KI2026 – 49th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
August 11–14, 2026, in Bremen, Germany
Many thanks to all our speakers, authors, and participants to make this special event a true success in terms of networking and scientific exchange!Looking forward to meet you all at next year's anniversary edition in Berlin.
Awards
Congratulations to our Springer Best Paper Award winners:
Thomas Vitry, Kieran Edgeworth, Jae Hee Lee and Stefan Wermter
for their paper Bias Leaves a Gradient Trail: Label-Free Bias Identification via Gradient Probes on Concept Decompositions
And congratulations to our Best Poster election winners:
Gregor Endler, Sebastian Kraus and Lukas Stappen
for their paper Safeguards for Speech2Speech LLM-Assistants: A Case Study in Automotive Applications
KI2026 was the 49th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI-SIG AI). The German AI Conference basically started approx. 50 years ago with the first GI-SIG AI meeting on Oct. 7, 1975 (see the archive of GI-SIG AI).
KI is one of the major European AI conferences and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. KI2026 was prelocated to IJCAI 2026, which takes place in Bremen the week after on August 15–21.
The conference program is densely packed with highlights (see also our venue and social event site). We were delighted to welcome our four renowned keynote speakers who gave insights into recent topics in AI from within the community. Thanks to all participants for the active and fruitful networking and discussions, and we hope everyone enjoyed seeing Bremen from new perspectives. Our highlights included:
- a special Industry Day at the prestigious Schuetting building - home of Bremens Chamber of Commerce
- the main conference was at the Robotics Innovation Center of DFKI in Bremen, where we offered a tour through the infrastructure
- Conference Dinner in the excellent CANOVA restaurant which is directly situated in the old ancient "Bremen Wall"
- a very special Social Event: KI is going on Ship - we cruised the river Weser along the city, and on ship discussed the KI 2026 posters, listened to the incredible band Danube's Banks and watched the city floating by outside
- a sightseeing tour in Bremen
Important Dates
2026-02-13 Workshop & Tutorial Proposals Stage 1 (notification by 2026-03-02)2026-03-13 Workshop & Tutorial Proposals Stage 2 (notification by 2026-03-27)2026-03-242026-04-02 Main Track Abstract Submission2026-04-022026-04-12 Main Track Full Paper Submission2026-05-13 IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Near Miss Track Submission2026-05-15 Doctoral Consortium Submission2026-05-20 Extended Abstracts of Accepted Papers Track Submission2026-05-22 Main Track Author Notification2026-05-29 Camera-ready Submission2026-06-04 Doctoral Consortium & Extended Abstract Notification2026-06-08 2026-06-15 Early-Bird Registration ends- 2026-08-11 Workshops & Tutorials Day
- 2026-08-12 KI Conference starts
