AI Industrial Summit 2026 — Sofia

The AI Industrial Summit 2026 (branded "AI Next") is Bulgaria's long-running community conference on artificial intelligence, automation and the Internet of Things, held on Saturday 12 September 2026 at the Laboratory Complex in Sofia Tech Park. Despite the iotsummit.tech domain, the event has evolved from the earlier IoT Bulgaria Summit editions (2016–2019) into a broader AI-and-automation gathering, now in its eighth outing.

It is a single-day, in-person event running roughly 9:30 to 18:30, organised as a community initiative rather than a commercial trade show. The focus sits at the intersection of industrial AI, machine learning and connected devices — the practical application of AI and automation in manufacturing, engineering and IoT systems — with a call for speakers feeding a programme of talks and case studies aimed at developers, engineers and technology practitioners. Tickets are handled through Eventbrite. As one of the few sustained AI-focused conferences in Bulgaria, it offers regional coverage in South-Eastern Europe and a meeting point for the local AI, embedded-systems and automation community. Attendees should consult the official schedule on iotsummit.tech for the confirmed session list, as the speaker roster and agenda are published closer to the date.