OpenTalks.AI /
19-20 February 2026
Belgrade, Serbia

OPEN CONFERENCE ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • 1500+
    Participants
  • 100+
    Speakers
  • 2
    Days
OpenTalks.AI is an international independent Open conference on Artificial intelligence. Started in 2018 from 600 participants, now it is well known conference on AI/ML in Western Europe, gathering 1000+ participants with a community of 5,000+ professionals.

Since 2023 OpenTalks.AI became a reunion point for Russian speaking AI/ML community, that is now dissipated all over the world.

OpenTalks.AI is a conference with top level speakers and talks, precise moderation, great networking and a cool afterparty with live music!

2 days, 100+ speakers, 3 tracks: business, R&D, academic

We gather business, academic and R&D talks in one conference, covering every topic in the area. All talks, including business, are selected through Call For Proposals. Selected speakers do not pay any fees and enjoy a lot of privileges.

OpenTalks.AI-2026 is structured in 4 blocks: AI-agents, LLM, GenAI, RL. Each block has several sessions and a main stage talk with overview of 2025's key works, given by leading specialists in the field.
Location

Belgrade, Serbia
Sava Centar

Timeline

1
September - October
Announcement of dates
First call for proposals (CFP)
Partner's options

Early birds
2
November-December
First CFP closes
Preliminary program
Second CFP open

Normal registration
3
January
Second CFP close
Pre-final program


Normal registration
4
February
Final program



Late registration

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Confirmed speakers
We gather outstanding speakers in Belgrade on 2026!
  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov
    UPMC professor of Computer Science in the Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Ruslan works in the field of statistical machine learning. His research interests include Deep Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models, and Large-scale Optimization.
  • Alexander
    Novikov
    He completed his graduate studies under the scientific supervision of Dmitry Vetrov and Ivan Oseledets, doing research at the intersection of tensor methods and machine learning. Works as a senior research scientist at DeepMind, in the field of offline RL.
  • Tatiana
    Shavrina
    Research Scientist Manager, Llama team
    Tatiana has dedicated a decade to researching and developing open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools for the world's languages, including BLOOM, mGPT, and various evaluation frameworks.
  • Andrey
    Ustyuzhanin
    Professor of Computer Science (Software, Data and Technology)
    School of Computer Science & Engineering.
    h-index - 147
  • Alexander
    Demidovsky
    Principal Engineer and Team Lead at Huawei
    Candidate of Technical Sciences
    Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems and Technologies, NRU HSE.
  • Anton
    Plaksin
    Nebius (ex-Imperial College London, Yandex, IMM UB RAS). His research focuses on reinforcement learning and optimal control for agentic and physical systems. Anton has published extensively in top-tier venues, including ICML and NeurIPS.
  • Alexander
    Krainov
    Director on AI technologies, Yandex
  • Anna Veronika
    Dorogush
    Founder & CEO, Recraft
    Recraft V3 is the most recent model and is used by default. Released in October 2024, it ranked first for five consecutive months on the Artificial Analysis public benchmark on Hugging Face, maintaining a clear lead over models from Midjourney, OpenAI, and others.
Conference language

OpenTalks.AI is hold in English. We recommend to make talks in English.
Register to conference
Standard
Registration fee / 1 person
Price valid till 08.02.26
€360
€220
  • Access to all talks and halls
  • Access to online translation
  • Access to slides and videos after the conference
  • Coffee breaks
  • Meals: sandwich+salad+drink
  • Welcome drinks networking event
Networking+
Registration fee / 1 person
Price valid till 08.02.26
€560
€280
  • Access to all talks and halls
  • Access to online translation
  • Access to slides and videos after the conference
  • Coffee breaks
  • Meals: sandwich+salad+drink
  • Welcome drinks networking event
  • Afterparty networking event with meals, drinks and live music
Business
Registration fee / 1 person
Price valid till 08.02.26
€780
€420
  • Access to all talks and halls
  • Access to online translation
  • Access to slides and videos after the conference
  • Coffee breaks
  • Meals: open buffet lunch
  • Welcome drinks networking event
  • Afterparty networking event with meals, drinks and live music
  • Extended access to all speakers
Online
Registration fee / 1 person
Price valid till 08.02.26
€90
€70
  • Access to online translation
  • Access to slides and videos after the conference
For the registration process, you will be forwarded to EasyChair website.
If registration through easychair does not work for you, please fill this form and we will send payment link to your email.
Venue
Sava Centar
Milentija Popovića 9, Belgrade
Partners
Gold Partner
Bronze Partners
Entertainment Partner
Information partners
OpenTalks.AI
2018–2025
Photos of previous years
Alexey Dosovitsky (Google Brain) - Vision in 2020: Transformers, Transfer and Beyond
Grigory Sapunov, Intento - Main results in NLP in 2020
Speakers OpenTalks.AI
Timetable OpenTalks.AI

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