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Ai4 2026

North America's largest applied AI industry event.

Dates
August 10–12, 2026
Venue
MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV
Attendees
8,000+
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Ai4 brings together AI practitioners from Fortune 500s, startups, and the public sector for three days of applied case studies, model architecture deep-dives, and unusually candid vendor conversations. It's the rare AI conference where research talks share a track with procurement panels.

Why nerds should go

  • Applied over academic — talks are grounded in real deployments, not arXiv reprints.
  • Cross-industry coverage: healthcare, finance, retail, defense, and public sector under one roof.
  • The expo floor is the fastest way to compare vendor tooling without booking six sales calls.

Program highlights

  • Multi-track program spanning ML engineering, MLOps, responsible AI, and GenAI at scale.
  • Executive summit for CIOs, CDOs, and heads of AI running in parallel to the main event.
  • Hands-on workshops on RAG pipelines, evals, and agentic architectures.

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Stay-active nerd tips

  • The MGM Grand is enormous — plan a 15-minute buffer between talks and wear the shoes you'd walk 8 miles in.
  • The Vegas heat is real in August (105°F+). Book a room in the conference hotel so you never have to walk outside.
  • The MGM has a decent gym; the Strip also has 24-hour EOS Fitness locations if you need heavier weights.