DSC Europe 2026 — AI Builders Conference
📅 Monday, 23 November 2026 → Friday, 27 November 2026 in 161 days
A week-long Belgrade conference for the people building the AI-native world: engineers, researchers, founders and enterprises across models, infrastructure, applied AI and governance.
DSC Europe 2026 reframes the long-running Data Science Conference as an "AI Builders" gathering, and the November programme in Belgrade is structured around five layers the organisers call the architecture of the AI-native world: AI Core (models, compute, infrastructure), AI Knowledge (research), AI Governance (institutions and rules), AI Strategy (deployment decisions) and AI Applications (real-world systems). For an attendee, that translates into a week with clearly separated tracks rather than a single undifferentiated stage.
The schedule runs Nov 23-24 for deep technical tutorials on tools and frameworks, an invite-only Executive Summit and Forums on Nov 24 for leaders, investors and institutions, the core conference on Nov 25-26, and an AI Builders Day on Nov 27 dedicated to demos, hands-on workshops, an "AI Arena" and a builder lounge. If you come to learn how production systems are actually shipped — evaluation, operations, safety, scaling beyond pilots — the practical layers are where the value sits.
The speaker pool skews toward people running engineering at scale: Andrej Zdravkovic (Chief Software Officer, AMD), Dragan Tomic (VP of Engineering, Databricks), Brinnae Bent (Director of Duke's TRUST Lab), Beth Noveck (Professor of Law & AI, Northeastern), Tobias Zwingmann (RAPYD.AI) and Debmalya Biswas (Executive Director, AI Centre of Excellence, UBS). Sponsoring and participating organisations include NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, AWS, IBM, AMD, Red Hat, Perplexity, Tenstorrent, Bosch and Roche, which signals an audience mixing chip and cloud vendors with enterprise adopters.
Audiences are explicitly segmented — AI developers, data and ML infrastructure architects, data science and analytics practitioners, executive leadership and applied AI "coders" — so the sessions are pitched at builders rather than a general business crowd. Tickets range from a one-day AI Builders Pass (EUR 300+VAT) through a full conference-week pass (EUR 600+VAT) to a VIP pass (EUR 1500+VAT). Held in Belgrade, it is one of the larger Southeast European AI events and a useful fixture for anyone tracking how the region's AI ecosystem is maturing.
