Call for Scientific Presentations
AI Day 2026
AI Day is the main annual event highlighting Finnish AI research, taking place on October 20, 2026, in Otaniemi, Espoo, Finland.
A key aim of the scientific program is to provide a comprehensive overview of the various AI research directions pursued in Finland. To this end, we encourage submissions presenting recent research results and innovative applications of all areas of AI, including (but not restricted to):
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems
Computational Intelligence
Computer Vision
Constraints, Satisfiability, and Optimization
Games and Virtual Environments
Heuristic Search
Human Aspects in AI
Human Computer Interaction
Information Retrieval and Filtering
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications
Natural Language Processing
Planning and Scheduling
Robotics
Safe, Explainable, and Trustworthy AI
Semantic Technologies
Uncertainty in AI
The scientific program of AI Day 2026 is organized by the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society FAIS (Suomen tekoälyseura STeS).IMPORTANT DATES
Call opens: May 25, 2026
Submission deadline: August 14, 2026
Notification of acceptance: September 7, 2026
Registration deadline for presenters: September 20, 2026
AI Day: October 20, 2026
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
The focus of the scientific program is in communicating frontier research of the Finnish AI research community. Submissions from outside Finland are not considered.
There are two submission categories:
1. Posters, submitted as a 1-page abstract (or a longer paper)
2. Talks/Posters, submitted as a full paper that has been published in or submitted to, or will be submitted to an international conference in or after 2026. The program committee chooses a subset of the papers for presentation as a talk, and the rest of the accepted submissions will be presented as posters.
As the submitted abstracts/papers will only be used in selecting the posters and the talks, the submissions can be in any paper style. The only accepted file format is PDF.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The submission deadline is August 14, 2026. Late submissions will not be considered.
As there will be no published formal proceedings, submitting work for presentation at AI Day 2026 will not disqualify the work from being submitted and published at other forums.
WHERE AND HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions are through the Microsoft CMT website. Register for Microsoft CMT and submit a single PDF file together with the required metadata by August 14. (LINK WILL BE POSTED HERE BY MAY 25)
AI DAY REGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS
To confirm participation in AI Day and to aid the preparation of the presentation schedule, all accepted presenters must register for AI Day by September 20. If you have not registered by September 20, your presentation will not be included in the conference program.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE AND THE SELECTION PROCESS
Program committee:
TO BE COMPLETED
Lili Aunimo, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Juha Harviainen, University of Helsinki
Leo Lahti, University of Turku
Ilkka Pölönen, University of Jyväskylä
Jussi Rintanen, Aalto University (Chair)
Rebekah Rousi, University of Vaasa
The submissions will be screened for suitability, with an emphasis on scientific relevance in terms of AI research and interest to the Finnish AI research community. A key aim in the selection of presentations is to obtain a balanced scientific program covering the various AI research directions pursued in Finland.
Detailed instructions on the final form of scientific presentations will be later provided to authors of accepted presentations.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
