NeurIPS 2026 — leading machine learning research conference
- Dates
- 6–12 December 2026
- Venue
- San Diego Convention Center, San Diego111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101
- Organizer
- Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation
- Pricing
- From $150 (student) · $700+ full
NeurIPS 2026 brings together ML researchers, applied scientists, and industry labs for papers, workshops, and expo hiring. The flagship US venue for deep learning, RL, and generative models.
NeurIPS is the global benchmark for ML research. Corporate labs (Google, Meta, OpenAI, NVIDIA) recruit heavily during the week. Even if you are industry-focused, workshops on LLM safety, evals, and systems are directly relevant to production AI roles.
Highlights
- •Main conference + Expo with major AI employers
- •Workshops on LLMs, agents, alignment, and MLOps
- •Poster sessions and recruiting mixers
- •Virtual participation for selected tracks
Audience
- Research scientists
- ML engineers
- PhD students
- Recruiters
- Founders
Topics
- Deep learning
- LLM
- Reinforcement learning
- Computer vision
- MLOps
Sample agenda
Opening keynote — frontier models & systems
Invited speakers
Industry expo & recruiting booths
Corporate labs
Workshop: evaluation & safety for LLMs
Research track
Sample schedule only — see the official site for the final program.
Speakers
NeurIPS invited faculty
Keynotes · Global universities
Industry research leads
Applied ML · Major AI labs
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