The Fourth UK AI Conference 2026
September 29 - 30, 2026
Nottingham, UK
The UK AI Community is pleased to announce the Fourth UK AI Conference 2026, which was held in Nottingham, UK, from Tuesday, 29 September 2026 to Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at The Hilton Nottingham. We are proud to announce that this year's UK AI Conference was supported by the Turing AI Fellowship: Somabotics Creatively Embodying AI led by the University of Nottingham.
The conference included plenary talks and poster presentations. Researchers from across the UK shared work on AI, from theory and development to application, including machine learning, ethics and trustworthy AI, computer vision, and robotics.
This webpage acts as a record of the program and talks given.
Photography credit: Ryan Warburton
Proceedings
The papers from this conference are published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, volume 348.
Programme
The conference ran Tuesday 29 - Wednesday 30 September 2026. The full programme is on the Programme page, with day-by-day schedules:
Talk and poster details are on each session page (including poster board numbers).
Evening screening - AI LENS
On Tuesday 29 September, 19:00–21:00, the Somabotics Turing AI Fellowship held AI LENS: Stories from the Latent Space at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. This was a free screening of three short films created with AI LENS, followed by a short panel. It was open to conference delegates and the public.
Venue
The conference was hosted in Nottingham, UK, from Tuesday, 29 September 2026 to Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at The Hilton Nottingham. Further details about the venue and travel are on the Venue page.
Organizing Committee
Program Committee
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Alistair Benford University of Edinburgh,
Baturalp Büyükateş University of Birmingham,
Christian Cabrera University of Cambridge,
Sarah Kiden University of Southampton,
Arianna Salili-James Natural History Museum,
Vincent Zakka Aston University,
Feng Zhou University of Nottingham,
University of Nottingham
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Lynn Rees University of Nottingham,
Hazel Sayers University of Nottingham,
Local Chair
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Steve Benford University of Nottingham,
Chairs
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Neil D. Lawrence University of Cambridge,
Sponsors
This conference was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship: Somabotics: Creatively Embodying Artificial Intelligence [grant number EP/Z534808/1]