Top AI Conferences for 2020: What Not To Miss
It’s no surprise that AI is the current “hot” technology. There are so many surprising ways AI and machine learning are used to affect our lives and our future (e.g., smart speakers, virtual assistants, self-driving vehicles, and voice-based gadgets). With an infinite number of conferences, summits, symposiums, and workshops, Behavioral Signals has compiled a list of upcoming AI and AI-related conferences, that we find significant, so you can explore, learn, and hone your AI knowledge.
In most of these, you will find us speaking, showcasing our emotion AI technology, or networking. So don’t hesitate to look us up or give us a shoutout on Twitter.
(Updated December 5th, 2019)
PROJECT VOICE
America’s #1 event for voice tech and AI, Project Voice conference is gathering over 3,000 highly-qualified attendees across 15–20 countries and talks on the good, the bad, and the ugly in voice tech.
Date: January 13–17
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, US
Website: www.projectvoice.ai
DEEP LEARNING SUMMIT
The Deep Learning Summit by Re-work is focused on showcasing the latest advancements in deep learning and learning how to leverage new AI methods to solve problems in your organization.
Date: January 30–31
Location: San Francisco, US
Website: www.re–work.co
CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION CONFERENCE
CI Conference emphasizes on delivering intelligent insights on NLU and speech recognition technology, available for commercial use, including tools and services that can help companies use conversational technology. Catch up with our CEO, Rana Gujral, who is going to be talking on Predicting The Future Through Our Voice
Date: February 10–11
Location: San Jose, CA
Website: www.conversationalinteraction.com
DEVELOPER WEEK
Developer Week is a conference that each year gathers 8,000+ developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, managers, and executives who seek the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools.
Date: February 12–16
Location: San Francisco, US
Website: www.developerweek.com
CONVERGENCE INDIA
The Convergence India is credited as India’s leading Technology Show. The expo brings together the latest technology innovations and trends showcasing the convergence of technologies covering Communications, Digital Broadcast, IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Embedded Technologies, Mobile Devices & Accessories, Gaming & Entertainment as well.
Date: February 19–21
Location: New Delhi, India
Website: www.convergenceindia.org
MWC BARCELONA 2020
GSMA organizes MWC, a thought-leadership conference that brings together the latest innovations and leading-edge technologies. With topics and trends on Artificial Intelligence, Customer Engagement, The 5G Era, IoT, the Media & Entertainment Planet, Security & Privacy in their agenda, MWC is justifiably the largest mobile event in the world.
Date: February 24–27
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Website: www.mwcbarcelona.com
AI EVERYTHING
The UAE wants a happier nation and is planning to converge everything AI in Dubai by 2031 to achieve it. The conference promotes initiatives, collaborations, partnerships, businesses, and social enterprises in the field of AI.
Date: March 10–11
Location: Dubai, UAE
Website: ai-everything.com
BIG DATA & AI WORLD
Recognize. Analyze. Utilize. This is the motto for the Big Data & AI World conference, an event that aims to educate and make tangible, meaningful, and insightful data & AI clearer.
Date: March 10–12
Location: London, UK
Website: www.bigdataworld.com
HORASIS GLOBAL MEETING
The annual Horasis Global Meeting is one of the world’s foremost gatherings of business and government leaders, offering an ideal platform to explore and foster cooperation, impact investing, and sustainable growth across the globe. Meet us there with our CEO Rana Gujral participating in the Panel discussion: Embracing Artificial Intelligence.
Date: March 28–29
Location: Cascade, Portugal
Website: horasis.org
AI EXPO TOKYO
The expo is held twice a year and is Japan’s largest exhibition specialized in artificial intelligence. With 300.000 visitors and 300 exhibitors, AI EXPO TOKYO [Spring] gathers various exhibiting solutions related to artificial intelligence from elemental technologies, hardware to applications, and services.
Date: April 1–3
Location: Koto, Japan
Website: www.ai-expo.jp/en-gb.html
SPEECHTEK 2020
SpeechTEK, for more than two decades, has been the number one gathering place for the speech technology community. A place to join other executives, engineers, developers, users, and adopters and learn about the new and innovative ways speech technologies are shaping our lives and changing the way we do business. Behavioral Signals will be there on the 2nd day of the Conference, with Rana Gujral, our CEO, talking on Using a Film’s Emotional Dowry to Enhance Movie Recommendation Systems.
Date: April 27–29
Location: Washington, DC
Website: www.speechtek.com
RISE OF AI
The Rise of AI conference invites and connects up to 2,000 AI experts, decision-makers, opinion-leaders, and game-changers to discuss Artificial Intelligence for society, politics, and economy. We will be there with our speaking on how to predict intent using behavioral signals from voice.
Date: May 13–14
Location: Berlin, Germany
Website: riseof.ai
WEBIT FESTIVAL EUROPE
Webit Festival Europe is focused in the areas of AI, 5G, Blockchain IoT, VR/AR, NextGen Cloud, Biotech, and Robotics. Innovative global leaders, investors, corporates, and organizations meet there. We will be there speaking and networking. Come meet us.
Date: June 10–11
Location: Valencia, Spain
Website: www.webit.org
CVPR 2020
CVPR is the premier annual computer vision event. The conference, additionally to the main event, comprises several co-located workshops, and short courses and provides exceptional value for students, academics, and industry researchers.
Date: June 16–20
Location: Seattle, WA
Website: cvpr2020.thecvf.com
THE AI SUMMIT
This conference looks at the practical implications of AI for enterprise organizations, the actual solutions that are transforming business productivity.
Date: June 17–20
Location: London, UK
Website: london.theaisummit.com
COLLISION
Collision is said to be the fastest-growing tech conference in North America following the lead of the European Web Summit and gathers the world’s most influential buyers, sellers, emerging companies, and policymakers. (draft)
Date: June 22–25
Location: Toronto, Canada
Website: collisionconf.com
AI & BIG DATA EXPO EUROPE
The AI & Big Data Expo is focused on showcasing the next-generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.
Date: July 1–2
Location: Rai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website: www.ai-expo.net
ICML 2020
The International Conference on Machine Learning gathers professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. It is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.
Date: July 12–18
Location: Vienna, Austria
Website: icml.cc
The Thirty-seventh International Conference on Machine Learning
O’REILLY AI CONFERENCE
This conference is a deep dive into emerging AI techniques and technologies — focusing on practical business applications.
Date: September 14–17
Location: New York, NY, US
Website: conferences.oreilly.com
ELEVATE TECH FESTIVAL
Not everything happens in the US. We picked a Canadian leading tech and innovation festival that attracts the brightest people shaping the world. It’s a forum for thought leadership, and its definitely on our radar to attend.
Date: September 18–24
Location: Toronto, Canada
Website: elevate.ca
ROBOTICS SUMMIT & EXPO
This conference is a multifaceted educational forum and expo dedicated to addressing the issues involved with the design, development, manufacture, and delivery of commercial robotics and intelligent systems, products, and services.
Date: September 24–25
Location: Boston, US
Website: www.roboticssummit.com
GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK
GITEX is the most important week in the annual tech calendar in Dubai. Technology leaders, enterprises, and startups worldwide come together to showcase the future of business in every industry. In 2020, the Conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of GITEX with a rebranded edition — GITEX Global.
Date: 27 Sep — 01 Oct 2020
Location: Dubai, UAE
Website: www.gitex.com
AI WORLD — CONFERENCE & EXPO
The Conference is focused on the state of the practice of AI in the enterprise and is designed to help you navigate through the complex landscape of AI business solutions.
Date: September 29 — October 1
Location: TBA
Website: aiworld.com
VOICE SUMMIT
Sponsored by Amazon Alexa, Voice Summit is the world’s largest voice-tech conference. It attracts 5,000+ developers, conversational designers, startups, brands, agencies, and execs at the forefront of the #voicefirst era.
Date: October 5–8
Location: Washington, DC, US
Website: www.voicesummit.ai
WORLD SUMMIT AI
Inspired Minds with the backing of the United Nations Organisation is organizing this leading global AI event all over the world, including stakeholders from the ecosystem of enterprise, Big Tech, startups, and investors. It discusses basic principles to make AI available to all economies, countries, and cultures and to promote AI for the greater good.
Date: October 7–8
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website: worldsummit.ai
WEB SUMMIT
And we couldn’t miss out on one of Europe’s most prominent startup events. Once more in Lisbon, the event is focused on showcasing the best technology on the planet bringing Fortune 500 companies, groundbreaking startups, and world-class speakers together.
Date: November 2–5
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Website: websummit.com
NEURIPS 2020
The Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems is held by the NIPS Foundation, which primary focus is to present a continuing series of professional meetings to foster the exchange of research on neural information processing systems in their biological, technological, mathematical, and theoretical aspects.
Date: December 2–8 (TBD)
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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