The Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI 2026) and the Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2026) will take place in New Zealand and Australia, respectively, in the weeks leading up to NeurIPS 2026, offering researchers opportunities to connect with the regional AI and machine learning community.
AJCAI 2026, the 39th edition of the conference, will be held from November 27 to 30 at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. The event will bring together researchers, practitioners and students to discuss advances in artificial intelligence, emerging challenges and applications.
ACML 2026, the 18th edition of the conference, is scheduled for December 1-4 at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. The conference focuses on machine learning theory and practice, providing a platform for researchers to present findings, exchange ideas and establish collaborations.
Both conferences will take place a few days before the 40th conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), scheduled for December 6-12 in Sydney, Australia.
The transition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from LLMs to autonomous agents, physical AI, foundation models moving beyond pre-training and enhanced focus on reliability and efficiency of AI are some of themes dominating the NeurIPS 2026 workshops lineup.
Other prominent areas include AI for science, world models, multimodal systems, model evaluation, interpretability, AI safety and security, healthcare and efficient AI.
The NeurIPS 2026 conference has selected 102 workshops from 454 valid submissions, with 48 workshops to be held in Sydney, 28 in Paris and 26 in Atlanta. The workshops will take place on December 11-12 in Sydney and between December 12-13 in Paris and Atlanta.
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