--- eventsindex_id: "EI-06886" slug: dotai-2026 title: "dotAI 2026" title_alt: ["dot AI", "dotAI"] canonical_url: "https://eventsindex.org/events/dotai-2026.html" next_edition_year: 2026 date_start: 2026-09-17 date_end: 2026-09-17 venue: "Folies Bergère" city: "Paris" country: "France" organiser: "dotConferences" organiser_url: "https://www.dotconferences.com" b2b: true vector: sector: [developer-ai] audience: [developer, ml-engineer, data-scientist, cto, engineering-manager] format: [conference] purpose: [education, networking] geography_scope: [pan-EMEA] season: [autumn] meta_description: "dotAI 2026: single-day AI engineering conference in Paris on 17 Sept, Folies Bergère. 1,500 attendees. Speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Hugging Face." editorial_take: "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." generated_by: "claude-max-cowork" last_verified: "2026-06-09" variables_filled: 44/58 language: "en" schema_version: "v6.0" --- # dotAI 2026 > *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.* --- ## Quick Facts | DATES | VENUE | ORGANISER | ATTENDANCE | |---|---|---|---| | **17 September 2026** | **Folies Bergère** | **dotConferences** | **1,500** | | Single day | 32 Rue Richer, 75009 Paris, France | French conference producer | Self-reported estimate | --- ## Definition 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 2026 edition: 17 September in Paris 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: - Stanislas Polu (co-founder, Dust; ex-Research, OpenAI) - Gaël Varoquaux (Research Director, Inria; co-founder, scikit-learn) - Merve Noyan (ML Advocate Engineer, Hugging Face) - Armand Joulin (Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind; ex-Director, Meta AI) - Pierre Stock (Research Scientist, Mistral AI) - Katia Gil Guzman (Developer Experience, OpenAI) - Vaibhav Gupta (co-creator of BAML; founder, Boundary / YC) - Alex Palcuie (Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic AI Reliability Engineering) - Tejas Chopra (Senior Engineer, Netflix ML Infrastructure) - Natalia Segal (Senior Technical Solutions Architect, NVIDIA) - Bertrand Charpentier (co-founder and Chief Scientist, Pruna AI) - Claire Gouze (co-founder, nao Labs / YC; ex-Head of Data, sunday) 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. --- ## Where dotAI sits in the tech calendar 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. --- ## Who attends dotAI Based on the organiser's stated audience and past attendee rosters: - **AI engineers and ML engineers** building and deploying production AI systems - **Data engineers and data scientists** working on ML infrastructure and model pipelines - **Heads of AI and Chief AI Officers** at product companies - **CTOs and engineering directors** with direct AI or ML team responsibility - **Researchers and technical staff** at AI-focused companies and labs The organiser notes that European delegations attend from across the continent, and that company delegations often use the event as a team-building offsite. --- ## What the dotAI format includes - Single stage: all sessions in one room, no parallel tracks - 20-minute curated sessions (no sponsored talks in the session programme) - 1:1 speaker access: the organiser advertises direct access to speakers for attendees - Live Q&A sessions with speakers - Networking spaces designed for extended conversation between sessions - Premium catering included in the ticket - The event takes place on the day before dotJS (18 September) to enable combined attendance --- ## What dotAI covers Based on past editions and the stated programme focus, dotAI covers: - **Production AI systems:** deployment, reliability engineering, inference infrastructure - **LLM engineering:** structured outputs, prompt engineering, model routing, agentic systems - **ML infrastructure:** MLOps, model compression and efficiency, serving at scale - **Research to production:** translating research advances into engineering practice - **NLP and language models:** fine-tuning, evaluation, domain-specific applications - **AI tooling:** programming languages for LLMs (BAML), open-source libraries (scikit-learn, Outlines) - **Team and organisational AI:** how companies build and structure AI teams --- ## FAQ · Identity and audience ### What makes dotAI different from larger AI conferences? 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. ### Who is dotAI NOT designed for? - Executives evaluating AI vendors without a technical engineering background - Developers primarily interested in frontend or full-stack web topics (dotJS is the sister event for that audience) - Attendees seeking hands-on workshop or training formats (the event is talk-based) - Business development professionals without technical depth in AI or ML - Attendees who need French-language programming (the event is conducted in English) ### Can I attend both dotAI and dotJS? 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 venue: Folies Bergère 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." --- ## The organiser: dotConferences 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. --- ## Editorial take *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.* --- ## How to register and what it costs 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. --- ## FAQ · Access and practicalities ### Is dotAI an English-language event? Yes. All sessions at dotAI are conducted in English. Past speaker affiliations confirm an international audience and speaker base. ### Will session recordings be available? dotConferences publishes session recordings on its YouTube channel after events. Links to 2025 edition talks are available from the official website. ### Is there a code of conduct? Yes. The dotAI code of conduct is published at https://www.dotai.io/code-of-conduct. --- ## Resources | Resource | URL | |---|---| | 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 | --- **Last verified:** 2026-06-09 **Next review:** 2026-09-09 **Notes:** Attendance figure (1,500) is self-reported by the organiser. The 2026 speaker lineup had not yet been announced at time of verification; the speaker section of this fiche draws on the confirmed 2025 edition lineup to characterise typical calibre. Ticket pricing not retrievable from the homepage at time of verification. Attendee satisfaction score of 8.9/10 is self-reported by the organiser. dotAI is in its 5th edition in 2026 according to the organiser website. **Variables:** 44/58 **Concept definition:** not applicable