Tentative Schedule
Dates: November 5–7, 2026 Venue: Westin Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA (AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series)
Tentative schedule: the final program depends on camera-ready submission and author registration, and sessions may be adjusted accordingly.
Speaker details are on the Speakers page, and the papers in each session are listed on the Accepted Contributions page. Keynotes are 45 minutes; paper talks are 15 minutes including questions.
| Day 1: Thursday, November 5 | |
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| 9:00–10:30 am | Opening and Invited Speakers Welcome and framing remarks Keynote: Apostol Vassilev (NIST), Maintaining Trust in Agentic AI Systems, When the Guardrails Stop Working Invited Talk: John E. Derrick (Authentrics.ai), Diff, Trace, and Patch |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Paper Session 1: Authorization, Permissions, and Runtime Guardrails (5 talks) |
| 12:30–2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:30 pm | Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Raj Dasgupta (Naval Research Laboratory) Paper Session 2: Security and Federated Learning (3 talks) |
| 3:30–4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | Paper Session 2 (continued, 1 talk) Poster Lightning Talks: brief introductions from the poster presenters |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Reception |
| Day 2: Friday, November 6 | |
| 9:00–10:30 am | Keynote: Vladimir Pavlovic (NSF / Rutgers) Paper Session 3A: Evaluation, Auditing, and Benchmarking (3 talks) |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Paper Session 3B: Evaluation, Auditing, and Benchmarking (2 talks) Panel: Agentic AI and Accountability (tentative) |
| 12:30–2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:30 pm | Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Reza Ghanadan (University of Maryland) Invited Talk: Mayank Kejriwal (University of Southern California), Building Trustworthy AI Agents for Science |
| 3:30–4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | Poster Session and Tool, Dataset, and Benchmark Showcase (10 posters; time and location subject to AAAI poster assignment) |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Plenary Session |
| Day 3: Saturday, November 7 | |
| 9:00–10:30 am | Paper Session 4: Governance, Accountability, and Human–AI Delegation (5 talks) |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Target-Problem Working Groups (breakout sessions); breakout reports and synthesis of the community research roadmap; closing remarks |
The schedule is subject to change. Session chairs will be announced shortly.