Mountain West Data Center Market

Ai4 is an annual artificial intelligence industry conference held at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The 2026 edition runs August 4-6, with optional pre-conference training workshops on August 3. Organizers project 12,000+ attendees, 1,000+ speakers, and 400+ exhibitors across nearly one million square feet, roughly double the 2025 footprint. The event was founded in 2018 by Michael Weiss and Marcus Jecklin and is positioned as the largest applied-AI conference in the United States.

Programming Focus

• Enterprise AI strategy and leadership
• Scaling AI across large organizations
• Data infrastructure, MLOps, and model deployment
• Governance, privacy, and responsible AI
• Generative AI and foundation models
• Agentic AI and AI alignment
• Frontier models and emerging research
• Social and policy implications of AI

The full program spans four headline keynote themes and 20 industry and technical tracks covering financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, retail, manufacturing, energy, transportation, national security, insurance, and media. Session formats include executive panels, fireside chats, enterprise case studies, and technical deep dives.

Featured Speakers

Keynote Panel (Wednesday, August 5):

• Geoffrey Hinton, AI researcher and Turing Award recipient
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford HAI
• Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI

Autonomous Mobility Keynote (Thursday, August 6):

• Dmitri Dolgov, Co-CEO, Waymo
• Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Waymo

Enterprise Speakers:

• Franziska Bell, Ford Motor Company
• Sameer Sethi, Hackensack Meridian Health
• Lasherelle Morgan, NBCUniversal
• Jorge Reis-Filho, AstraZeneca
• Jeff Moore, Gap Inc.
• Nilovna Chatterjee, AbbVie

Participating Organizations

Confirmed and returning participants include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Databricks, Capital One, Walmart, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, J.P. Morgan, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Comcast, Samsung, American Medical Association, Ford Motor Company, Mayo Clinic, NBCUniversal, U.S. Bank, Airbus, AstraZeneca, and the United States Air Force. The 2026 sponsor lineup has not yet been published by the organizer.

Who Should Attend

• C-suite executives and enterprise AI leaders
• Data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Data infrastructure, MLOps, and platform teams
• Venture capitalists and growth investors
• Government and defense leaders
• Hyperscale and data center operators supporting AI workloads
• Enterprise buyers from finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and media

Co-Located and Special Programming

• Two half-day pre-conference training workshops on August 3, delivered with General Assembly
• Executive Summit
• Women in AI Reception
• Startup showcase and evening receptions
• AI Policy Summit held separately at an MGM property August 11-12

Logistics

Venue: The Venetian, 3355 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Main conference dates August 4-6, 2026. Pre-conference workshops August 3. Registration via ai4.io/register.

YOTTA 2026 is a three-day digital infrastructure conference held September 28 to 30 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas. The 2026 edition relocates from the MGM Grand (prior host) to Caesars Forum to accommodate expected attendance of 6,000+ AI and digital infrastructure leaders. Organized by Data Centre Dynamics (DCD), YOTTA positions itself as a cross-silo gathering where compute, network, telecom, data center, and energy tribes converge on shared problems.

The 2026 edition sharpens focus on AI-first infrastructure, bringing together operators, hyperscalers, enterprise leaders, energy executives, investors, builders, and policymakers.

Programming Focus

• AI infrastructure and compute density
• Power generation and grid interconnection
• Capital formation and investment risk
• Design and operational resilience
• Policy and public-private alignment
• Cross-silo collaboration across compute, network, telecom, data center, and energy

Advisory Board

Advisory board members represent OpenAI, Oracle, Schneider Electric, KKR, Xcel Energy, GEICO, and Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Yotta is led by CEO Rebecca Sausner.

Who Should Attend

• Data center operators and hyperscalers
• Enterprise IT and infrastructure leaders
• Energy executives and utility planners
• Investors and capital partners
• Design, construction, and engineering firms
• Technology and equipment vendors
• Policymakers and regulators

Logistics

Venue: Caesars Forum, 3911 S Koval Ln, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Registration starts at $795 with early-bird pricing available.

infra/STRUCTURE 2026 is the seventh annual vendor-neutral digital infrastructure executive summit organized by Structure Research, held October 6 to 8 at Wynn Las Vegas. The summit convenes 700+ senior leaders across the internet infrastructure value chain: data center operators, hyperscalers, cloud and colocation providers, "neocloud" and edge platforms, managed hosting, and AI infrastructure specialists.

Unlike a traditional trade show, infra/STRUCTURE is built around private 1:1 meetings, golf outings, and research-driven closed-door discussions rather than exhibition floor traffic.

Programming Focus

• Scaling GPU-intensive cloud and neocloud platforms
• AI infrastructure economics and build-out
• Edge computing growth
• Power, energy sourcing, and sustainability
• M&A, capital formation, and PE activity in digital infrastructure
• Hyperscaler demand and procurement dynamics

Featured Speakers

Structure Research analysts:

• Philbert Shih, Managing Director, Structure Research
• Jabez Tan, Head of Research, Structure Research
• Ainsley Woods, Research Director, Structure Research
• Sacha Kavanagh, Research Director, EMEA, Structure Research
• Swapna Subramani, Research Director, IMEA, Structure Research

Industry executives:

• Wes Cummins, CEO, Applied Digital
• Chris Crosby, CEO, Compass Datacenters
• Joel Morris, Head of Application Compute Planning, OpenAI
• Jason Hoffman, Chief Strategy Officer, Switch
• Craig Scroggie, CEO, NEXTDC

Hyperscale 1:1 Partners

AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Meta, ByteDance, Groq, Lambda

Sponsors

Cornerstone: Citizens Bank

Platinum: Inflect

Gold: Maddox

Silver: Priority Power, Duos Edge AI, Iron Mountain

Industry: EdgeConneX, CyrusOne, OLH Ventures

Networking Receptions: CyrusOne, Inflect

Who Should Attend

• Data center operators, hyperscalers, and colocation providers
• Neocloud and edge platform executives
• AI infrastructure and GPU cloud specialists
• Managed hosting and internet infrastructure providers
• Private equity, infrastructure funds, and strategic investors
• Real estate professionals and developers
• Energy companies and power project developers
• Lenders and debt capital providers
• Vendor executives and journalists

Logistics

Venue: Wynn Las Vegas, 3131 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109. Industry pass around $900 with early-bird $1,000 early pricing. Co-located earlier in 2026: infra/CAPITAL Summit (April 15-16, with The Tech Capital).

RE+ 2026 is the 21st edition of North America's largest clean energy event, held November 16 to 19, 2026 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Organized by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) through RE+ Events, the show draws 40,000+ attendees and 1,300+ exhibitors across solar, energy storage, hydrogen, EV infrastructure, grid edge technology, and wind. Full-conference education begins Monday, November 16; the exhibit floor opens Tuesday, November 17. This is the first year RE+ anchors at the Las Vegas Convention Center, where it will run from 2026 through 2028.

Programming Focus

• Utility-scale and distributed solar
• Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
• Hydrogen and emerging fuels
• EV infrastructure and charging
• Grid edge, microgrids, and DERMS
• Wind energy
• Clean energy finance, policy, and tax credits
• Data center power procurement and large-load interconnection

Who Should Attend

• Data center developers and hyperscale power procurement teams
• Utilities, ISOs, and grid operators
• Independent power producers and renewable developers
• Corporate PPA buyers and sustainability leads
• Investors, lenders, and tax equity providers
• EPCs, OEMs, and solar/storage manufacturers

Logistics

Venue: Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89109

Registration: events.seia.org/re-plus