Contents

• The Moment We Are In
• What the Conference Covers
• Call for Papers
• Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
• Get Involved
• Tickets and Pricing

The AGI Conference is returning in 2026, and this year it comes to San Francisco.

AGI-26 is the 19th edition of the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and beyond. Since 2008, it has served as the gathering place for the researchers, engineers, and thinkers who take that goal seriously.

WHEN? July 27-30, 2026 

WHERE? San Francisco, CA (In-Person and Virtual)

EARLY BIRD PRICING AVAILABLE until MARCH 31st, 2026

PURCHASE YOUR TICKET TO AGI-26

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The Moment We Are In

For most of AI’s history, general intelligence was the horizon. Something to theorize about, to work toward, to argue over at conferences and in papers. That has changed. 

The progress made in the last few years alone has forced a reckoning that no serious researcher, policymaker, or institution can afford to ignore.

We are not just building better tools. We are edging toward systems that reason, adapt, and generalize in ways that were considered distant speculation not long ago. That shift carries enormous promise and equally enormous responsibility, and it demands something that no single lab, discipline, or country can provide on its own: genuine, open, cross-disciplinary conversation.

The researchers building these systems need to be in the same room as the philosophers asking what intelligence actually means, the neuroscientists studying how biological minds work, the ethicists mapping the implications of what comes next, and the policymakers who will have to govern it. Not in separate silos. Not talking past each other. 

Together, with enough shared language and mutual respect to make the hard questions productive.

What the Conference Covers

AGI-26 is built around the questions that don’t have easy answers yet. What constitutes a credible path from narrow AI to AGI? 

How do we maintain safety and alignment as systems approach general intelligence? 

Can biological cognition inform scalable architectures? 

How do we measure genuine understanding? What governance frameworks can keep pace with what we are building?

The program includes keynote talks, peer-reviewed paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and software and hardware demos across four days, both in-person and live-streamed online.

Call for Papers

Submission deadline: April 13, 2026

The AGI Society and AGI Technical Conference Committee invite researchers, academics, and industry professionals to submit original research to AGI-26. Submissions are welcome on all aspects of AGI research and development. The conference embraces different interpretations of AGI and welcomes work that goes beyond narrow problem-solving.

Two formats are accepted. Regular Papers have a limit of 10 pages (excluding references) and should present new research results or rigorously describe new research ideas. Short Technical Communications have a limit of 4 pages (excluding references) and are suited to position papers, preliminary results, and reports on recent publications.

Papers must be written in LaTeX (preferred) or Word. Author guidelines and templates are available on the conference website. Authors may revise submissions as many times as needed before the deadline. No changes will be accepted once a paper enters review.

Submissions are welcome across a wide range of topics, including AGI architectures, neural-symbolic AI, cognitive modeling, reasoning and planning, reinforcement learning, natural language understanding, AI and neurobiology, knowledge representation, multi-agent interaction, perception, evolutionary computation, philosophy of AI, benchmark and evaluation, robotic and virtual agents, and the broader societal implications of AGI.

Prizes will be awarded for outstanding work: the Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper ($1,250), the AGI Society Prize for Best Paper ($1,000), the Springer Prize for Best Paper ($1,000), and the OpenCog Hyperon Foundation Prize for Best Student Paper ($250).

Papers are submitted through EasyChair.

Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

Proposal deadline: May 3, 2026 

Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2026

AGI-26 will include a dedicated day of workshops, tutorials, and software and hardware demos. Sessions are expected to fill either a half or full day of thematically linked presentations, and all sessions will be live-hosted and live-streamed.

To submit a proposal, send an email to agiconference@singularitynet.io with the following: presenter names and affiliations, session title, a detailed description of what you plan to present, demo images (photographs for hardware or screenshots for software), and a short paragraph explaining how the work relates to the goal of AGI. All presenters must be registered for AGI-26 once registration opens.

Get Involved

AGI-26 is open to researchers, students, industry professionals, and anyone seriously engaged with the future of intelligence. 

Whether you are submitting a paper, proposing a workshop, or attending to learn and connect, this is the place to be.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKET TO AGI-26

Visit agi-conf.org/2026 for the full schedule, speaker list, and registration options. For sponsorship or partnership inquiries, please contact agiconference@singularitynet.io

Tickets and Pricing

Tickets are on sale now. A super early bird rate of $549 is available through March 31 only, so if you know you are coming, now is the time to lock it in.

Full conference tickets (all four days, including lunch) are $799 at the regular rate. Student tickets are available at $349 with verification at registration. For those primarily interested in the investment and broader AGI landscape, a dedicated Investor Day ticket covering July 30 is available at $549.

About the AGI Society

The AGI Society is a nonprofit organization with stated goals of promoting the study of AGI, designing AGI systems, facilitating co-operation and communication in pursuit of AGI, holding AGI conferences and events about AGI, and publicizing and disseminating knowledge and views concerning AGI.