World Summit AI 2026 — Tiende Editie

World Summit AI is the world’s most influential annual AI summit, now in its tenth edition in Amsterdam. Over two days, it brings together more than 10,000 AI leaders from enterprise, Big Tech, startups, investors, science, and government at Taets Art & Event Park, as the anchor event of World AI Week.

Setting the global AI agenda for ten years

World Summit AI was founded in 2017 by Inspired Minds as the world’s first major, dedicated AI summit. In a decade, it has grown into the leading annual gathering of the global AI ecosystem, featuring speakers such as Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Daphne Koller, and Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon.com). The tenth edition in 2026 is deliberately bigger, bolder, and more ambitious than all previous editions. The event is the anchor of World AI Week (October 5-9), a five-day program of more than 100 events across the entire AI ecosystem in Amsterdam, with an expected total of 15,000 participants.

Ten tracks, four core themes

The program, spread across ten thematic tracks, addresses the economic, societal, technological, and ethical dimensions of the new AI paradigms. The four central themes in 2026 are Frontier AI (future AI developments and the limits of the possible), Collaborative Intelligence (human-AI collaboration), Physical AI (AI in the physical world: robotics, industry, mobility), and Responsible AI & Governance (regulation, ethics, and sovereignty). In addition to the conference, there is the Startup Accelerator program, the Startup Battleground pitch competition, International Pavilions, an Investor Club, AI Executive Dinners, and a Media Zone.

For whom?

Founders, CEOs, CTOs, COOs, CDOs, CFOs, CMOs, CIOs, AI leads, data scientists, ML engineers, researchers, students, investors, and policymakers active in or around the global AI ecosystem.

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