Fortune Brainstorm AI 2026

The artificial intelligence arms race is now moving at hyper speed—and the rest of the world can’t keep up. Capital is flowing (but there’s never enough). Data center infrastructure is exploding (but we can’t build it fast enough). AI’s myriad applications across industries are proliferating—if only we could adopt it fully enough.

By now, every government, enterprise, and individual can taste the future. Can they manage today’s hurdles to reach tomorrow?

Now in its sixth year, Fortune Brainstorm AI returns to San Francisco to convene the smartest people we know—technologists, entrepreneurs, Fortune Global 500 executives, investors, policymakers, and the brilliant minds in between—to explore and interrogate the most pressing questions about AI at another pivotal moment.

We will investigate the latest advancements and share how organizations are deploying and scaling AI in their industries. We will discuss the extraordinary demand on resources that AI commands and how industry can harness it to make AI’s gains sustainable and responsible. And we will interrogate the issues—ethical, financial, interpersonal, geopolitical—that arise from these newfound capabilities.

With each passing month, artificial intelligence gains a deeper understanding of our world. Are we prepared to understand it just as deeply?

To understand and influence what comes next, join us at Fortune Brainstorm AI.