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Where the AGI community gathers. From peer-reviewed academic venues publishing foundational research to government-level safety summits and industry developer conferences shaping the future of AI.

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Top-Tier AI/ML Academic Conferences

Premier peer-reviewed venues where foundational AGI research is published -- LLM architectures, scaling laws, alignment methods, and agent frameworks.

Conference Full Name When Website AGI Relevance
NeurIPS Neural Information Processing Systems Dec, Annual neurips.cc The single most important ML conference. Foundational LLM papers, RLHF, scaling research, 50+ safety/alignment workshops. 16k+ attendees.
ICML International Conference on Machine Learning Jul, Annual icml.cc Core ML theory, LLM training methodology, RL for agents, scaling laws, and alignment research. 10-14k attendees.
ICLR International Conference on Learning Representations Apr-May, Annual iclr.cc Home of transformer architecture research. Attention mechanisms, emergent capabilities, reasoning, in-context learning. Uses OpenReview. 10k+ attendees.
AAAI AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Feb-Mar, Annual aaai.org Oldest prestigious general AI conference (since 1980). Planning, reasoning, knowledge representation, multiagent systems. 10k+ attendees.
IJCAI International Joint Conference on AI Aug, Annual ijcai.org Oldest major international AI conference (since 1969). Knowledge representation, reasoning, AGI theoretical foundations.
ACL Association for Computational Linguistics May-Aug, Annual aclweb.org Premier NLP conference. LLM alignment, instruction tuning, RLHF, multilingual LLMs, commonsense reasoning. 5-8k attendees.
EMNLP Empirical Methods in NLP Oct-Nov, Annual emnlp.org LLM benchmarking, evaluation, hallucination detection, chain-of-thought research. 5-7k attendees.
CVPR Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Jun, Annual cvpr.thecvf.com Vision-language models, visual agents, world models, embodied AI. Largest vision conference: 10-15k attendees.
COLM Conference on Language Modeling Oct, Annual (new 2024) colmweb.org The only major conference dedicated exclusively to language models. LLM pretraining, alignment, and deployment.
CoRL Conference on Robot Learning Nov, Annual corl2024.org Embodied AGI's primary venue. LLMs as robot planners, foundation models for robotics (RT-2, OpenVLA), sim-to-real transfer.
KDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Aug, Annual kdd.org Graph neural networks, knowledge graphs for RAG, data-centric AI at scale.

AGI-Specific Conferences

Conference Full Name When Website AGI Relevance
AGI Conference International Conference on AGI Jul-Aug, Annual (since 2008) agi-conf.org The primary peer-reviewed academic conference dedicated to AGI. Cognitive architectures (OpenCog, NARS, SOAR), AGI benchmarks, control problem. Proceedings by Springer.
bAGI Summit Beneficial AGI Summit Feb-Mar, Annual singularitynet.io Decentralized AGI, beneficial ASI development, open-source AGI infrastructure. By SingularityNET / Ben Goertzel.
ARC Prize Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus Competition Annual (launched 2024) arcprize.org Leading empirical AGI benchmark contest. $1M prize for 85% accuracy on ARC-AGI fluid reasoning test. Workshop at NeurIPS.

AI Safety & Alignment Events

Conference Description Website
AI Safety Summit Series Government-level summits: Bletchley Park 2023 (28 nations signed Bletchley Declaration), Seoul 2024, Paris 2025. The most consequential AI safety policy forum. gov.uk
AIES AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Societal impact, value alignment, governance of autonomous AI. Co-located with AAAI. aies-conference.com
FAccT ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Bias, fairness in foundation models, accountability frameworks. facctconference.org
SaTML IEEE Secure and Trustworthy ML. Adversarial robustness, red-teaming LLMs, backdoor attacks, privacy in ML. satml.org
EA Global Effective Altruism Global. Primary gathering of AI safety and existential risk researchers. Key AI safety orgs (Anthropic, ARC, MIRI, Redwood) present regularly. eaglobal.org
GPAI Global Partnership on AI. 29-member international governance forum on responsible AI, data governance, future of work. gpai.ai
NeurIPS/ICML Safety Workshops Annual satellite workshops: Safe Generative AI, Mechanistic Interpretability, Aligning AI with Human Values, Regulatable ML, AdvML-Frontiers. Bleeding edge safety research. At NeurIPS (Dec) and ICML (Jul)

Industry AI Summits & Developer Conferences

Conference Organizer When Website AGI Relevance
NVIDIA GTC NVIDIA Mar, Annual nvidia.com/gtc The most important AI infrastructure conference. Blackwell architecture, NIM, Cosmos world models, Isaac robotics. 25k+ in-person, 300k+ virtual.
Google I/O Google May, Annual io.google Primary stage for Gemini announcements, DeepMind research, Project Astra (real-time multimodal agent).
OpenAI DevDay OpenAI Oct-Nov, Annual devday.openai.com Most-watched AI product launch. GPT-4 Turbo, Assistants API, and agent ecosystem announcements.
Microsoft Build Microsoft May, Annual build.microsoft.com Azure AI, Copilot Studio, AutoGen/AG2 multi-agent framework, Azure OpenAI Service.
AWS re:Invent Amazon Nov-Dec, Annual reinvent.awsevents.com Bedrock, Amazon Q, SageMaker, Trainium/Inferentia chips. 60k+ attendees.
AI Engineer World's Fair latent.space Jun-Jul, Annual ai.engineer Premier conference for AI engineers building with LLMs and agents. RAG, evals, agentic frameworks. 3-5k attendees.
WAIC Shanghai Gov + MIIT Jul, Annual worldaic.com.cn China's flagship AI summit. Qwen, Ernie, Kimi announcements. Essential for understanding AGI race geopolitics.
WEF Davos World Economic Forum Jan, Annual weforum.org Highest-level AGI governance discussions. World leaders and AI lab CEOs shape policy frameworks.
AI for Good ITU / United Nations May-Jun, Annual aiforgood.itu.int UN-level AI governance. Global south's primary voice in AGI governance debate.