A one-day, single-track AI engineering conference in Paris, held at the Folies Bergere on 17 September 2026. dotConferences curates a programme of 20-minute practitioner talks by engineers and researchers, selected on merit rather than sold to sponsors, and pairs the day with dotJS on 18 September.
dotAI is an annual one-day AI conference organised by dotConferences, the Paris-based series of developer events running since 2012. The 2026 edition takes place at the Folies Bergere, a historic Paris theatre, on 17 September, one day ahead of its sister event dotJS on 18 September. It gathers AI engineers, data scientists and machine learning practitioners for a single-track programme of curated 20-minute talks. Every session is selected by the dotConferences programme team on merit rather than sold to a sponsor, which separates it from vendor-driven AI events. The focus is AI engineering practice: building, deploying and operating AI systems in production. It sits on the AI developer and engineering circuit tracked by Events Index.
dotConferences built its reputation on curation. Its own line, repeated across the dotAI materials, is that every 20-minute session is "curated, not sold" by the programme team rather than bought as a sponsorship slot. In practice this means speakers from labs and platform companies present on technical substance rather than product positioning. The 2025 edition, for instance, put Alex Palcuie of Anthropic and Logan Kilpatrick of Google DeepMind on the same stage as engineers from Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, Vercel and AWS. The single-track, 20-minute format is the second defining trait: it enforces brevity and density, and it keeps the whole audience in one room for a shared programme rather than splitting it across parallel stages. This positions dotAI against generalist, multi-track AI conferences where the exhibition floor and sponsor keynotes carry as much weight as the talks. Readers comparing formats on the circuit also track AI Engineer Europe and PyData London 2026.
The organiser frames the target audience as people "who actually build AI," and the content assumes working familiarity with AI and ML concepts rather than an introductory grounding.
The 2026 programme centres on applied AI engineering: ML infrastructure, natural language processing, agent systems, data pipelines and the practical realities of deploying models in production. dotConferences also cites areas such as automated theorem proving among the technical topics its speakers cover, reflecting a programme that leans toward engineering depth over strategy or market commentary. Sessions run 20 minutes each and are curated for technical density. The programme mixes English and French talks, consistent with the international speaker pool dotConferences draws on. The full agenda and confirmed session list are published at dotai.io/agenda as the date approaches. For attendees weighing an LLM-specific alternative in the same window, Events Index also tracks LLMday London 2026 Q2.
As of early July 2026, the following speakers are confirmed on the official site, with more to be announced:
The full and final 2026 speaker list is published at dotai.io. The 2025 edition (6 November 2025) offers a reference point for the calibre of the programme, having featured Alex Palcuie (Anthropic), Logan Kilpatrick (Google DeepMind) and speakers from Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, Vercel and AWS.
For the 2026 edition, the following companies are listed as sponsors and partners on the official site: LeBonCoin Tech, Upsun, Algolia, Mirakl, Giskard, Doctolib, Welcome to the Jungle and JetBrains. Consistent with the dotConferences model, these partners fund the event and host booths but do not buy speaking slots: the talk programme is curated separately by the organiser. Several partner companies (Doctolib, Upsun) also appear among the 2026 speaker roster, but their presence on stage reflects individual engineers selected on merit rather than a purchased track.
dotAI is a specialist developer conference rather than a mass-market summit, and it does not generate the volume of national business-press coverage that larger AI events attract. Based on what is verifiable as of this pass, coverage falls into three honest categories:
No claim is made here of national-press features, accreditation figures or attendance-audit reporting, because none was found in verifiable form. dotAI's public footprint is built on its talk archive and its speaker roster, not on press coverage.
dotConferences is a Paris-based series of developer events running since 2012, with brands including dotJS, dotPy, dotCSS, dotSwift, dotSecurity, dotScale, dotGo and dotAI. All follow the same model: single or minimal-track programmes, 20-minute talks, and speakers selected by merit rather than sponsorship. dotAI is the AI-focused edition and is scheduled back-to-back with dotJS in September 2026, letting attendees combine both across two days.
The primary audience is practitioners already working in AI. Software developers integrating AI into products attend to understand current engineering practice, but the content assumes familiarity with AI and ML concepts. dotConferences describes the audience as those "who actually build AI," so it is not an introductory event.
The programme includes both French and English talks. dotConferences events have historically leaned English, given the international speaker pool, with some French-language sessions.
Two things set it apart. First, the single-track theatre format keeps all attendees in one room for the same talks, rather than dispersing them across parallel stages and an exhibition floor. Second, the programme is curated, not sold: sponsors fund the event and host booths but do not buy speaking slots. The result is a technically dense day aimed at builders rather than a market-facing showcase.
The Folies Bergere is a historic entertainment venue at 32 rue Richer, 75009 Paris, in the 9th arrondissement. For dotConferences events it provides a single-auditorium configuration that seats the whole audience for every session, which is central to the conference's single-track design. The venue is served by Grands Boulevards (metro lines 8 and 9) and Cadet (line 7), and is roughly a ten-minute walk from Paris Gare du Nord. dotAI has used the Folies Bergere across recent editions, including 2024 and 2025, giving the event a consistent home in central Paris.
dotConferences is a French conference organisation founded in 2012 to produce high-calibre European developer events. Across its history it has run dozens of editions under brands including dotJS, dotPy, dotCSS, dotSwift, dotSecurity, dotScale, dotGo and dotAI, drawing a large cumulative developer audience to Paris venues. After a break, the series returned in 2024 with dotAI on the programme, and dotConferences typically welcomes up to 1,500 attendees per conference day.
The organisation runs as an independent editorial team. It curates programmes itself and does not sell conference slots to sponsors, which is the practice it foregrounds when positioning its events against sponsor-driven alternatives. Public channels include @dotaiconf on X for the AI event and @dotConferences across its wider output, where the team publishes talk replays and event highlights.
dotAI is dotConferences' AI event in Paris: a curated single-track day of 20-minute talks at the Folies Bergere for engineers who build rather than discuss AI, with sessions selected on merit rather than sold to sponsors. Its value on the AI developer and engineering circuit is the density of its programme and the calibre of its speaker pool, evidenced in 2025 by talks from Anthropic and Google DeepMind, rather than scale or spectacle.
Registration is at dotai.io/register. Pricing for 2026 is tiered by purchase date and listed in euros, excluding VAT:
| Ticket type | Price (EUR) | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Super Early Bird | 299 | 27 January 2026 |
| Early Bird | 399 | 14 April 2026 |
| Regular | 499 | 28 July 2026 |
| Late Bird | 599 | 15 September 2026 |
| On-Site | 699 | event day |
| Combo (dotAI + dotJS, 2 days) | 798 | while available |
Groups of five or more receive a 20 percent discount on regular pricing. A ticket includes access to all sessions with Q&A, partner booths, speaker-lounge access, meals and beverages, a post-conference happy hour, event merchandise and talk replays. dotConferences also offers free admission to students and freelancers who volunteer three hours on site, and a limited number of on-site childcare places (ages 1 to 6). Registration URL: https://www.dotai.io/register
The venue at 32 rue Richer, 75009 Paris, is near Grands Boulevards (metro lines 8 and 9) and Cadet (line 7). From Paris Gare du Nord it is about a ten-minute walk or a single metro connection.
Yes. dotJS runs on 18 September 2026, the day after dotAI, at the same Paris location. A Combo ticket covers both days and is the intended route for attendees who want the full two-day dotConferences programme.
Yes. Talk replays are included with a ticket, and dotConferences publishes recordings publicly after the event on YouTube and via partner collections such as Welcome to the Jungle. Past dotAI editions, including 2024, are available to watch as a preview of format and depth.
Yes. The single-track format includes breaks between sessions and dedicated networking time, and the organiser emphasises direct access to speakers between talks. A post-conference happy hour is included in the ticket. Detailed timings are published at dotai.io closer to the event.
| Official website | https://www.dotai.io/ |
| Agenda | https://www.dotai.io/agenda |
| Register | https://www.dotai.io/register |
| Twitter / X | https://x.com/dotaiconf |
| https://www.linkedin.com/company/dotai-by-dotconferences | |
| AI developer circuit (Events Index) | /developer-ai.html |
| Upcoming EMEA events (Events Index) | /upcoming.html |