The AI Summit New York

What is The AI Summit New York?

The AI Summit New York is Informa’s enterprise AI conference, held December 9 to 10, 2026, at the Javits Center in Manhattan. The organizer expects more than 7,500 attendees, 350+ speakers and 200+ exhibitors. The content is about putting AI into production, so it suits companies that sell AI to large enterprises more than marketers looking for a general conference.

It belongs to a series. Informa also runs The AI Summit London, The AI Summit Australia and an AI Summit at Black Hat USA, so “the AI summit” in a search can mean any of them. This page covers New York only.

Key details for 2026

Detail	2026 edition
Dates	December 9 to 10, 2026
Venue	Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001
Pre-event	AI Leadership Accelerator, December 8, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, sold separately
Expected size	7,500+ attendees, 350+ speakers, 200+ exhibitors
Content	Conference tracks, keynotes, case studies, panels and an expo floor with live demos
Themes	Real-world deployment, measurable ROI, governance, scaling from pilot to production
Organizer	Informa

Speakers and the full agenda were still being added when this page was published. Check the conference program before you book travel.

How much do passes cost?

Prices as listed on the organizer’s passes and pricing page on October 25, 2026. The page shows a higher listed price next to each current price. Its banner says regular pricing ends December 8 at 11:59 PM EDT, while the pass cards say the offer ends December 9, so book before December 8 if the price matters.

Pass	Current price	Higher listed price	What it includes
Expo	$129	$199	Expo floor, select stages, live demos
Data Excellence Delegate	$899	$999	Data Excellence stage, expo stages, lunch, recordings (by application)
Conference Delegate	$2,399	$2,899	All stages, masterclasses, expo and networking
Solution Provider Delegate	$2,899	$3,299	Full conference access for vendors and consultants
VIP All Access	$2,999	$3,499	Everything in Delegate, plus C-suite networking, VIP lounge and premium seating

Discounted rates, each with the same access as the Delegate pass:

• Academic: $799, with an academic email, 200 available.
• Government: $1,599, for civil servants with a .gov.us email.
• Start-up and investor: $899, 300 available, for companies that meet two of three tests: fewer than 25 staff, under $3M raised, or under 3 years old.

Groups of three or more from the same company get 20% off every pass except Expo. The AI Leadership Accelerator on December 8 costs $3,599 bundled with a Delegate pass, or $2,199 added to any other pass.

Vendors and consultants have their own pass. The Solution Provider Delegate pass is described as “full conference access for solution providers and consultants,” so check which pass applies to you before you buy.

Who attends The AI Summit New York?

The organizer’s who attends page breaks the audience down by role:

Role	Share of attendees
VP or director	32%
Head of IT	21%
CTO, CDO or CIO	17%
AI, ML or product lead	17%
Cloud or software engineer	13%

It also says 85% of attendees are “actively investing up to $5M in AI-related projects,” and that they come from industries including healthcare, finance, retail and manufacturing. These are the organizer’s own figures, published to sell passes and sponsorships, so treat them as a guide to who the event is aimed at.

Should B2B SaaS marketers go?

It depends on what you sell.

• Go if you sell AI to enterprises. The audience is IT, data and AI leaders with budgets, which is the buying group for AI platforms, data infrastructure and AI services. Exhibiting or sponsoring puts you in front of them in one place.
• Go if your buyers are CIOs, CDOs or heads of IT. Together with VPs and directors, they make up most of the room by the organizer’s numbers.
• Skip it if you want marketing playbooks. The tracks are about deploying AI. For B2B marketing content and peers, pick one of the marketing and SaaS conferences in our events list.

If your product uses AI but your buyer is a head of marketing or sales, the room has fewer of your buyers than the headline number suggests.

If you are planning next year’s AI events, Ai4 2027 in Las Vegas, August 2 to 5, is the larger cross-industry option, with a free pass for enterprise buyers who agree to meet vendors. The HumanX conference, March 8 to 10, 2027, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, is the earlier option, with a hosted-buyer program of its own.

How to get a return on The AI Summit New York

The event is two days, and the Javits Center is large. Most of the return comes from what happens before and after.

1. Book meetings before December 9. Start from your target account list and invite people to your booth or a nearby breakfast in the four weeks before the event.
2. Pick one message. With 200+ exhibitors, a booth that says “AI for everything” disappears. Lead with one problem your buyers have and one proof point.
3. Plan for the Expo pass holders. At $129, many visitors to the floor will be on the cheapest pass. Decide in advance how your team qualifies a conversation in two minutes.
4. Follow up every conversation within a day. A follow-up written for the conversation you had beats a generic “great to meet you” sent to every badge scan. Put each one in the CRM with a note on what was discussed.
5. Measure pipeline, not scans. Count meetings held and opportunities created from the event in the 90 days after it.

Our events service runs this for B2B companies: invites to the accounts you want to meet, booth graphics and one-pagers in your brand, and a follow-up written for every scan that lands in your CRM. For the AI side of your go-to-market, see how we build AI marketing systems, and our glossary entry on event marketing covers the basics.