What's ahead · 30 events
The AI calendar that
actually matters.
Conferences, regulation deadlines, training cohorts, and major product milestones — through an APAC operating lens. Curated by the AIMenta team.
Featured this season
World AI Conference (WAIC) Shanghai 2026
China's premier AI gathering. Government, frontier labs, and industry meet on policy, foundation models, and embodied AI.
Jul 4–7, 2026 · Shanghai, China
AIMenta AI Leaders Program — Q3 2026 cohort
AIMenta's flagship 8-week executive program for AI strategy leaders. Hybrid Hong Kong + Singapore.
Jul 13 – Sep 4, 2026 · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ICML 2026 — Seoul
ICML returns to Seoul. Top-tier machine learning research with strong APAC representation.
Jul 19–25, 2026 · Seoul, South Korea
EU AI Act — General-Purpose AI obligations effective
GPAI provider obligations under the EU AI Act take full effect. Documentation, copyright compliance, and transparency requirements binding.
Aug 2, 2026 · Brussels, European Union
EU AI Act — High-risk system obligations effective
Most high-risk AI systems (employment, education, essential services) must meet AI Act obligations from this date.
Aug 2, 2026 · Brussels, European Union
Singapore AI Summit 2026
Singapore's AISG-anchored summit on enterprise AI adoption, regulation, and the ASEAN AI ecosystem.
Sep 8–10, 2026 · Singapore, Singapore
April 2026 · 2 events
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expo tentative
GITEX Asia Singapore 2026
GITEX's ASEAN beachhead
GITEX brand expanding into ASEAN. Enterprise AI, cybersecurity, and the regional channel ecosystem.
Singapore, SingaporeSG -
conference
ICLR 2026 — International Conference on Learning Representations
Top-tier deep learning research conference
One of the top three ML research conferences. Where new architectures, training methods, and evaluation paradigms get peer-reviewed.
Vienna, Austria
May 2026 · 2 events
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conference recurring
Microsoft Build 2026
Microsoft's developer & Copilot platform event
Microsoft's annual developer event. Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, and the M365 Copilot roadmap.
Seattle, United States -
training AIMenta on site
AIMenta RAG Engineering Bootcamp — May 2026
3-day hands-on bootcamp for engineering teams
Hands-on engineering bootcamp on production-grade RAG. Hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluation harnesses, and agent integration.
Singapore, SingaporeSG
June 2026 · 7 events
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regulation tentative
China AI Law — anticipated second reading
Draft AI Law expected to advance through NPC
China's comprehensive AI Law expected to advance to second reading at the NPC during 2026.
Beijing, ChinaCN -
expo recurring
Computex Taipei 2026
AI silicon & systems showcase
The global PC and AI-server hardware industry's home event. NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Taiwan's OEM ecosystem.
Taipei, TaiwanTW -
conference recurring
Apple WWDC 2026
Apple Intelligence roadmap update
Apple's annual developer conference. Apple Intelligence updates, on-device AI, and Private Cloud Compute roadmap.
Cupertino, United States -
conference
CVPR 2026
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The top computer vision research conference. Vision-language models, 3D understanding, video, and robotics perception.
Nashville, TN, United States -
conference recurring
Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026
Lakehouse + foundation-model platform event
Databricks' annual event. Mosaic AI, Unity Catalog, model training and serving on the lakehouse.
San Francisco, United States -
workshop AIMenta on site
AIMenta Agentic AI Workshop — Tokyo
2-day workshop on production agent patterns
Two-day workshop on production-grade agent design. Tool use, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation, and safety.
Tokyo, JapanJP -
conference recurring
Snowflake Summit 2026
Data cloud + AI for the analytics enterprise
Snowflake's annual conference. Cortex AI, Snowpark, and the data-cloud-native AI architecture.
San Francisco, United States
July 2026 · 3 events
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conference tentative
World AI Conference (WAIC) Shanghai 2026
China's flagship AI summit
China's premier AI gathering. Government, frontier labs, and industry meet on policy, foundation models, and embodied AI.
Shanghai, ChinaCN -
training AIMenta on site
AIMenta AI Leaders Program — Q3 2026 cohort
8-week executive program for AI strategy leaders
AIMenta's flagship 8-week executive program for AI strategy leaders. Hybrid Hong Kong + Singapore.
Hong Kong, Hong KongHK -
conference
ICML 2026 — Seoul
International Conference on Machine Learning
ICML returns to Seoul. Top-tier machine learning research with strong APAC representation.
Seoul, South KoreaKR
August 2026 · 2 events
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regulation
EU AI Act — General-Purpose AI obligations effective
GPAI Code of Practice + transparency obligations
GPAI provider obligations under the EU AI Act take full effect. Documentation, copyright compliance, and transparency requirements binding.
Brussels, European Union -
regulation
EU AI Act — High-risk system obligations effective
Annex III high-risk systems must comply
Most high-risk AI systems (employment, education, essential services) must meet AI Act obligations from this date.
Brussels, European Union
September 2026 · 4 events
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regulation tentative
Japan AI Bill implementation milestones
Japan's AI promotion + safety framework
Japan's AI policy framework continues to operationalize through METI and Digital Agency guidelines.
Tokyo, JapanJP -
summit tentative
Singapore AI Summit 2026
ASEAN's anchor AI policy & enterprise gathering
Singapore's AISG-anchored summit on enterprise AI adoption, regulation, and the ASEAN AI ecosystem.
Singapore, SingaporeSG -
conference tentative
AI Korea 2026
Korea's national AI conference
Korea's flagship AI event. Sovereign LLM efforts, semiconductor AI, and chaebol AI strategy.
Seoul, South KoreaKR -
conference recurring
Meta Connect 2026
Llama, Meta AI, and Reality Labs roadmap
Meta's annual conference. Llama model family updates and Meta AI assistant roadmap.
Menlo Park, United States
October 2026 · 3 events
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conference tentative
OpenAI DevDay 2026
Annual OpenAI platform & API announcements
OpenAI's annual developer event. New API surfaces, model launches, and agent capabilities.
San Francisco, United States -
summit tentative
APAC AI VC Summit Hong Kong 2026
Investor + founder gathering for APAC AI startups
Closed-door investor + founder summit on APAC AI startup landscape. Limited capacity.
Hong Kong, Hong KongHK -
conference tentative
NVIDIA GTC Asia Pacific 2026
NVIDIA's APAC developer & enterprise event
NVIDIA's regional GTC. Hardware roadmap, CUDA stack updates, and APAC partner announcements.
Taipei, TaiwanTW
November 2026 · 4 events
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conference recurring
Hong Kong FinTech Week 2026
AI in financial services — APAC focus
HK's flagship fintech event with a heavy AI track. HKMA policy signals, banking AI adoption, regional virtual banks.
Hong Kong, Hong KongHK -
summit tentative
AI Summit Tokyo 2026
Japan's enterprise AI showcase
Japan's largest enterprise AI conference. Manufacturing, robotics, and the Japanese foundation-model ecosystem.
Tokyo, JapanJP -
awards tentative
Asia AI Awards 2026
Annual recognition of APAC AI deployments
Annual awards recognizing the most impactful enterprise AI deployments across APAC.
Singapore, SingaporeSG -
conference recurring
AWS re:Invent 2026
Amazon's flagship cloud + AI event
AWS's annual product launch wave. Bedrock, SageMaker, Q, and the partner ecosystem.
Las Vegas, United States
December 2026 · 1 events
January 2027 · 1 events
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