The live calendar below contains events whose dates and locations were checked against official organizer pages on August 10, 2026. Filter by region, attendance format, or audience instead of working from a generic best-conference list.
No conference is best for every audience. Research conferences optimize for papers and scholarly exchange; builder events emphasize systems, tools, and working demonstrations; enterprise and policy events focus on deployment, governance, purchasing, and organizational change.
Upcoming conference calendar
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Dates and locations verified from official organizer pages on August 10, 2026. Expired events leave the current list when the page is rendered.
Builders · Agents · Policy
AGNTCon + MCPCon China
Shanghai International Convention Center · Shanghai, ChinaOpen agent infrastructure, MCP, interoperability, governance, and production systems.
Enterprise · Agents
AUTONOMOUS 2026
OnlineEnterprise perspective on agentic operations, autonomous workflows, organizational design, and governance.
Fully online; sessions are recorded.Builders · Agents
AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan
Belle Salle Shibuya Garden · Tokyo, JapanTechnical coverage of MCP and scalable, secure, interoperable agent systems.
Builders · Enterprise · Agents
Voice Agents Forum
Digital Jungle SF · San Francisco, California + onlineFocused on teams deploying production voice agents.
Builders · Agents · Policy
AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
RAI Amsterdam · Amsterdam, NetherlandsAgent protocols, tools, observability, evaluation, context engineering, and governance.
Builders · Agents
Agent Conf
Crowne Plaza Warsaw The HUB · Warsaw, PolandContext, memory, tools, feedback loops, debugging, orchestration, and multi-agent systems.
Enterprise · Builders · Policy
HumanX Amsterdam
RAI Amsterdam · Amsterdam, NetherlandsBroader enterprise AI with implementation, agentic AI, product, policy, and operational tracks.
Builders · Agents
Interrupt NYC
Halo at 28 Liberty · New York CityLangChain’s conference for engineers and AI leaders building, debugging, and deploying production agents.
Research · Enterprise · Policy
World Summit AI
Taets Art & Event Park · Amsterdam, NetherlandsGlobal coverage spanning research, enterprise deployment, startups, policy, and the emerging AI stack.
Research · Policy
AIES 2026
Malmö Live · Malmö, SwedenAAAI/ACM research conference for AI ethics, safety, governance, and societal impact.
Builders · Agents · Research
GOSIM Shenzhen
ADEN Hotel Shenzhen Nanshan · Shenzhen, ChinaAgent engineering, MCP/A2A, multi-agent collaboration, open models, edge agents, robotics, and agentic devices.
Builders · Agents · Policy
AGNTCon + MCPCon North America
San Jose McEnery Convention Center · San Jose, CaliforniaOpen protocols, production agent systems, orchestration, security, governance, and evaluation.
Research · Builders · Agents
NeurIPS 2026
ICC Sydney · Sydney, Australia + official satellites + onlineFrontier research in foundation models, reinforcement learning, agents, multimodal systems, evaluation, and core machine learning.
Official Atlanta and Paris satellites run December 9–13; virtual pass runs December 6–12.Research · Builders
AAAI-27
Montréal, CanadaBroad foundational and applied AI research with workshops, tutorials, education, and alignment topics.
Exact venue and attendee-registration details are not yet published.Enterprise · Builders
HumanX Las Vegas
Mandalay Bay · Las Vegas, NevadaLarge operator-oriented gathering covering applied enterprise AI, products, investment, and implementation.
Registration availability can change without notice. The organizer page is authoritative for tickets, calls for papers, accessibility, travel, and schedule changes.
Research: NeurIPS, AIES, and AAAI
NeurIPS 2026 runs December 6–12 in Sydney with official satellite events and virtual access. AIES 2026 meets October 12–14 in Malmö around AI ethics, safety, governance, and societal impact. AAAI-27 follows in Montréal in February 2027 with broad foundational and applied AI research, workshops, and tutorials.
Research attendance works best when you name the papers, workshops, or collaborators that matter before buying travel. Proceedings and recorded sessions can deliver the information; in-person attendance earns its cost when scholarly exchange and repeated community participation are the goal.
Agent builders: MCP, runtimes, and production systems
MCP Dev Summit Seoul opens the current calendar with implementation work around MCP, orchestration, security, and production operations. AGNTCon + MCPCon then runs regional events in China, Japan, Europe, and North America. Agent Conf, Interrupt NYC, GOSIM Shenzhen, and Voice Agents Forum narrow further into context, memory, tools, debugging, multi-agent systems, and production voice agents.
These events are a better fit than a broad business summit when you want architecture diagrams, tool traces, interoperability discussions, working demonstrations, and people who can compare implementation failures rather than only outcomes.
Operators, enterprise teams, and policy
AUTONOMOUS 2026 is a virtual option for agentic operations and organizational design. HumanX Amsterdam, World Summit AI, and HumanX Las Vegas cover a broader mix of enterprise implementation, products, investment, and policy. Choose these rooms when adoption, governance, purchasing, partnerships, or operating-model change matters more than a protocol deep dive.
How to decide whether to attend
Estimate the complete cost, including travel and time. Name the sessions, meetings, or decisions that justify it. Choose virtual access or published proceedings when the information is the main value; attend in person when repeated community participation, recruiting, partnerships, or hands-on workshops matter.
- Research and peer-reviewed work: NeurIPS, AIES, or AAAI.
- Agent protocols and implementation: MCP Dev Summit, AGNTCon + MCPCon, Agent Conf, Interrupt, or GOSIM.
- Enterprise operations and governance: AUTONOMOUS, HumanX, or World Summit AI.
- Local networking: pair a major event with a recurring regional group.
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