12th International Artificial Intelligence Symposium – AIS 2026

About

AIS 2026: A Residential Symposium in AI Held in Conjunction with the International Artificial Intelligence Summer School (IAISS 2026).

The 12th Artificial Intelligence Symposium (AIS) is an international annual conference on artificial intelligence, large language models, machine/deep learning, foundation models, and generative artificial intelligence. The conference includes invited talks, tutorials, special sessions, industrial tracks, demonstrations, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers.

The AIS has established itself as a premier interdisciplinary conference in AI, deep/machine learning, LLMs, computational optimization, data science, foundation models and generative AI. It provides an international forum for the presentation of original interdisciplinary research results, and the exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences.

We invite submissions of papers, abstracts, posters, talks and demos on all topics related to Artificial Intelligence including real-world applications for the Conference Post-Proceedings – Springer-Nature Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

AIS 2026 is a residential conference, all participants (invited speakers, authors, organizers, chairs, participants) must book and stay at the Riva del Sole Resort and Spa. No exceptions are allowed.

AIS 2026 / IAISS 2026 Keynote Speakers:
https://2026.iaiss.cc/lecturers/

Stefano V. Albrecht, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mikhail Belkin, University of California San Diego, USA
Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Oxford, UK
Christoph Feichtenhofer, Meta Superintelligence Labs, USA
Jamie Hayes, Google DeepMind, UK
Sumi Helal, University of Bologna, Italy
Albert Q. Jiang, Mistral AI, Paris, France University of Cambridge, UK
Marine Le Morvan, INRIA Saclay, France
Bruno Lepri, FBK, Italy
Sebastian Lins Risi, Sakana AI, Japan & IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
George Paliouras, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
More Lecturers TBA

https://2026.iaiss.cc/lectures/

Course leader

Prof. Giuseppe Nicosia.

Target group

AIS 2026 & IAISS 2026

As in previous editions, the conference will be co-located with the International Artificial Intelligence Summer School (IAISS 2026), fostering a unique and stimulating environment for interdisciplinary exchange.

This co-location is intended to strengthen the interaction between researchers, practitioners, and students, promoting the cross-fertilization of ideas and the development of new collaborations within the artificial intelligence community.

All conference participants will have full access to IAISS 2026 activities, including IAISS 2026 keynote lectures delivered by leading experts, thereby enriching the overall scientific experience and providing additional opportunities for learning, discussion, and networking.

Remote Presentations

Remote presentation options will be available for AIS 2026. Authors of accepted papers may choose to present their work remotely via Zoom.

Authors opting for remote presentation will be eligible for a 50% reduction in the registration fee.

Course aim

Please prepare your paper using the Springer Nature - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) template. Papers must be submitted in PDF.

📚 TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
When submitting a paper to AIS 2026, authors are required to select one of the following three types of papers:

* Long Paper / Late breaking paper: original novel and unpublished work (min. 12 pages, max. 15 pages in Springer LNCS format); the long papers and the late breaking papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings.

* Short Paper: an extended abstract of novel work (min. 6 pages, max. 11 pages in Springer LNCS format); the short papers, if accepted, will be published in the Springer-Nature LNCS conference proceedings.

* work for oral presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant, and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference;
Articles/Abstracts accepted in this special session will not be published in the Conference Proceedings by Nature-Springer LNCS.

* work for poster presentation only (no page restriction; any format). For example, work already published elsewhere, which is relevant, and which may solicit fruitful discussion at the conference. Articles/Abstracts accepted in this special session will not be published in the Conference Proceedings by Nature-Springer LNCS.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
As in previous editions, the conference will be co-located with the International Artificial Intelligence Summer School (IAISS 2026), fostering a unique and stimulating environment for interdisciplinary exchange.

This co-location is intended to strengthen the interaction between researchers, practitioners, and students, promoting the cross-fertilization of ideas and the development of new collaborations within the artificial intelligence community.

All conference participants will have full access to IAISS 2026 activities, including IAISS 2026 keynote lectures delivered by leading experts, thereby enriching the overall scientific experience and providing additional opportunities for learning, discussion, and networking.

IAISS 2026 Lecturers:

Stefano V. Albrecht, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Mikhail Belkin, University of California San Diego, USA

Giuseppe De Giacomo, University of Oxford, UK

Christoph Feichtenhofer, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Jamie Hayes, Google DeepMind, UK

Sumi Helal, University of Bologna, Italy

Albert Q. Jiang, Mistral AI, Paris, France & University of Cambridge, UK

Marine Le Morvan, INRIA Saclay, France

Bruno Lepri, FBK, Italy

George Paliouras, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece

Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA

More Lecturers TBA

PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
https://ais2026.icas.events/past-keynote-speakers/

AIS Leonardo Fibonacci BEST PAPER AWARD:
https://ais2026.icas.events/best-paper-award/

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
https://ais2026.icas.events/program-committee/

VENUE:
https://ais2026.icas.events/venue/

Fee info