AAAI 2026 Summer Symposium Series (Seoul)

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence brings its 2026 Summer Symposium Series to Dongguk University in Seoul from 22 to 24 June 2026, the first time the series has been hosted in South Korea. The format runs several intimate, parallel symposia at a common site, each typically capped at 30 to 50 participants, so that researchers can spend far more time on feedback and discussion than a one-day workshop allows. AAAI enforces a strict in-person, no-virtual-presentation policy, and all attendees, presenters and organisers must register.

The 2026 programme comprises four symposia. AI-Driven Resilience examines large language models, agentic decision-making and predictive analytics for crisis management, with new tracks on socio-technical resilience and policy frameworks. AI in Business: Intelligent Transformation and Management looks at AI across strategic forecasting, operations, finance, marketing and governance, with LLM agents and responsible-AI threads. Architectures for Embodied Agents convenes the planning, cognitive-architecture, robotics and foundation-model communities to build verifiable, safe embodied agents that combine logical constraints with data-driven flexibility. Human-Aware AI Agents for the Cyber Battlefield covers attacker agents for red-teaming, autonomous defenders, and human-AI teaming in security operations.

Each symposium opens its sessions with keynote talks followed by contributed paper presentations and panel discussions, and accepted papers are published in the AAAI symposium proceedings. The series is co-chaired by Christopher Geib (Charles River Analytics) and Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University), with Prof. Woojin Lee of Dongguk University as local chair. Attendees come from academia, industry and research labs across robotics, cognitive systems, safe AI, human-robot interaction and applied machine learning, making it a compact but high-density gathering point for the AI research community in East Asia.