ACM AI Leadership Summit
August 30 - September 02, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Welcome to the inaugural ACM AI Leadership Summit
The inaugural AI Leadership Summit 2026 represents a major commitment by ACM to advancing thoughtful leadership around the future of artificial intelligence. Bringing together researchers, practitioners, industry executives, educators, and policymakers, the Summit will explore the transformative impact of AI across science, education, industry, government, and society. Through keynotes, panels, and interactive sessions, participants will engage with topics ranging from frontier AI technologies and agentic systems to governance, ethics, workforce transformation, creative collaboration, and more. Conceived and supported by leaders from across ACM—including its elected officers, boards and councils, Special Interest Groups, and professional staff—the Summit is uniquely positioned to foster the cross-sector dialogue, interdisciplinary collaboration, and collective action needed to ensure that AI advances human knowledge, strengthens society, and serves the public good.
What's New
- The call for the Doctoral Consortium has now closed. Thank you to our 141 applicants! We will send out decisions by June 30.
- The call for the Papers Track is available! Submissions are due June 30.
- Registration is open! Register by June 30 for discounted rates.
Program Highlights
- Doctoral Consortium: Nurturing Future Leaders of AI
- Rethinking the Future: Frontier Models and Technologies for a New Era of AI
- Responsible and Ethical AI: Governance, Policy, Accountability, and Trust
- AI and the Creative Arts: Human-AI Co-Creation and Cultural Transformation
- AI and the Workforce: Augmentation, Reskilling, and the Future of Work
- Agentic AI: Autonomous Systems that Plan, Reason, and Act
- ACM SIGs Day featuring parallel tracks on AI for infrastructure and systems, software development, societal impact, education, and more