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Our forty-sixth annual international conference AI-2026

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SGAI Events in 2026

The SGAI Virtual Seminar Series is a new series of evening Zoom events, open to all, which eventually we intend to run monthly from October to June, normally on a Wednesday evening from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. (UK time). Participation is free and no prior registration is needed. Further details are available at https://bcs-sgai.org/seminars/. Copies of speakers' slides etc. are also available from that address when provided.

SGAI Virtual Seminars
A programme of free evening seminars delivered via Zoom and open to all.

Details to be announced
Series home page
UK KDD 2026: Knowledge Discovery in Data
A free virtual evening event open to all.

Details to be announced
UK KDD 2025 Website
AI in Education
Friday April 17th 2026

Details to be announced
Real AI 2026
Friday September 25th 2026 (all day event)
BCS London Office
Real AI 2025 Website
AI for Healthcare 2026
Friday November 6th 2026 (all day event)
BCS London Office
AI for Healthcare 2025 Website
FAIRS 2026
Monday December 14th 2026
Peterhouse College Cambridge
A low cost one-day training event for research students in the same venue as AI-2026. (Attendance at AI-2026 is not required or expected.)
FAIRS 2025 Website
AI-2026
Tuesday December 15th to Thursday December 17th 2026. Peterhouse College Cambridge.
Our forty-sixth annual conference. Website

A long-running convivial pre-Christmas gathering of the AI community with a strong international flavour in the evocative surroundings of Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, one of Britain's major university cities.
Conference Features
  • A day of workshops on major areas of AI (bookable separately)
  • Technical and application keynote lectures
  • Refereed papers in two streams: technical and applications
  • Refereed poster papers for work in progress
  • Proceedings published by Springer in its LNAI series
  • A panel session on a topical subject
  • An 'AI Open Mic' session
  • Prizes for the best paper and best student paper in each of the streams
  • A prize for the best presented poster (by delegate voting)
  • Day tickets available for all days
  • Meals by candlelight in the medieval dining hall of Peterhouse College
  • A drinks reception for delegates on the first evening
  • A drinks reception and a gala dinner by candlelight on the second evening with an expert after-dinner speaker and an appearance* by the famous Peterhouse ghost
    (* Not guaranteed)
  • Discounts for student authors of poster papers, non-author students, members of SGAI and other EurAi member societies
  • Discounts for group bookings

Discounts are available for group bookings for all events.
Further information will be placed on this page as it becomes available.
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Peterhouse College, Cambridge, the venue for AI-2026