A single-stage, single-day AI engineering conference held at the Folies Bergère theatre in Paris on 17 September 2026. Produced by dotConferences, now in its fifth edition, it gathers approximately 1,500 AI engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, and engineering leaders for curated 20-minute sessions from practitioners at companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, Google DeepMind, Hugging Face, Databricks, and Netflix.
dotAI is the artificial intelligence engineering track of the dotConferences brand, a French conference producer active since 2012 with more than 42 conferences and 26,000 cumulative attendees across technology themes. The dotConferences format is defined by three fixed principles: curated 20-minute sessions (not sold to sponsors), single-stage format (all attendees in one room), and premium venue selection. dotAI operates on these same principles applied to AI and machine learning.
The conference targets what the organiser describes as "AI builders": engineers and researchers who build AI systems in production, as distinct from business decision-makers evaluating AI vendor products. The typical speaker profile is a practitioner engineer or researcher from a leading AI company or research institution.
The 2026 edition is the fifth since dotAI launched. It takes place on 17 September 2026 and is co-scheduled with dotJS (JavaScript engineering, 18 September 2026), allowing attendees to combine both events.
The dotAI 2026 edition takes place on 17 September 2026 at the Folies Bergère in Paris. The 2026 speaker lineup had not yet been announced at time of verification (2026-06-09); the organiser states that 2026 speakers will be announced in due course.
Past speaker affiliations give a strong signal of the intended 2026 calibre. At the 2025 edition, confirmed speakers included:
The organiser reports a 2025 attendee satisfaction score of 8.9 out of 10.
Attendance is self-reported at approximately 1,500 per edition. The organiser notes that delegations attend from across Europe and from companies of all sizes.
dotAI runs in the Paris autumn tech cluster alongside dotJS (18 September 2026). It is one of the few single-stage European AI engineering conferences of this size: events of comparable format but larger scale (such as NeurIPS) are US-based or academic in orientation. dotAI occupies the practitioner AI engineering niche in Europe, drawing speakers from research labs and engineering organisations rather than from marketing or sales functions.
The event is deliberately co-scheduled with dotJS to allow full AI and JavaScript engineering teams to attend both days as a combined team offsite, a positioning the organiser explicitly promotes.
Based on the organiser's stated audience and past attendee rosters:
The organiser notes that European delegations attend from across the continent, and that company delegations often use the event as a team-building offsite.
Based on past editions and the stated programme focus, dotAI covers:
The single-stage, curated format means every attendee hears every session. There are no parallel tracks, no sponsored talks within the programme, and no exhibition floor. The organiser describes the event as focused on avoiding "over-marketed, heavily sponsored talks." Speaker selection is editorial rather than commercial.
Yes. The organiser actively promotes combined attendance. dotAI takes place on 17 September and dotJS on 18 September 2026 at the same venue. Ticket options for one or both events are available at https://www.dotai.io/register.
The Folies Bergère is a historic performance theatre at 32 Rue Richer, 75009 Paris, in the 9th arrondissement. Built in 1869, it has operated as a music hall and theatre for over 150 years. It seats approximately 1,600 in a traditional theatre configuration with a stage, stalls, and balconies.
The venue is accessible by metro (nearest stations: Grands Boulevards, lines 8 and 9; Cadet, line 7). The organiser describes the setting as offering "old theatre style" and "large space for socialising."
dotConferences is a Paris-based conference producer that has run over 42 events since 2012 across technology themes including JavaScript (dotJS), AI (dotAI), backend engineering (dotBackend), security (dotSecurity), and others. Cumulative attendance across all editions exceeds 26,000, according to the organiser.
The dotConferences brand is characterised by its single-stage format, curated editorial speaker selection, premium venue choices (typically Paris theatres), and high attendee satisfaction scores. dotAI is the AI engineering strand of the portfolio, first held in 2022 following a four-year pause in dotConferences events during and after the pandemic.
Contact: contact@dotconferences.eu.
dotConferences brings the curation standards of its long-running developer series to AI engineering: single stage, 20-minute sessions sold entirely on content quality rather than sponsor budget.
Ticket registration is available at https://www.dotai.io/register. Specific pricing tiers were not displayed on the event homepage at time of verification. The organiser offers options to attend dotAI only or both dotAI and dotJS.
Yes. All sessions at dotAI are conducted in English. Past speaker affiliations confirm an international audience and speaker base.
dotConferences publishes session recordings on its YouTube channel after events. Links to 2025 edition talks are available from the official website.
Yes. The dotAI code of conduct is published at https://www.dotai.io/code-of-conduct.
| Official website | https://www.dotai.io/ |
| Register / Tickets | https://www.dotai.io/register |
| dotJS 2026 (sister event) | https://www.dotjs.io/ |
| Past talks (YouTube) | https://www.youtube.com/@dotconferences/featured |
| Code of conduct | https://www.dotai.io/code-of-conduct |
| Privacy | https://www.dotai.io/privacy |