Ai4 is North America’s largest conference built around the applied, real-world side of AI. It’s not a research conference, and it’s not built around one vendor’s product roadmap. It’s where business executives, technology leaders, and vendors across every industry show up to compare notes on what’s actually working when you try to put AI into production.
It’s grown fast. Ai4 started as a 300-person meetup in Brooklyn back in 2018. This year it’s expected to bring in more than 12,000 attendees, 1,000+ speakers, and 400+ exhibitors from over 90 countries, and it’s moving to The Venetian in Las Vegas, its biggest venue yet.
What sets Ai4 apart from a lot of AI events is who’s actually in the room. A large share of attendees are there to evaluate or buy AI solutions for their company, not just to learn. That buyer-heavy ratio is a big reason the event has become a fixture on the sponsor calendar for so many companies in this space.
Where Is Ai4 2026?
Ai4 2026 runs August 4 through 6, 2026, at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The move to The Venetian says a lot about how much this event has scaled: organizers are running nearly a million square feet of programming, demos, and expo floor this year.
Monday, August 3, works as a pre-conference day, with workshops, trainings, and industry-specific meetups running ahead of the main keynotes, which start Tuesday morning.
What is on the agenda for Ai4 2026?
The headline of this year’s agenda is a rare one: Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng sharing a stage together. Alongside them, expect Waymo’s Dmitri Dolgov and Sebastian Thrun, plus enterprise leaders from Cisco, PayPal, Mayo Clinic, Ford, U.S. Bank, and Uber talking through what AI deployment actually looks like inside large organizations.
Past the keynotes, sessions are organized into dozens of tracks that generally fall into a few groups:
- AI transformation tracks covering agentic AI, generative AI, infrastructure, and governance
- Job function tracks built for specific roles like CIO/IT, engineering leadership, data analytics, product, marketing, and risk & compliance
- Industry tracks for verticals including financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, and insurance
- Technical tracks going deeper on RAG, multimodal AI, evaluation and observability, and synthetic data
Agentic AI and RAG are all over this year’s programming, which tracks with where most enterprises actually are right now. Most companies are past the “should we use AI” question and stuck on the harder one: how do you make agents and retrieval systems reliable against real business data.
How Long Is Ai4?
Here’s how the week breaks down:
- Monday, August 3: pre-conference workshops, trainings, and industry meetups
- Tuesday, August 4 through Thursday, August 6: main conference at The Venetian
- Thursday evening: official Ai4 afterparty at TAO
Registration prices climb the closer you get to the event, so if you haven’t registered yet, sooner is better than later.
Ai4 2026 Side Event Schedule
The confirmed closing event is the Ai4 afterparty at TAO on Thursday, August 6, sponsored this year by 1mind, Dell Technologies, Lightning AI, and Optimizely. Expect live music, dancing, and the usual Vegas send-off once the conference wraps.
Outside the official party, you’ll see the usual run of partner- and community-hosted happy hours, breakfasts, and networking events across all three days. Keep an eye on the Ai4 networking app and your usual industry channels as those firm up closer to the date.
Find GRAX at Ai4 2026
If you’re heading to Ai4 this year, come find us on the show floor.
We’ll be at Booth #1672 at The Venetian Grand, Las Vegas, from 7 AM to 6 PM, Tuesday through Thursday, August 4-6. If you want to talk through how your organization is thinking about AI-ready data, see how GRAX replicates full Salesforce history into your own cloud, or just meet the team, stop by.
We’re also on stage this year. GRAX Co-Founder Joe Gaska is joining enterprise leaders for “RAG Use Cases: Unlocking Business Value with Smarter AI,” a session on how organizations are using Retrieval-Augmented Generation to deliver real business outcomes and why access to complete, governed data is what separates the pilots from the production systems. If you’re building or evaluating a RAG architecture, that’s the session to catch. Make sure to catch this session on Tuesday, August 4, from 10:15 to 11:00, in Titian Ballroom 2306.
Swing by the booth anytime during the event, or if you’d rather lock something in, book a quick meeting in advance so we can give you our full attention.
Reasons to attend Ai4
Ai4’s pitch is pretty simple:
Scale, and a room full of buyers. With 12,000+ attendees and a favorable ratio of end-users to vendors, Ai4 is built to get actual decision-makers in front of the people building AI products. The event also includes a rare keynote lineup. Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng will be sharing a stage, plus leaders from Waymo, Cisco, PayPal, Mayo Clinic, Ford, and U.S. Bank, isn’t something you see at most industry events.
Attendees also receive structured access through Ai4 Match. The 1:1 meetings program connects sponsors and attendees with the buyers most relevant to them instead of leaving everything to chance encounters on the floor. Throughout the conference, attendees will find content built for where most companies actually are. The focus on agentic AI, RAG, and enterprise deployment reflects the fact that most attendees have moved past “should we use AI” and are stuck on making it reliable in production.
Let’s Talk at Ai4
Book a meeting with the GRAX team and make sure you leave Ai4 with a plan, not just notes.
Post-event action plan
It’s easy to leave a three-day AI conference with a notebook full of ideas and no plan for any of it. A few things worth doing before the jet lag wears off:
Write down your takeaways while they’re fresh. Which conversations actually addressed a real problem you have, which sessions changed how you’re thinking about your AI roadmap. Do this within 48 hours, not two weeks later.
Follow up with the people you met. Between the show floor, Ai4 Match meetings, and sessions, you’ll meet a lot of people solving the same problems you are. A short note that references your actual conversation goes further than a generic LinkedIn add.
Pilot before you commit. Ai4 will surface plenty of tools and architectural patterns worth trying. Test anything on a small scale first and confirm it holds up against your own data before you rebuild around it.
Share what you learned internally. A short writeup for your team turns your week in Vegas into something the whole organization benefits from, and forces you to figure out what’s actually worth acting on.
Revisit your data foundation. If Ai4 reinforces anything, it’s that most AI initiatives succeed or stall based on the data feeding them, not the model. Before greenlighting the next agent or RAG pipeline, check whether your underlying data is actually complete, governed, and accessible enough to support it.
Conclusion
Ai4 2026 runs three days, but the pre-conference workshops on Monday and the afterparty at TAO on Thursday mean there’s a full week’s worth of substance if you plan for it. Whether it’s hearing Hinton, Li, and Ng share a stage, booking structured time with buyers through Ai4 Match, or getting a read on how other enterprises are actually deploying agentic AI and RAG in production, there’s plenty of reason to make the trip to The Venetian.
Wherever you spend most of your time, stop by Booth #1672 and talk through what your own data foundation looks like heading into the next phase of your AI strategy.
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