AI conferences in Chicago

The big rooms: AI conferences and multi-day summits in Chicago, with keynote speakers, focused tracks, and the kind of hallway networking that fills a calendar for months. Every upcoming AI conference in the city, tracked and verified daily.

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9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

Catholic Partnership Summit 2026

by Leadership Roundtable

A two-day Loyola University Chicago summit examining how Catholic institutions can responsibly adopt artificial intelligence, with expert panels, roundtables and peer discussion for church leaders.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersGeneral

Oct

Tue

9:00 AM – 7:00 PM CDT

Bank.AI Summit Chicago

Four Seasons Hotel Chicagoby Creatio

Creatio's Chicago summit convenes banking and credit-union executives for AI use cases, live agent demonstrations, governance discussions and peer networking.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Wed

9:30 AM – 4:30 PM CDT

Chicago Build 2026: AI & Digital Construction Track

McCormick Placeby Chicago Build Expo

A free two-day conference track at McCormick Place on applied AI in the built environment, covering agentic AI in architecture, data center demand, construction automation and AI tooling for residential builders.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Thu

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

Data & Analytics Summit Chicago 2026

The Ritz-Carlton, Chicagoby Global Business Insights

A one-day executive summit at the Ritz-Carlton on applying data, analytics and AI to consumer goods decision-making, covering AI shopping, AI-powered shopper insights and scaling AI across the enterprise.

ConferenceIntermediateBusinessResearchers

Nov

Tue

9:00 AM – 5:30 PM CST

Datadog Summit Chicago

Convene at Willis Towerby Datadog Chicago

A free day of Chicago sessions for developers, SREs, security practitioners and AI builders on observability, agentic capabilities and practical production systems.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Thu

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST

AI Engineering Summit Chicago

Courtyard by Marriott Chicago Downtown/Magnificent Mileby TESTINGMIND Chicago

A one-day Chicago summit for engineers shipping AI in production, with practitioner-led sessions on agentic development, LLMOps, responsible AI and architecture.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Wed

8:00 AM – 2:45 PM CST

Product-Led Summit Chicago 2026

Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalkby Product-Led Alliance

A two-day Chicago conference for product leaders with a substantial agenda on embedding AI in products, driving adoption of AI features and using agentic workflows in product practice.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessDevelopers