The Ai4 conference is one of the largest U.S. conferences focused on practical AI deployment across enterprise, government, and high-tech sectors. It’ll take place from August 11 to 13, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. 

Ai4 2025 will host over 5,000 attendees and 275 speakers. It has a packed agenda with keynotes from renowned AI experts (including AI living legends like Geoffrey Hinton), technical workshops, and hands-on demos covering areas like LLMs, diagnostics, robotic surgery, and industrial automation. 

Ai4’s 2024 edition made a serious impact with enterprise-ready models, sharper AI tooling, and a crowd that included everyone from Fortune 100 CTOs to startups with more GPUs than staff.

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Ai4 conference 2025: Overview

Ai4 is where enterprise leaders, government agencies, researchers, and VC-backed founders all show up to hash out the future of artificial intelligence. Based on what we saw last year, the Ai4 conference 2025 is already shaping up to be the loudest, boldest, and most strategic installment yet.

This isn’t your average AI conference where half the crowd is just hunting for free merch — this one’s legit. 

Here’s what you need to know before you pack a blazer and a backup phone charger:

Event background

Ai4 started as a boutique AI meetup. Now? It’s one of the biggest artificial intelligence conferences in the U.S. The event blends business strategy with deep technical dives — think boardroom insights, but with more code and a few more introverts. 

Location & dates:

The crowd is stacked with:

• C-suite execs who want to align AI with business goals
• Data scientists and ML engineers insistently chasing after bleeding-edge tools
• Investors and VCs who want to scope out the next OpenAI 
• Government leaders exploring AI’s role in infrastructure, defense, and policy

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Expected and confirmed speakers

The Ai4 2025 conference lineup is a stacked deck of researchers, technologists, executives, and policymakers pushing AI into real-world applications, from finance and health care to national policy and manufacturing.

AI’s OGs and innovators

Geoffrey Hinton — yes, that Geoffrey Hinton — is headlining the speaker list with deep dives into large language models and the future of neural networks. When the guy who helped invent deep learning speaks, you don’t scroll Twitter.

AI governance best practices

Tina Chakrabarty (Sanofi’s Global VP and Head of Data Governance) will show us the ideal procedures to follow when building an effective AI framework. We’re also keen to hear about AI governance challenges, as well as her thoughts on enterprise data strategy.

AI meets real-world industry

Parminder Bhatia (GE Healthcare) will walk through how AI augments everything from diagnostics to robotic surgery prep — ideal if you’re into robotics integration for high-risk sectors. You’ll also hear from Sathish Muthukrishnan (Ally Financial) and Prashant Mehrotra (U.S. Bank) on AI at scale.

VC brains and startup fuel

Lu Zhang, founder of Fusion Fund, is locked in to talk trends in AI investment, from autonomous systems to embedded robotics. It's a must-attend if you're building in AI or just trying to understand what gets funded in 2025.

Robots in the mix

If you're wondering how this connects to manufacturing and automation, a ton of what’s covered here feeds directly into how robotic systems are evolving. Curious about how manufacturers are bridging the AI-robotics gap? You’ll want to dive into this breakdown for manufacturers or how robotic arms work.

Unmissable highlight from 2024 

Last year, Cassie Kozyrkov, former Chief Decision Scientist at Google, dropped one of the highest-rated keynotes. 

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Ai4 2025 agenda 

This year’s Ai4 conference is going beyond being a marathon of buzzwords. The agenda is a tactical, day-by-day breakdown of where AI is headed — and where the top minds think it should be going next. 

With multiple tracks and live demos, you can tailor your experience whether you're a CTO, ML engineer, investor, or just AI-curious.

Here’s an overview: 

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Why Ai4 Las Vegas 2025 is a must-attend

Ai4 isn’t your typical “talk about the future while ignoring the present” kind of artificial intelligence conference — it’s where AI gets loud, weird, useful, and very, very real.

⚡ It's the trend-setting pulse of the AI world

This is where companies like NVIDIA, Meta, and Amazon quietly drop what they’re really working on. Expect next-level product demos, not just a rehash of the same boring stuff. If you want to stay ahead of AI trends instead of chasing them, this is your calendar lock-in.

📈 It directly shapes the business side of AI

Ai4 is also a big strategic hub. Enterprise leaders attend to figure out how AI integrates into their ops this quarter, not five years from now or when the Singularity comes (if ever). It’s where use cases go from idea to deployment.

🤝 The networking is elite

With AI touching everything from fintech to factory automation, the crowd is wildly diverse, and they’re eager to connect. Expect startup founders swapping Slack invites with enterprise leads and major machine learning nerds chatting it up with product engineers.

Example: The official Ai4 2024 review confirms over 5,000 attendees and 275 speakers. That’s a lot of people exchanging ideas and getting things done. This was one of the most densely packed AI events of the year — that's a lot of brainpower in one room.

Ai4 2025 is shaping up to push even harder on real-world adoption, and for companies like Standard Bots, it’s the perfect ecosystem to sync with what the other geniuses are up to. 

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Highlights from the Ai4 2024 artificial intelligence conference 

Ai4 2024 practically wrote the syllabus for big AI tech showoffs.

• Big tech flexes. Major announcements came from the likes of Meta, AWS, and Cohere. Meta’s sessions focused on open-source safety and multi-modal AI. AWS delved into how enterprise customers can scale LLM deployments without needing a 50-person DevOps team.
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• Breakout sessions that actually broke out. The breakout rooms were full-on micro summits. Topics like AI-powered drug discovery, model transparency, and AI in robotic automation got serious airtime (and serious attendance). Every room had standing-room-only vibes.
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• New tech meets real impact. Companies like NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Capital One shared how they’re actually deploying AI, not just piloting it. For those in manufacturing and robotics — like the teams behind Standard Bots’ RO1 cobot — this kind of visibility into production-grade AI rollouts is solid gold.
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• Buzz that stuck. Across review platforms, Ai4 2024 attendees were super into the balance between executive insight and deep tech. The mix of Fortune 500s and fast-growing AI startups made it a super-interesting event for even the mildly AI-curious. 

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Networking and workshops

Ai4 is hands-on, high-energy, and full of strategic mingling. Between AI demos, speaker Q&As, and panel breakouts, the real power move is knowing where to meet the people building the next wave of tech.

Here’s where the real secret sauce is: 

1. Hands-on workshops that don’t waste your time: These sessions really teach. From fine-tuning LLMs to building real-world AI stacks, the workshops are technical, guided, and built for engineers, founders, and anyone who genuinely wants to build something — not just talk about it.
   
   Example: In 2024, workshops included everything from AI for health care logistics to deploying models at the edge.

2. Exhibit hall that’s more than marketing: Sure, there are booths. But at Ai4, a lot of those booths include live demos from early-stage companies and big players alike. The vibe? Less “free pen,” more “holy crap, I want that API.”
   
   Example: Startups like Verta used the exhibit space to show off model deployment pipelines used by Fortune 100s — a huge draw in 2024.

3. Actual networking opportunities, not just handshakes: Between themed happy hours, curated meetups, and investor-founder mixers, there’s zero excuse to spend this event solo. The Ai4 app also makes it ridiculously easy to set up intros on the fly.
   
   Example: In 2024, Ai4’s VC & Founders Meetup hosted numerous investors and led to several seed-stage deals post-event, according to Eventible reviews.

4. Turn the after party into a pipeline: The August 13th after party isn’t just vibes — it’s on the official agenda because deals, collabs, and job offers actually happen there (Ai4 conference agenda).

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Tips for getting the most out of the Ai4 conference

Ai4 Las Vegas isn’t the kind of AI conference where you can just wander around and hope something cool happens — this is one of the top automation conferences of the year, and it rewards people who show up with a plan.

Follow these, and you’ll leave with contacts, leads, and probably at least one NDA:

1. Lock your meetings before the good ones vanish: The networking app opens weeks in advance, and the smart people use it. If you wait until day one, your top picks will already be booked.
   
   
2. Choose talks based on attendees, not titles: A session called “Distributed Inferencing for Enterprise Resilience” might sound boring — but if it’s pulling execs from Tesla, Meta, or DoD, go. The best value at an artificial intelligence conference is the people sitting next to you. (You know, new friends!)
   
   
3. Hit up breakfast talks even if you’re half-asleep: Morning sessions are quieter, full of veterans, and surprisingly deep. Some of the most useful insights (and intros) happen before 9 a.m. If you’re a late riser, we know that sounds like hell, but trust us.
   
   
4. Use the networking app like you’re training an LLM: Filter, favorite, message, follow-up; it’s your IRL algorithm for optimizing contacts. If you don’t know who you’re talking to, that’s on you.
   
   
5. Bring smart questions, not pitches: You’re not closing deals in the hallway. What you can do is ask something useful that shows you’ve done your homework, like “How are you thinking about data latency in surgical robotics?”
   
   
6. Don’t underestimate the party pipeline: The after parties at Ai4 Las Vegas are infamous for a reason — funding convos, job offers, and collab invites all start over overpriced cocktails and awkward dancing.

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Business growth and innovation: Standard Bots’ outlook on Ai4 2025

For Standard Bots, Ai4 2025 isn’t just another AI conference in Las Vegas — it’s a full-on vibe shift. The hype is still there, but this year it’s way less “what if robots?” and way more “robots are here, and they’ve unionized.” 

If you’re still pitching prototypes, you’re getting lapped by someone who already has a factory install and an invoice.

Here’s why Ai4 matters for manufacturers, robotics leaders, and Standard Bots alike:

• Enterprise AI is done LARPing as innovation: Everyone’s tired of pilot purgatory. The energy this year is “here’s what’s working, and here’s how many units we shipped.” That’s big news for manufacturing, where execs don’t care about slide decks; they care about uptime and stuff that lifts other stuff.
  
  
• Smart robots are stealing the C-suite spotlight: It’s no longer enough to just slap a gripper on a stick. Executives are asking how robotic arms like RO1 can flex across jobs, adapt in real time, and not panic when a human walks by.
  
  The cobot era has been here for some time, but now people are really finding out.
  
  
• Deploy-or-die energy is real: The investor roundtables are louder than ever, and the message is clear — if your robot needs a 6-month onboarding doc, it’s already obsolete.
  
  Standard Bots thrives here, especially with manufacturers who want integration — not an emotional support engineer
  
  
• Actual machines doing actual work — shocking, we know: Ai4 2025 has a refreshing tilt toward physical automation: CNC tending, auto-packaging, bin picking, the works.
  
  And that lines up with the broader surge in industrial robot use, where AI isn’t just fancy glue — it’s the brains behind all of that robo-power.

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Summing up

This year, Ai4 2025 hits the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (August 11–13) with smarter tech, sharper minds, and a firehose of demos, deep-dives, and deal-making that spans industries from robotics to fintech.

The Ai4 conference is one of the many AI conferences proving that enterprise AI, robotics, and real-world deployment can actually share a stage (and maybe a cocktail). Ai4 also champions operational AI systems with measurable ROI in industries like manufacturing, health care, and fintech. It’s got a bit of everything. 

You’ll experience precision manufacturing and startup deal flow, as well as technical depth and strategic insight for those building or investing in scalable AI solutions. 

This year’s event is going to be a highlight reel for automation that works — not PowerPoints that wish they did.

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Next steps with Standard Bots

RO1 by Standard Bots is more than a robotic arm; it’s the six-axis cobot upgrade your factory needs to automate smarter.

• Affordable and adaptable: Best-in-class automation at half the price of competitors; leasing starts at just $5/hour.
  
  
• Precision and strength: Repeatability of ±0.025 mm and an 18 kg payload make it ideal for CNC, assembly, and material handling, and a lot more.
  
  
• AI-driven and user-friendly: No-code framework means anyone can program RO1 — no engineers, no complicated setups. And its AI on par with GPT-4 means it keeps learning on the job.
  
  
• Safety-minded design: Machine vision and collision detection let RO1 work side by side with human operators.

Book your risk-free, 30-day onsite trial today and see how RO1 can take your factory automation to the next level.