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# Attendance at 16 major AI conferences passed 100,000 in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-conference-attendance/
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:30:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:04:08.000Z
- Description: About 101,000 people attended the 16 major AI conferences the AI Index tracks in 2025, up 29% on 2024 and above the 2020 virtual-era peak.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Research, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-research

101K

▲ 29% vs 2024

people attended the 16 AI conferences tracked in 2025

20102025

## What the chart shows

Total attendance at the 16 major AI conferences tracked by the AI Index reached about 101,000 in 2025, up 29% from 78,600 in 2024 and above the previous high of 90,900 in 2020, when most events went virtual.

Attendance dipped in 2022 (66,400) as conferences moved back to in-person or hybrid formats.

## Key numbers

| Measure               | Value   |
| --------------------- | ------- |
| 2025                  | 101,122 |
| 2024                  | 78,582  |
| 2022                  | 66,364  |
| 2020 (mostly virtual) | 90,883  |
| 2010                  | 9,215   |

## How to read it

- Conferences: AAAI, AAMAS, CVPR, EMNLP, FAccT, ICAPS, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, ICRA, IJCAI, IROS, KR, NeurIPS, UAI and IUI.
- Virtual and hybrid formats since 2020 make attendance hard to compare across years.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.6.3: *Attendance at select AI conferences, 2010–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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