Conferences / ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
KDD 2026 (32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference)
Aug 9–13, 2026 · International Convention Center Jeju (ICC Jeju), Jeju, Jeju, South Korea
- Conference
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Data science & ML
- Dates
- Aug 9, 2026 – Aug 13, 2026
- Venue
- International Convention Center Jeju (ICC Jeju)
- Place
- Jeju, Jeju, South Korea
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- 3,500Financial News (fnnews.com), Aug 6, 2026 (pre-event): about 3,500 researchers and industry participants expected, including ~2,800 foreign attendees from ~50 countries. Projection, not a post-event count. The Cvent registration page said the waitlist was closed and the venue at maximum capacity.
- Website
- kdd2026.kdd.org
- Recorded
- 43 sponsors · 9 speaker appearances
- Notes
- speakers: keynotes + ADS invited talks only. First KDD held in Korea. Fees from the Cvent registration page (USD). 'K-Silver'/'K-Bronze' are Korea-specific tiers. Sponsors: one entry per company at its highest listed role; unclear logos identified by link target or by viewing the image (Kuaishou, 智澄AI, KISTI, Samsung Semiconductor). 'Korea Day' also held.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full conference, student (early bird) | $500 | Jun 17, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, SIGKDD/SIGMOD/AAAI/ACM member (early bird) | $1,000 | Jun 17, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, non-ACM/SIG member (early bird) | $1,250 | Jun 17, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, student (standard) | $600 | Aug 8, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, SIGKDD/SIGMOD/AAAI/ACM member (standard) | $1,250 | Aug 8, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, non-ACM/SIG member (standard) | $1,500 | Aug 8, 2026 | web.cvent.com | |
| One-day conference (all types) | $600 | — | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, student (onsite) | $700 | — | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, SIGKDD/SIGMOD/AAAI/ACM member (onsite) | $1,500 | — | web.cvent.com | |
| Full conference, non-ACM/SIG member (onsite) | $1,750 | — | web.cvent.com |
Sponsors 43
Title / headline 1
- Meta · Diamond
Silver 8
- AMOREPACIFIC · K-Silver
- Baidu
- HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering · K-Silver
- Krafton · K-Silver
- Samsung Electronics · K-Silver
- SK hynix
- 智谱 AI
Bronze 2
- EMRO · K-Bronze
- KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) · K-Bronze
Other 16
- Airbnb · Lanyard Sponsor
- Atoms · Invited Talk Sponsor
- CIBC · Finance Day Sponsor
- CUBRID · Best Student Paper Awards Sponsor
- DEEPX · Best Student Paper Awards Sponsor
- Ellipsis Health · AI for Science Track Sponsor
- FuriosaAI · AI Reasoning Day Sponsor
- Health Data Science (Science Partner Journal) · AI for Science Track Sponsor
- Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Government · Korean Government Support (cash sponsorship of 250 million KRW)
- Korea Tourism Organization · Korean Government Support (cash sponsorship of 108 million KRW)
- LG Electronics · Research Track Best Paper Sponsor
- MDPI · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Minara AI · Invited Talk Sponsor
- South China University of Technology, School of Future Technology · Exhibitor Sponsor
- Springer Nature · Research Track Best Paper Sponsor
- TSMC · AI Reasoning Day Sponsor
Speakers and talks 9
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Dean | Keynote | Important Trends in AI: How Did We Get Here, What Can We Do Now, and What Will Be Important In the Future? | — | |
| Jingren Zhou | Alibaba Cloud | Keynote | The Agentic Data Stack: How LLMs Enable Data Engineering and Orchestration | — |
| Regina Barzilay | MIT | Keynote | Rethinking disease diagnosis and treatment with AI | — |
| Alex Smola | Boson AI | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Ankur Teredesai | CueZen / University of Washington | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Faisal Farooq | ADS invited talk | — | — | |
| Moontae Lee | LG AI Research | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Paul Bennett | Spotify | ADS invited talk | — | — |
| Sakshi Jain | ADS invited talk | — | — |
Sources
- https://kdd2026.kdd.org/
- https://kdd2026.kdd.org/sponsors-and-partners/
- https://kdd2026.kdd.org/korean-government-support/
- https://web.cvent.com/event/6f3ad9eb-4bb7-432f-8acc-236af3130caf/summary
- https://kdd2026.kdd.org/keynote-speakers/
- https://kdd2026.kdd.org/applied-data-science-invited-speakers/
- https://www.fnnews.com/news/202608060908404443
- https://kdd.org/conferences