SIQA Summit

One day, one room, and the first conference built entirely around AI music as a category.

• 12 November 2026 in Downtown Los Angeles, single track, limited capacity.
• Run by the Sonic Intelligence Academy, which publishes the SIQA AI Music Charts and operates the registry that verifies AI music provenance.
• It sits the day before the AIMAs, the first AI Music Awards, at The Mayan on 13 November.
• The first edition of both. There is no previous year to judge it against, which is worth saying plainly.

Read this page knowing where I sit.

• I sit on SIQA’s Creative Advisory Council and I will be at both the summit and the awards.
• I do not run SIQA and I am not paid by it. The academy is an independent organisation and this directory entry is written to the same standard as the other sixteen.
• Nothing on this page is sponsored and no event in this directory has paid for placement.
• Where facts are unpublished, they are marked unpublished, including the summit ticket price, which I do not have ahead of anyone else.

Five published components, and a single track so you are not choosing between rooms.

• Panels and keynotes on industry, craft and the tools, programmed across the day.
• Demo lounges where the platforms behind the year’s biggest AI tracks run hands-on sessions.
• A surprise closing fireside chat, announced closer to the date.
• The Premiere Ceremony, where the first AIMA honours for craft, community and innovation are presented live.
• A networking mixer to close, with nominees, speakers and sponsors.

The single-track format is the structural difference from every other event on this calendar. Music Tectonics makes the same choice deliberately, and it is why both rooms produce actual conversations rather than corridor traffic.

A separate night, a separate ticket, and the reason most people will fly in.

• 13 November at The Mayan, a 1927 landmark theatre in Downtown Los Angeles.
• 25 categories in total, from AI Song, Artist, Album and Producer of the Year through genre awards to two classification awards for Best AI-Assisted Song and Best Human + AI Hybrid Song.
• 13 of them are presented on the awards night, building to AI Song of the Year. The rest are handed out at the Premiere Ceremony inside the summit.
• Verified AI artists in the SIQA Registry decide every category except the Off the Charts Spotlight Award, which goes to a public vote.
• Tickets are $250, capped at 600 seats, with fewer than 100 released to the public and VIP by request. The night is streamed globally.

The classification categories are the part worth watching. Turning AI-Assisted and Human + AI Hybrid into award criteria forces a public argument about how much of a track a human made, which is the question the rest of the industry keeps deferring.

One number published, one not.

• Awards tickets are on sale at $250 for the 13 November ceremony.
• Summit tickets are released separately and no price had published when this went up.
• VIP for the awards is by request through SIQA directly, and described as extremely limited.
• Budget for both days. The Premiere Ceremony is inside the summit and the marquee categories are at the awards, so a single-day trip misses half the event.

Book it if you are:

• An AI music artist with releases in 2026. This is the only room where that catalogue is the subject rather than the controversy.
• Building or selling an AI music tool. The demo lounges put the platforms in front of the creators who actually ship with them.
• A label, distributor or sync professional deciding how to handle AI repertoire. The registry and classification framework is the closest thing the field has to a standard.

Skip it if you are:

All of it. This is the only native-AI event in the directory.

• AI music is the subject, not a track. Every panel, demo and award category is about it.
• The awards are decided by verified AI artists in the SIQA Registry rather than by a jury of executives or by chart data.
• The classification awards apply SIQA’s own framework, which splits AI-Assisted from Human + AI Hybrid and from Fully AI-Generated, the same framework behind SIQA’s mid-year 2026 report.
• Session titles are still to come. The rating is native on the published shape of the event, and the programme detail will be revisited when it lands.

For the contrast: The NAMM Show runs a named AI programme inside a gear trade show, SXSW stages the platform and policy argument at scale, and Music Tectonics puts the model companies in front of investors. This is the one where the artists using the models are the delegates.