Location and Time
Location: NeurIPS 2026, Paris. Date: Sunday, December 13, 2026, from 9:00 to 18:00 local time. Room TBD.
Program (preliminary)
The program is preliminary and may change; see the speakers page for talk titles and speaker bios.
| Event | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and introduction | Organizers | 9:00 |
| Invited talk 1: Can AI help with reproducible science? (20 min + 10 min Q&A) | Isabelle Guyon | 9:20 |
| Break | - | 9:50 |
| Invited talk 2: Is Faster Science Better Science? Virtuous Use of AI in Research (20 min + 10 min Q&A) | Vlasta Sikimić | 10:00 |
| Lightning talks (3 to 5 min each) | Authors of accepted papers | 10:30 |
| Break | - | 11:30 |
| Panel session and moderated discussion | Autumn Toney-Wails (moderator) | 11:40 |
| Lunch, poster session, and unconference topic suggestions | All participants | 12:30 |
| Invited talk 3 (20 min + 10 min Q&A) | Thomas G. Dietterich | 14:00 |
| Demo track talk: The AAAI 2026 AI reviewer experiment (10 min + 10 min Q&A) | Joydeep Biswas | 14:30 |
| Lightning talks (3 to 5 min each) | Authors of accepted papers | 14:50 |
| Break | - | 15:30 |
| Invited talk 4 (20 min + 10 min Q&A) | Jack Stilgoe | 15:40 |
| Unconference: breakout sessions | All participants | 16:10 |
| Break | - | 17:00 |
| Plenary: sharing findings of the unconference | All participants | 17:10 |
| Closing remarks | Organizers | 17:50 |
| Adjourn | - | 18:00 |