A five-day machine learning engineering week at the Maritim proArte in Berlin, 16 to 20 November, with the main conference and expo on 18 and 19 November, bootcamps and workshops around it, and a remote ticket for every format.
A machine learning engineering conference in Berlin, run by Software & Support Media GmbH (the devmio publishing group) and branded "MLcon" on the official site. The 2026 edition covers generative AI and agents, MLOps and open source LLMs, multimodal AI, advanced RAG, and AI strategy and governance. It is built for hands-on practitioners and is also sold as a remote ticket. In 2026 it belongs to "AI Native Week", which also groups VibeKode, the AI Engineering Summit and API Conference.
16 to 20 November 2026. Bootcamps run on 16 and 17 November, workshops on 17 and 20 November, and the main conference with the expo on 18 and 19 November. Maritim proArte Hotel Berlin, Friedrichstraße 151, 10117 Berlin. The sponsorship page of the same site lists Berlin as 23 to 27 November 2026, which conflicts with the event page, the programme and the ticket pages; the 16 to 20 November dates are used here because the programme itself is dated that way.
Software & Support Media GmbH, Schwedlerstr. 8, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, according to the imprint (managing director Dr. Pouya Kamali-Loibl, Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main, HRB 40312). The imprint names this company as organiser of the Munich and Berlin editions. The site and ticket benefits use the devmio brand (devm.io). Sebastian Meyen is listed as programme chair.
2,500 (unverifiable information): this figure is in the database and in the earlier fiche as an organiser claim, but no attendance figure for Berlin 2026 appears on the official pages read. The organiser's pages give other figures: "3,500+ ML enthusiasts" under past participation and "50,000+ ML enthusiasts" across its global editions. The organiser's sponsor prospectus page gives this audience split (edition not stated): software developers, architects and consultants 31%, data scientists and analysts 28%, ML engineers 27%, and C-level, directors, leadership and product owners 14%.
Compared with the previous Berlin edition (bootcamp on 24 to 25 November 2025), the 2026 bootcamps are now an Agentic Software Engineering Bootcamp and a Vibe Coding and GenAI Development bootcamp, the page for the ML Fundamentals Bootcamp still shows the 2025 dates, and the event now sits inside AI Native Week with an optional 299 EUR upgrade covering all four conferences. Tracks are agents, RAG, multimodal AI, MLOps with open source LLMs, and AI strategy and governance. The programme leans on agents in production: evaluation, guardrails, cost, context engineering and local models.
Published roster of 34 names on the official speakers page, with the organisation shown in the programme (published roster; the database lists "40+" speakers, which the page does not support):
Markus Andrezak (überproduct); Raid Arfua (Cloverpop); Stefan Asanin (Axway); Melanie Bauer (software architects); Linus Beckhaus (Thinktecture AG); Amit Bendor (Unity); Matthias Biehl (API-University.com); Thomas Bley (no organisation shown); Agata Chudzinska (theBlue.ai GmbH); John Davies (Incept5); Ben Dechrai (Zencoder); Kersten Döring (Robert Bosch GmbH); Francesco Esposito (Youbiquitous); Lars Gregori (appliedAI Initiative GmbH); Michael Hablich (Google); Mor Hananovitz (LSports); Michal Harakal (Deutsche Telekom AG); Christoph Henkelmann (DIVISIO GmbH); Nir Kaufman (Tikal); Cansu Kavili-Örnek (Red Hat); Sinda Khenine (Electrolux Rothenburg GmbH Factory and Development); David Klemme (Komplyt); Sohan Maheshwar (AuthZed); Maya Malamud (Malamud AI Advisory); Shahid Malika Kandy (Nansen); Nick Malozemov (Olodin); Sebastian Meyen (Software & Support Media GmbH); Apurva Misra (Sentick); Tilman Mürle (Komplyzen); Yoav Nordmann (Tikal); Daniel Sogl (SHI GmbH); Martin Stypinski (Veemg GmbH); Johanna Wachsmann (YouGov); Jeremy Wilken (freelancer).
All sessions on the published schedule are marked English.
Keynotes of 25 to 60 minutes, parallel sessions of about 45 to 50 minutes (the organiser says six to eight sessions a day), full-day hands-on workshops (the programme page calls the 17 and 20 November days Power Workshops) of six hours excluding breaks with live coding (pre-selection required, limited places, not recorded), and two-day bootcamps limited to 25 participants. There is an expo on 18 and 19 November, an evening programme (late sessions, expo receptions, jogging groups), and a participation certificate available one week after the event.
The organiser describes an evening programme with late sessions, expo receptions and jogging groups, an on-site raffle, networking through the conference app, and a keynote at 18:45 on 18 November. Exact reception times are not published. AI Native Week adds VibeKode, the AI Engineering Summit and API Conference on the same week; access to all of them costs an extra 299 EUR on top of an MLcon ticket.
All prices exclude VAT and are as shown on the ticket pages on 2026-10-16. The early-bird prices in the database (until 6 August) have ended. On-site, standard price with the "from" price including the 10% team discount for three or more tickets: All Access (all conference days plus bootcamp days) 2,299 EUR, from 2,069 EUR; 4-day pass 1,799 EUR, from 1,619 EUR; 3-day pass 1,454 EUR, from 1,309 EUR; 2-day pass 1,199 EUR, from 1,079 EUR; workshop day or AI Product Validation Day 732 EUR, from 659 EUR.
Remote tickets: All Access 1,799 EUR (from 1,619 EUR), 4-day 1,499 EUR, 3-day 1,188 EUR, 2-day 965 EUR, workshop day 599 EUR. Tickets include one year of devmio Fullstack access and six months of video recordings, plus catering on site. Freelancers and employees of scientific institutions can request individual offers from customerservice@devm.io. devmio Fullstack subscribers get up to 25% off.
No call for papers is open for Berlin 2026: the programme is published and the organiser's call-for-papers page exists only for San Diego. The programme chair is Sebastian Meyen of Software & Support Media; the contact address on the site is info@mlconference.ai. Whether a call for the 2027 Berlin edition will open is not publicly disclosed.
The organiser publishes a sponsorship prospectus and sponsorship options on its become-a-sponsor page, with an expo on 18 and 19 November, sessions and workshops for sponsors, and year-long partner profiles on entwickler.de and devm.io. Packages and prices are not published. Contact is through the partnership team form on the site. The database lists commercial and editorial contacts (Sevcan Güler, Robin Schön) without email addresses.
Published sponsor roster on the official sponsors page, by tier (logos and names only):
Not publicly disclosed for 2026 attendees. The speakers come from software and platform vendors (Google, Red Hat, Axway, Zencoder, AuthZed), consultancies and AI services firms, and a few corporate teams (Robert Bosch GmbH, Deutsche Telekom AG, Electrolux, YouGov). The organiser's audience split by job role is given in the entry on who attends.
Not publicly disclosed. The site publishes no press pass procedure or press contact. General enquiries go to info@mlconference.ai and ticket questions to customerservice@devm.io.
None independent found in the sourced material. The coverage around the event is the organiser's own: devm.io and entwickler.de articles, whitepapers and session recordings, which belong to the same publishing group.
Treat all coverage found as organiser-placed or promotional. The listed media partners are aggregators and directories. No independent trade press report on the 2026 edition was found, and the organiser's attendance claims could not be cross-checked.
Anyone looking for a non-technical business conference, a peer-reviewed research track or a large exhibition: the programme is engineering talks, the expo is a sponsor space, and nothing describes an academic track. Buyers needing proof of scale should note that no 2026 attendance figure is published.
It is the closing edition of the 2026 MLcon series, after Amsterdam (20 to 24 April), London (11 to 15 May), San Diego (1 to 5 June), Munich (22 to 26 June) and New York (28 September to 2 October), according to the organiser's sponsorship page. In Berlin it shares the week with AI Native Week events.
Yes. The organiser runs the MLcon series in Amsterdam, London, San Diego, Munich and New York in 2026, listed with the dates in the previous entry. Amsterdam is run by the NLJUG BV unit of Software & Support Communities; London, San Diego and New York by Software & Support Media Ltd (Brighton); Munich and Berlin by Software & Support Media GmbH (Frankfurt), per the imprint.
English. Every session and workshop on the published schedule is marked EN. The database also lists German; no German-language session appears on the schedule, although the site carries some German headings.
Yes. The event is sold "Berlin or Online": remote tickets give a livestream, live chat, real-time Q&A with speakers and polls through the conference app or web platform. The organiser says all sessions are live-streamed and recorded, but workshops are not recorded. Recording access is stated two ways: "until the end of the last conference day" on the event page, and six months of video recordings in the ticket benefits (unverifiable information as to which applies to which ticket).
The terms and conditions give a cancellation fee of 150 EUR for Berlin if you cancel by 15 October 2026. That date has passed (today is 2026-10-16): after it, cancellation is not possible and the full fee is due. Fees are due after billing and must be paid before the conference. If the conference does not take place, fees are repaid; if it is delayed, registrations stay valid. The organiser may change the programme.
Not publicly disclosed for this venue. The organiser's FAQ states in general that its conferences use centrally located venues with easy access to public transport and "full accessibility", without detail. No step-free access, hearing or sign-language information for the Maritim proArte is published on the event pages.
The hotel is at Friedrichstraße 151, 10117 Berlin, a five-minute walk from Berlin Friedrichstraße station. From Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) take the S-Bahn S9 towards Spandau Hbf from Terminal 1+2 to Friedrichstraße, about 30 minutes. From Berlin Hauptbahnhof take the S5, S7 or S9 to Friedrichstraße, about 10 minutes. By car or taxi from BER, about 25 to 30 minutes. The organiser offers hotel booking with up to 15% off through a special link.
The programme is built around the problems of running agents and LLMs in production: evaluation of agent tools, guardrails, cost per request, context engineering, local models, data leakage in agentic RAG and the legal basis of enterprise RAG, as set out in the programme entry. The speakers are mostly practitioners from vendors and engineering teams such as Google, Red Hat, Robert Bosch GmbH and Deutsche Telekom AG, and a remote ticket plus six months of recordings makes the content usable without travelling.
The database carries 2,500 attendees and "40+ speakers", but the official pages publish neither for Berlin 2026: the speakers page lists 34 names, and attendance appears only as cumulative community figures (3,500+ and 50,000+). The same site gives two sets of Berlin dates and two statements on how long recordings remain available. All of these are organiser claims, none audited.
Official site: https://mlconference.ai/berlin/ (organised by Software & Support Media GmbH, branded devmio). Programme: https://mlconference.ai/berlin/program-berlin/. Tickets: https://mlconference.ai/berlin/tickets-berlin/. FAQ: https://mlconference.ai/faq-en/. Contacts: info@mlconference.ai and customerservice@devm.io. Contacts on record in the database: Sevcan Güler (commercial) and Robin Schön (editorial).