Sponsor with AI Connect

Meet the enterprise AI buyers who decide.

Trade shows, executive summits, executive dinners and webinars, all built to put your team in front of the data and AI leaders choosing what their companies run next.

100K+

data and AI leaders in the community

95%

of the Fortune 500 have attended our events

24

in-person experiences across 16 markets in 2027

500+

average registrations per webinar

In-person events

Your sponsor journey, start to finish.

At every trade show, executive summit and dinner, the work starts long before the event and keeps paying off after it.

  1. 01Before
    • Sponsor portal

      Key deadlines, forms and resources in one place, from logo files to booth details.

    • White-glove matchmaking

      Share your ICPs and target accounts; we match them to the room. Diamond+ sponsors.

    • Connect early

      Message attendees in the conference app before doors open.

  2. 02During
    • Roundtables & dinners

      Seats filled with executives who match your ICP and target account list.

    • 1:1 meetings

      Pre-booked meetings based on custom questions we send to attendees.

    • Scan & note

      Scan badges in the app and add notes to every lead as you go.

  3. 03After
    • Rich attendee data

      Name, job title, company, company size, industry, city, state and country.

    • Your notes, attached

      The context your team captured on site travels with each lead.

    • Follow-up ready

      Everything in one export, ready for your CRM.

Sponsor portal

Every deadline, form and resource in one place.

Each in-person sponsor gets a portal for the event. Track what’s due, submit forms and find every resource your team needs, so nothing slips in the weeks before the show.

  • Key deadlines with reminders
  • Forms for branding, booth, speakers and lead retrieval
  • Resources: run of show, exhibitor manual, brand guidelines
White-glove matchmaking · Diamond+

The right executives, matched to you.

Diamond-level sponsors and above get a dedicated matchmaking service. Send us your ICP and target account list and we match it against registrants to fill your executive roundtables and dinners.

We also send attendees custom questions you write, then book 1:1 meetings with the people whose answers show they are in market.

  • ICP and target account list matching
  • Executive roundtables and dinners seated to your list
  • 1:1 meetings based on custom attendee questions
Conference app · trade shows & ALIGN

Start the conversation before day one.

Every trade show and ALIGN summit has a conference app. Sponsors can find and connect with attendees in advance, keep the conversation going on site, and turn their phones into a badge scanner.

  • Connect and message attendees before the event
  • More ways to engage attendees during the event
  • Badge scanning with notes on every lead
Webinars

Seven formats, one goal: pipeline.

Every webinar delivers a leads list (typically 350–750 leads), logo placement on all promotions, recognition at the start and end, and a recording shared with you and the community.

  • AI x Enterprise Panel Series

    Monthly panels on the year’s biggest enterprise AI questions. Place a panelist or sponsor the series.

    Panelist or sponsor placement12 sessions in 2027
  • AI Demo Days

    Quarterly showcases where each sponsor gets a 10-minute, single-track slot to demo or pitch.

    10-minute demo slotHeadliner option
  • Agentic AI Showcases

    Quarterly showcases dedicated to agentic AI products, in the same 10-minute format.

    10-minute demo slotHeadliner option
  • Plug & Play Series

    A 30-minute, single-track session to host an interactive demo of your product.

    30-minute interactive demoHeadliner option
  • Virtual Executive Roundtables

    Lead a discussion with 7–10 enterprise data and AI executives sourced to your ICPs, on a topic you choose.

    7–10 executivesSourced to your ICPs
  • Executive Conversations

    A one-hour, in-depth conversation with an enterprise data or AI executive sourced by DSC to your ICPs.

    1-hour fireside formatExecutive sourced for you
  • Custom Webinars

    You control the content, speakers and format: panels, fireside chats or product deep-dives. We handle curation, promotion and management.

    Fully turnkeyYour format, your speakers
  • Targeting add-ons

    Add either option to any webinar sponsorship.

    ICP Targeting100guaranteed leads from your target job titles, industries and/or company sizes
    Account-Based Marketing100guaranteed leads from your target accounts

2027 AI x Enterprise Panel Series

  1. Building Enterprise-Grade AI Apps
  2. Agentic AI
  3. AI Infrastructure
  4. From AI to ROI
  5. Context Engineering
  6. Scaling AI
  7. Agentic AI
  8. Trust in AI
  9. Data Foundations for AI
  10. Agent Orchestration
  11. Context Engineering
  12. Trust in AI
Lead data · every event and webinar

Rich data, not just a list of emails.

After every in-person event and webinar, sponsors receive detailed attendee data, ready to route into your CRM and score.

  • Name
  • Job title
  • Company
  • Company size
  • Industry
  • City
  • State
  • Country
Our audience

Who you’ll meet.

Trade shows and webinars share one community profile. Executive summits and dinners are 100% Director and above.

Job function

59%Director, VP
or C-suite
  • Director31%
  • Senior practitioner22%
  • VP16%
  • Senior manager13%
  • C-suite12%
  • Junior practitioner6%

Top industries

  • 21%Financial services
  • 15%Healthcare / pharma
  • 15%Other
  • 13%Retail / hospitality
  • 13%Supply chain
  • 9%Technology
  • 9%Telecom
  • 5%Media
On stage in 2026

Sponsors who led the conversation.

70 sponsor keynotes, panels, sessions, workshops and executive roundtables from the 2026 AI Enterprise Conference, COLLIDE and ALIGN summits.

  • Keynote

    Orchestrate, Accelerate and Govern the Agentic Enterprise

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Keynote

    Smarter Agents Start with Smarter Data: Delivering Real-Time Data for AI

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Keynote

    Owning Your AI Future: Customization, Control, and Competitive Edge

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Keynote

    Activating Autonomous Business Intelligence

    ALIGN New York
  • Keynote

    Orchestrating Real-Time Governed Insights to Build the Agentic Enterprise

    ALIGN San FranciscoALIGN Dallas
  • Keynote

    The Context Gap: Your Agents Don’t Need Your Data; They Need to Know What It Means

    ALIGN Dallas
  • Session

    Secure, Scalable, Seamless: Architecting the Enterprise Creative Engine

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    The Agentic Data Contract

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Session

    Data Infrastructure as an AI Amplifier

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Session

    The Agentic Control Problem: How Rubrik Secured Claude Code Across 3,000 Employees

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    Future-Proofing AI Agents: The Strategic Role of MCP

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Session

    AI Can Scale, Can Your Organization?

    ALIGN Dallas
  • Panel

    Agents in the Enterprise: Context, Control, and Reality

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Panel

    Garbage In, Liability Out: Data Quality, Governance, and AI You Can Trust

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Panel

    Scaling AI That Works: Proving Value, Managing Cost, and Driving Impact

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Panel

    Agents in the Enterprise: Hype, Reality, and Risk

    ALIGN New York
  • Panel

    Garbage In, Liability Out: Data Quality, Governance, and AI You Can Trust

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Roundtable

    The Context Gap: Your Agents Don’t Need Your Data; They Need to Know What It Means

    ALIGN Dallas
  • Roundtable

    Enterprise AI at Scale

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Keynote

    Why AI Fails Without Data Products and Data Contracts

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Roundtable

    Centralize AI Governance from Policy to Runtime

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Roundtable

    Claude Gone Rogue: How to Secure and Control Your AI Agents

    ALIGN New York
  • Roundtable

    You Can’t Scale What You Can’t Govern: How Financial Institutions Are Balancing AI Innovation, Risk and Regulatory Pressure

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Roundtable

    The Agentic Process Playbook: From First Task to Full Scale

    ALIGN Dallas
  • Keynote

    The Growth Strategy Hidden Inside AI Governance

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    What’s in the Context Window: A Field Guide to Context Engineering

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Workshop

    FinOps for Data and AI: Taming Data Cloud and AI Cost Sprawl for Superior ROI

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Keynote

    AI’s Endgame: When Your Data Knows, Your Apps Act, and Your Agents Decide

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    Your Company Brain Will Leak Secrets. Here’s How We Stopped It for Big Banks and Ourselves

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Session

    Engineering Trust into AI Systems: Designing for When Things Go Wrong

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Keynote

    From Raw Data to Running Predictions: Accelerate Your ML Workflow from Weeks to Minutes

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Keynote

    Your Lakehouse Isn’t Enough: Building the Knowledge Platform for AI Agents

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Session

    From AI Experiments to Operational Decision Systems

    ALIGN New York
  • Panel

    Scaling AI That Works: Proving Value, Managing Cost, and Driving Impact

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Roundtable

    Scaling AI Before You’re Comfortable: How Financial Institutions Are Navigating Trust, Governance and Organizational Change

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    The Architecture Behind Mission-Critical Agents

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Session

    From Risk to Reward: Securing Agentic AI for Enterprise Innovation

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Panel

    Context Engineering in the Enterprise: RAG, MCP, and Making AI Actually Useful

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    From Code to Delivery: Modernizing the SDLC with Agentic AI

    ALIGN San FranciscoALIGN Dallas
  • Keynote

    Agents Don’t Just Need Your Data. They Need to Know What It Means

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Keynote

    The Missing Control Plane Your AI Needs Before It Scales

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Panel

    Agents in the Enterprise: Hype, Reality, and Risk

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Roundtable

    Who’s Really in Control? Governing AI Agents in the Systems That Run Your Business

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    See It, Govern It: The Operating Disciplines Behind Production-Grade AI

    ALIGN San Francisco
  • Session

    Turning AI Ambition into Business Impact

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    From Shadow AI to Sovereign Agents

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Roundtable

    Activate Your Business Intelligence: From Insights to Action

    ALIGN AtlantaALIGN New York
  • Session

    From Risk to Reward: Building AI Innovation on a Foundation of Data Privacy & Security

    ALIGN New York
  • Roundtable

    From Personalization to Action: When AI Acts on Live Customer Accounts

    AI Enterprise 2026ALIGN San Francisco
  • Session

    AI-Driven Social Engineering: Defending Against the Next Phase of Cybercrime

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Session

    From Fragile Compliance to Defensible AI: Reducing Regulatory Risk Through Data Integrity

    ALIGN AtlantaALIGN New York
  • Roundtable

    What’s Preventing AI from Scaling in Financial Services?

    ALIGN New York
  • Keynote

    Sovereign AI Architecture: The Secret Sauce for Enterprise AI Success

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    Meet the Modern Data Team

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Roundtable

    Owning Your AI Future: The Need for Customizing and Controlling AI

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Session

    From Model Dependency to AI Reliability

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    The Self-Funding AI Strategy: How AI Pays for AI

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    Why Your AI Initiative Is Stuck, and How You Can Move It Forward

    COLLIDE 2026
  • Session

    Autonomous Business Intelligence

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Session

    Enabling the AI Data Scientist: Turning Data Context into a Competitive Advantage

    ALIGN New York
  • Roundtable

    Who Owns AI Risk? Bridging the Gap Between AI Innovation and Enterprise Governance

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    I Came From the Future. Your Job Doesn’t Exist There

    ALIGN Atlanta
  • Session

    Beyond the Copilot: Orchestrating Agentic AI Across the Software Development Lifecycle

    ALIGN New York
  • Session

    From Delayed Data to Real-Time Decisions: Making AI Work with What’s Happening Now

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    How to Prepare Unstructured Data for AI

    ALIGN New York
  • Roundtable

    Smarter Agents Start with Smarter Data: Delivering Real-Time Context for AI

    AI Enterprise 2026ALIGN San FranciscoALIGN Dallas
  • Session

    From Static Workflows to Trusted Autonomy: Letting AI Off the Fixed Path Safely

    AI Enterprise 2026ALIGN San Francisco
  • Roundtable

    Activate Your Agentic AI: From Insights to Action

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Session

    Your Enterprise AI Stack Is Missing Its Control Plane

    AI Enterprise 2026
  • Roundtable

    From Proof of Concept to Production

    AI Enterprise 2026
Testimonials

Why they keep coming back.

We really appreciated the quality of the audience and seniority level. Our team made some amazing connections with enterprise accounts we’ve been trying to break into.
AWSDirector of Marketing
Past sponsors

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Sponsor kit

Request our sponsor kit.

Get 2027 dates, audiences and formats across every AI Connect event and webinar. The team will follow up to build a program around your goals.

  • Trade shows, executive summits and dinners
  • Seven webinar formats and targeting add-ons
  • Custom events built around your ICPs