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, 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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