Call for Workshops and Tutorials

The 49th edition of the German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2026) will be held in Bremen, August 11 – 14, with workshops and tutorials taking place beforehand on Tuesday the 11th of August.

KI2026 is organized in cooperation with the Fachbereich Künstliche Intelligenz der Gesellschaft für Informatik (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. The technical program of KI 2026 will incorporate paper presentations as well as workshops and tutorials. KI 2026 is co-located with IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, August 15 – 21.

Submission of Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

Proposals of workshops/tutorials should be submitted as PDF documents of up to three pages, written in English, through the EasyChair submission system under the track “KI 2026 workshop and tutorials“.

There is a two-stage submission system in place this year:

• First stage: submit by 13th of February (AoE), with notification by 2nd of March
• Second stage: submit by 13th of March (AoE), with notification by 27th of March

Proposals handed in during the second stage will vie for the remaining slots after the first stage. 

Proposals should provide the following information:

• Title (and possibly acronym) of the event 
• Description of event topic and goal. This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic and its interest to the general AI community and the KI 2026 audience. 
• Names and affiliations (including e-mail and web address) of the organizer(s). Please indicate the primary contact person for KI 2026. Include a description of the organizer’s background w.r.t. the event’s topic.
• Estimate of the expected length of the event (e.g. half-day or full-day, or amount of 60 to 90-min blocks) and a preliminary agenda. 
• Furthermore, please give the expected number of participants, your plans for attracting enough participants for the workshop.
• For workshops:
  • Brief description of the workshop format regarding the composition of events such as paper presentation, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and/or general discussion.
  • Outline of the review process organization, tentative list of PC members (and/or strategy to acquire those), proceedings publication strategy.
• For tutorial:
  • Previous teaching/tutorial experience and/or own papers published in the field covered by the tutorial.
  • Description of the targeted audience and the expected prerequisite knowledge.

Workshop/Tutorial organizers will be themselves responsible for:

• Producing a call for abstracts/papers/demos/etc. depending on their workshop format.
• Additional publicity such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the core KI conference community.
• Organizing the submission and review process for workshop papers. We plan to offer dedicated submission tracks in the KI 2026 EasyChair conference management system to workshop organizers.
• Setting-up and maintaining an event web page (to be online no later than May 1st, 2026) with updated information and possibly supplemental material about the tutorial/workshop. For tutorials, this includes information about reading material, a short bio of the lecturer(s), and, if possible, also links to the lecture slides.
• If publication of proceedings is planned – for coordinating the collection of the papers and production of the proceedings.

The KI 2026 conference organizers will provide rooms for the workshops and the tutorials as well as handle topics regarding the local organization.

Important Dates (anywhere on Earth)

• First stage:
  • Tutorial/Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 13.02.2026
  • Notification of Tutorial/Workshop Acceptance: 02.03.2026
• Second stage:
  • Tutorial/Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: 13.03.2026
  • Notification of Tutorial/Workshop Acceptance: 27.03.2026
• Dedicated Workshop/Tutorial Webpage Online: 01.05.2026
• Workshop/Tutorial Day at KI 2026: 11.08.2026

Contact

All questions about workshop/tutorial proposals should be emailed to the workshop and tutorials organizing team: Magnus Bender (magnus@mgmt.au.dk), Tanya Braun (tanya.braun@uni-muenster.de), and Alexander Steen (alexander.steen@uni-greifswald.de)