đź“Ť Las Vegas, United States đź“… June 10 and 11, 2026
With more than 12,000 expected participants, 1,000 speakers and 400 exhibitors, the AI4 conference confirms its positioning to become the main American meeting dedicated to the industrialization of artificial intelligence. Organized from August 4 to 6, 2026 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, the event presents itself as a technological conference as well as a platform for convergence between AI infrastructures, large groups, investors and public decision-makers.
Ai4’s positioning differs significantly from that of historical conferences focused on academic research. The goal here is not to discuss the latest fundamental model benchmarks. The central subject is now scaling up: how to deploy AI in critical business operations, transform workflows, automate processes and absorb the increasing constraints linked to computing, governance and security.
This orientation appears clearly in the profile of the speakers. The 2026 edition will bring together three of the most influential figures in the recent history of artificial intelligence: Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the pioneers of deep learning, Fei-Fei Li, founder of World Labs, and Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and former head of Google Brain. Their joint keynote constitutes one of the most anticipated moments of the summit.
But Ai4 is not limited to an academic prestige scene. The heart of the event remains resolutely business. Large American companies come to present their operational deployment strategies for AI. Franziska Bell from Ford Motor Company, Prashant Mehrotra from US Bank, Srini Venkatesan from PayPal and even John Whyte from American Medical Association must notably speak on the integration of AI in industrial, financial and medical operations.
The summit also gives an important place to new players in the AI ​​economy. Dmitri Dolgov from Waymo, Timothée Lacroix from Mistral AI and Jeetu Patel from Cisco embody a new generation of companies positioned on infrastructures, AI agents, production architectures and autonomous systems.
The event also reflects the evolution of the American market itself, where AI is gradually becoming a transversal operational layer capable of transforming finance, health, industry, logistics or public infrastructure.
This approach distinguishes Ai4 from many European events more focused on regulation or sovereignty. In Las Vegas, the discourse remains dominated by speed of execution, productivity and the ability to quickly industrialize uses.
The event is thus closer to formats like or, while maintaining a much more transversal approach. Where GTC remains heavily focused on NVIDIA infrastructure and re:Invent remains primarily a cloud event, Ai4 functions as a crossroads between research, enterprise, infrastructure, health, finance, cybersecurity and public policy.
The summit also serves as a leading indicator of U.S. market priorities. The themes highlighted in 2026 (AI agents, governance, multimodal AI, production deployment, computing architectures and security) give a very concrete reading of the segments where enterprise budgets are shifting.
For managers, investors and innovation managers, Ai4 helps understand the dynamics of the American AI economy. Less theoretical than major academic meetings, less institutional than certain European events, the Las Vegas summit is gradually establishing itself as one of the places where the global industrialization of artificial intelligence is structured.
