Big Data Expo North America 2026
The AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026 will take place on May 18-19 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, featuring 8,000+ attendees, 250+ speakers, and 250+ exhibitors. SimplAI will showcase its enterprise Agentic AI Operating System at Booth 437, focusing on governance, security, and production-scale deployment.
Event: AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026 Dates: May 18–19, 2026 Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center, California Booth: 437 Book a meeting: Link
What Is AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026?
AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026 is the leading US enterprise AI conference, taking place on May 18–19, 2026 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, California.
Part of the globally respected TechEx World Series, the event brings together:
8,000+ industry professionals — CIOs, CTOs, AI engineers, data leaders, and compliance heads
250+ speakers — from Fortune 500 companies, AI-first startups, and global research institutions
250+ exhibitors — covering the full enterprise AI and big data ecosystem
The 2026 agenda spans two packed days across multiple conference tracks:
Track
Focus
AI Strategy & Autonomous Intelligence
Enterprise transformation, AI roadmaps
Data at Scale
Platforms, pipelines, value extraction
Enterprise AI Implementation
ROI, adoption, change management
Future of AI
Reliability, transparency, innovation
AI Developer Day
From prototype to production
Physical AI
Robotics and embodied AI systems
Headlining speakers include senior leaders from Daimler Truck North America, HPE, Coca-Cola, NVIDIA, and Perplexity, alongside hundreds of practitioners and innovators across both days.
Beyond the main stage, AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026 features an AI Hackathon, TechEx Learning Hub, curated Meetups, and structured networking sessions — designed to turn conversations into outcomes, not just connections.
This is not a "what is AI?" event. It's a "how do we govern, scale, and deploy AI safely at enterprise level?" event — which is exactly where SimplAI enters the conversation.
Why Every Enterprise AI Leader Should Attend AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026
Most enterprise AI events in 2026 are still debating whether to adopt AI. AI & Big Data Expo NA has moved past that. The question on the floor is far more specific: how do you move AI from an interesting pilot into something your CISO, legal team, and CFO will actually sign off on?
That shift in maturity is what makes this event uniquely valuable for:
CIOs and Chief AI Officers who need to demonstrate measurable ROI — not just pilot metrics — to the board by end of year.
CTOs and Engineering leaders evaluating multi-agent architectures, agentic orchestration layers, and the infrastructure required to run AI safely at scale.
AI engineers and FDEs who've rebuilt governance and security pipelines from scratch on too many projects and need a better approach.
Risk, Compliance, and Legal professionals who need to understand what a production-grade agentic AI system actually looks like before giving sign-off.
Financial services, healthcare, and regulated-industry leaders for whom AI and compliance are not separate conversations.
With 8,000+ attendees representing exactly these functions, AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026 is one of the most strategically valuable places an enterprise AI team can spend two days this spring.
Agentic AI from Pilot to Production — Why SimplAI Is at AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026
SimplAI is the enterprise Agentic AI Operating System — a platform built specifically to close the gap between a working AI demo and a production-grade, compliant, auditable agentic deployment.
After 18 months of building alongside enterprise customers in regulated industries, Sandeep Dinodiya (Founder & CEO) and Manish Bharti (Co-Founder & CRO) are bringing the SimplAI team to Booth 437 for two days of real conversations with the people actually making these calls inside large organisations.
The pattern they see repeatedly: a proof-of-concept ships in six weeks. Then nine months pass trying to get it into production. The blocker is almost never the model. It is the operating layer around it.
Audit logs. Role-based access controls. PII redaction. Prompt injection defence. Multi-cloud and air-gapped deployment. Human-in-the-loop checkpoints. The unglamorous infrastructure your CISO raises on day one.
That is what SimplAI is built for. That is what will be live and walkable at Booth 437 on May 18–19.
Enterprise AI Deployment in 2026: 6 Pillars — Covered by SimplAI at AI & Big Data Expo
What does it actually take to move agentic AI from pilot to production? Here are the six pillars every enterprise deployment requires — and what SimplAI addresses at each level:
- Agentic Orchestration
Multi-agent execution, dynamic planning, and tool orchestration capable of handling complex, interdependent workflows across your full enterprise stack. Not single-task chatbots — coordinated systems of agents operating in concert across business processes.
- Governance & Control
Complete audit logging of every agent action, role-based access controls (RBAC), human-in-the-loop oversight checkpoints, and agent evaluation pipelines. Know what every agent did, when, and why — before your compliance team ever asks.
- Compliance Readiness
SOC 2 Type II aligned, ISO 27001 aligned, and GDPR-ready. In regulated industries, this is not optional infrastructure — it is the baseline requirement before any production AI deployment gets approved.
- Enterprise Security
Prompt injection defence, credential isolation, and PII redaction built into the platform layer — not retrofitted post-deployment. If an agent should not have access to data, it will not.
- Scalability & Deployment Flexibility
Multi-cloud, VPC, on-premises, and fully air-gapped deployment options. For organisations with strict data isolation requirements, SimplAI operates there. For those needing elastic cloud scale, it handles that too.
- Speed to Production
Enterprises deploying on SimplAI move from scoped project to production-ready agents in 2 to 7 days — not 9 months. Complete with audit logs, governance controls, and compliance documentation their security teams have signed off on.
AI Governance in Enterprise: The 3 Questions Being Asked at AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026
The "which model is best?" era is over. Foundation models are commoditising rapidly. Most enterprises will run multiple — GPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama — with task-level performance differences becoming increasingly marginal.
The genuine moat in enterprise AI is the operating layer around the models. The three questions defining every serious enterprise AI conversation in 2026 — and the ones you'll hear across the floor at AI & Big Data Expo NA:
Q: How do we govern it? Who approved what? Is there a complete, searchable audit trail? Can we evaluate agent behaviour across hundreds of concurrent workflows without manual review?
Q: How do we secure it? What stops an agent leaking customer data into a third-party tool call? How do we prevent prompt injection at the infrastructure level — not just the application layer?
Q: How do we scale it? Can it run in a VPC? On-premises? Air-gapped for our most regulated business units? What does genuine multi-cloud deployment look like in practice, not on a slide?
SimplAI was built to answer all three. These are not future roadmap items — they are in production with enterprise customers today.
Meet SimplAI at AI & Big Data Expo NA 2026 — What Happens at Booth 437
No pitch theatre. No canned walkthrough. No "we'll follow up with a deck."
The SimplAI team — Sandeep Dinodiya, Manish Bharti, and Lead FDE Vedant Yogishwar — will be available at Booth 437 across both days for focused, no-filler conversations.
Live platform walkthroughs showing multi-agent orchestration, audit log visibility, and governance controls operating in real enterprise architectures — not sandbox examples built for a demo.
Whiteboard sessions to map your specific AI stack, identify exactly where the production gap is, and honestly assess whether SimplAI closes it. (Sometimes the answer is no. That conversation is also available at Booth 437 — before, not after, six months of implementation.)
Direct answers to the compliance, security, and deployment questions your CISO will raise — so you leave with something useful, not a follow-up calendar invite.
Book a Meeting at AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026 — Reserve Your 30-Minute Slot with SimplAI
Walk-ups are welcome at Booth 437 across both May 18 and 19. But for a dedicated, focused session with Sandeep or Manish, book a 30-minute slot before the calendar fills:
Book Slot
Slots are limited and filling in the run-up to the event.
AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026 — Quick Reference
Detail
Information
Event
AI & Big Data Expo North America 2026
Dates
May 18–19, 2026
Venue
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, CA
Attendance
8,000+ industry professionals
Speakers
250+
Exhibitors
250+
SimplAI Booth
437
Book a Meeting
Reserve your slot
Event Website
ai-expo.net/northamerica
SimplAI Event Page
simplai.ai/ai-big-data-expo
About SimplAI
SimplAI is an enterprise Agentic AI Operating System that enables organisations to design, deploy, govern, and scale AI agents in production environments — with the security, compliance readiness, and full auditability that regulated-industry and large-enterprise deployments demand.
The platform supports multi-agent orchestration, role-based access controls, complete audit logging, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 aligned compliance posture, and flexible deployment across cloud, VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped infrastructure.
Enterprises running SimplAI are moving from scoped AI project to production-ready agentic systems in 2 to 7 days.
Learn more: simplai.ai
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