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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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

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.

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