Ask HN: Which are the best conferences or summits on ML and AI

Not sure about conferences in Europe, but NIPS will likely be held in Montréal in December 2018. NIPS is quite focussed on neural networks and tends to get attended by alot of heavy weights in the industry.

ICML and ~ICRL~ ICLR are pretty good too.

For machine learning in general, there's NIPS, ICML, and JMLR. Nowadays these conferences/journal have a nice mix of theory and practice. For natural language processing the top ones are ACL (NACL/EACL) and EMNLP. The computer vision it's CVPR and ICCV. For robotics (which uses lots of machine learning) it's ICRA and IROS. IEEE may also have some relevant material.

So there is a great conference series on practical Machine Learning and Data Science called PAPIs. It's organized in locations all over the world. The next one is PAPIs EUROPE in London in April and then PAPIs LATAM in São Paulo in June. The website is http://www.papis.io and you can see a selection of talks on the youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMa1aYqXIQPnQD34W-ejQg

Disclaimer: I am one of the organizers.

List of conferences on ML (in no particular order) 1. NIPS 2. ICLR 3. ICML

List of Conferences on CV (in no particular order) 1. CVPR 2. ECCV 3. ICCV

KDD will be in London next year, this is the top conference in applied ML research. Actually solving problems using AI.

WWW will be in Lyon, this is also a tier 1 conference with a similar goal, mostly involved on web problems, eg search ranking.

I've always felt that ECML was the top Europe specific ML conference. Basically the little brother to ICML. ECML will be in Ireland, ICML will be in Sweden.

https://dotai.io (Paris, May 31st) stands out because it is primarily targeted to developers building apps, not researchers or framework authors.

Disclaimer: I'm the organizer, but don't take my word for it, watch the videos from last year: https://www.dotconferences.com/conference/dotai

The Spark + AI summit is awesome: https://databricks.com/blog/2017/12/06/spark-summit-is-becom...

SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) is really nice. Open discussions and interesting people. It's not the classic academic conference.

For the AI side there's

ECAI https://www.eurai.org/activities/ECAI_conferences

ECAL http://alife.org/conferences/ecal

SAB http://alife.org/conferences/sab

For a robotics focus, ICRA and IROS are the big ones. IMHO ICRA is a bit bigger and better than IROS but it's close.

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) is smaller but its paper acceptance is much more selective and it is becoming a very prestigious conference. It's also single-track, which makes it nice as an attendee (ICRA and IROS run probably eight to ten parallel tracks).

CCF, the counterpart of ACM in China, has an official ranking for computer science conferences and journals classified into ABC.

The A class conferences in AI field are: AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, ACL.

http://www.ccf.org.cn/xspj/rgzn/

I already attended two PAPIS conferences in Boston, and are pretty good. It's not a massive conf, so I made great contacts from ML & AI-based companies.

Check their website, next conf is in London http://www.papis.io/

NIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR. Can't recall which are will be jn Europe off the top of my head..

If I may, what is the best ML/AI group on meetup with local presence in your city?

COLT, ICML, IJCAI, and AAMAS will all be in Stockholm in July 2018.

For less academic conferences look at ODSC, AnacondaCon, or UseR!

Anyone know how good qcon.ai is?

there is ai.withthebest.com which is all online. it had some good talks.