Best AI and chatbot conferences in 2017

With the list of their attendees. Can we make it?

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A Digital Scrum Master at Work

7 min readMar 21, 2017

Photo credit: Slush.org, the amazing tech conference in Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

We at Standuply, while working hard on a Slack bot for Agile teams, like to have fun and make some noise. Since we are excited about AI and bots, we would like to get to know others who feel the same. So we have an idea:

What if we can have a single list of conferences and their participants in AI and chatbot space?

This way everybody could pick the best conference for them and engage with visitors before an event. Wouldn’t that be cool? So we’ve composed a list of AI and chatbot conferences in 2017.

Now let’s fill it up ☝️ ️

Leave me a note near an event you’re interested or going to. Then I will submit your name on the list. If you’re not on Medium, reach me on Twitter at @alexkistenev and I will put your Twitter handle on the list as well.

As of 30 August, the list contains: 89 events.

Like the idea? Click on the heart below ♡ and bring on masses!

Jan — Mar

Missed. I know, I know, we should have started earlier 😴

April

Web a Quebec

4–6 Apr in Quebec city, Canada 🇨🇦
AI, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going: Andy Budd, molly w steenson, Mitch Joel, Brian Solis

LEADE.RS Paris

11–12 Apr in Paris, France 🇫🇷
AI, chatbots
Interested/going: DJ Patil, Eugenia Kuyda, Matt Schlicht

F8 — Facebook Developer Conference

18–19 Apr in San Jose, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots
Interested/going: Ekim Nazım Kaya, Omar Pera, Tony Lucas, David Pichsenmeister, Manfred Strasser, Ryan Maynard, Siddhesh (Sid) Tiwatne, Laura Meyer, Caio Calado

Machine Learning Prague 2017

21–21 Apr in Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
AI, ML
Interested/going:

SpeechTEK

24–26 Apr in Washington, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going: Dan Reich, Tony Lucas, Shop Or Not, Chris du Toit

dotAI

25 Apr in Paris, France 🇫🇷
AI, ML
Interested/going: Olivier Grisel, Pierre Gutierrez, Charles Ollion

AI Conference

25 Apr in Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺
AI, chatbots
Interested/going: Dmitry Soshnikov, Alexey Gavrish, Paul D.

Botscamp

26 Apr online 🖥️
AI, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going:

Deep Learning Summit Singapore

27–28 Apr in Singapore 🇸🇬
AI, ML
Interested/going: Somnath Mukherjee, Nicolas Papernot, tak_lo

AI With The Best

29–30 Apr online 🖥️
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going: Sam Altman, Yoshua Bengio, Dennis R. Mortensen

BotBarcamp

29–30 Apr in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going: David Pichsenmeister, Barbara Ondrisek

May

Open Data Science Conference East

3–5 May in Boston, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Intelligent Assistants Conference

4–5 May in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going:

GPU Technology Conference

8–11 May in Silicon Valley, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

SuperBot Conference

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9 May in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going: David Pichsenmeister, Michael Khait, Peter Rojas

The AI Summit London

9–10 May in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Microsoft Build 2017

10–12 May in Seattle, USA 🇺🇸
Topics: N/A
Interested/going: David Pichsenmeister, Tom Hadfield

Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2017

11 May in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going:

Rise of AI

11 May in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Big Data & IoT Summit

17–18 May in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, IoT, ML
Interested/going:

The Machine Learning Conference

19 May in Seattle, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

DEVNET Create

23–24 May in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots, IoT, ML, voice interfaces
Interested/going:

AI Forum at C2 Montréal 2017

24–26 May in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Deep Learning Summit

25–26 May in Boston, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Chat Conference Shanghai

27 May in Shanghai
Topics: Wechat
Interested/going:

June

AI Expo Europe 2017

1–2 June in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going:

Deep Learning in Retail & Advertising Summit

1–2 June in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Deep Learning in Finance Summit

1–2 June in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going:

The AI Conference

2 June in San-Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML, chatbots
Interested/going:

VB Summit 2017

5–6 June in Berkeley, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots
Interested/going:

Humans and Robots

8 June in York, UK 🇬🇧
AI, chatbots
Interested/going: David Pichsenmeister, Rob Hampson

AI & Machine Learning World

13–15 June in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicles

13–15 June in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI and ML in smart cars
Interested/going:

AI Toronto 2017

20–21 June in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
AI, chatbots, ML, voice
Interested/going:

M.I.E. Summit 2017

20 June in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Global AI Hackathon

23–25 June in San-Francisco, Seattle, New-York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich, Beijing, Tokyo, Vancouver, Casablanca
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going:

Chatbot Summit

26 June in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
AI, ML, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/Going: Alex Kistenev, Dmitry Dumik, Greg Leuch, Seth Louey, Omar Pera, John Griffin, Tom Hewitson, Antonia Ermacora, David Pichsenmeister, Barbara Ondrisek, Matty Mariansky, Mike Gozzo

O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

26–29 June in New York, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going: Tom Hadfield

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

28–29 June in San Diego, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Machine Intelligence Summit

28–29 June in Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Botscamp

29 June online 🖥️
AI, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going:

July

The AI Summit Hong Kong

26 July in Hong Kong 🇭🇰
AI, ML
Interested/going:

MobileBeat 2017

11–12 July in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going:

International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining

15–20 July in New York, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Multimedia & AI Summit and Expo

20–21 July in Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
AI
Interested/going:

The Fifth Elephant

20–21 July in Bangalore, India 🇮🇳
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Anthill Inside 2017

29 July in Bangalore, India 🇮🇳
AI, ML
Interested/going:

August

Thirty-Fourth International Conference of Machine Learning

6–11 August in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
AI, ML
Interested/going

AI & Machine Learning Summit

15–16 August in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
AI, ML
Interested/going:

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

19–25 August in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
AI, chatbots, ML
Interested/going:

September

AI Vancouver Conference

7 Sep in Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Intelligent Systems Conference 2017

7–8 Sep in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going: triomatt

The Machine Learning Conference

15 Sep in Atlanta, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

17–20 Sep in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Deep Learning Summit

21–22 Sep in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML
Interested/going: Siddhesh (Sid) Tiwatne

Virtual Assistant Summit

21–22 Sep in London, UK 🇬🇧
AI, ML, conversational interfaces
Interested/going:

The AI Summit San Francisco

27–28 Sep in San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
AI, ML
Interested/going:

Botscamp

28 Sep online 🖥️
AI, chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going:

October

ChatbotConf

2–3 Oct in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹
chatbots, conversational interfaces
Interested/going: Omar Pera, Dmitry Dumik, Seth Louey, Antonia Ermacora, David Pichsenmeister