Call for Speakers

in 58 days

AI Engineer World's Fair 2026

event starts

29 Jun 2026

event ends

2 Jul 2026

location

Moscone West San Francisco, California, United States

website

ai.engineer/wf


AI Engineer runs the most viewed technical conferences in AI for engineers, with over >15m views of our talks online. We are back in SF for the 4th year in a row! The World's Fair is our largest, most prestigious flagship event, with over 6,000 AI Engineers, researchers and founders live in person and hundreds of thousands tuning in online from all over the world.


IF YOU ARE COMPLETELY NEW TO US, BROWSING OUR YOUTUBE SHOULD GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF OUR CONTENT/AUDIENCE.


This is the one place you can meet with every major frontier lab, leading AI clouds, and AI native/transformed companies - from disruptive AI startups to Fortune 500 AI leaders, and every notable building block in the LLM OS ecosystem.


Key dates for speakers:

  • May 30th: ALL Submissions Deadline
  • June 2nd: Final wave announcements! / All submissions notified


Submit Your Proposal

We invite you to submit your abstract and speaker information through this portal. You are highly encouraged to:

  • if you are new to speaking, you can read this article on how to write a CFP
  • pick non-boring titles (you CAN change your mind later) and look at the best talks from past AIE confs and peer conferences like PyConJSConf, GDC, Goto, and StrangeLoop. Your chances are ~epsilon if you simply resubmit talks that look at home at generic AI conferences.
  • MULTIPLE submissions are ok (just don't spam us) - you don't need to guess at what we want and you can tweak titles/abstracts in discussion with us later - we just need to know the rough direction of what 1-5 topics you could possibly speak about and what your vision for your talk is.


Session Formats

  • Workshop (1-2 hours) - hands on sessions or technical deep dives
  • Stage Talk (15-20 mins) - keynotes, live demos, paper presentations. Most talks are this format.
  • Lightning Talk (5-10 mins) - launches/hot takes/fun rants
  • Online Talk (5-55 mins) - very free form, no stress IRL, same exposure online


During your session, we encourage you to dive right into the content with minimal self-introduction as the MC will introduce you with a bit of background. Your talk will be professionally recorded and published on our YT page, X, and LinkedIn for free consumption, along with optional interviews.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

01 May 2026

Call closes at 11:59 PM

05 Jun 2026

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travel

expenses covered

accommodation

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event fee

free for speakers

Economy flights, up to 3 nights for domestic, 4 nights for international


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