AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series
by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
AAAI's small-format, workshop-style AI symposia on emerging research areas, now at Santa Clara University
About This Event
The AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series is a set of parallel artificial-intelligence research symposia run by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, on March 22-24, 2027. AAAI expects to select approximately eight symposia from proposals due November 17, 2026, each a two-and-a-half-day, workshop-style meeting of roughly 40-75 participants on an emerging AI topic that does not yet have its own annual conference. Every participant registers for one symposium, all presentations are in person, and papers appear in AAAI's electronic symposium proceedings. The 2027 edition moves the series from the San Francisco Airport hotel venue used in 2026 back to a university campus in Silicon Valley. The 2026 programme ran six symposia, including AI in Business: Intelligent Transformation and Management, Multi-Agent System Safety and Teamwork, and Machine Consciousness.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Symposium proposal deadline
- Proposal acceptance notification
- Registration opens
- Early-bird registration and refund deadline
At a Glance
- Date
- March 22–24, 2027
- Location
- Santa Clara University, California
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Workshop
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Added
- Sep 29, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 29, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓AI researchers
- ✓Heads of AI research
- ✓PhD students and postdocs in AI
- ✓Industry research scientists
- ✓AI safety and governance specialists
- ✓Technical leaders tracking emerging AI fields
Why Attend
For a head of AI or a research-minded CTO, the Spring Symposia are the cheapest way to get a seat in the room where a new AI subfield is being defined before it has a conference of its own. With 40-75 people per symposium and every presenter physically present, you can question the researchers directly, recruit, and judge which emerging area (agent safety, knowledge-grounded agents, AI in business transformation in 2026) is maturing fast enough to fund internally. Registration starts at $395, far below a commercial summit.
Event Features
- ✓Approximately eight parallel symposia selected from the November 2026 call for proposals
- ✓Two-and-a-half-day workshop-style programme per symposium, with preliminary schedules and keynotes proposed by each organising committee
- ✓Electronic proceedings published by AAAI (AAAI-SS series)
- ✓Opening reception included with registration
- ✓Call-for-proposal focus areas: emerging AI research communities of interest to AAAI and its subcommunities
- ✓2026 precedent symposia: AI-Enabled Tactical Autonomy; AI in Business; Machine Consciousness; ML and Knowledge Engineering for Knowledge-Grounded Semantic Agents (MAKE); Multi-Agent System Safety and Teamwork (MASST); Well-Being AI and human creativity
What Makes This Unique
- ★Deliberately small: individual symposia run at 40-75 participants each with first-come, first-served seating, so discussion is closer to a working seminar than a conference session
- ★Topics are selected specifically because they are emerging and do not yet have an established annual conference or workshop
- ★In-person-only presentation policy (livestream only on request) keeps the interaction face to face
- ★Run by AAAI, the scientific society behind the AAAI Conference, with papers published in AAAI's electronic symposium proceedings
- ★New 2027 home at Santa Clara University puts the series back on a Silicon Valley campus after hotel venues near SFO
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
From AAAI's 2027 registration page: early registration (on or before 27 Feb 2027) $395 member, $560 nonmember, $225 student member, $335 nonmember student; late rates $495 / $660 / $325 / $435. Silver registration bundling AAAI membership: $540 early / $640 late (1-year regular), $300 / $400 (1-year student), with 3- and 5-year options. Registration opens 29 Dec 2026 and covers one symposium, electronic proceedings, coffee breaks and the opening reception; refunds requested by 27 Feb 2027 incur a $50 fee.
Organizer
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
aaai.org/Frequently Asked
- When is AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series?
- AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series takes place March 22–24, 2027 in Santa Clara, California.
- Where is AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series held?
- AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series is held in Santa Clara, California. The event format is in-person.
- What is the AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series submission deadline?
- The next AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series deadline is symposium proposal deadline on Nov 17, 2026. Remaining dates: Proposal acceptance notification — Dec 8, 2026; Registration opens — Dec 29, 2026; Early-bird registration and refund deadline — Feb 27, 2027.
- How much does AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series cost?
- AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series is paid. From AAAI's 2027 registration page: early registration (on or before 27 Feb 2027) $395 member, $560 nonmember, $225 student member, $335 nonmember student; late rates $495 / $660 / $325 / $435. Silver registration bundling AAAI membership: $540 early / $640 late (1-year regular), $300 / $400 (1-year student), with 3- and 5-year options. Registration opens 29 Dec 2026 and covers one symposium, electronic proceedings, coffee breaks and the opening reception; refunds requested by 27 Feb 2027 incur a $50 fee.
- Who should attend AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series?
- AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series is aimed at AI researchers, Heads of AI research, PhD students and postdocs in AI, Industry research scientists, AI safety and governance specialists, Technical leaders tracking emerging AI fields.
- What topics does AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series cover?
- AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series covers Artificial intelligence research, Multi-agent systems, AI safety, Knowledge representation, AI in business, Human-AI interaction, Autonomous systems, Emerging AI research areas.
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