Ai4 2026

Ai4 is one of the largest industry AI conferences in North America, held at The Venetian in Las Vegas, and it is built for the people putting AI into production rather than for academic researchers. It convenes enterprise practitioners, vendors, founders and investors across nearly every sector to compare what is actually working.

On the 2026 programme

The schedule opens with a pre-conference day: the Applied AI Research Conference (AAIRC), which bridges cutting-edge research and commercial application; hands-on AI Trainings run with General Assembly; and a set of invitation-only Leadership Summits, including an AI Policy Summit on regulation, ethics and national strategy and an AI Research Summit aimed at the most technical attendees. The three main days are structured around opening keynotes, parallel track sessions and a large exhibition. The track lineup reflects exactly where the industry's attention sits in 2026: multiple dedicated AI Agents tracks on autonomous, reasoning systems; four full Generative AI tracks; a Beginner's Summit for organisations starting out; and industry and job-function meetups spanning healthcare, finance, cybersecurity, manufacturing, IT, data and more. A startup stage with 50+ talks, a dedicated startup expo and invite-only founder-and-VC networking anchor the investment side.

Where it sits in today's AI

Ai4 is a reliable read on enterprise AI adoption away from the frontier-lab spotlight — how mainstream companies move from experiments to production, where value is captured and where projects stall. Two of the year's defining stories run straight through the floor: the shift from chatbots to tool-using agents, given several tracks of its own, and embodied AI, made literal by the conference's humanoid-robot showcases (past editions have featured Unitree's robots and Boston Dynamics' Spot, including a live human-versus-robot demo). Alongside these, the AI Policy Summit reflects how governance has become inseparable from deployment as the EU AI Act and comparable frameworks take effect. For business and technology leaders, Ai4 is a pragmatic, cross-industry venue for benchmarking AI strategy against peers and surveying the vendor landscape in one place.