Rise of AI Conference
At a glance
- Next event
- May 12, 2027Berlin, Germany
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 300 attendees2026
- Past ticket prices
- €69–€9992019 event · BerlinNext event prices not recorded
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 2 recorded in 2026No list the year beforeIncomplete or unverified lists; counts may understate activity.2026 is year to date.
- Program freshness
- Not enough talk titles
- Similar conferences
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, PyData, CIDR
- Organizer
- Rise of AI (Fabian and Veronika Westerheide; Pandora Events Berlin)
- Category
- Data science & ML
- Website
- riseof.ai
- Social
- Typical place
- Berlin, Germany
- Topics
- Generative AI
Annual one-day AI conference in Berlin (business, policy and society focus: founders, investors, politicians, researchers), founded in 2014 by Fabian Westerheide and run with Veronika Westerheide. Usually in May, with a pre-event day / invitation-only speakers' dinner the evening before. 2019 was the large-format edition (about 800 guests, four stages, exhibition). 2020 was replaced by the virtual 'Rise of AI Summit' (17-18 Nov 2020) and 2021 by online 'Virtual Chats' (25 Feb 2021); both online-only and not recorded as editions. From 2022 the conference is a smaller curated hybrid event ('Berlin & Virtual'). 2027 is planned for May 2027 in Berlin (no exact date on the official site; a third-party listing says 12 May 2027 at Logenhaus Berlin). Speaker lists on the site are 'selected speakers' with titles but no talk titles; partner walls are single images without names. Social account is the conference's LinkedIn page.
Speakers it attracts
The 110 people who spoke at Rise of AI Conference in 2024–2026, by their record at the other conferences we track.
Most established speakers
- Pascale Fung · MetaKeynoted 4 other conferences, spoke at 5: ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning), EMNLP (Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence…
- Aline Blankertz · Rebalance NowKeynoted 1 other conference: Berlin Buzzwords
- Carla Hustedt · Mercator FoundationKeynoted 1 other conference: PyData
- Jonas Andrulis · Aleph AlphaKeynoted 1 other conference: Minds Mastering Machines (M3)
- Marc Klingen · LangfuseSpoke at 3 other conferences: AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions), AWS re:Invent, Open House by ClickHouse (ClickHouse User Conference)
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Partial or unverified list
- No sponsor list
6 of 8 years have a partial, unverified or missing sponsor list, so their bars undercount.
Speakers per year
Distinct people on stage at any event that year; same year axis as sponsors.
Events
| Dates | Event | Place | Format / status | Attendance | Sponsors | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2027 | Rise of AI Conference 2027 | Berlin, Germany | Announced | — | — | — |
| May 5–6, 2026 | Rise of AI Conference 2026 | Berlin, Germany | 300 | 2 | 60 | |
| May 14, 2025 | Rise of AI Conference 2025 | Berlin, Germany | 300 | — | 51 | |
| May 15, 2024 | Rise of AI Conference 2024 | Berlin, Germany | — | — | 37 | |
| May 9–10, 2023 | Rise of AI Conference 2023 | Berlin, Germany | 223 | — | 100 | |
| 2022 | Rise of AI Conference 2022 | Berlin, Germany | 160 | 2 | 31 | |
| May 16, 2019 | Rise of AI Conference 2019 | Berlin, Germany | 800 | 10 | 74 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 5 of 7 events; figures are as published by the organizer.
Most frequent speaker companies
Speaker appearances across all events, by the speaker's company.
Similar conferences
Conferences with the most similar speaker mix: their speakers come from the same companies. Bars are cosine similarity on a 0–1 scale; between conferences even the closest pairs share only part of their crowd.
- O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference0.04
- PyData0.04
- CIDR0.04
- World AI Cannes Festival0.04
- Minds Mastering Machines0.04
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Sponsors over the years
Top 14 of 14 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Media
- Other / unspecified