AI Week Frankfurt 2026

Monday, October 26 is the opening night in the AI Arena, from 6 PM. The published agenda starts with a welcome by Amy Curlee of FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH and by Marcel Isbert and Sebastian Heinz of AI Hub Frankfurt, an opening speech by Mayor Mike Josef, a status report on AI in Germany by Daniel Abbou of the KI Bundesverband and the panel "State of AI" with Maximilian Freier of the European Central Bank and Prof. Dr. Fritzi Koehler-Geib of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

Tuesday, October 27 and Wednesday, October 28 are cross-industry days: mobility, aviation and manufacturing on Tuesday, retail, energy, telecoms and the public sector on Wednesday. Thursday, October 29 is the Banking & Finance day, and Friday, October 30 is the Builders Day with the AI Week Hack. The organizer marks the agenda of Tuesday to Friday as under construction; the AI Week Frankfurt agenda contains the available program details.

The conference uses about 10,000 square meters of The Squaire. The venue page lists a main stage with 800 seats, a second stage with 300, a tech stage with 200 and a studio stage with 150, an executive lounge for 80 people, an expo area with 40 booths and a startup area with 20 booths. The three program stages are the AI Arena for keynotes and panels, the AI Studio for industry case studies and the AI Tech Stage for technical talks, live coding and the hackathon.

The Squaire sits on top of the long-distance station of Frankfurt Airport: five minutes on foot from Terminal 1, ICE trains below the building, the A3 and A5 motorways next door and more than 4,000 parking spaces. The Hilton Garden Inn is inside the building, the Hilton Frankfurt Airport is connected by a skybridge, and the Steigenberger Airport Hotel and the NH Frankfurt Airport run shuttles.

The speakers announced so far include Agnes Heftberger of Microsoft, Nils Reimers of Cohere, Walid Mehanna of Merck, Christiane Vorspel of Commerzbank, Dr. Sabine Mauderer and Prof. Dr. Fritzi Koehler-Geib of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Jonas Messner of Neura Robotics and Philipp Klöckner.

The partner list for 2026 names Commerzbank, DekaBank, Helaba, Metzler and KfW IPEX-Bank from finance, Merck, STADA and Heraeus from industry, and Equinix, Dataiku, HP with NVIDIA, Statworx, Frankfurt Forward and the KI Bundesverband. Graphwise, a knowledge graph vendor, holds a sponsored workshop for the financial industry on October 29.

AI Hub Frankfurt sells four week passes through its vivenu shop: Startup and Community at 499 euros, Corporate at 999 euros and Executive at 1,999 euros, each plus 19 percent VAT. All passes cover the opening night, the three conference days and the Builders Day. AI Week Frankfurt tickets lists what each pass includes, the newsletter discount and group bookings.

Finance Loop held an official side event of AI Week Frankfurt 2025 on the evening of the Banking & Finance day, with Frankfurt Main Finance, Web3 Network, Bundesblock and Sopra Financial Technology. AI Hub Frankfurt is an event and network partner of Finance Loop. The events Finance Loop takes part in during the 2026 edition appear in the calendar above and in the newsletter.

From Monday, October 26 to Friday, October 30, 2026. The opening night starts at 6 PM on Monday, and the Banking & Finance day is Thursday, October 29.

At The Squaire, Am Flughafen, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, the building above the long-distance station of Frankfurt Airport. Terminal 1 is five minutes on foot.

The organizer's recap of 2025 counts 4,871 attendees from 292 companies and 15 countries, with 58 speakers, 22 exhibition booths and a sold-out opening ceremony. For the Banking & Finance day 2026 it expects more than 2,000 finance professionals.

Yes. Friday, October 30 is the Builders Day with the AI Week Hack: an open build floor on the AI Tech Stage and an application-only enterprise hackathon with OpenAI Codex.