{"slug": "acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026", "title": "ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems – ACM CAIS 2026", "summary": "Registration for the ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems (ACM CAIS 2026) has reached capacity, with a waitlist now open. The four-day event, running from May 26–29 in San Jose, California, will feature 63 peer-reviewed research papers, 46 system demonstrations, and keynote addresses from leaders including Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski and Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar. The conference, which has partnered with the AI Engineer World's Fair, brings together over 115 academic and industry institutions focused on compound AI architectures and agentic systems.", "body_md": "**Registration has reached capacity.**\n\n[Join the waitlist](/pages/registration/)\n\n# Building the Future of Agentic & AI Systems\n\nACM CAIS 2026 — The premier venue for rigorous, reproducible research on compound AI architectures, optimization, and deployment.\n\n**Workshops & Tutorials**— Tue, May 26\n\n**Main Conference**— Wed–Fri, May 27–29\n\n[Join Waitlist](/pages/registration/)\n\nCAIS hotel room block & rates available until April 26 May 15\n\n## DoubleTree by Hilton San Jose\n\n2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 95110\n\nComplimentary shuttle to/from San Jose International Airport (SJC) • Discounted parking $10/day\n\n**Group Rate: $159/night + tax**\n\n[Book Hotel](https://book.passkey.com/go/ACMConferenceonAiAgentic)\n\n## Keynote Speakers\n\nHear from leaders shaping the future of AI and agentic systems.\n\n### Andy Konwinski\n\nCo-founder of [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com) and [Perplexity AI](https://www.perplexity.ai) · Founder of [Laude Institute](https://laude.institute)\n\nLaude's \"Ship Your Research\" mission funds open-source AI research through its Moonshots, Slingshots, and Open Frontier programs. Terminal-Bench, a Laude-backed agent benchmark, has become an industry-wide standard for measuring command line performance.\n\n### Thariq Shihipar\n\nMember of Technical Staff, Claude Code · [Anthropic](https://anthropic.com)\n\nThariq is a core builder of Claude Code, the agentic coding tool that has become one of the most widely adopted developer interfaces for working with LLMs. His technical writing on prompt caching, tool design, and \"unhobbling\" has shaped how practitioners think about building reliable agentic systems.\n\n### Percy Liang\n\nProfessor at [Stanford](https://cs.stanford.edu/~pliang/) · Co-founder of [Together AI](https://www.together.ai/) and [Simile AI](https://www.simile.ai/) · Creator of [Marin](https://marin.community/)\n\nPercy Liang is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, co-founder of Together AI and Simile AI, and the creator of Marin, which aims to build frontier models fully in the open. He has made a number of contributions in AI, including the SQuAD question answering dataset, the HELM benchmarking framework, generative agents, prefix tuning, and coining the term \"foundation models\".\n\n## The 2026 Program\n\nFour days in San Jose, May 26–29. One day of workshops and tutorials, followed by three days of peer-reviewed research papers, system demonstrations, and keynotes.\n\nTue, May 26\n\n### 5 Workshops & Tutorials\n\nDay-long programs on agent skills, agentic software engineering, RL environments, discovery agents, and more.\n\n[Browse Workshops](/pages/workshops/)\n\nWed–Fri, May 27–29\n\n### 63 Research Papers\n\nPeer-reviewed contributions on architecture, optimization, evaluation, security, and engineering of AI and agentic systems.\n\n[Browse Papers](/program/2026/papers/)\n\nWed–Fri, May 27–29\n\n### 46 System Demos\n\nWorking implementations of AI systems and agent systems, presented live by their authors.\n\n[Browse Demos](/program/2026/demos/)\n\n### Participating Institutions\n\nCAIS 2026 papers and demos come from **115+ institutions** across academia and industry, including:\n\n### At a Glance\n\nTue, May 26 |\n|\n\n**Wed, May 27**[Main Conference — Day 1 (papers, demos, keynote)](/schedule/2026/wednesday/)** Thu, May 28**[Main Conference — Day 2 (papers, demos, keynote)](/schedule/2026/thursday/)** Fri, May 29**[Main Conference — Day 3 (papers, demos, keynote)](/schedule/2026/friday/)\n\n```\nCAIS × AI Engineer World's Fair\nACM CAIS 2026 has partnered with the AI Engineer World's Fair (June 29–July 2, Moscone West, San Francisco). Accepted CAIS papers that earn an Industry Spotlight or Operational Experience designation will be invited to present at both venues — giving authors peer review through ACM plus a stage in front of 6,000+ practicing engineers.\n\nLearn more\n                \n\nBecome a sponsor\n```\n\n## Our Sponsors Are Hiring\n\nCAIS sponsors are looking for researchers and engineers to build the next generation of AI and agentic systems. Explore open roles from companies shaping this space.\n\n[View Open Positions](/pages/jobs/)\n\n## What is ACM CAIS?\n\nA high-signal forum for rigorous, reproducible research on agentic and AI systems—architectures that shift the Pareto frontier through principled composition of multiple system components, smart inference-time scaling strategies, and systematic verification methods for reliable deployment.\n\n### Architectural Patterns & Composition\n\nNetworks of Networks and inference-time scaling architectures. Verifier-based systems leveraging generation/verification asymmetry. RAG, multi-agent, and tool-augmented designs.\n\n### System Optimization & Efficiency\n\nEnd-to-end optimization of non-differentiable pipelines. Cost-performance trade-offs, resource allocation across components, and automated architecture search for compound systems at scale.\n\n### Engineering & Operations\n\nMLOps for compound AI. Monitoring, debugging, observability, and specifications. Security and safety in multi-component systems. Production deployment case studies.\n\n### Evaluation & Benchmarking\n\nMetrics for compound system performance. Reproducibility frameworks and artifact standards. Comparative evaluation methodologies and real-world impact assessment.\n\n## Conference Leadership\n\nACM CAIS is guided by leading researchers who defined the compound AI systems paradigm—scholars and practitioners from MIT, Stanford, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and beyond.\n\nSteering Committee\n\nOrganizing Committee\n\n## Be part of the inaugural ACM CAIS\n\nJoin us May 26–29, 2026 in San Jose. Registration is at capacity, but you can join the waitlist.\n\n## Become a Sponsor\n\nPut your organization in front of 500+ researchers and practitioners defining the future of compound AI systems — from top university labs to industry teams deploying agentic architectures at scale.\n\nGold $20,000 · Silver $12,000 · Bronze $6,000 · À la carte from $1,500", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026", "canonical_source": "https://www.caisconf.org/", "published_at": "2026-05-27 02:25:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 02:57:59.755658+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["ACM", "Andy Konwinski", "Databricks", "Perplexity AI", "Laude Institute", "Thariq Shihipar", "Anthropic", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/acm-conference-on-ai-and-agentic-systems-acm-cais-2026.jsonld"}}