What’s coming up at IJCAI-ECAI 2026?

The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) will be held from 15-21 August, in Bremen, Germany. The conference will feature workshops and tutorials, keynote and invited talks, technical presentations, posters, diversity and inclusion event, outreach, and more.

Keynote speakers

There are five keynote talks:

• Barbara Plank, The Myth of Ground Truth: What Human Disagreement Teaches Us About AI
• Doina Precup, Title to be confirmed
• Jan Peters, Inductive Biases for Robot Reinforcement Learning
• Luciano Serafini, Neuro-Symbolic AI and Logic Tensor Networks
• Tinne Tuytelaars, Good visual representations: easier said than done

Invited speakers

The three invited speakers are recipients of the IJCAI 2026 awards:

• David C. Parkes, From Intelligent Agents to Agent Societies
• Jiajun Wu, Building Visual and Physical Intelligence Through Code
• Nick Jennings, The Past, Present and Future of Agentic AI

Outreach

A number of publicly accessible outreach events will be held throughout the conference:

• IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Panel: New Directions for Safe AI Agents. Register here
• IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Lecture. Register here
• IJCAI-ECAI 2026 AI Lounges. Experts from research, practice, public institutions and civil society discuss how AI is changing key areas of everyday life in moderated panel discussions. The AI Lounges will be held in German.
  • AI x Media
  • AI x Administration
  • AI x Education
  • AI x Workspace

Diversity and inclusion events

The following events will be held during the conference:

• Contemplating the Future of Queer AI
• Accessible Aging AI: Building an Affinity Community for Diverse Human Abilities in AI
• D&I Lunch
• Beyond the AI Bubble: Inclusion, Networking, and the Future of AI
• Global South AI

Workshops

Here are the conference workshops, scheduled to take place on 15-17 August:

• Safe Agentic AI Framework and Ecosystem Roadmapping (SAFER) Workshop to create a Trustworthy Agentic AI Roadmap
• RobustifAI: Robustifying Generative AI for Reliable, Safe, and Human-Centric Systems
• The 5th RePSS –Remote Physiological Signal Sensing beyond Visible Light
• Multi-Objective Decision Making 2026
• The 28th International Workshop on Configuration (ConfWS 2026)
• The 2nd Workshop on AIGC Safety from Dual Perspectives of Model and Content
• 4th International Workshop on Generalizing from Limited Resources in the Open World
• Qualitative Reasoning
• The 2nd Challenge and Workshop for 4D Micro-Expression Analysis for Mind Reading (4DMR)
• The Fourth Workshop on Computational Fair Division at IJCAI 2026
• IJCAI 2026 Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• The First International Workshop on Learning-assisted Algorithm Design
• TRUST-AI 2026 – the second European workshop on Trustworthy AI
• Generative Code Intelligence (GeCoIn) Workshop proposal
• 5th International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL 2026)
• AutoAI-FM — AutoAI meets Foundation Models
• 1st IJCAI Workshop on Safe Physical AI
• Workshop on Algorithms with Predictions ALPS@IJCAI
• AI-Based Humanoid Robot Design and Control Through the Lens of HRI, Evolution, and Biomechanics
• 3rd Workshop on Social Choice and Learning Algorithms
• International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models (FL@FM-IJCAI’26)
• 9th Workshop on AI for Aging, Rehabilitation and Intelligent Assisted Living
• The 3rd International Symposium on Large Language Models for Financial Services (FinLLM @ IJCAI 26)
• VALE: Value Engineering in AI
• Augmented Democracies: AI for Civic Engagement and Democratic Decision-Making
• Ethics in clinical AI applications (ETHICAIA)
• CLEAR Workshop: Collaborative Methods and Tools for Engineering and Evaluating Transparency in AI
• The Eighth Data Science Meets Optimization (DSO) Workshop
• Workshop on Foundation Models for Social Good (FMSG)
• The Third Workshop on Language Models for Underserved Communities (LM4UC)
• Proposal for IJCAI-ECAI 26 Workshop on Logical and Symbolic Reasoning of Large Language Models
• International Workshop on Human Brain and Artificial Intelligence
• EASi-EXPLIMED: A Joint Workshop on Explainable AI in Space and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for the Medical Domain
• GenAIK-NORA: The Joint Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs and KNOwledge GRaphs & Agentic Systems Interplay
• The 2nd International Workshop on AI Systems for the Environment (AISE-2026)
• Workshop on Sustainability and Resource-Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence
• The First Joint Workshop on Human Behavior Analysis and Interaction for Emotional Intelligence, with the 4th MiGA Challenge
• Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence for LLMs and Autonomous Agents (NILA)
• Joint Workshop on Planning for Complex Real-World Applications (CAIPI) and Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and (Reinforcement) Learning (PRL)

Tutorials

The tutorials will also take place from 15-17 August. Those on offer this year are:

• Artificial Intelligence at the Deutsches Museum: Historical Research and Science Communication
• Safety and Security of LLMs, Agents and Robots
• Scalable Intelligence under Limited Supervision: Principles, Structures, and Adaptive Agents
• Uncertainty in machine learning: from aleatoric to epistemic
• Responsible Mechanism Design
• Data Centric AI: Addressing Missing Data Imputation in Image and Tabular Contexts
• Beyond Graph Distribution Shifts: LLMs, Adaptation, and Generalization
• Out-of-distribution Generalized Generative AI
• Neural Networks and Differential Equations: From Infinite Layers to Continuous Modelling
• Automated Machine Learning
• AI for Visual Analytics
• LLMs for Optimization: From Automated Modeling to Algorithmic Discovery
• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization
• Learning General Representations to Act and Plan: Models and Policies
• Strategic Behavior in Stable Matching Markets: from Preferences to Capacities
• Brain Information Computing and Decoding for Advanced BCIs: From Basic to Frontiers
• Deep Parameterized Logics as A Foundation for Neurosymbolic AI
• A Tutorial on Recent Advances in Generative Conversational Recommender Systems
• The State-Of-the-Art in Explanation Methods for Two-Dimensional Embeddings of Data
• Compression vs. Accuracy: Compact Models for Efficiency and Interpretation
• Hands-On Cognitive Robotics: Knowledge-Driven Action Execution using a Virtual Research Environment
• A Tutorial on Unified Multimodal Models
• Dynamical causal modelling: a Bayesian computational framework for multi-scale hypothesis-testing
• Human-AI Co-Creativity
• Neuroevolution of Intelligent Agents
• LLMs for Constraint Modeling
• Current Advances in Reasoning with Large Language Models

Find out more at the conference website.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.