Top 10 Agentic AI Conferences 2026 in London, UK and Europe

LONDON, Thursday, May 21, 2026 — Europe is consolidating its position as a global nerve centre for agentic artificial intelligence. From the glass towers of the City of London to the congress halls of Amsterdam and Berlin, 2026 has brought a wave of specialist events targeting the practitioners, executives, and investors who are building, deploying, and governing autonomous AI systems at enterprise scale. Whether you are a CTO evaluating multi-agent infrastructure, a founder seeking Series A capital, or an AI engineer shipping production agents, the conference calendar this year is unusually rich — and unusually focused.

Unlike the broader AI summits of previous years, where large language models and generative tools dominated the agenda, the 2026 circuit has shifted decisively toward agentic architectures: systems that plan, execute, delegate, and learn across extended task horizons without continuous human direction. The ten events listed below represent the most substantive gatherings on the continent for anyone working in this space.

1. AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe

Dates: September 17–18, 2026  |  Location: RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

AGNTCon Europe is widely regarded as the most technically rigorous agentic AI event on the continent. Jointly hosted with MCPCon — dedicated entirely to the Model Context Protocol — the event draws the engineers, open-source contributors, and framework architects who are defining how agents communicate, share memory, and interoperate across heterogeneous systems. Sessions go deep on agent orchestration layers, tool-use specifications, sandboxed execution environments, and the emerging standards for cross-vendor agent collaboration. If your interest lies in the plumbing of autonomous systems rather than the boardroom pitch, this is the event of the year. The RAI Amsterdam is one of Europe's premier congress venues, and the two-day format allows for both structured talks and extended workshop blocks.

The MCP track in particular addresses one of the most pressing unsolved problems in production AI: how to give agents structured, safe, and auditable access to external tools, APIs, and data sources. Speakers from major AI labs and enterprise deployments will share live architecture case studies alongside open-source tooling demos.

2. AI World Congress 2026

Dates: June 23–24, 2026  |  Location: London, UK  |  Website: aiconference.london

AI World Congress is London's flagship enterprise AI event, drawing 250-plus senior decision-makers — CDOs, CTOs, and heads of AI transformation — from across the FTSE 350 and major global corporations. The 2026 programme centres on autonomous agentic AI deployment at scale: how enterprises are moving from isolated AI tools to orchestrated systems that operate across business functions with minimal human oversight.

Panel discussions are typically structured around real-world deployment case studies, covering topics such as governance frameworks for autonomous agents, liability and accountability in regulated industries, and the integration challenges of connecting legacy enterprise data with modern agent runtimes. The London location draws participants from financial services, professional services, retail, and the public sector, making it one of the more commercially grounded gatherings on the circuit. For executives evaluating agentic AI investments in the second half of 2026, this is a valuable two-day briefing.

3. RAISE Summit

Dates: July 8–9, 2026  |  Location: Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

RAISE — Responsible AI for Safe Enterprises — has grown rapidly into one of Europe's largest AI leadership gatherings. Held at Le Carrousel du Louvre, one of Paris's most iconic venues, the 2026 edition is expected to attract several thousand C-level executives, government representatives, and AI principals from across the EU and beyond. The agenda is structured around sovereign AI strategy, enterprise ROI for agentic systems, and the regulatory environment shaping autonomous deployments within the EU AI Act framework.

The sovereign AI discussion is particularly relevant in 2026, as European governments and major corporations grapple with dependency on US-headquartered model providers. RAISE convenes the policymakers and technology leaders navigating this tension, making it as much a geopolitical forum as a technology conference. For organisations with European data residency requirements or regulatory compliance obligations, the governance and infrastructure tracks are essential viewing.

4. The London AI Startup Conference

Dates: September 3, 2026  |  Location: Google, Pancras Square, London, UK

Hosted at Google's London headquarters in Pancras Square, this tightly curated event limits attendance to approximately 120 pre-approved participants: founders, CTOs, and venture investors focused on building native AI and agentic software. The deliberate cap on attendance creates a high signal-to-noise ratio that larger events cannot replicate. Conversations on the floor typically reach a level of technical and commercial specificity — specific funding structures, specific technical bottlenecks, specific go-to-market strategies — that is difficult to achieve in a 2,000-person expo environment.

The Google Cloud backing provides access to cloud infrastructure credits, early API access, and introductions to Google's startup programmes for qualifying founders. For early-stage teams building in the agentic AI space, an invitation to this event is among the more valuable networking opportunities available in London this year. Applications for attendance are reviewed on a rolling basis and close well in advance of the event date.

5. AI DevCon by Tessl

Dates: June 1, 2026  |  Location: The Brewery, London, UK

Tessl's AI DevCon is a builder-first event: no vendor showcases, no keynote theatre, no generalist AI content. The entire programme is structured around the practical challenges of shipping AI-native production systems — specifically, how to architect reliable agentic workflows, how to write specifications that AI systems can execute faithfully, and how to build and monitor agents that operate in complex, real-world environments. The Brewery venue in the City of London provides an industrial aesthetic that suits the event's no-nonsense technical character.

Sessions are led by engineers who are actively building in production, sharing failure modes, debugging approaches, and architectural lessons from live deployments. Workshops run in small groups with hands-on exercises. For mid-career AI engineers and technical co-founders, AI DevCon offers the kind of peer-to-peer knowledge exchange that rarely surfaces in larger conference formats. Tessl has positioned the event as a community gathering first and a commercial vehicle second, which shows in both the programme quality and the attendee calibre.

#	Conference	Dates	Location
1	AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe	Sep 17–18, 2026	RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands
2	AI World Congress 2026	Jun 23–24, 2026	London, UK
3	RAISE Summit	Jul 8–9, 2026	Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
4	The London AI Startup Conference	Sep 3, 2026	Google, Pancras Square, London, UK
5	AI DevCon by Tessl	Jun 1, 2026	The Brewery, London, UK
6	GITEX AI Europe	Jun 30 – Jul 1, 2026	Messe Berlin, Germany
7	Data & AI Conference Europe	Nov 2–3, 2026	etc.venues Fenchurch Street, London, UK
8	Lisbon AI	Sep 23–24, 2026	Centro Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal
9	Cloud & AI Infrastructure London	Mar 4–5, 2026	ExCeL London, UK
10	AI Engineer Europe	Apr 2026 (Returns Spring 2027)	QEII Centre, London, UK

6. GITEX AI Europe

Dates: June 30 – July 1, 2026  |  Location: Messe Berlin, Berlin, Germany

GITEX AI Europe is the continental spin-off of GITEX Global, one of the world's largest technology expos. The Berlin edition brings GITEX's characteristic scale — hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of attendees, government pavilions — to a European context, with a programme heavily weighted toward AI startup ecosystems, agentic workflow platforms, and enterprise integration use cases. The expo floor features live product demonstrations from vendors across the autonomous AI stack, from orchestration frameworks to inference infrastructure to enterprise agent platforms.

For organisations conducting market reconnaissance — evaluating vendors, mapping the competitive landscape, or identifying acquisition targets in the agentic AI space — GITEX AI Europe provides efficient coverage of a large and fragmented market in two days. The Berlin location draws strong participation from German industrial companies, making it particularly useful for teams targeting manufacturing, logistics, and industrial automation verticals.

7. Data & AI Conference Europe

Dates: November 2–3, 2026  |  Location: etc.venues Fenchurch Street, London, UK

Held at etc.venues Fenchurch Street in the heart of the City, the Data & AI Conference Europe extends across a five-day programme covering the full data and AI engineering stack. The 2026 edition places particular emphasis on the data infrastructure requirements of multi-agent systems: how to design data pipelines that agents can query reliably, how to implement data governance frameworks that remain auditable when autonomous systems are making decisions, and how to manage the observability challenges of long-running agent workflows.

The LLM and generative AI tracks provide context for teams still evaluating foundation model selection, while the multi-agent governance sessions address the operational realities of deploying autonomous systems in regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, and legal services feature prominently in the case study programme. With a City of London location and a finance-heavy attendee base, this event has a distinctly enterprise and compliance-oriented character that differentiates it from more engineering-focused events on the circuit.

8. Lisbon AI

Dates: September 23–24, 2026  |  Location: Centro Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal

Lisbon AI is a deliberately small event — capped at 400 participants — designed exclusively for technical researchers and builders working on autonomous systems. The Centro Champalimaud, a striking contemporary venue on the banks of the Tagus, provides an atmosphere that encourages serious intellectual exchange over networking theatre. Sessions are research-oriented: speaker selections favour academics and applied researchers over vendor representatives, and the question periods are substantive enough to be worth attending in their own right.

The focus on autonomous systems draws participants from academic AI labs, defence-adjacent research organisations, and the technical leadership of well-funded AI startups. Lisbon's growing reputation as a European AI hub — driven by NOS, Feedzai, and a strong university research base — makes it a natural host for an event of this character. For researchers working at the intersection of agent theory, reinforcement learning, and production deployment, Lisbon AI offers peer engagement that larger events cannot provide.

9. Cloud & AI Infrastructure London

Dates: March 4–5, 2026 (Recently concluded)  |  Location: ExCeL London, London, UK

Formerly Cloud Expo Europe, this event rebranded for 2026 to reflect the convergence of cloud infrastructure with AI compute demands. Held at ExCeL London — the Royal Docks venue that hosts some of the UK's largest trade shows — the 2026 edition addressed the infrastructure layer underpinning large-scale agentic deployments: GPU cluster management, distributed inference, vector database architectures, and the network and storage requirements of systems running millions of agent steps per day.

While the event concluded in early March, it set the agenda for much of the UK's infrastructure investment conversation in 2026. The practical sessions on cost optimisation for agentic workloads — where compute costs can escalate rapidly as agent complexity increases — were cited repeatedly by attendees as among the most valuable technical content available at a UK event this year. The event is expected to return in 2027 with an expanded AI infrastructure track.

10. AI Engineer Europe

Dates: Held in April 2026 (Returning Spring 2027)  |  Location: Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, UK  |  Website: ai.engineer

AI Engineer Europe, held at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, is the European edition of the AI Engineer World's Fair — a conference series that has become the primary annual gathering for software engineers whose work centres on AI systems. The April 2026 edition featured deep-dive sessions on open-source coding agents, LLM evaluation in production, and the emerging discipline of AI engineering as a distinct professional practice from data science and traditional software development.

The QEII Centre location — minutes from Parliament and Whitehall — gives the event a proximity to UK policy discussions that shapes some of the agenda's regulatory and governance content. Sessions on the responsible deployment of coding agents and the professional standards emerging for AI engineers reflect the event's awareness that autonomous coding systems carry significant commercial and security implications. AI Engineer Europe returns in Spring 2027 with an expanded programme.

Why Europe Is Leading the Agentic AI Conference Circuit

The concentration of major agentic AI events in London and Europe in 2026 reflects several structural factors. The EU AI Act, which entered enforcement phases this year, has created demand for authoritative guidance on compliance, governance, and acceptable use of autonomous systems — a demand that conference organisers have moved quickly to meet. London's position as a global financial centre, combined with its deep talent base in AI research and engineering, makes it a natural hub for events that require both technical depth and commercial credibility.

The breadth of the circuit is also notable. In a single calendar year, practitioners can attend events ranging from 400-person researcher summits (Lisbon AI) to multi-thousand-person expos (GITEX AI Europe), with highly curated networking events (London AI Startup Conference), builder workshops (AI DevCon), and governance-focused forums (RAISE Summit) filling the space between. This variety reflects the maturation of the agentic AI field: the community is large and diverse enough to sustain specialised events, rather than relying on a single annual gathering to serve all constituencies.

For organisations building agentic AI strategies in 2026, selective attendance across this circuit — balancing technical education, executive networking, and market intelligence — is increasingly regarded as a standard component of competitive intelligence. The events listed above collectively represent the most substantive public knowledge exchange available in Europe on autonomous AI systems this year.