AI Engineer World's Fair 2027
by AI Engineer
The largest technical conference for people shipping AI systems
About This Event
The AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 runs 29 June - 2 July 2027 at Moscone West in San Francisco, billed by its organisers as a sequel to the most successful AI Engineer event of all time and targeting over 7,000 AI engineers, founders and VPs of AI. The series is described as the world's largest technical conference dedicated to building, deploying and scaling artificial intelligence systems, and it is explicitly a practitioner event rather than an executive summit. The 2026 edition, held at the same venue over the same four calendar days, ran 12 tracks per day — Software Factories, Claws and Personal Agents, Vision and OCR, Search and Retrieval, Security, Voice and Realtime AI, LLM RecSys, Autoresearch and Robotics and World Models among them — with 250 speakers, more than 20 technical tracks and over 100 expo partners in front of an expected 6,000+ attendees. Sponsorship for the 2027 edition is already open.
At a Glance
- Date
- June 29 – July 2, 2027
- Location
- Moscone West, San Francisco, California
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Expected Attendance
- 7,000+
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- AI Engineer
- Added
- Aug 9, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 9, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓VPs of AI and Engineering
- ✓Chief Technology Officers
- ✓AI engineers and architects
- ✓ML platform and infrastructure engineers
- ✓Founders of AI companies
- ✓Applied research leads
- ✓Developer experience leaders
Why Attend
For a VP of engineering or a CTO staffing an AI platform team, this is the event that tells you what is genuinely buildable this year rather than what is being marketed. The track structure maps onto real delivery problems — retrieval quality, agent reliability, voice latency, AI security, vision pipelines — and the speakers are the engineers who hit those walls in production. Send the team that owns the platform: they come back with concrete architectural decisions, a shortlist of tooling seen working rather than demoed, and the recruiting contact list that a hallway of 7,000 practitioners produces.
Event Features
- ✓Multi-track technical programme — 12 tracks per day at the 2026 edition, 20+ technical tracks overall
- ✓2026 tracks included Software Factories, Claws and Personal Agents, Vision and OCR, Search and Retrieval, Security, Voice and Realtime AI, LLM RecSys, Autoresearch, and Robotics and World Models
- ✓Expo floor of AI infrastructure and tooling vendors — 100+ expo partners at the 2026 edition
- ✓250 speakers at the 2026 edition at Moscone Center
- ✓Workshops and the hallway track alongside the main programme
- ✓Sponsorship for the 2027 edition already open
What Makes This Unique
- ★A technical conference for the people who actually ship AI systems — the programme is organised by engineering discipline, not by industry vertical or executive theme
- ★Track depth is unusual: the 2026 edition ran 12 tracks per day and more than 20 technical tracks overall, so specialist areas like Voice and Realtime AI or Search and Retrieval each get a full day rather than a single panel
- ★250 speakers and 100+ expo partners at the 2026 edition, drawn from AI startups and the largest technology companies alike
- ★Held at Moscone West in San Francisco, inside the AI industry's own hiring and funding radius, which is what fills the hallway track
- ★The 2027 dates and venue are already fixed a year ahead, while pricing and programme are still open
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Ticket prices for the 2027 edition are not published yet — the organisers state that dates, venue, speakers, schedule and tickets are announced as plans are finalised, and only the dates and venue are fixed so far.
Organizer
AI Engineer
ai.engineer/Frequently Asked
- When is AI Engineer World's Fair 2027?
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 takes place June 29 – July 2, 2027 in San Francisco, California.
- Where is AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 held?
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 is held in San Francisco, California. The event format is in-person.
- How much does AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 cost?
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 is paid. Ticket prices for the 2027 edition are not published yet — the organisers state that dates, venue, speakers, schedule and tickets are announced as plans are finalised, and only the dates and venue are fixed so far.
- Who should attend AI Engineer World's Fair 2027?
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 is aimed at VPs of AI and Engineering, Chief Technology Officers, AI engineers and architects, ML platform and infrastructure engineers, Founders of AI companies, Applied research leads, Developer experience leaders.
- What topics does AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 cover?
- AI Engineer World's Fair 2027 covers AI Engineering, LLM Applications, AI Agents, Search and Retrieval, Voice and Realtime AI, AI Security, Computer Vision, Robotics and World Models.
Sources
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