Conference series

Conferences

Six locations · seven events across 2026 and 2027. Rome opens and closes each year as the flagship; the PNIC grand opening in Princeton + Newark anchors the US series; San Francisco, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Dubai round out the global rotation.

Dubai · 2026
AI Innovation Summit at the Versace Hotel Dubai — a strategic hub for AI & tech community engagement. 300+ attendees blending academia, industry, and investment across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
United Arab Emirates · November 2026
Hong Kong · 2027
Global AI Investment Summit — the nexus of AI innovation and global capital. Where ambitious AI startups, venture capital, institutional investors, and corporate partners converge.
Hong Kong SAR · October 2027
Princeton + Newark · 2026
The grand opening of the Princeton Newark Incubation Center (PNIC) — the AI Academy's flagship US site. A dual ribbon-cutting across two locations in Princeton and Newark, New Jersey, inaugurating the first real-world platform for human-centered AI.
United States · Q3 2026
Rome · 2026Flagship
The flagship gathering of the AI Academy 2026 series, held at Campo Santo Teutonico in Vatican City. Convening builders, ethicists, and institutional partners around the Rome Call for AI ethics and AI in service of humanity.
Italy · September 8 & 9, 2026
Rome · 2027
The second Rome flagship — returning to Campo Santo Teutonico in Vatican City. The Vatican-adjacent dialogue on AI ethics, founder support, and the academy's growing global network.
Italy · September 2027
San Francisco · 2027
Silicon Valley's premier AI ethics conference — frontier labs meet the academy. A two-day working summit on applied AI, ethics, transparency, and the next cohort of founders. 200+ attendees.
United States · Spring 2027
Tokyo · 2027
AI in Asia-Pacific Summit — AI innovation meets Eastern wisdom. Robotics, hardware, language technologies, and the physical-world AI stack across a region home to 60% of the world's population.
Japan · November 2027