The closing stretch of the 2026 enterprise-AI calendar holds four events worth planning around. KMWorld is indexed for November 16–19 in Washington, D.C., and Microsoft Ignite for November 17–20 in San Francisco with an online event experience alongside[1][2]. Both date sets are search-indexed listings of the official sites, unverified directly in this article, and Ignite's 2026 registration status is not confirmed at press time[1] — so confirm all of it on the live pages before locking plans. Two weeks after that pair, NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C. and AWS re:Invent share November 30–December 4, with GTC's conference-and-expo days (December 1–3) sitting entirely inside re:Invent's five-day Las Vegas run[3][4]. The decision splits into which sessions get your time and which free streams cover what you skip. If you do one thing today, make it this: check whether the GTC DC tickets you need are still taking registrations — two of the three ticket types were already waitlisted on November 12[5] — and register for re:Invent's free livestream, whose scope is narrower than full attendance[4].
The collision week: two flagships, one date range
The overlap that defines the final week is arithmetic from the two official pages: GTC DC's conference and expo run December 1–3, and re:Invent runs November 30–December 4[3][4]. What differs is the product — and GTC DC's facts below come from NVIDIA's own event and pricing pages[3][5].
GTC DC is NVIDIA's Washington-focused edition. NVIDIA's page lists public sector professionals and policymakers among its stated audience and states the theme in NVIDIA's own words — “super intelligence (SI) is accelerating American economic growth and scientific discovery,” a vendor framing, not an industry term[3]. NVIDIA's page also schedules Jensen Huang's keynote for Tuesday, December 1 at 2 p.m. ET and warns that keynote seating is limited and first come, first served[3]. Those GTC DC facts — dates, audience, keynote logistics and all three prices — rest entirely on NVIDIA's own pages, with no independent confirmation; check NVIDIA's live event and pricing pages when a detail is decision-critical[3][5].
re:Invent is AWS's five-day Las Vegas conference, which AWS's own copy calls “cloud and AI's biggest week”[4]. The scale claims are AWS's numbers, not independently verified: over 2,200 sessions, 70% of them interactive, spread across AI, security, migration, developer productivity and more, with new sessions added continuously and the 2026 speaker lineup confirmed[4]. AWS has also added an AI-powered Concierge that suggests sessions to registered attendees[4]. GTC DC is a policy-weighted single-city edition, while re:Invent is a five-day, catalog-heavy conference.
What attendance costs — and what streams free
The amounts below are as displayed on each event's own pages on November 12, 2026. The two pricing pages are US pages that price in dollars without spelling out the currency. The inclusion lists are the vendors' own — that is the total-cost picture as the vendors state it.
| Event | Ticket | Price | Conditions and what it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| GTC DC | Conference Pass | $899 | Tuesday–Thursday; keynote (limited seating), keynote watch party, sessions, talks and tutorials, training labs, certifications, Build-a-Claw, exhibits and receptions, lunch — waitlisted as of November 12[5] |
| GTC DC | Exhibits Only | $375 | Tuesday–Thursday; keynote watch party (not the keynote room), Build-a-Claw, Connect With the Experts session, certifications, exhibits and receptions, lunch — still open for registration[5] |
| GTC DC | Full-Day Workshop | $395 | Monday, November 30 only — waitlisted as of November 12[5] |
| re:Invent | Full price | $2,499 | Full access to 2,200+ sessions and 3,000+ speakers; 10% off when buying 10+ tickets in one transaction, terms and conditions apply; early-bird pricing ended August 25[6] |
| re:Invent | Livestream | Free | Keynotes and over 50 sessions live, with live Q&A and hands-on labs; registration is free[4] |
| Dreamforce | On-demand | Free | 500+ sessions now streaming on Salesforce+, including the main keynote[7] |
GTC DC's pricing page lists no free option among its three packages — the cheapest listed access is the $375 exhibits pass, which does not include the keynote room[5]. re:Invent's free route is real but scoped: keynotes plus over 50 sessions, not the 2,200-session catalog the $2,499 pass covers[4][6]. re:Invent's price has already moved once: early-bird pricing ended August 25, so $2,499 is the current full price, and AWS's page offers an approval toolkit for readers who need leadership sign-off[6]. Dreamforce, already held, is the odd one out: its 500+ sessions, including the main keynote with Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff and leaders from NVIDIA, Anthropic and Siemens, stream free on demand[7].
A planning order, if you have to choose
This ordering is planning advice built on the facts above. If your work touches public-sector AI policy, note that GTC DC's stated audience includes policymakers and its December 1 keynote is the anchor — the first-come-first-served seating rewards arriving early, and if the $899 pass stays waitlisted, the $375 Exhibits Only pass is the fallback, keynote watched from the watch party, not the room[3][5]. If you build or run cloud workloads, re:Invent lists over 2,200 sessions across AI, security, migration and developer productivity; $2,499 buys the full catalog, and the free livestream is the fallback for keynote-level coverage[6][4]. If your focus is knowledge management, KMWorld's indexed dates put it first, November 16–19[2], and Microsoft-stack teams have Ignite the same week[1]. For a no-budget path, re:Invent's free stream and Dreamforce's free on-demand catalog together give the keynote-level view of both seasons[4][7].
The closing stretch is dense and checkable: two events in the week of November 16, two more sharing November 30–December 4 two weeks later, full access at $899 or $2,499 as listed on November 12, and free paths — re:Invent's livestream and Dreamforce's on-demand catalog — bounded to what each vendor streams. Check ticket statuses before committing; register for the free streams as the baseline.