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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Sep

Tue

12:45 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

Leaders In AI Summit Chicago 2026

The Westin Michigan Avenue Chicagoby Institute for AI Transformation

A two-day executive summit on Michigan Avenue covering sovereign AI, governance and enterprise infrastructure, with workshops, panels on agentic systems and healthcare AI, and closed-door executive roundtables.

ConferenceAdvancedBusinessResearchers

Sep

Wed

6:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

revAlation Chicago 2026

The Old Post Officeby Alation

Alation's two-day Chicago conference for data and AI leaders and practitioners focuses on governed AI, production agents, data quality and peer exchange.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusinessResearchers

Sep

Thu

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

AI & Data Summit Chicago

Convene, 311 West Monroeby IDC

IDC's one-day Chicago summit convenes senior technology and business leaders on scaling enterprise AI, trusted data, governance and agentic AI risk.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopersResearchers

Sep

Tue

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

SievoFriends Chicago

320 S Canal Stby Sievo

A full-day Chicago conference for procurement and finance leaders examining how data, AI and peer benchmarks can drive measurable procurement results through keynotes, hands-on sessions and peer roundtables.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsBusiness

Sep

Mon

12:00 AM – 11:59 PM CDT

CriblCon 26

by Cribl

A three-day Chicago conference for security and IT practitioners covering AI-ready telemetry, agentic AI, observability pipelines, technical sessions and hands-on labs.

ConferenceAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Mon

8:00 AM – 5:30 PM CDT

Snowflake World Tour 2026: Chicago

Hyatt Regency Chicagoby Snowflake

Snowflake's free one-day Chicago stop, themed Making AI Real for Business, with three tracks on modernizing data infrastructure, preparing governed data for AI, and building trustworthy AI agents on business data.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

2026 North American Semarchy Summit: Chicago

The Westin Chicago River Northby Semarchy

A two-day Chicago summit for data leaders and practitioners exploring trusted data, data products, AI, DataOps and the operational foundations needed to scale AI work.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Tue

8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

ServiceNow World Forum Chicago 2026

McCormick Place, Lakeside Centerby ServiceNow

A one-day, in-person ServiceNow forum at McCormick Place for business and technology practitioners exploring applied AI, agent building, workflow data and enterprise automation.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Fri

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

Scientific Session of the American College of AI and Medicine 2026

McCormick Placeby American College of Artificial Intelligence and Medicine

A two-day clinical AI meeting at McCormick Place with keynotes from AI and healthcare leaders, peer research presentations, panels and workshops for clinicians, researchers and health system leaders. Free for students and residents.

ConferenceAdvancedResearchersBusinessStudents

Oct

Tue

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

Solve26 Chicago

Hyatt Regency O'Hareby eGain

A free two-day eGain conference at Hyatt Regency O'Hare on generative AI, agentic AI and trusted knowledge foundations for customer-service and enterprise automation teams.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Wed

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

MBA Tech Exchange 2026

by Mortgage Bankers Association

A one-day Chicago summit for mortgage technology leaders, featuring a hands-on AI lab, technology demos, practical sessions and peer networking on innovation in single-family real estate finance.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

The UChicago and Caltech Conference on AI+Science 2026

David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicagoby University of Chicago Data Science Institute

A three-day research conference at UChicago's David Rubenstein Forum gathering leading core AI and domain science researchers, jointly run with Caltech and sponsored by the Margot and Tom Pritzker Foundation.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersStudents

Oct

Tue

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

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

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