Two-day Budapest conference at Eiffel Art Studios, 1-2 October, bridging AI/ML, UX design, data engineering, product management and engineering leadership. Speakers from Google, Adobe, Spotify, NVIDIA, Databricks and Microsoft. 1,300+ attendees. No buzzwords, practical focus on building AI-era products. Organised by CraftHub.
Compass AI & Tech Summit is an annual practitioner conference in Budapest organised by CraftHub, focused on the intersection of AI/ML, product design and engineering leadership. The 2026 edition runs 1-2 October at Eiffel Art Studios. The event's stated positioning is "no buzzwords, only building" and the 2026 theme is "From idea to impact: building successful products in the AI era." Five integrated programme tracks cover AI/ML, UX/UI design, data engineering, product management and engineering leadership. Speakers are primarily senior practitioners from international technology companies rather than academics or venture-stage startups.
Five integrated programme tracks:
The 1,300+ audience spans product managers, UX/UI designers, software engineers, ML engineers, data scientists and engineering leads building AI-powered products. The multi-track format reflects an interdisciplinary audience: product and design professionals seeking to understand AI, and engineers seeking to work more effectively with product and design counterparts. Sponsors Bosch, Wise and SAP indicate enterprise technology participation alongside the startup community.
Keynotes and featured speakers from Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Spotify, Skype, NVIDIA, Databricks, LinkedIn and IKEA. The speaker lineup represents primarily senior practitioners with delivery responsibility, not academic keynotes or investor talks.
Compass explicitly covers five disciplines together: AI/ML, UX, data, product and engineering leadership. Attendees who work in any of these areas will find directly relevant content, and the cross-disciplinary format creates interactions that single-track events cannot provide. It is not a pure developer conference or a pure product conference.
Budapest-based with an international speaker lineup. The event draws Central European tech talent and international speakers from major technology companies, creating a mix of local community and global perspective.
Eiffel Art Studios (Eiffel Műhelyház) is a converted industrial event space at Kőbányai út 30, 1101 Budapest, in the Kőbánya district. The venue is known for its industrial-heritage aesthetics and is a frequently used conference and cultural event space in Budapest. It is accessible by Budapest public transport (metro line M3 or bus).
CraftHub is the Budapest-based tech company and event organiser behind Compass AI & Tech Summit. The organisation focuses on the Central European product, design and engineering community. Compass reflects CraftHub's positioning at the intersection of product craft and modern AI tooling.
Compass AI & Tech Summit is Budapest's practical product and engineering conference: no hype, just speakers from Google, Adobe, Spotify and NVIDIA on building with AI.
Tickets available via compassaitechsummit.com. Early bird discounts available via email signup. Specific pricing tiers were not publicly listed at time of verification.
Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) to city centre: bus 100E to Deák Ferenc tér, approximately 35 minutes, or taxi. Eiffel Art Studios at Kőbányai út 30 is accessible by metro line M3 (Kőbánya-Kispest direction) or by tram. Budapest is well-connected by train to Vienna (approximately 2.5 hours) and Prague (approximately 6 hours).
Not confirmed at time of verification. Check the Compass website for post-event content availability.
| Official website | https://compassaitechsummit.com/ |
| Register | https://compassaitechsummit.com/ |