AGI Society

What AGI Society does

AGI Society, legally The Artificial General Intelligence Society, is a California-based nonprofit that organizes the world's longest-running conference series dedicated to artificial general intelligence. Founded in 2008, the society has convened 19 consecutive annual editions; the upcoming AGI-26 is scheduled for July 27–30, 2026 at San Francisco State University in a hybrid in-person and virtual format. Its core product is the annual AGI Conference, a multi-day program of peer-reviewed paper presentations, keynote addresses from field-defining researchers (Yoshua Bengio, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Peter Norvig, Richard Sutton, François Chollet, Christof Koch, Ben Goertzel, and others), specialized workshops (Hyperon, Interpretable NLP, Consciousness, Active Inference), and panel discussions. The organization also publishes the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence Research and maintains a 1,500+ member researcher network supported by a Discord community and a YouTube archive of prior editions.

The society's revenue model is event-driven and nonprofit-funded. Sponsorship is structured in three tiers — Gold at $19,900, Silver at $14,900, and Bronze at $9,900 — supplemented by à la carte offerings (investor dinner $20,000, closing reception $15,000, coffee/lunch breaks $7,500, exhibitor tables, lanyards, and workshop sponsorships at $9,900). Additional revenue streams include conference ticket sales (in-person and virtual, sold through Luma.com), workshop and tutorial fees, and donations accepted via PayPal as well as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano. The 2026 cycle features SingularityNET as co-organizer alongside Gold sponsors TrueAGI and Saaga Solve and Silver sponsor ASI Alliance, with SFSU providing the physical venue and Springer supporting the LNCS-style proceedings.

Its customer base spans four primary personas: academic researchers (paper submitters and attendees), industry R&D professionals from frontier AI labs (sponsors, speakers, recruiting), government and policy stakeholders (safety, alignment, governance participants), and the open-source community (workshop contributors and Discord participants). Operational delivery relies on third-party SaaS for paper management (EasyChair), ticketing (Luma), and community (Discord, YouTube), and the organization's email infrastructure currently shares the singularitynet.io domain, reflecting deep operational coupling with SingularityNET.

Name

AGI Society

Legal name

The Artificial General Intelligence Society

Website

https://agi-conference.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Short description

AGI Society is a California-based nonprofit that has organized the world's longest-running annual conference on artificial general intelligence since 2008, serving academic researchers, frontier-lab R&D teams, and policy stakeholders through keynotes, peer-reviewed papers, and workshops.

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Conferences

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Academic & Scientific Conferences (MPAGAGAD)

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Virtual/Hybrid Conference Production & Platform Management (THAHACAM)

Keywords

• AGI conference series
• AI research conferences
• Academic event management
• Scientific publications
• Research community events

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Ticket Sales: Revenue generated from selling tickets to the annual AGI Conference, offered in both in-person and virtual formats. Conference tickets may include on-campus accommodation options.
2. Sponsorship Packages: Tiered sponsorship packages (Gold $19,900, Silver $14,900, Bronze $9,900) providing branding, speaking slots, event passes, and networking opportunities. Additional à la carte sponsorship options for specific event elements (coffee breaks, lunches, lanyards, exhibitor tables).
3. Workshop and Tutorial Fees: Revenue from workshop and tutorial sessions that fill half or full days of the conference program.
4. Donations: The AGI Society accepts donations via PayPal, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano to support facilitating cooperation, communication, study, and pursuit of AGI research.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AGI Society operates the annual AGI Conference — the longest-running dedicated artificial general intelligence research conference, held every year since 2008. Each edition combines peer-reviewed paper presentations, invited keynote talks, themed research workshops, and published conference proceedings, and is offered in hybrid in-person and online format to academic researchers, graduate students, and corporate AI R&D teams.

Product overview

The AGI Society operates a conference-centric portfolio centered on the annual AGI Conference Series, the world's longest-running conference devoted specifically to artificial general intelligence. The core offering is the AGI Conference itself, featuring keynote presentations, technical paper sessions, and specialized workshop tracks. Supporting offerings include specialized workshops (such as the Hyperon Workshop for neural-symbolic frameworks, Consciousness Track, and Active Inference Track), and the Journal of Artificial General Intelligence Research. The 2026 edition (AGI-26) adds four special themed research tracks focused on Neural-Symbolic AI, Predictive Coding, Proto-AGI Systems, and Active Inference.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AGI Conference Series Recurring annual multi-day academic conference devoted to AGI research, featuring peer-reviewed papers, invited keynote talks, and themed workshops. The intended audience is AGI researchers, AI graduate students, and applied scientists interested in general-purpose AI.
• AGI-26 Conference (2026 edition) Specific 2026 instance of the AGI Conference, planned in hybrid online/in-person format, intended for the same audience as the umbrella series.
• AGI Themed Research Workshops Sub-topic-focused research sessions held within the AGI Conference umbrella for researchers investigating specific AGI sub-questions, intended for active AGI researchers and doctoral students.
• AGI Conference Proceedings Annually published compilation of accepted peer-reviewed papers from the AGI Conference, available to researchers as a permanent record of the field's progress.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SingularityNETcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026SingularityNET is the co-organizer of AGI-26. As a decentralized AI services platform pioneering the Hyperon neural-symbolic framework, SingularityNET provides organizational leadership and hosts the conference email ([email protected]). CEO Ben Goertzel serves as a prominent keynote speaker.
• TrueAGIcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026TrueAGI is a Gold sponsor developing AGI-as-a-service using Hyperon, delivering enterprise-grade AGI solutions.
• Saaga SolvecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026Saaga Solve is a Gold sponsor supporting the AGI-26 conference.
• ASI AllianceminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026ASI Alliance is a Silver sponsor of AGI-26.
• San Francisco State UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026SFSU is the host institution for AGI-26, a public university founded in 1899, part of the California State University system, providing the conference venue.
• Unite.AIminorGTM or Marketing PartnerLeading AI news and insights platform covering the latest developments, research, and tools shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Serves as a media partner.
• TryolabsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMachine learning consultancy delivering AI solutions and research-driven products for enterprises worldwide. Serves as a media partner.
• AI&ML EventsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCurated global calendar of AI and machine learning conferences, workshops, and community events. Serves as a media partner.
• AIPressRoomminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPremier media hub for AI news, press releases, and a comprehensive events calendar for the AI industry. Serves as a media partner.
• EvvntminorGTM or Marketing PartnerGlobal event publishing and distribution platform connecting organizers with audiences across hundreds of media partners. Serves as a media partner.
• FinonityminorGTM or Marketing PartnerInternational financial and technology media platform publishing daily in 11 languages across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, covering AI, digital assets, fintech and capital markets. Serves as a media partner.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): Another flagship annual ML research conference with comparable format (keynotes, papers, workshops, sponsorships) and overlapping research community. ICML competes directly with the AGI Conference for AI researchers, paper submissions, and industry sponsorship dollars.
• NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems): The premier annual machine learning research conference, NeurIPS is the most direct comparable to AGI Society: an annual academic gathering that sells tickets, runs tiered sponsorships, and attracts overlapping AI researcher audiences. It is the dominant incumbent against which any AI-focused conference competes for speakers and sponsors.
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): A top-tier annual ML/AI research conference with a similar open-papers, sponsored format and a research community that overlaps heavily with the AGI Society's audience.
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): A long-running international AI research conference with an established academic and sponsorship model comparable to AGI Society's, covering broad AI topics including reasoning and cognition relevant to AGI.
• Cognitive Science Society (CogSci Conference): An annual interdisciplinary conference on cognitive science research, sharing AGI Society's interest in cognition, intelligence, and biological/computational models of mind. It draws an overlapping researcher base interested in foundational questions relevant to AGI.
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: The long-running flagship conference of the Association for the Advancement of AI, covering the full breadth of AI research including AGI-related topics. AAAI is a structurally similar nonprofit-run academic venue that competes for the same researcher pool and corporate sponsors.

Broad incumbents

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): The largest international professional society for computing, organizing dozens of conferences and proceedings pipelines (including SIGAI events). ACM is a broader incumbent that operates at scale in the same academic conference-publishing category as AGI Society.

Others

• SingularityNET: A decentralized AI services platform and the named co-organizer of AGI-26. While not a direct competitor, SingularityNET is a peer ecosystem participant in the AGI research and commercialization space that the AGI Society convenes.

Emerging players

• Future of Life Institute (AI Safety / Pause Summit events): A nonprofit that convenes AI governance and safety events (including AI Safety Summits), directly comparable to AGI Society on the policy/safety dimensions of AGI but operating as an emerging player with smaller annual convening footprint than AGI Society's long-running conference series.

Regional players

• BAAI Conference (Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence): A large China-based AGI and AI research conference with thematic overlap to AGI Society's focus. It serves as a regional peer — comparable content area but geographically distinct audience and organizer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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