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Guide · Updated October 2026

AI conferences for investors in 2026: an honest comparison.

Most "AI conferences" are built for the people who make AI, not for the people investing in it. This guide sorts the 2026 calendar into investing events and technical or industry events, with dates, locations, audiences and prices, and says plainly where Future Wealth fits and where another event is the better choice.

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Dec 4-6, 2026Friday to Sunday
Hyatt Regency Miami400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami
29 speakersTwo stages
From $427All three days

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Investing events vs technical AI conferences

First, decide which kind you need.

Investing events: who gets paid, and how. Built for people who fund AI or own a piece of it. Sessions cover valuation, the supply chain, which companies capture the value and how to take a position. Few events in 2026 are truly for investors: FII is for sovereign and institutional money, and Future Wealth is for individual investors, founders and operators.

Technical and industry events: how AI gets built. NVIDIA GTC, NeurIPS, AI Infra Summit, Data Center World and others. These are where the technology and the industry meet. They are useful for investors who want to see what is coming first-hand, but the sessions assume a technical background and rarely talk about portfolios.

The 2026 calendar

AI conferences compared.

Every event on one table: dates, location, audience, focus, price and type. Whether an event has already been held is worked out when the page loads.

Event	Dates	Location	Audience	Focus	Price	Type	Status
PTC'26	Jan 18-21, 2026	Honolulu	Telecom and digital infrastructure executives, investors	Subsea cables, data centres, connectivity for AI	See official site	Industry	Already held
NVIDIA GTC	Mar 16-19, 2026	San Jose, CA	Developers, researchers, enterprise	Accelerated computing, AI factories	See official site	Technical	Already held
Data Center World	Apr 20-23, 2026	Washington, DC	Data centre operators and suppliers	Power, cooling, AI infrastructure	See official site	Industry	Already held
Datacloud Global Congress	Jun 2-4, 2026	Cannes, France	Data centre investors, operators, developers	Data centre capital and development	See official site	Industry	Already held
Ai4	Aug 4-6, 2026	Las Vegas	Enterprise AI leaders	Applied and enterprise AI	See official site	Industry	Already held
AI Infra Summit	Sep 15-17, 2026	Santa Clara, CA	Infrastructure engineers, hyperscalers	Chips, compute, the data centre stack	See official site	Technical	Already held
AI in Finance Summit (RE•WORK)	Oct 21-22, 2026	Hoboken, NJ	AI practitioners in financial firms	AI in trading, risk and fraud	See official site	Finance industry	Upcoming
FII10 (Future Investment Initiative)	Oct 26-29, 2026	Riyadh	Sovereign and institutional investors, policymakers	Global investment, AI, energy	See official site	Investing (institutional)	Upcoming
Web Summit	Nov 9-12, 2026	Lisbon	Founders, startups, VCs, corporates	Technology and startups, heavy on AI	See official site	Technology / startup	Upcoming
NVIDIA GTC Washington, DC	Nov 30 - Dec 3, 2026	Washington, DC	Government, policymakers, developers	AI infrastructure, physical AI, policy	See official site	Technical	Upcoming
Future Wealth 2026 That's us	Dec 4-6, 2026	Miami, Hyatt Regency Miami	Individual investors, founders, operators, allocators	AI as an investment: compute, data, energy, data centres, the companies enabling AI	From $427 (Market Pass)	Investing	Upcoming
NeurIPS 2026	Dec 6-13, 2026	Sydney, Atlanta and Paris	Machine learning researchers	AI research	See official site	Technical (research)	Upcoming
Fortune Brainstorm AI	Dec 7-8, 2026	San Francisco	Executives, investors, policymakers	The business impact of AI	$3,500, invitation only	Executive (invite only)	Upcoming
The AI Summit New York	Dec 9-10, 2026	New York	Enterprise AI buyers	Commercial AI, with a finance stage and investor area	Expo pass from $99 (early bird)	Industry	Upcoming

Checked against each event's official site in October 2026. Where an official site did not publish a price, we say so rather than repeat a figure from a third party. Confirm with the organiser before you book.

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The people who make AI. The people who invest in it.

Two kinds of conference · choose the one built for you

How to choose

The right event for who you are.

Technical

You build AI

Go to NeurIPS for research or NVIDIA GTC for the hardware and software platforms. They are the best in the world at what they do.

Industry

You work in data centres or telecom

PTC, Data Center World, Datacloud and AI Infra Summit are where the industry does business.

Institutional

You invest for an institution

FII in Riyadh is built for sovereign and institutional money. Fortune Brainstorm AI is invitation only and aimed at executives.

Enterprise

You buy AI for a company

Ai4 and The AI Summit New York are built for enterprise buyers and practitioners.

Individual investors

You invest your own money

Future Wealth is built for you: what the AI build-out means for stocks, real estate and digital assets, and how to position at your size.

Both

You want both

Future Wealth (Dec 4-6, Miami) starts the day after NVIDIA GTC Washington ends, so you can see the technology early in the week and what it means for your money at the weekend.

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Where Future Wealth fits

An investing conference, not a technology fair.

Future Wealth is not trying to be NeurIPS. Nobody is teaching you to train a model. It is built around one investing thesis: AI runs on compute, data and energy, each one is scarce, and the money tends to collect at the scarce layer.

It is also not only about AI. The same ticket covers public markets, digital assets and real estate, because that is where most investors actually hold their exposure to the AI build-out. If you want depth on one technical subject, choose a specialist event. If you want to understand what AI means for your portfolio, that is what Future Wealth is for.

On the AI side, the sessions follow the money underneath the chatbots:

Data centres and the power they need
The companies enabling AI
How institutions package the theme into funds
How software agents are changing how money is managed

See the AI sessions and speakers

Future Wealth 2026

December 4-6, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Miami.

Three passes, all three days, both stages. Prices are read live from Eventbrite, tax included.

Friday, Dec 4 to Sunday, Dec 6Friday evening opens the weekend: registration from 4pm, the opening reception and the opening ceremony. Saturday and Sunday are full conference days.

Hyatt Regency Miami400 SE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33131. Downtown on the Miami River, next to Brickell. Getting there

Two stages, in personThe Main Stage, and The Lab for workshops and live Q&A, with the networking spaces between them.

Market Pass$427incl. tax

All three days, both stages, every keynote
Lunch each conference day
Vendor hall and the general networking areas
A link to the discounted Hyatt room block, while it lasts

Get Market

Includes the evening eventsVIP Pass$1,815.79incl. tax

Everything in the Market Pass
VIP Lounge across all three days, VIP lunch
VIP Reception with speakers, founders and investors
Future Wealth After Dark on Saturday night
Reserved seating in the VIP sections

Get VIP

All Access Pass$1,763.90incl. tax

Everything in the VIP Pass
Entry to the Allocator Room
Backstage access (usual production exclusions apply)
Concierge registration, every stage session on video afterwards

Get All Access

Prices are today's Eventbrite prices including tax. Today's prices end at midnight ET on October 15. The price at Eventbrite checkout is always the final word. Compare the passes in full

Questions

Questions, answered.

Anything else? The full FAQ covers hotels, refunds and the day itself.

What is the difference between an AI investing conference and a technical AI conference?

A technical conference such as NeurIPS or NVIDIA GTC is built for the people who make AI: researchers, engineers and developers. An investing conference is built for the people who fund it or own a piece of it, and asks who gets paid, how, and how to take a position. Investors can learn a lot at technical events, but the sessions assume a technical background and rarely talk about valuation or portfolios.

Which AI conference is best for an individual investor?

Most AI events are built for engineers, enterprise buyers or institutions. FII is aimed at sovereign and institutional investors, and Fortune Brainstorm AI is invitation only. Future Wealth is built for individual investors, founders and operators, and covers AI alongside public markets, digital assets and real estate.

Which events focus on AI infrastructure and data centres?

PTC, Data Center World, Datacloud Global Congress and AI Infra Summit focus on the infrastructure itself and are aimed at the industry. Future Wealth covers the same layer (compute, data, energy and data centres) from the investor's side.

How current is this guide?

Dates and prices were checked against each event's official site in October 2026. Whether an event has already been held is worked out when the page loads. Always confirm on the organiser's site before booking travel.

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