The AI Collective has been named an official partner of the AGI-26 Conference, bringing together the conference’s global research network and The AI Collective’s community of builders, founders and enterprise practitioners.
The partnership is intended to expand speaking opportunities, connect researchers with industry practitioners and support the practical adoption of artificial general intelligence technologies.
The AGI Conference brings together researchers and theorists working on artificial general intelligence, while The AI Collective represents a community of more than 250,000 engineers, founders and practitioners building and deploying artificial intelligence systems.
The organizations said the partnership would help connect frontier research with the tools, products and workflows being developed for real-world use.
“The path to AGI runs through people as much as models. Our community of 250,000+ builders, founders, and practitioners works on that human side every day — the judgment, skills, and craft it takes to build with increasingly capable systems. Fresh off Humans in AI Week, which convened simultaneous events across 100+ cities, we couldn’t ask for a better stage for that conversation than AGI-26, and we’re proud to partner with Ben Goertzel and the teams at the AGI Society and SingularityNET.” — AJ Green, Executive Director, The AI Collective.
“In this unprecedented time, the push toward AGI is emerging from the niche research world that has fostered it since the middle of the last century, and attracting enthusiasm and resources from a much broader community, ” continues Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET. “I’m excited about the partnership between the AGI conference and the AI Collective because of its potential to accelerate and smooth this transition for the benefit of everyone. The deep innovations pursued by long-term AGI researchers have tremendous potential to enhance the practical projects of the AI Collective; and the energy, scale and diversity of the AI Collective have corresponding potential to expand the scale of AGI R&D beyond what has been historically possible. A win-win for sure!”
Under the partnership, members of The AI Collective will receive opportunities to speak at AGI-26 and present case studies, technical developments and lessons from deploying artificial intelligence systems.
The organizations will also develop workshops and programming focused on translating AGI research into practical tools. The partnership will create direct connections between researchers, academics, operators and founders, while expanding access to AGI-26 talks, panels and networking sessions.
AGI-26 will take place in San Francisco from July 27 to July 30, 2026, with both in-person and virtual attendance available.
Confirmed speakers include Ben Goertzel, Karl Friston, Emad Mostaque, Neil Gershenfeld, Michael Levin, Marco Pavone, Alexander Lerchner, Alison Gopnik, Faezeh Habibi, Hod Lipson and Alex Wissner-Gross.
The program will cover neuroscience-inspired models, symbolic reasoning, biological intelligence, programmable matter, agent architectures and hybrid systems.
The AGI Conference Series was founded in 2008 and is now entering its 19th year. Previous speakers have included Jürgen Schmidhuber, Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Gary Marcus, Christof Koch, Richard Sutton, Marcus Hutter and François Chollet.
The series has hosted more than 1,000 researchers, practitioners and representatives from academia, industry and government since its launch.
