Starting in the 1950s, people met to discuss the possibilities of artificial intelligence, a topic that today is of major interest to almost everyone in developed countries. Although vendors show AI products at general-purpose technology trade shows such as CES, following are shows specialized for AI. See
technology trade shows.
Early Formal Discussions
The first meeting that considered AI as a field of its own was at Dartmouth College in 1956 (see
Dartmouth Conference). The second, which has been held every year since 1987, is the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing (see
NeurIPS).
NVIDIA
In 2009, NVIDIA held its first GPU trade show, which was then mostly about gaming but also how GPUs could be used for high-performance computing applications. Today GTC draws 20,000 and more attendees who are very much interested in AI, although gaming is still a serious topic (see
GTC conference).
Google I/O
Google's annual conference, which began in 2008, is increasingly announcing AI additions to its many products. The 2025 conference showcased the new AI Mode in Google Search as well as AI enhancements in many of its products. See
Google I/O.
C3 AI
The leading vendor of enterprise AI, C3 AI has held an annual conference in California or Florida since 2019. See
C3 AI Transform.
AI Safety
In 2017, guidelines were developed for AI at California's Asilomar Conference Grounds and at an AI safety conference in the U.K. in 2023 (see
Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI and
AI Safety Summit).
The Latest
A business-focused AI show was founded in 2018 (see
Ai4 conference), and the latest conference to focus entirely on AI was held in Las Vegas in 2025 (see
HumanX).