Who’s ready for a different kind of AI event?
Most AI conferences follow the same formula: keynotes that recap last month’s announcements, panels that relitigate familiar debates, and networking optimised for business cards rather than real conversations… we’ve all been to at least three!
The Innodata GenAI Summit is built around a different question entirely:
What do practitioners, model builders, and senior technical leaders actually need to walk away sharper? The answer shapes everything: the speakers, the sessions, the format, and the room. If you are serious about where AI is going, this is where that conversation is happening.
With over 20 sessions, 300-plus attendees, and a strict no-pitch format, the event is positioned as a working session for the people actively building and deploying the next generation of AI systems.
Four tracks you will want to clear your calendar for
The summit maps the four frontiers defining where AI goes next, from foundational architecture to real-world deployment.
Whichever area your work touches, there is something here built specifically for you:
- World models: AI systems that can genuinely perceive, reason, and predict are no longer theoretical. This track puts you inside the conversations shaping what comes next, straight from the teams building it.
- Autonomous systems: Deploying AI in high-stakes environments demands more than capability. This track brings together the practitioners working through verification, interpretability, and governance in production, and sharing what is actually working.
- Physical AI: Bringing AI out of the data center and into the real world is one of the most exciting engineering challenges of the decade. This track is where the people actually doing it share how.
- Data infrastructure: Expert corpora, synthetic pipelines, and rigorous evaluation are becoming the differentiating layer in AI development. This track gives you a clear view of where the bar is being set, and how to meet it.
The speakers shaping this event don’t just follow AI, they’re making it
Researchers, engineers, and executives from OpenAI, Wayve, Amazon, HSBC, Midjourney, ElevenLabs, and more, all in one room, for one day.
Confirmed speakers for May 21st:
- Jack Abuhoff, CEO, Innodata — opening perspective on the data and evaluation infrastructure powering frontier AI.
- Viktoriia Oliinyk, Forward Deployed Engineer, OpenAI — practitioner insight on real-world deployment of large-scale models.
- Silvius Rus, SVP Engineering, Wayve — engineering AI systems for safety-critical physical environments.
- El Mehdi Amaziane, Head of Product AI, Amazon — product-layer strategy for AI systems operating at enterprise scale.
- Galina Alova, Deputy Head of Innovation and Quant Lab, HSBC — applying AI in regulated, high-stakes financial contexts.
- Wojciech Malinowski, Senior Staff Data Engineer, Midjourney — the data infrastructure decisions shaping generative AI quality.
- Hashir Majeed, Forward Deployed Engineer, ElevenLabs — agentic deployment in production voice and multimodal applications.
- Peter Gostev, AI Capability Lead, Arena — translating AI research capability into operational business value.
So, what you will gain?
This is a day designed to move the needle on the problems you are actually working on.
By the end of it, you will have:
- A clear picture of where the frontier is heading (not from press releases, but from the people driving it)
- Peer-level conversations and networking opportunities with 300+ builders and senior operators navigating the same challenges you are
- Practical frameworks from technical keynotes and panels selected entirely for analytical depth, with zero commercial agenda in the room.
- Direct access to speakers from OpenAI, Wayve, Amazon, HSBC, Midjourney, and many more, in a setting built for genuine exchange.
- A day that respects your time. One focused venue, one curated room, no noise.
Who should attend?
The Innodata GenAI Summit is built for a specific professional profile.
It is the right event for you if you are:
- Building or evaluating foundational or proprietary AI models and need direct peer exchange with counterparts doing the same at other organizations.
- Leading AI deployment in a regulated or safety-critical sector and want rigorous coverage of verification, observability, and governance frameworks.
- Working on the data, evaluation, or infrastructure layer and want to understand how leading organizations are treating these as strategic differentiators.
- Operating at the physical AI frontier (robotics, autonomous vehicles, edge systems) where model capability meets real-world engineering constraint.
- A senior AI leader responsible for strategy or capability development who needs a high-density update on where the field is moving and why.
Reserve your spot for May 21st
The Innodata GenAI Summit takes place on Thursday May 21st, 2026 at Together 88, 88 Wood Street, London EC2V 7QR. The event runs all day and includes all sessions, demos, and networking.
Registration is open now. Passes are limited to 300-plus attendees and places are allocated on a first-come basis. C-suite leaders can request a dedicated invite through the event page.
The Innodata GenAI Summit is hosted by the AI Accelerator Institute in partnership with Innodata. May 21st, 2026. Together 88, London.
