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The 8th International Conference on Distributed Artificial Intelligence

DAI 2026

Theme Agentic AI Goes Live — Science, Systems, and Societies.

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Dates 4 days · Workshops · Main program · Discussion
Venue City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong
General Chairs
  • Minming LiCity University of Hong Kong
  • Francesca RossiIBM Research
  • Michael WellmanUniversity of Michigan

Welcome

DAI 2026 invites the international distributed AI community to Hong Kong for four days of research exchange on the science, systems, and societies of agentic AI. The program centres on four submission tracks and seven topic areas spanning agent infrastructure, learning, coordination, markets, embodied systems, and AI for science.

Calls

Calls for Contributions

DAI 2026 welcomes original research in distributed and agentic AI, studies of AI agents as substantive participants in scientific discovery, industry papers on deployed systems, and non-archival presentations of relevant work accepted at sister conferences. The conference also invites workshop proposals and tutorials for the broader DAI community.

Research Track

Original research on the theory, methods, systems, evaluation, and applications of distributed AI, autonomous agents, multi-agent systems, and agentic AI.

8 pages double blind 3 Aug

Industry Track

Experience papers, case studies, system descriptions, benchmark reports, and demo proposals from teams deploying distributed and agentic AI in real settings.

6 pages deployment single blind

AI Paper Track

An experimental venue for studying AI agents as participants in research, including fully autonomous and human-AI collaborative scientific workflows.

autonomy disclosure awards 10 Aug

Sister Conference Track

Non-archival presentations of relevant work already accepted by AAMAS, AAAI, IJCAI, EC, KDD, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, and related venues.

rolling opens 1 Jul non archival

Workshops

Community-led workshops and focused sessions for emerging distributed and agentic AI topics.

30 Jun proposals

Tutorials

Tutorial sessions for methods, systems, tools, and applications relevant to the DAI community.

TBD tutorials

Important Dates

Submission Timeline

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth unless otherwise noted. No rebuttal period is planned.

Milestone Date Notes
Submission system opens OpenReview opens
Workshop proposal submission Open workshop proposal deadline
Sister Conference Presentation Track opens Rolling until capacity is reached
Workshop notification Organiser notification
Abstract registration Required for full paper submission
Research / Industry submission Full paper deadlines
AI Paper Track submission AI contribution disclosure required
Notifications Research and AI Paper Track decisions
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Conference dates Hong Kong · 4 days

All times Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12)

Attending

Hosted at City University of Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong campus in Kowloon Tong
City University of Hong Kong · Kowloon Tong · Photo: City University of Hong Kong via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Call for Sponsorship

Support DAI 2026 in Hong Kong

DAI 2026 invites research labs, companies, foundations, and community partners to support student participation, workshops, tutorials, awards, and public-facing exchange around distributed and agentic AI. A sponsorship prospectus is in preparation; early expressions of interest are welcome through the organizing team.

Sponsorship information