There's a lot of conferences that overlap. The biggest ML conferences are ICML and NIPS. ICLR is a new one focused on deep learning that is also very good, but

There's a lot of conferences that overlap. The biggest ML conferences are ICML and NIPS. ICLR is a new one focused on deep learning that is also very good, but smaller. AAAI seems to be the big general AI conference, but I haven't really seen much talk about it. KDD seems semi-popular, but not a top-tier conference. There are also application-specific conferences like ACL & EMNLP for language & CVPR for computer vision. I'm not an academic, but I went to ICML last year since it was in NYC, and it was definitely worth it. This wikipedia page has a list of some others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_conferences#Artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_science_confe...