AI Week Frankfurt 2026
AI Week Frankfurt 2026 is the five-day AI conference edition organized by AI Hub Frankfurt for business and technology professionals. It is scheduled for 26–30 October 2026 at The Squaire in Frankfurt. The program combines talks and practical sessions so participants can examine how AI systems are developed and applied in organizations.
The week opens on Monday and continues with cross-industry days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday, 29 October is the Banking & Finance day, followed by the Builders Day and AI Week Hack on Friday. This division lets participants focus on the applications and technical work relevant to their role, while the published program identifies the available sessions.
The five days of AI Week Frankfurt 2026
Monday, 26 October 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, 27 October and Wednesday, 28 October are cross-industry days: mobility, aviation and manufacturing on Tuesday, retail, energy, telecoms and the public sector on Wednesday. Thursday, 29 October is the Banking & Finance day, and Friday, 30 October 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 Squaire: stages, expo and getting there
The conference uses about 10,000 square meters of The Squaire. The venue has 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.
Speakers and partners
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 29 October.
Tickets for AI Week Frankfurt 2026
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. The AI Week Frankfurt tickets differ in their included benefits, with a newsletter discount and group bookings available.
Upcoming AI and finance events in Frankfurt
Finance Loop at AI Week Frankfurt
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.
When is AI Week Frankfurt 2026?
AI Week Frankfurt runs from Monday, 26 October to Friday, 30 October 2026. The opening night starts at 6 PM on Monday, and the Banking & Finance day is Thursday, 29 October.
Where does AI Week Frankfurt 2026 take place?
AI Week Frankfurt takes place at The Squaire, Am Flughafen, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, the building above the long-distance station of Frankfurt Airport. Terminal 1 is within a five-minute walk of the venue.
How many people come to AI Week Frankfurt?
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.
Is there a hackathon at AI Week Frankfurt 2026?
Friday, 30 October 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.
AI Week Frankfurt 2026 and Finance Loop
Finance Loop held an official side event of AI Week Frankfurt 2025 with AI Hub Frankfurt, one of its event and network partners, and lists its events during the 2026 week in its calendar. Finance Loop brings the people who apply AI in banks, insurers and asset managers together in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.
Finance Loop is a professional network supporting the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.