Events, webinars, and AI conferences

Austin convergence of creative industries and emerging tech—panels on generative media, IP, and human-in-the-loop product design.

• Mar 7, 2026 – Mar 15, 2026
• Multi-day festival (interactive + film + music)
• Austin, Texas, United States
• Hybrid + livestreams
• Organizer: SXSW
• Studios, brands, startups, and policy voices
• Scale: City-wide footprint—plan travel early; many sessions also stream.

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Write clearer IA job briefs with practical templates and signal-based requirements.

• May 12, 2026
• 12:00 ET / 18:00 CET
• Online
• Recruiters and hiring managers

A concise rubric to evaluate prompt and tooling decisions in interviews.

• Jun 24, 2026
• 12:30 ET / 18:30 CET
• Online
• Recruiters and technical interviewers

Live rubric walkthrough—comp bands, who owns eval harnesses, and when “general intelligence” claims need concrete proof.

• Dec 2, 2026
• 17:00 ET / 23:00 CET
• Online (live Q&A)
• Heads of engineering and senior IC interviewers

One of Europe’s flagship AI & data exhibitions—GenAI, governance, cloud, and enterprise analytics side by side.

• Feb 4, 2026 – Feb 5, 2026
• Two-day expo & conference
• London, United Kingdom
• In person
• Organizer: TechEx / AI & Big Data Expo
• CTOs, CIOs, data leaders, and enterprise teams
• Scale: Enterprise-heavy floor—thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers across co-located tracks.

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Live review of project portfolios for LLM, agent, and applied ML roles.

• Jun 3, 2026
• 13:00 ET / 19:00 CET
• Hybrid
• Candidates and mentors

Business-of-AI track—evaluating vendors, production rollouts, and staffing models for LLM-powered products in regulated industries.

• Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026
• Two-day enterprise programme
• London, United Kingdom
• In person
• Organizer: Informa Tech / The AI Summit
• CIOs, heads of AI, and product leaders
• Scale: Major enterprise turnout—expo floor plus executive roundtables.

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Global factory automation show—robots, digital twins, and industrial AI use cases with strong European manufacturing attendance.

• Apr 1, 2026 – Apr 4, 2026
• Four-day industrial trade fair
• Hanover, Germany
• In person
• Organizer: Deutsche Messe AG
• Plant engineers, automation vendors, and IT–OT buyers
• Scale: Huge exhibition—pair booth visits with targeted partner meetings.

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Large European tech and AI gathering—compute stack, scale-ups, policy, and cross-border collaboration.

• Jun 30, 2026 – Jul 1, 2026
• Two-day program · Messe Berlin
• Berlin, Germany
• In person
• Organizer: GITEX Europe
• Startups, investors, executives, and tech buyers

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Signals to evaluate platform, serving, and observability when hiring MLOps and inference engineers.

• Jul 8, 2026
• 17:00 CET / 11:00 ET
• Online
• Recruiters and engineering managers

Munich week mixing keynotes, office hours, and side events—deep tech and European startup hiring networks in one concentrated calendar.

• Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026
• Week-long founders festival
• Munich, Germany
• In person
• Organizer: Bits & Pretzels
• Founders, VCs, angels, and ecosystem partners
• Scale: High-density networking—expect long days and many parallel meetups.

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Large-format AI festival mixing business, society, governance, and emerging tech—Côte d’Azur hub for deals and demos.

• Feb 12, 2026 – Feb 13, 2026
• Two-day program · see official hours
• Cannes, France
• In person
• Organizer: World AI Cannes Festival
• Enterprises, startups, and public-sector innovators
• Scale: Major expo scale—thousands of visitors, hundreds of speakers and exhibitors (see organiser figures).

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Governance, responsible scaling, and business outcomes for AI and data leaders—flagship Paris summit.

• Apr 8, 2026
• Full day · check the official agenda
• Paris, France
• In person
• Organizer: IDC
• Enterprises, data engineers, and decision-makers

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Peer-reviewed research on AI applied to music, art, design, games, and generative media—think Reddit’s “creative ML” threads, but as a conference proceedings line.

• Apr 8, 2026 – Apr 10, 2026
• Multi-day academic program
• Toulouse, France
• In person
• Organizer: EvoStar / EvoMUSART
• Researchers in computational creativity and creative AI

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What changes for job specs, vendor review, and candidate assessment in regulated AI products.

• Jul 22, 2026
• 16:00 CET / 10:00 ET
• Hybrid
• HR, legal partners, and TA leaders

Highly technical program—LLMs, infrastructure, and real production case studies from European practitioners.

• Sep 17, 2026
• Full day · central Paris venue
• Paris, France
• In person
• Organizer: dotConferences
• Developers, ML engineers, and technical leads

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Bridges academic research and industry on AI, robotics, NLP, and responsible deployment.

• Sep 28, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026
• Multi-day · hybrid attendance options
• Paris, France
• Hybrid
• Organizer: Aver Conferences (TSAIR)
• Researchers and industry teams

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CV and portfolio patterns for perception, simulation, and fleet-ops roles—what to verify before an onsite loop.

• Nov 18, 2026
• 15:00 CET / 09:00 ET
• Hybrid (Paris hub + remote)
• Robotics PMs and hiring managers

Banking and insurance case studies on production GenAI: governance frameworks, model risk, vendor oversight, and supervisory dialogue—strong Europe & LatAm angle.

• Feb 4, 2026 – Feb 5, 2026
• Two-day plenaries & workshops
• Madrid, Spain
• In person
• Organizer: BBVA
• Risk, compliance, AI and digital transformation leaders
• Scale: Curated audience—C-level, risk, and data/AI teams; tracks in ES & EN.

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Mobile World Congress—edge AI, on-device inference, and network security themes that matter for applied ML and platform teams.

• Mar 3, 2026 – Mar 6, 2026
• Four-day trade show
• Barcelona, Spain
• Hybrid expo + broadcast keynotes
• Organizer: GSMA
• Telco, chipset, cloud, and device OEMs
• Scale: Massive expo—multi-hall agenda; keynotes widely streamed.

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Lightning talks on LLM roles, portfolio tips, and meetups with employers.

• Aug 5, 2026
• 18:00 CEST
• In person
• Candidates and local hiring teams

Iberian and global ecosystem—fundraising, deep tech, and “responsible AI” tracks on ethical guardrails, data sovereignty, and societal impact of models.

• Sep 22, 2026 – Sep 24, 2026
• Three-day expo, pitches, and policy roundtables
• Madrid, Spain
• Hybrid
• Organizer: South Summit
• Funds, scale-ups, corporates, and public sector
• Scale: Large international footprint—multi-stage agenda; part of the programme streamed online.

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Signals for retrieval quality, eval harnesses, and agent toolchains in interviews.

• Aug 19, 2026
• 15:30 CET / 09:30 ET
• Online
• Technical recruiters and staff+ engineers

Amsterdam flagship on practical GenAI adoption, multi-agent systems, and responsible deployment at scale—with strong vendor floor and policy side conversations.

• Oct 8, 2026 – Oct 9, 2026
• Two-day summit & expo
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Hybrid
• Organizer: World Summit AI / InspiredMinds
• Builders, enterprises, and public-sector buyers
• Scale: Large international audience—multi-track agenda with hybrid streaming for keynotes.

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Strong networking and applied ML—keynotes, roundtables, startup pitches, and hands-on workshops near Lausanne.

• Feb 10, 2026 – Feb 12, 2026
• Conference + exhibition + workshops
• Lausanne area, Switzerland
• In person
• Organizer: AMLD / EPFL ecosystem
• Builders, researchers, founders, and policy stakeholders
• Scale: Large international turnout—multi-track conference with exhibition and dedicated workshop day.

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Office hours on job descriptions, vendor diligence, and interview artefacts as AI product rules evolve in the EU and UK.

• Jun 11, 2026
• 16:00 CET / 10:00 ET
• Online (live Q&A)
• TA leads and compliance partners