Artificial Intelligence
ai4 2026

Are you looking to witness a historic moment with the “Architects of Intelligence” Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng together on one stage.

Yes, I am talking about the Ai4 2026 Conference, the industry’s largest applied-AI gathering, taking place August 4–6, 2026, at The Venetian in Las Vegas. We’re thrilled to share that Q2M Solutions will be at Ai4 2026.

Anyone who has attended an AI conference knows that Ai4 does not need an introduction. In fact, it is often described as one of the best AI conferences to attend in a year, and there’s no doubt about why it enjoys this status, as this particular iteration will see the participation of 12,000 people coming from more than 90 different countries, over 1,000 speakers, and 400 exhibitors, in over a million square feet of keynotes, technical sessions, and exhibition hall. This is more like a city that is completely devoted to addressing one major concern – how can we implement AI?

And that is precisely the issue which has been preoccupying us for the past couple of years.

Why This Conference, Why Now

We’ve been to many a meeting where AI was discussed theoretically – lofty concepts, grandiose predictions, loads of slidewares. Ai4 has made a name for itself based on quite a different impulse. The agenda is heavily tilted towards practical, industry-focused discussions: there is a track for financial services, another for healthcare, yet another one for manufacturing, retail, cybersecurity, insurance, energy, national security, and media. There are also tracks focused on agentic AI, generative AI, and where AI truly has an impact, versus where it does not amount to much yet. The sessions span the full spectrum from beginner tracks called “New to AI” up to very technical sessions with enterprise success stories that give you the nitty-gritty details of what went wrong, what went right, and what it cost.

This mix of professionals, rather than keynote speakers only, is exactly the kind of audience we need to reach out to. Because that is whom we create for every day.

Who Else Will Be in the Room

As mentioned above, one of the main reasons that make this event so worthwhile to devote your precious time to is the sheer star power of the speaker lineup.

AI4 2026, already has confirmed speakers for the keynote track, including Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng – three speakers whose contribution has defined a lot of modern AI research. Besides them, Dmitri Dolgov and Sebastian Thrun from Waymo will be telling about future plans for autonomous systems, while the overall line-up also features cutting-edge researchers like Timothée Lacroix, Tom Gruber, and Ben Goertzel.

The list does not stop there; it includes not only research but also business applications: expect executives and practitioners from such companies as Cisco, PayPal, Priceline, AstraZeneca, Mayo Clinic, Ford, Caterpillar, NBCUniversal, U.S. Bank, and even U.S. Air Force, who will be sharing their experience in implementing AI solutions. It is the kind of speaker lineup that shows the event is not just about AI as an abstract concept but a conference dedicated to the implementation of real-life solutions, which work well in industrial-scale environments where there is no place for errors.

Pre-conference day on August 3 adds another layer worth planning around, with dedicated Technical and Business Summits, hands-on training built with General Assembly, and an Applied AI Research Conference presented alongside CSU — useful if you want to get technical before the main event’s networking energy takes over.

Where Q2M Solutions Fits into This Picture

For those who haven’t crossed paths with us yet: Q2M Solutions is Singapore’s enterprise AI development company, delivering 150+ projects across the APAC region from Azure data platforms and Microsoft Copilot to computer vision and process automation.

We’re a designated Microsoft Solution Partner for both Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation, hold Azure Expert certified competency, and have been recognized by Clutch as a Top AI Developer in the APAC region — all backed by ISO 27001 information security certification. Along the way we’ve learned a fairly unglamorous but important lesson: the hard part of AI was never the model. It’s getting a model to survive contact with your actual data, your actual infrastructure, and your actual users.

This is the perspective through which we approach our AI development services, including but not limited to developing agentic AI systems that can independently plan and execute complex workflows, deploying generative AI and Copilot powered by genuine RAG pipelines working in context of a client’s documents instead of confidently hallucinating, computer vision models performing quality checks at a factory floor, or legacy modernization efforts that transform legacy applications to be cloud-native and API-first without any disruption to the business.

Our work goes well past pilot projects – our services are outcome-driven, with scope, milestones, and ROI determined even before a single line of code is written, and the performance measured by improvements such as increased speed of processing documents, decreased manual effort, and fast time-to-first value.

We operate in the finance, logistics & supply chain, healthcare, manufacturing, government, and SaaS spaces, with the relevant industry knowledge infused into our projects rather than a template approach. It’s very much what Ai4 was made for, so there should be quite a bit of common ground between us and those on the expo floor.

What to Expect from Us at Ai4 2026

We’re not going to Las Vegas to hand out pens and stress balls. Our team will be there to have real conversations — about where an AI initiative stalled, what a RAG pipeline actually costs to run reliably at scale, how to keep data inside your own Azure tenant while still moving fast, or what it takes to get an AI agent from a promising demo to something your compliance and governance teams will actually sign off on. If you’re wrestling with any of that, we’d genuinely like to compare notes.

We’d rather set up time in advance than rely on a chance hallway run-in. If you want to skip the expo-floor small talk and get straight to a working conversation, reach out ahead of time so neither of us is squinting at a booth number trying to find each other in a crowd of 12,000 people.

Let’s Grab Time in Vegas

Ai4 2026 runs August 4–6 at The Venetian, with pre-conference sessions kicking off August 3. If you’ll be there — as an attendee, a fellow exhibitor, or just someone quietly trying to figure out whether agentic AI is worth the hype for your business — we’d love to meet.

If you haven’t registered yet, passes are available directly through ai4.io/register — the Standard Pass gets you into keynotes, all track sessions, the exhibit hall, the networking app, and daily meals, while the enhanced pass adds a more premium networking experience on top. Rates step up the closer you get to August, so it’s worth locking in sooner rather than later if you’re planning to come.

Want to book time with our team while we’re there? Get in touch and we’ll set something up. Either way, we’re looking forward to Vegas, and to the conversations that come out of it.

See you at The Venetian.

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