AI & Data Summit Series

Connect your brand with enterprise decision-makers driving AI and data investment

Engaging enterprise leaders shaping AI and data investment decisions

Analyst-led AI & Data events that help technology partners influence enterprise buying decisions, generate qualified pipeline, and position their brand at the center of AI and data investment strategies.

The AI & Data Summit Series connects technology vendors with senior enterprise decision-makers who are actively scaling AI initiatives, modernizing data platforms, and selecting partners to support enterprise-wide transformation.

Key highlights:

  • Invite-only CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, Chief AI Officers and senior decision-makers
  • Proven full-funnel impact, from thought leadership and brand visibility to qualified pipeline acceleration
  • Global reach with local ROI across North America, Europe, APAC, Japan and META

Where your message meets buyer priorities

Enterprise buyers are moving from AI experimentation to platform-level adoption. IDC AI & Data Summits align partner messaging directly with the priorities shaping AI and data investment decisions.

Scaling AI from pilot to platform

Building AI-ready data and analytics foundations

Responsible AI and digital trust

AI-ready infrastructure and security

Generative AI transformation

Deliver platforms that turn AI pilots into enterprise value.

Provide solutions for data quality, sovereignty, and monetization.

Offer compliance, transparency, and ethical AI frameworks.

Enable hybrid cloud, edge, and zero-trust AI environments.

Equip enterprises with copilots, automation, and industry apps.

Be the trusted vendor of choice

This impact is delivered at scale, across priority regions and markets worldwide.

  • 17 events
  • 2,300+ attendees
  • 16 countries
  • Coverage across North America, Europe, APAC, Japan and META

Engage local decision-makers without the cost and complexity of running your own events, while leveraging IDC’s trusted brand and analyst-led agendas.

Event key themes

Data as the new capital: building a modern data strategy  

  • Responsible AI: ethics, trust, and regulation

  • Generative AI in the enterprise

  • AI and data security: safeguarding the digital core

  • Cloud, edge, and hybrid AI infrastructure

  • Data sovereignty and cross-border challenges

  • The AI workforce: skills, culture, and human-machine collaboration

  • The future of AI: emerging technologies and frontiers

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By sponsoring, your brand takes center stage in seizing the opportunity to lead the AI & Data Revolution. Position yourself at the forefront of enterprise innovation, resilience, and growth, gaining actionable insights, proven frameworks, and strategies to turn AI and data into measurable business outcomes. Gain actionable insights, practical frameworks, and strategies to turn AI and data into measurable business impact. 

How IDC AI & Data Summits deliver measurable business impact for technology partners?

  • Invite-only senior audience
    Engage with qualified enterprise decision-makers responsible for AI, data, infrastructure, security, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Curated engagement formats
    Structured 1:1 meetings, curated roundtables, and networking experiences designed to enable meaningful, high-value conversations.
  • Analyst-led credibility
    IDC analysts lead the agenda and discussions, creating immediate trust and positioning partners within objective, high-impact conversations.
  • Proven ROI
    Generate qualified leads, actionable buyer insights, and pipeline acceleration across priority accounts.

Explore how IDC can help place your brand at the center of the global AI agenda conversation.