The UK AI Community is pleased to announce the Fourth UK AI Conference 2026, which will be held in Nottingham, UK, from Tuesday, 29 September 2026 to Wednesday, 30 September 2026 at The Hilton Nottingham. We are delighted to continue bringing together researchers from across the UK to advance the national research on Artificial Intelligence. The conference will feature full-paper talks and poster presentations.
Submissions are now closed. Accepted full papers should prepare camera-ready versions for PMLR. See the section below.
Camera-ready (accepted full papers)
Accepted full papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Please submit your camera-ready version by 4 September 2026 (18:59 UK time) via OpenReview.
Camera-ready requirements
- Final PDF using the UK AI Conference LaTeX style, with author names and affiliations included.
- Address reviewers’ comments where appropriate; please also check language and spelling carefully.
- Where relevant, include reproducibility information and links to code or data in the paper.
- Upload the signed PMLR publication agreement (PDF) with your camera-ready submission. The corresponding author may sign on behalf of all authors.
Questions: meeting@uk-ai.org.
Original call (for reference)
This year, we invited two types of submissions:
Full Papers: for researchers wishing to give a talk and have their work published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR) as part of the conference proceedings.
Abstracts: for poster presentations at the conference.
This event will allow researchers nationwide to share work on all aspects of AI, from theory and development to application and real-world implementation. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Machine Learning Theory
- Large Language Models
- Generative AI
- AI and Society
- Ethics and Trustworthy AI
- Human–Computer Interaction
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Robotics
- Privacy-preserving Machine Learning
- AI for Healthcare
- AI for Natural and Environmental Sciences
- Smart Cities
- Digital Twins
- AI Systems
Submission Guidelines (closed)
- Full papers (for talks) must be no more than 8 pages in length (excluding references) and follow the UK AI Conference style. Authors can use appendices to provide more details.
- Abstracts (for posters) must not exceed 300 words.
Reciprocal Reviewing Requirement
Submissions of full papers were required to nominate one author to assist with the peer review of submitted works. Nominated reviewers were asked to review up to three papers.
Important Dates
- Camera-ready deadline: 4th September 2026
- Last booking date: 4th September 2026
- Conference dates: 29th September - 30th September 2026
We look forward to welcoming you to the conference.
Sponsorship
If your organisation would like to sponsor the conference, please contact meeting@uk-ai.org. We welcome contributions of any amount.