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.