The AI Summit New York 2026

The AI Summit New York is an enterprise artificial intelligence conference run by Informa through its Informa Connect events business. The 2026 edition takes place on 9 and 10 December at the Javits Center in New York. The organiser says the New York summit has gathered corporate AI leaders for more than ten years. The organiser expects more than 7,500 attendees and claims that 85% of them invest up to $5M in AI projects. The crowd is senior and corporate: chief executives, technology and AI chiefs, security heads, data leaders, engineers and investors, from sectors such as healthcare, finance and retail. The programme is about putting AI to work inside large companies: deployment, return on investment, governance and the move from pilot to production. The organiser lists more than 350 speakers across 11 content tracks (one section of the site says 12) and an expo with over 200 exhibitors. Alongside the stages sit masterclasses, an AI Clinic for working through deployment problems, AI demo tours, partner-led meetups, a Networking Cafe and a Start-up & Investor Village. Featured speakers include Nitzan Mekel, chief AI officer at eBay, Maryam Ashoori of IBM and Zach Golkhou of JPMorgan Chase. Side gatherings and partner dinners run across the city during event week. Prices are published. An Expo pass costs $129 instead of the regular $199 and covers the exhibition floor, selected stages and live demos. The Conference Delegate pass is $2,399, Solution Provider Delegate $2,899 and VIP All Access $2,999, all offer rates that the pricing page says end on 8 December 2026. Reduced rates exist for academics ($799), government staff ($1,599) and start-ups and investors ($899). Companies sending three or more people get 20% off every pass type except Expo. Free passes are open by application to Future AI Leaders and to eligible press. For affiliates and media buyers the fit is indirect. This is a corporate AI buyers' event, not an affiliate show, and no traffic or acquisition topics are named in the published material. It is most relevant to AI-vertical publishers and affiliates who promote AI software, cloud services or enterprise platforms, since the expo gathers vendors of that kind, and to B2B lead generation teams selling to enterprise technology buyers. The $129 Expo pass is the cheap way to walk that vendor floor; the delegate passes are priced for corporate training budgets.