Events & Conferences
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🔄 Dates and formats change yearly. Always confirm on the official site.
Academic (where the research lands first)
- NeurIPS: neurips.cc. The largest ML conference. December. Proceedings are free online, so you don't need to attend to read them.
- ICML: icml.cc. International Conference on Machine Learning; July. Core theory and methods.
- ICLR: iclr.cc. Learning representations. Famously open-review (openreview.net), so you can read reviews and rebuttals live. Spring.
- ACL / EMNLP: aclanthology.org. The NLP conferences. The entire ACL Anthology is free.
- CVPR: cvpr.thecvf.com. Top computer-vision venue; June.
- COLM: colmweb.org. Conference on Language Modeling, launched 2024; a dedicated LLM venue. ~October.
- AAAI: aaai.org/conference/aaai. The flagship general-AI conference; ~January/February.
Follow remotely: proceedings are open-access. Watch for paper threads on X (People to Follow (X/Twitter)), and many talks post to YouTube weeks later. OpenReview lets you read ICLR submissions in real time.
Industry & developer events
- AI Engineer World's Fair / Summit: ai.engineer. swyx's conference for the AI-engineering discipline. Talks stream and post to YouTube. 🔄
- OpenAI DevDay: openai.com/devday. Product and API announcements. The keynote streams live. 🔄
- Google I/O: io.google. Gemini and the broader Google AI stack. May. Streams free. 🔄
- Anthropic developer events: watch anthropic.com/news. Claude/Claude Code updates increasingly land at dedicated dev events and livestreams. 🔄
- NVIDIA GTC: nvidia.com/gtc. Hardware and the compute layer. Jensen's keynote sets the infra agenda. Streams free. 🔄
- Microsoft Build: build.microsoft.com. Microsoft's developer conference, now heavily Copilot- and AI-focused; May/June. Streams free. 🔄
- AWS re:Invent: aws.amazon.com/events/reinvent. The largest cloud conference, increasingly AI-centric (Bedrock, agents, silicon); late November/December. 🔄
The cheat code: you almost never need to be in the room. Follow the official YouTube/X, and let the People to Follow (X/Twitter) crowd surface the 5 talks that mattered.