AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series
by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Nine small-format AAAI research symposia on agentic AI, alignment and AI risk — Arlington, VA, Nov 5-7, 2026
About This Event
The AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series is a set of nine small research symposia run by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence at the Westin Arlington in Arlington, Virginia, on November 5-7, 2026. Each symposium is a two-and-a-half-day, workshop-style meeting of typically 40-75 participants, built for extended discussion and feedback rather than back-to-back talks. The 2026 program spans value alignment, artificial metacognition, AI trustworthiness and risk assessment, AI planning for climate, parsimonious scientific machine learning, quantum information and machine learning, robot application development, trustworthy agentic systems, and agentic AI for health and the nursing workforce. It is in person only — AAAI allows no virtual presentations — and the series' proceedings date back to 1992.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Camera-ready deadline
- Early registration and refund deadline
- Hotel room-block cutoff
At a Glance
- Date
- November 5–7, 2026
- Location
- Westin Arlington, Virginia
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Added
- Sep 18, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 18, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓AI researchers
- ✓Heads of AI and ML
- ✓AI governance and risk leads
- ✓PhD students and postdocs
- ✓Government and defense AI program managers
- ✓Healthcare AI and nursing informatics leaders
Why Attend
For a CTO, head of AI or AI risk lead, this is an inexpensive way to spend two and a half days inside the research conversation on agent reliability and AI risk before it reaches vendor roadmaps: the Trustworthy Agentic Systems and ATRACC risk-assessment symposia address exactly the questions enterprise agent deployments are hitting now. Rooms of 40-75 people mean direct access to the researchers, a nonmember pass is $560 at early registration, and Arlington is a short trip for federal and East Coast teams.
Event Features
- ✓Trustworthy Agentic Systems (TAS 2026)
- ✓3rd Symposium on AI Trustworthiness and Risk Assessment for Challenged Contexts (ATRACC)
- ✓Aligning with Whom? Pluriversal and Paraconsistent Frameworks for Value Alignment in AI Systems
- ✓METACOG-26: Symposium on Artificial Metacognition
- ✓Planning for a Better Planet (AI planning for climate)
- ✓1st Symposium on Parsimonious Scientific Machine Learning
- ✓Second AAAI Symposium on Quantum Information & Machine Learning (QIML)
- ✓Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development (UR-RAD)
- ✓Agentic and Trustworthy AI for Health and the Global AI-Ready Nursing Workforce (AT-AI4H-NW 2026)
What Makes This Unique
- ★Run by AAAI itself — a symposium series with proceedings dating back to 1992, not a commercial event
- ★Deliberately small: each symposium typically has 40-75 participants over two and a half days
- ★In person only — AAAI allows no virtual presentations, so every presenter is in the room
- ★Low cost for a research meeting: $395 AAAI member / $560 nonmember at early registration
- ★Two of the nine 2026 symposia focus directly on trustworthy agentic systems and AI risk assessment
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Early registration (through 2 October 2026): AAAI member $395; nonmember $560; student member $225; nonmember student $335. Late rates are $100 higher after 2 October. Conference hotel rate at the Westin Arlington is $249/night (King/Double) until the 9 October cutoff; parking $40/day.
Organizer
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
aaai.org/Frequently Asked
- When is AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series?
- AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series takes place November 5–7, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia.
- Where is AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series held?
- AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series is held in Arlington, Virginia. The event format is in-person.
- What is the AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series submission deadline?
- The next AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series deadline is camera-ready deadline on Sep 29, 2026. Remaining dates: Early registration and refund deadline — Oct 2, 2026; Hotel room-block cutoff — Oct 9, 2026.
- How much does AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series cost?
- AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series is paid. Early registration (through 2 October 2026): AAAI member $395; nonmember $560; student member $225; nonmember student $335. Late rates are $100 higher after 2 October. Conference hotel rate at the Westin Arlington is $249/night (King/Double) until the 9 October cutoff; parking $40/day.
- Who should attend AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series?
- AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series is aimed at AI researchers, Heads of AI and ML, AI governance and risk leads, PhD students and postdocs, Government and defense AI program managers, Healthcare AI and nursing informatics leaders.
- What topics does AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series cover?
- AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series covers Agentic AI, AI trustworthiness and risk assessment, AI value alignment, Artificial metacognition, AI planning for climate, Scientific machine learning, Quantum machine learning, Robotics software, AI in healthcare.
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