World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF)
At a glance
- Next event
- Feb 10–11, 2027Cannes, France
- Call for papers
- No public call found
- Audience
- 10,000 attendees2026
- Tickets
- €0–€2,7959 prices, 2027
- Sponsorship
- Packages not published
- Sponsors
- 9 in 2026▼ −36% vs 2025 (14)
- Program freshness
- Not enough talk titles
- Organizer
- Informa (from 2027); previously RX France (2023-2026) and Corp Agency / Corp Events (2022), for Institut EuropIA, the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals
- Category
- Vendor & industry
- Website
- waicf.com
- Social
- X / Twitter · LinkedIn · YouTube
- Typical place
- Cannes, France
- Topics
- Generative AIBusiness & leadership
Large AI expo and conference at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, every February (first edition April 2022). Conceived in 2021 by Institut EuropIA with the City of Cannes, the Palais des Festivals (SEMEC) and the Alpes-Maritimes department. Corp Events/Corp Agency created and ran the 2022 edition under a five-year management contract; RX France (RX/RELX) acquired Corp Events in 2023 and organized 2023-2026, then declined to renew beyond 2026. From 2027 it is delivered by Informa as part of The AI Summit Series; the old worldaicannes.com now redirects to london.theaisummit.com and the event site is waicf.com. No 2019-2021 editions. Professional days plus (2022-2025) a Saturday general-public day. Speaker lists are keynotes/featured speakers only (300+ speakers per edition). Exhibitor lists not recorded (JS/paginated). Social links are the event's own accounts.
Speakers it attracts
The 26 people who spoke at World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) 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…
- Yann LeCun · MetaKeynoted 2 other conferences, spoke at 3: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI Native Summit, NVIDIA GTC
- Francesca Rossi · IBMKeynoted 2 other conferences: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ISWC (International Semantic Web Conference)
- Éric Salobir · Human Technology FoundationKeynoted 1 other conference: Big Data & AI Paris
- Luc Julia · RenaultKeynoted 1 other conference: Big Data & AI Paris
Activity by year
Sponsor companies per year
Distinct companies sponsoring any event that year.
- Complete list
- No sponsor list
1 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10–11, 2027 | World AI Cannes Festival 2027 | Cannes, France | Announced | — | — | — |
| Feb 12–13, 2026 | World AI Cannes Festival 2026 | Cannes, France | 10,000 | 9 | 10 | |
| Feb 13–15, 2025 | World AI Cannes Festival 2025 | Cannes, France | — | 14 | 10 | |
| Feb 8–10, 2024 | World AI Cannes Festival 2024 | Cannes, France | 13,000 | 32 | 9 | |
| Feb 9–11, 2023 | World AI Cannes Festival 2023 | Cannes, France | 12,000 | 24 | 15 | |
| Apr 14–16, 2022 | World AI Cannes Festival 2022 | Cannes, France | — | — | 7 |
Attendance over time
Reported attendance for 3 of 6 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.
- MLSys0.12
- AAAI0.12
- CVPR0.11
- KDD0.10
- The AI Summit0.09
Sponsors over the years
Top 25 of 53 sponsoring companies, ranked by years sponsored. Each cell shows the highest tier that year; hover for the events.
- Title / headline
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unspecified
Sources
- https://waicf.com/about/the-festival/
- https://www.rxglobal.fr/sites/default/files/2026-02/WAICF26%20-%20CP%20FR%2016%2002%202026%20Final.pdf
- https://rxglobal.fr/sites/default/files/2024-02/CP_WAICF2024_BILAN_ENG.pdf
- https://london.theaisummit.com/latest-news/informa-extends-relationship-with-cannes-through-world-ai-cannes-festival/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20230131125758/https://www.worldaicannes.com/sponsors