IAAI-27 — The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
The conference where AI systems that actually shipped are put on the record
About This Event
IAAI-27, the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, runs 18-20 February 2027 in Montreal, Canada, co-located with AAAI-27 at the Palais des congres de Montreal. Where AAAI's main technical track publishes new methods, IAAI publishes deployments: its call for papers takes three kinds of submission, Deployed Highly Innovative and Impactful Applications describing production systems with measurable benefits, Emerging Applications on a clear trajectory to deployment, and Deployment Insights covering the tools, practices, evaluations and candid failure analyses of building and operating AI systems. That last category explicitly invites two-to-four-page first-person Experience Reports from practitioners, which is unusual for a peer-reviewed AI venue and is what makes the proceedings readable as evidence rather than as method papers.
Key Dates & Deadlines
- Review decisions announced
- Conditional acceptance decisions finalized
- Camera-ready deadline
At a Glance
- Date
- February 18–20, 2027
- Location
- Palais des congres de Montreal, Canada
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
- Added
- Sep 9, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 9, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓CTOs
- ✓CIOs
- ✓VPs of Engineering
- ✓Heads of AI / Chief AI Officers
- ✓ML platform and applied-science leads
- ✓Enterprise architects
- ✓Data science managers
Why Attend
This is the one AI conference whose acceptance criteria match an enterprise buyer's question: did it ship, and did it pay. A CTO or VP of AI leaves with a set of documented production deployments including the operational tooling, the evaluation approach and the failure modes teams hit, all peer-reviewed rather than vendor-authored, plus direct access to the engineers who ran them. Because it is co-located with AAAI-27, the same three days also cover the research pipeline feeding those deployments, which makes it an efficient single trip for deciding what to build now versus what to watch.
Event Features
- ✓Deployed Highly Innovative and Impactful Applications track (8-page papers on production systems with measurable benefits)
- ✓Emerging Applications of AI track (6-page papers on pilot-stage work with a clear deployment trajectory)
- ✓Deployment Insights full papers (6 pages) on tools, practices, evaluations and failure analyses
- ✓Deployment Insights Experience Reports (2-4 pages) — first-person accounts from practitioners
- ✓Co-located with the AAAI-27 main technical programme, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops and tutorials
- ✓Co-located with EAAI-27, the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
What Makes This Unique
- ★Peer review is scored on deployment and measurable benefit, not on novelty of method — the opposite of the incentive at almost every other AI conference
- ★The Deployment Insights track solicits what went wrong: tools, practices, evaluations and candid accounts of operating AI systems in production
- ★Experience Reports of 2-4 pages let practitioners publish without writing a research paper, so the corpus includes teams that would never submit to AAAI
- ★Co-located with AAAI-27, so one trip covers both the research frontier and the deployment record
- ★Runs since 1989 as AAAI's applied conference, giving a long longitudinal record of which AI applications actually survived contact with production
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
As of 9 September 2026 AAAI has not published registration rates for AAAI-27 or its co-located IAAI-27; the IAAI-27 call for papers lists only submission, review and camera-ready dates.
Organizer
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
aaai.org/Frequently Asked
- When is IAAI-27?
- IAAI-27 takes place February 18–20, 2027 in Montreal, Canada.
- Where is IAAI-27 held?
- IAAI-27 is held in Montreal, Canada. The event format is in-person.
- What is the IAAI-27 submission deadline?
- The next IAAI-27 deadline is review decisions announced on Oct 30, 2026. Remaining dates: Conditional acceptance decisions finalized — Nov 24, 2026; Camera-ready deadline — Dec 14, 2026.
- How much does IAAI-27 cost?
- IAAI-27 is paid. As of 9 September 2026 AAAI has not published registration rates for AAAI-27 or its co-located IAAI-27; the IAAI-27 call for papers lists only submission, review and camera-ready dates.
- Who should attend IAAI-27?
- IAAI-27 is aimed at CTOs, CIOs, VPs of Engineering, Heads of AI / Chief AI Officers, ML platform and applied-science leads, Enterprise architects, Data science managers.
- What topics does IAAI-27 cover?
- IAAI-27 covers Deployed AI applications, Applied machine learning, AI deployment insights and failure analysis, Production ML operations, Measurable AI business impact, Emerging AI applications, AI evaluation in the field, Practitioner experience reports.
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