Schedule
Dates: November 5–7, 2026
Venue: Westin Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA (AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series)
Room: F. Scott Fitzgerald Ballroom E, second floor. All joint keynotes with ATRACC are held in Ballroom E.
Speaker details are on the Speakers page, and papers are listed by number on the Accepted Contributions page. Keynotes marked as shared are joint sessions with the co-located ATRACC 2026 symposium. Keynotes are 45 minutes followed by Q&A; paper talks are 15 minutes including questions.
| Day 1: Thursday, November 5 | |
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| 9:00–10:30 am | 9:00 am: Welcome and framing remarks 9:30 am: Keynote: Apostol Vassilev (NIST), Maintaining Trust in Agentic AI Systems, When the Guardrails Stop Working 10:15 am: Q&A |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Invited Talk: John E. Derrick (Authentrics.ai), Diff, Trace, and Patch 11:45 am: Paper Session 1A: Assurance and Security (papers 6515, 2221, 2351) · Chair: Shibbir Ahmed |
| 12:30–2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:30 pm | Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Douglas Summers-Stay (Army Research Laboratory), AI Safety as an Institution: Lessons from Army Decision Systems 2:45 pm: Q&A 3:00 pm: Paper Session 1B: Federated and Decentralized Learning (papers 6072, 3263) · Chair: Zhanhong Jiang |
| 3:30–4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | Paper Session 1C: Designing and Deploying Trustworthy Agentic Systems (papers 6530, 2028, 2141, 7608) · Chair: Satyajeet Raje |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Reception |
| Day 2: Friday, November 6 | |
| 9:00–10:30 am | 9:00 am: Paper Session 2A: Evaluation, Auditing, and Benchmarking (papers 6549, 9807) · Chair: Manish Gupta 9:30 am: Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Vladimir Pavlovic (Rutgers University), Seeing Is Not Remembering: Toward Grounded, Trustworthy Multimodal Agents |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Paper Session 2B: Evaluation, Auditing, and Benchmarking (papers 9694, 9954, 7658) · Chair: Ritvik Garimella 11:45 am: Paper 1929 (also presented as a poster) |
| 12:30–2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00–3:30 pm | Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Reza Ghanadan (University of Maryland), Engineering Trustworthy AI Agents: From Evaluation to Runtime Assurance 2:45 pm: Q&A 3:00–4:00 pm: Poster Session (papers 6106, 2510, 9624, 1929, 0202, 2122, 1497, 9160, 5379, 8459), pre-function area near the conference break area |
| 3:30–4:00 pm | Break (poster session continues until 4:00 pm) |
| 4:00–5:00 pm | Invited Talk: Mayank Kejriwal (University of Southern California), Building Trustworthy AI Agents for Science |
| 5:30–6:30 pm | Plenary Session |
| Day 3: Saturday, November 7 | |
| 9:00–10:30 am | 9:00 am: Day 3 opening remarks and discussion 9:30 am: Keynote (shared with ATRACC 2026): Raj Dasgupta (Naval Research Laboratory), Trustworthy Multi-Agent Autonomy in Challenged Contexts: Evidence from Maritime Capture-the-Flag 10:15 am: Q&A and discussion |
| 10:30–11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 am–12:30 pm | Invited Talk: Jim Lockett and Elena Charnetzki (The MITRE Corporation), Toward System-Level Test and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems: Assurance, Measurement, and Bounded Trust 11:45 am: Closing remarks |
The schedule is subject to change.