The AI Summit New York 2026

The AI Summit New York 2026 runs December 9-10 at the Javits Center. Informa runs it as the US edition of The AI Summit series, alongside London and Australia. The organizer projects more than 5,000 senior decision-makers, 350-plus speakers across 10 content stages, and 100-plus solution providers in the expo. Programming is built around commercial deployment rather than research: enterprise leaders present what they have already put into production, with dedicated tracks for financial services, creative industries, and health and pharma.

Programming Focus

• Three named speaker tracks: Next Generation, Applied AI, and Data Excellence
• Enterprise AI deployment case studies from operators, not vendors
• Data governance, privacy, and AI risk management
• Predictive analytics through generative AI and agentic systems
• Vertical tracks for finance, creative industries, and health and pharma
• Start-up & Investor Village, AI Awards, and hosted buyer meetings

Featured Speakers

Financial services:

• Bijit Ghosh, Managing Director, AI/ML & Data Transformation, Wells Fargo
• Zach Golkhou, Director of Generative AI & Data Science, JPMorgan Chase
• Christophe Rougeaux, Head of AI Risk Management, TD Bank
• Ryan Hefner, Chief Architect, Vanguard

Retail and consumer:

• Nitzan Mekel, VP and Chief AI Officer, eBay
• Ashley Scott, Data & AI Product Management Principal, PepsiCo
• Nirmal Jingar, Senior Engineering Leader, Wayfair
• Ipshita Chakraborty, Director, Data Science & Applied AI, HelloFresh
• Pooja Chandiramani, VP, Global Head of Marketing Analytics and Brand Transformation, Coach

Media and entertainment:

• Wayne Filin-Matthews, SVP, Enterprise Architecture and AI, The Walt Disney Company
• Jason Harvey, EVP and General Manager, BET+, Paramount Global
• Iwao Fusillo, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, New York Jets

Healthcare and pharma:

• Christie Mealo, CTO and Chief AI Officer, Medical Knowledge Group
• Shekar Ramanathan, Executive Director, Digital Transformation, Atlantic Health
• Arsh Arora, Lead, AI & Cyber IR Operations, McKesson

Technology and infrastructure:

• Maryam Ashoori, VP of Product and Engineering, IBM
• Elise Neel, SVP, Global Strategy & Strategic Partnerships, Panasonic
• Eric Petajan, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T
• Pamela Gupta, Founder, Trusted AI

Sponsors

Sponsors and exhibitors include EY, NVIDIA, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM, Dell, HPE, SAP, Nebius, Crusoe, MongoDB, Neo4j, Red Hat, Datadog, Splunk, Boomi, DigitalOcean, Glean, SAS, BigID, Contextual AI, Moody's, Progress Software, Redpanda, Reltio, Skyflow, Bigeye, Hexaware, Incedo, EverWorker, Lightricks, Airia, Camunda, Cyera, and Mend.io, plus 60-plus additional technology partners.

Who Should Attend

• Enterprise CIOs, CTOs, and chief data and AI officers
• Data governance, privacy, and AI risk leaders
• AI infrastructure and platform buyers evaluating compute providers
• Neocloud and GPU-cloud vendors selling into enterprise accounts
• Start-ups and investors in the commercial AI stack

Logistics

VIP All Access runs $3,499 ($2,499 early bird), Delegate $2,899 ($1,799 early bird), and Solution Provider Delegate $3,299 ($2,299 early bird). The Data Excellence Pass is $999 and an Expo Pass is $199. Specialty rates cover start-ups and investors ($749), academics ($649, 200 available), and government ($1,599). Groups of three or more from one company get 20 percent off. Super early bird pricing ends August 26.