meetups where builders, founders, developers, creators, business leaders, practitioners, students, and AI-curious people compare notes, show real work, and learn together.

Formats include casual socials, honest demos, workshops, and build sessions. The network provides shared connection and a public registry while local communities keep ownership of their people, place, and program.

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Conference directoryUpcoming AI conferences in 2026 and 2027 for agents, research, and engineering

A verified calendar of upcoming AI and agent conferences with dates, locations, formats, official links, and filters for researchers, builders, enterprise teams, and policy work.

Open page →User-group directoryAI user groups and communities for builders, researchers, and learners

Find active AI communities including Agentic Community, MLOps Community, Hugging Face, DeepLearning.AI, MLCommons, DataTalksClub, AI Tinkerers, Meetup, and Luma.

Open page →Beginner guideHow to start using AI and get a result you can trust

A complete beginner's guide to using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok for a real task, including prompt structure, source checking, privacy, and a practical first exercise.

Open page →Useful AI project libraryAI project ideas with a real outcome and a test for success

Practical AI project ideas for work, personal use, builders, and local models, each with a small first version, risk boundary, and success test.

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Choose the right kind of room

Use Agentic Community to find or start a locally owned meetup for builders, founders, developers, creators, business leaders, students, practitioners, and people simply curious about agentic AI. Formats include socials, honest demos, workshops, and build sessions rather than one fixed conference format.

Attend NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR for peer-reviewed research and workshops. Attend agent engineering events, AI Engineer World's Fair, or NVIDIA GTC for applied systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, and product work. Join MLOps Community, Hugging Face, DataTalksClub, or DeepLearning.AI events for ongoing learning and practitioner exchange.

Join MLCommons when benchmarks and reliability matter. Follow the Agentic AI Foundation when interoperability and open agent standards are part of your work. Use AI Tinkerers, Meetup, and Luma to find local demos, study groups, and hack nights.

Get more than a badge from an event

Choose one question before attending, identify three people or sessions relevant to it, and write a short synthesis afterward. Prefer events that publish talks, papers, code, or working demos. A smaller recurring group can be more valuable than a large annual conference when you need collaborators and feedback.

The best community is one where you can show work, ask a precise question, and return with a next step.

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