ASAI 2026 — Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial (55 JAIIO)

ASAID — Simposio Argentino de Inteligencia Artificial y Ciencia de Datos (Argentine Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science) is the AI and data-science track of the 55th edition of JAIIO (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática), the long-running flagship congress of SADIO, the Argentine computing society. 55 JAIIO is hosted in La Plata in August 2026, with ASAID running as one of its constituent symposia alongside tracks on quantum computing (ASQC), image processing and vision (SAIV), software engineering (ASSE), cybersecurity (SACS), informatics in health (CAIS), agro-informatics (CAI) and more.

On the programme

ASAID is a peer-reviewed academic symposium: researchers submit work that is reviewed and, on acceptance, presented at the congress and published in the JAIIO Memorias (proceedings), which are openly archived and indexed through the Universidad Nacional de La Plata's journal system. The symposium is chaired by Viviana Cotik (Departamento de Computación, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and ICC-CONICET), Carlos Sarraute (Disruptive Research Institute and Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires) and Florencia Pollo-Cattaneo (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires) — a blend of academic and applied-research leadership. Because it sits inside JAIIO, attendees can move between AI and data-science sessions and adjacent symposia on quantum computing, computer vision, simulation and the societal dimensions of technology, all at one venue.

Where it fits in today's AI

Argentina has produced an outsized share of Latin America's machine-learning talent, and JAIIO has been the region's institutional home for computing research for over five decades. ASAID matters because it is a genuinely local, Spanish- and Portuguese-language, peer-reviewed venue for AI and data science — a place where research grounded in Latin American data, languages, institutions and problems can be presented and published without being filtered through the priorities of North American or European conferences. As the global field grapples with multilingual and low-resource modelling, fairness across dialects and cultures, and the governance of AI in emerging economies, the contextual knowledge concentrated in venues like this is increasingly valuable to the field as a whole. For students, academics and applied researchers across Argentina and the Southern Cone, ASAID and the wider 55 JAIIO offer an accessible, rigorous and regionally rooted forum to publish, present and build the networks that sustain a national research community — and a reminder that a globally healthy AI ecosystem depends on strong regional scholarship, not just a few dominant hubs. Submission, registration and the preliminary programme are handled through the 55 JAIIO site run by SADIO.

JAIIO itself has run since the early 1970s, making it one of Latin America's longest-standing computing congresses, and its multi-symposium format means a single trip to La Plata gives attendees access to AI and data science plus a dozen adjacent fields, along with associated events such as the WER requirements-engineering workshop and the Campus Virtuales sessions. The August timing and the choice of La Plata — a major university city anchored by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and a strong UTN regional faculty — reinforce its role as a gathering point for the national research and student community. For anyone tracking how AI research and education are developing across Argentina and the Southern Cone, ASAID within 55 JAIIO is the central annual fixture.