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AI Conferences in Asia 2026: The Complete Directory for Founders and Builders
2 July 2026
AI Conferences in Asia 2026: The Complete Directory for Founders and Builders
How TGB is helping the AI community plan smarter — and what's coming with conference partnerships
The AI conference calendar in Asia has never been more packed — or harder to navigate.
Between Singapore, Seoul, Bangalore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo, and Dubai, there are flagship summits, deep-tech workshops, founder meetups, and enterprise AI expos happening almost every week. The problem isn't that there's nothing to attend. It's that most founders and builders discover the important ones too late — after speaker applications close, after early-bird tickets sell out, after the people they needed to meet have already left the building.
We built the TGB AI Conference Directory to fix that.
What the TGB Conference Directory Is
The directory is a curated, continuously updated listing of AI conferences happening across Asia and globally — each with dates, location, format, scale, estimated attendance, and direct registration links.
It is free to use. No login required to browse. And it is designed specifically for the TGB community: founders, AI builders, operators, researchers, and investors who want to be in the right rooms at the right times.
Browse the AI Conference Directory →
Why This Matters for AI Founders
Conferences are one of the highest-leverage things a founder can do — but only if you choose the right ones. A well-chosen conference can close a partnership, introduce you to your next investor, or completely reframe how you think about your market. A poorly chosen one is three days and several thousand dollars you won't get back.
Most founders rely on word-of-mouth to discover events. Someone mentions a conference in a Telegram group. A newsletter drops it two weeks before it happens. You find out a great summit happened last month when someone posts photos on LinkedIn.
Discovery should not be this hard. The TGB directory gives you a single place to see what's coming, plan ahead, and make deliberate decisions about where to show up.
Key AI Conferences to Know in the Second Half of 2026
Here are some of the most significant events on the radar right now, spanning research, enterprise, and founder communities across Asia.
ICML 2026 — Seoul, South Korea (July 6–11)
The International Conference on Machine Learning is one of the most prestigious AI research conferences in the world. The 2026 edition comes to Seoul — the first time ICML has been held in South Korea — bringing together 8,000+ researchers, engineers, and practitioners working on deep learning, generative models, and AI foundations. If you are building anything technically ambitious, this is where the ideas that will matter in three years are being discussed right now.
DataHack Summit 2026 — Bengaluru, India (August 5–8)
One of India's largest AI and data science conferences, DataHack Summit draws practitioners, researchers, and enterprise AI leads for four days of workshops, keynotes, and hands-on sessions. Bengaluru's AI ecosystem has grown dramatically in the last two years, and this event sits at the centre of it.
AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2026 — Seoul (August 19–21)
Now in its ninth year, AI Summit Seoul brings together enterprise leaders, government officials, and AI practitioners focused on applied AI: agents, physical AI, and industry-specific deployment. If your product targets enterprise buyers in Asia, this is a high-signal room.
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Tech in Asia Conference 2026 — Singapore (September 15–16)
APAC's premier startup and enterprise technology conference, connecting founders, investors, and enterprise decision-makers across the region. The 2026 edition has a significant AI focus, making it one of the most cross-functional events on the calendar — part investor meeting, part business development, part industry intelligence.
Tech Week Singapore 2026 — Singapore (September 29–30)
Singapore's largest tech week co-locates Big Data & AI World Asia, Cloud & AI Infrastructure Asia, and four other flagship events under one roof. It's one of the most efficient two days you can spend if you want to cover enterprise AI infrastructure, data strategy, and operator-level tooling in a single trip.
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Cypher 2026 — Bengaluru, India (October 7–9)
India's flagship AI and machine learning conference — three days of deep technical content for practitioners, researchers, and enterprise leaders, run by Analytics India Magazine. Cypher has established itself as one of the most credible AI events in South Asia, consistently drawing strong speaker lineups and serious practitioners.
GITEX Global 2026 — Dubai (December 7–11)
The world's largest tech expo. 200,000+ attendees. 180+ countries. The 2026 edition moves to Expo City Dubai with a major AI focus anchored by the GITEX Scale Summit — a dedicated track on global AI policy, economics, and investment. If you are building for international markets or want exposure to government and enterprise buyers from across the world, GITEX is unlike anything else on the calendar.
TGB's History with Conferences
The directory is not just a listing tool. It is built on the back of TGB's direct experience with conferences — as an organiser, a participant, and now as a partner.
At SuperAI 2026 in Singapore, TGB ran its own pavilion — the TGB AI Village — hosting eight AI startups, running a Founder Spotlight session, and creating a dedicated space for the TGB community within one of Asia's largest AI conferences. It was the clearest demonstration we have had of what happens when a focused community shows up together at a major event.
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Before that, TGB was present at Singapore FinTech Festival 2025, one of the world's largest fintech conferences, where our founders and members connected with investors, enterprise buyers, and policy leaders who were otherwise completely outside the typical community circuit.
These experiences shaped how we think about conferences: not as things to attend individually, but as opportunities to coordinate — to show up as a community, share intelligence, and create shared value.
What's Coming: Community Discounts and Partnership Benefits
We are in active conversation with a number of conferences on the directory to unlock benefits specifically for TGB members: discounted tickets, priority registration, dedicated community meetups before or during the event, and in some cases co-organised programming.
The model is straightforward. TGB brings a qualified, engaged community of AI founders, builders, and operators. Conferences get meaningful community partnership — not just a logo on a sponsorship page, but actual coordination, shared promotion, and community presence on the ground. In return, TGB members get access to these events at better terms than they would find anywhere else.
Watch the conference detail pages on TGB — where partnerships are confirmed, you'll see the member offer and redemption link directly on the listing.
How to Use the Directory
The simplest use case: open the directory at the start of each quarter, look at what's coming in the next three months, and decide which events align with your goals for that period.
Are you trying to close enterprise deals? Prioritise business-facing summits. Recruiting ML engineers? Research conferences like ICML are where the talent you want is presenting. Raising your next round? Events that co-locate investors and founders give you density you won't find in cold outreach.
The TGB community is global — 15,000+ members across 100+ countries — but heavily concentrated in Southeast Asia, India, South Korea, and the Middle East. The directory reflects that: strong coverage of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Bangkok, alongside the global flagship events that draw the full APAC community to one place.
Submit a Conference
If you know of an AI conference that should be in the directory — and is not — you can submit it directly from the platform. We review submissions and add listings within a few days.
If you are organising a conference and want to explore a community partnership with TGB — including co-promotion, group attendance, or a dedicated member benefit — get in touch with the TGB team via the platform.
Submit a Conference → Browse the Full Directory →
— Team TGB