The Biggest Data, Analytics, and AI Conferences of 2026 - Issue 305
A consolidated calendar of the major global events across analytics, data science, and data engineering to help you plan your 2026 conference schedule.
Welcome to the Data Analysis Journal - a weekly newsletter on data science and analytics.
If you missed the February posts, here’s the roundup:
Who Owns Growth? (And Why Analytics Pays the Price) - Why marketing and product teams often see different realities, and how analysts can bridge the gap without losing trust. Specifics of working with modeled vs. measured analytics.
🔥 More Plans, Faster Growth? - One of the most interesting analyses I ever did: how the number of pricing plans relates to growth. Do more plans actually help companies grow revenue and customers faster?
All Things ARPU (and Why Most Teams Use It Wrong) - ARPU 101 or when ARPU is useful, when it’s misleading, and how it can quietly break A/B tests and profitability assumptions.
🔥 How Amazon Runs a Weekly Business Review - A guest post from Nick End (ex-Amazon, founder of RowZero) on how best-in-class teams run weekly KPI check-ins: cadence, tools, what to pay attention to, and how to make these meetings actionable.
I’m very late this year with my events list - but better late than never.
Below is a consolidated calendar of the biggest data analytics, data science, and data engineering conferences and summits scheduled for 2026 to help you plan the year ahead. Most of these events are paid, and in-person or in-person and virtual. I don’t include only virtual events now in my lists, as too many of these, and I just can’t keep up.
Btw, I’m partnering with many of the organizers listed below. If you need help with tickets, discounts, access to the agenda, or recordings - let me know.
This list will stay live and updated as new events are announced or dates change. If your favorite conference isn’t included, or if I missed anything, please let me know.
Data Analytics and Data Engineering
Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026
A leading event for data and analytics leaders, with a heavy focus on AI strategy, governance, data architecture, and operating models.
HIMSS 2026
Mar 9-12, Las Vegas, NV
Global health conference and exhibition focused on health technology, with over 25K attendees, including health system executives and clinical leaders, startups, investors, and digital health innovators. This year’s agenda will focus on emerging technologies in healthcare, data-driven workflows, clinical intelligence, and evaluating opportunities for new technology tools.
Data Innovation Summit
This annual summit has been running since 2016 and covers topics across data, analytics, and AI.
MDM & Data Governance Summit
The annual Informatica summit focused on enterprise data and AI, covering data quality and governance, data infrastructure, and data privacy.
Measure Camp
Mar 21, Milan
Mar 28, Colombo
Mar 28, Helsinki
Mar 28, Melbourne
MeasureCamp is a series of “unconferences” focused on analytics and measurement. There are no pre-booked speakers - any attendee can give a talk! It’s run by the Digital Analytics community. You can see the full calendar here.
Apps in Motion
Apr 8, New York
Hosted by FunnelFox and Adapty, this event is for analysts and product owners working with web-to-app and mobile data analytics. “Apps in Motion creates space for meaningful peer-level conversations, focused on how app businesses operate at scale and get to the top.”
Qlik Connect
Apr 13-15, Kissimmee, Florida
Learn about data warehouse, lake, and lakehouse modernization at this 2-day annual Qlik conference aimed at data and analytics leaders. Expect hands-on sessions and workshops led by Qlik experts.
Oracle Analytics and Data Summit
Apr 14-16, Redwood Shores, California
The 3-day summit is organized and managed by the Oracle community and offers working sessions, hands-on labs, and all things Oracle.
Google Cloud Next
Apr 22-24, Las Vegas, NV
Not strictly data-related, but I’ll be there attending cloud breakouts and discussion groups, so I thought I’d share it here as well. If you work with BigQuery, GCP, or Google data products (NotebookLM, Colab, Earth Engine Data Catalog, etc.), this should be an interesting event.
Enterprise Data World + Data Governance&Information Quality
May 4-8, San Diego, CA
2 large conferences, Enterprise Data World (EDW) and Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ), have joined forces to host a global conference on data quality, featuring tutorials, workshops, seminars, and more.
Tableau Conference
May 5-7, San Diego, CA
We already know that Tableau prefers San Diego for its annual events. Tableau Conference is the global, 3-day event with all things Tableau.
“From Iron Viz to Data Night Out to Devs on Stage and beyond, we’re raising the bar on everything you love about Tableau Conference — without raising the price. That means more hands-on learning. More iconic experiences. More reasons to book that flight.”
Data Summit 2026
May 6-7, Boston, MA
This summit is an annual event that has been running since 2014. It focuses on data management and also includes special events such as the AI and ML Learning Summit, the DataOps Bootcamp, and the Database and DevOps Bootcamp.
AI Conference (aka Data Council) 2026
May 12-14, San Francisco, CA
Everyone’s favorite Data Council announced a rebranding late last year—now it’s “The AI Conference for Humans Who Ship.” This year, it’s powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Replit, and Modal. “Meet the world’s top AI infrastructure minds where architects of AI share what actually works. Three days of high-quality technical talks and meaningful interactions.”
Mixpanel | MXP 2026
May 12, San Francisco, CA
May 21, London, GB
Jun 10-12, Bangkok, TH
Oct 1, New York, NY
The Mixpanel conference focuses on product growth and expanding digital analytics knowledge. Expect keynotes from Mixpanel CEO Jen Taylor and CTO Anant Gupta on the next chapter of their AI-first analytics vision, along with hands-on workshops and one-on-one sessions with the Mixpanel team.
MAU 2026
May 19-21, Las Vegas, NV
If you work with marketing analytics or user acquisition data, this is an event to attend. It is an annual martech conference featuring breakout talks, series, one-on-one sessions, and other topics related to growing mobile apps.
World Data Summit
May 20-22, Malta (European Edition)
Oct 29-30, Malaysia (APAC Edition)
World Data Summit is an annual 3-day conference focused on analytics, covering topics such as market segmentation, digital attribution, user experience journeys, data privacy and ethics, and more.
AI & Big Data Expo
May 18-19, Santa Jose, CA
An annual event featuring over 250 speakers, with a focus on data across manufacturing, retail, telecoms, government, transport and automotive, healthcare, cybersecurity, and more. The event also offers a limited number of free passes.
SIGMOD/PODS Conference
May 31-Jun 5, Bengaluru, India
The annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, and developers. The conference features a technical program with research and industry talks, tutorials, demos, and focused workshops.
Data Connect 2025
May 12, Menlo Park, CA - Data Connect West
A full-day event hosted by Women in Analytics + Women in Data. It features talks on emerging trends in AI and ML from industry leaders, technical experts, and entrepreneurs. Everyone is welcome.
Snowflake Data Cloud Summit
Jun 1-4, San Francisco, CA
Snowflake Summit is the annual 4-day Snowflake conference with many sessions, workshops, and training. As of now, more than 500 sessions are scheduled across 12 data architecture and analytics tracks, with over 190 vendors and partners participating. This year also includes full-day trainings such as GenAI Essentials ($1.2K), Snowflake Platform Certification ($200), Snowflake Accelerator ($800), along with the conference pass (early bird) priced at $2K.
dbt Summit (aka Coalesce 2026)
Sep 15-18, Las Vegas, NV
A newly rebranded analytics engineering conference hosted by dbt Labs. It features expert dbt training and certifications and brings together thousands of data practitioners. You can watch Coalesce 2025 here, 2024 here, and 2023 here.
App Growth Annual 2026
Oct 21, New York, NY
An annual event hosted by Reveneucat, a must-attend for everyone working with mobile analytics. Tracks and sessions cover app growth, user acquisitions, analytics, experimentation, and more.
Microsoft Ignite 2026
Nov 17-20, San Francisco, CA
Annual Microsoft conference with 20K attendees, 2K speakers, and over 800 sessions. “Attend this premier event to get the edge you need to drive impact in the era of AI. Microsoft Ignite is designed to help you grow your skills, build connections, and discover emerging technologies.”
Amazon Reinvent 2026
Nov 30 - Dec 4, Las Vegas, NV
This is the biggest AWS event with a focus on cloud, tech, and data, with over 1K sessions. “No matter your knowledge or experience level, there’s something for you. Whether you’re looking to accelerate your organization’s cloud journey, hear the latest innovations in AWS technology, or advance your career with cloud computing skills, you’ll leave re:Invent ready to dream bigger and achieve more.”
Data Science and Machine Learning
Data Science Salon (rebranded into AI Loves Data)
Apr 8, Seattle, Retail & E-commerce DSS SEA
May 13, NY, Finance & Technology - DSS NYC
Sep 16, Miami + online - DSS MIA
Nov 5, San Francisco - DSS SF
Data Science Salon: AI and ML has been a well-known, diverse, vendor-neutral community for data scientists, ML engineers, and data engineers since 2016. This year, it has been rebranded as AI Loves Data, while the core tracks and community remain the same.
Data Science Festival 2026
Data Science Festival announced two key events this year: the Sandbox Session (scheduled for April 14 in London) and the Big Birthday Bash (on May 16 in London). Both events are designed for senior data scientists and engineers. “We’re moving beyond the basics of model training to explore the “Last Mile” of production ML: the infrastructure of compliance, the democratisation of optimization, and the transition to foundational representation learning.”
Re-Work Summit
The Re-Work summit is a global events company specializing in AI and Deep Learning tracks. It is scheduled throughout the year across the world (a full list of events is here). This conference aims to bridge “the gap between the latest technological research advancements and real-world applications in business and society”. Topics covered: data architecture, data efficiency, deep learning, deep neural networks, and more.
ODSC East 2025
Apr 28-30, Boston + online
ODSC is a well-known Open Data Science Conference. Expect 250 speakers and 2.500 attendees with over 10 tracks across all things ML:
This is one of the largest solely ML-focused events with training, networking, and demos.
Women in Data Science
The Women in Data Science (WiDS) community aims to inspire and educate data scientists around the world, regardless of gender. It started as a conference at Stanford in November 2015 and has since grown into a global event with approximately 150 regional events worldwide.
Semantic Layer Summit
May 20, virtual
Annual summit dedicated to... well, semantic layers and the future of data analytics. Hosted by AtScale, it is a free event that brings together industry leaders, data professionals, and technology innovators to discuss best practices, emerging trends, and real-world implementations of semantic layers.
Data Science Conference
May 28-29, Chicago
Vendor-free, sponsor_free, and recruiter-free event that this year will be celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Research and Applied AI Summit
Jun 12, London, UK
RAAIS brings together AI researchers, AI and ML engineers, founders, and operators from around the world for a day of best practices and good vibes. It is organized by The RAAIS Foundation UK charity and Air Street Capital venture firm. Check previous RAAIS sessions here.
Databricks Data and AI Summit 2025
Jun 15-18, San Francisco + Virtual
The annual Databricks event for the data, analytics, and AI community happens in San Francisco in June. 4 days packed with keynotes by industry leaders and visionaries, technical sessions, hands-on training, and networking.
Data Science & AI Summit
Jun 16-17, London
The 4th edition of the World Conference on DS and Statistics brings together people passionate about Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining, AI, Data Management, and Data Engineering to network and share concepts. Expected 500+ attendees and 100+ speakers.
DataConLA 2026
Aug 22, 2026, Long Beach, CA
Data Con LA is the largest annual data conference in Southern California, with a thriving community of data and technology students and enthusiasts in Los Angeles. It features sessions on AI/ML, business analytics, and data engineering, bringing together participants ranging from high school students to seasoned industry experts for knowledge sharing and networking. The event started as Big Data Camp LA in 2013 and has since grown into a strong community of data professionals.
Big Data Conference Europe 2026
Nov 24-27, Vilnius, Lithuania + online
The 10th edition of the Big Data Conference is scheduled for November and expected to be massive. With over 700 attendees, 60+ events cover ML, AI, Cloud, NLP, Data streaming, predictive data analytics, and more.
The year is expected to be busy! Mark your calendars now, and if I have missed an important event, please let me know.
Thanks for reading. Until next week!
Another good one is The Data Science Conference on May 28-29 in Chicago - https://www.thedatascienceconference.com/. I attended last year and there were so many good talks.
Also MeasureCamp is a series of "unconferences" focused on analytics and measurement. There are no pre-booked speakers - any attendee can give a talk! We always get a really amazing lineup of talks in Chicago, and I'm planning to start checking out other cities - there are 21 events around the world in 2026. https://www.measurecamp.org/