Main Sponsor
The German Federal State of Bremen is proud to host IJCAI and ECAI 2026. Based on its many years of expertise, strong networks, and excellent research, Bremen has established itself as a location for interdisciplinary AI research with a strong focus on practical applications, particularly in industry. AI and machine learning are highly relevant as key technologies for every company. They offer enormous potential for value creation, e.g., in sectors such as robotics, medical technology, and traditional industrial applications. Bremen is home to strong players and world-leading minds in this field of technology, who contribute their vast reservoir of knowledge. The Senate, the government of the Federal State of Bremen, is promoting the development of Bremen as an AI location with the aim of raising its profile in national and international competition. IJCAI and ECAI will focus the industry’s attention on Bremen and offer an outstanding opportunity for the location and its players.
Diamond Sponsors
The editorial process of the Artificial Intelligence Journal is performed by the Artificial Intelligence Journal Division, AIJD, under a contract with Elsevier BV, the company that publishes the Journal. It is in charge of the acquisition, reception, selection, and evaluation of contributions to the AIJ, supplies accepted contributions to Elsevier for publication. In formal terms, AIJD is one of the two divisions of IJCAI, the other division being IJCAI’s organization for its yearly conferences. The inclusion of AIJ activities as a division within IJCAI occurred in 2002.
The journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ) welcomes papers on broad aspects of AI that constitute advances in the overall field including, but not limited to, cognition and AI, automated reasoning and inference, case-based reasoning, commonsense reasoning, computer vision, constraint processing, ethical AI, heuristic search, human interfaces, intelligent robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning and action, and reasoning under uncertainty. The journal reports results achieved in addition to proposals for new ways of looking at AI problems, both of which must include demonstrations of value and effectiveness.
Platinum Sponsors
Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
The German Federal State of Lower Saxony is proud to support IJCAI and ECAI 2026.
As Bremen’s neighboring state and a close research partner in northwest Germany, Lower Saxony has established itself as a strong location for artificial intelligence, combining excellent fundamental research with a clear focus on real-world applications.
AI and machine learning are key technologies for science, industry, and public services alike, offering enormous potential for value creation — for example in energy, mobility, agriculture, health, and production. Lower Saxony is home to internationally recognized research institutions such as OFFIS in Oldenburg, the DFKI laboratory in Osnabrück and Oldenburg, the and the L3S Research Center in Hannover, whose work is supported by the State Government’s dedicated AI strategy and the joint research funding program zukunft.niedersachsen.
IJCAI and ECAI offer an outstanding opportunity to present the region’s AI expertise and its people to an international audience.
Gold Sponsor
The Savings Banks Finance Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe) is the largest financial group in Germany. It is decentralized, regionally anchored, and committed to serving the common good. The Group comprises 338 savings banks, Landesbanken, DekaBank, public insurance companies, building societies, and numerous financial service providers. Together, these institutions form a strong nationwide network that supports individuals, businesses, and municipalities in all regions of Germany. The Group’s organizational structure, its strong credit standing, and its unique institutional protection scheme provide a high level of financial stability and trust, both nationally and internationally. The German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) represents the interests of the Savings Banks Finance Group and coordinates its strategic development at the national and European level. Within this network, individual institutions such as Die Sparkasse Bremen AG contribute to the Group’s diversity and regional strength through their close ties to local communities and economies. Die Sparkasse Bremen AG is the leading financial services provider in the Hanseatic City of Bremen. With total assets of more than EUR 15 billion and a workforce of over 1,150 employees, it is one of the largest savings banks in Germany. Founded in 1825 by citizens of Bremen as an independent public savings bank, it combines a long tradition with a strong regional focus. The bank is a key partner for small and medium-sized enterprises, supporting entrepreneurial growth with industry expertise and local presence. Private customers benefit from award-winning advisory services covering savings, financing, retirement planning, and real estate. By combining regional proximity, institutional cooperation, and long-term responsibility, the Savings Banks Finance Group and its member institutions contribute to financial stability, economic development, and sustainable value creation in Germany and beyond.
DeepL is a global AI company building the language infrastructure that powers global business. More than 200,000 organizations and millions of individuals use DeepL’s Language AI platform to communicate globally, collaborate and operate across languages in real time. By combining breakthrough AI models with enterprise-grade security and privacy, DeepL enables organizations to work seamlessly across markets and cultures. Founded in 2017 by CEO Jarek Kutylowski, DeepL now has more than 1,000 employees and is backed by leading investors including Benchmark, IVP and Index Ventures. Learn more at www.deepl.com.
T- Systems is the IT and digitalization division of Deutsche Telekom AG, headquartered in Germany. The company supports international enterprises and public sector clients in their digital transformation, offering services in the fields of cloud, cybersecurity, AI, IT infrastructure, SAP, and digital platforms. T-Systems employs over 25,000 people worldwide and ranks among Europe’s leading IT service providers, with a focus on secure and sovereign digitalization solutions.
SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for the management of business processes. As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology.
For over 50 years, organisations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. We are committed to helping the world run better and improving people’s lives. Our vision is to bring out the best in every business.
Learn more about SAP’s Business AI Research at https://url.sap/v3pc58.
Silver Sponsors
Hessian.AI – the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence is a state-wide research and innovation center managed by the Technical University of Darmstadt. Focusing on excellence in research, it bundles the AI competence of 13 Hessian universities comprising more than 80 scientific members; 22 dedicated AI professorships have been new established. The collaboration between the universities at hessian.AI fosters cutting-edge AI research and outreach into the partner-faculties and beyond, it enables researchers to address complex questions that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries. Hessian.AI’s mission is to act as a hub for innovation in AI.
Working together to turn digital transformation into a digital advantage: with IT solutions that make people’s lives safer and easier. This is our vision. Our mission: to securely protect digital data and identities with the objective of enabling Germany to achieve end-to-end digitalization. For 25 years now, more than 335 dedicated Governikus employees have been working to protect personal data. Secure identities, legally compliant communication, and the protection of sensitive data are central aspects of our solutions. Governikus offers IT components for digitalization that support the federal government, states, municipalities, and the judiciary in implementing their strategies. With Governikus ITU GmbH, we are expanding our portfolio to include IT solutions for environmental protection and waste management.
CONTACT is the leading vendor of open standard software and open source pioneer for the product engineering process and the digital transformation. Our products make it easier to organize projects, execute processes reliably and collaborate with others around the world on the basis of virtual product models and their digital twins. Our open technology and Elements platform are ideal for integrating additional IT systems and the Internet of Things to create end-to-end business processes.
The Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS develops effective strategies for the prevention of chronic, non-communicable diseases. Supporting a healthy life-course early on is our primary goal. The focus of our research is therefore on factors beyond individual diseases, such as lifestyle and environment, biological and social factors, as well as early detection of diseases and drug safety. Our research spectrum covers methodological development, the identification of the causes of diseases, and intervention and implementation research. The BIPS advances the responsible use of AI to strengthen our prevention and public health research. AI expands our ability to analyze complex health data, improve risk prediction and support earlier, more targeted interventions, but this depends on high-quality, well-governed health data. By combining strong epidemiological data, methodological excellence and careful validation in real-world settings, BIPS aims to ensure that AI contributes to equitable, evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention.
Franka Robotics is a German, research-driven robotics company headquartered in Munich and operating globally. Founded in 2016, it is part of the Agile Robots since 2023. Our mission is to enable the growing community of robotics and AI professionals to shape a pivotal moment in human evolution: giving AI a robot body. By developing the reference robotics platform, Franka Robotics drives continuous advancements in the field, fostering collaboration, creativity, and knowledge sharing among robotics and AI professionals worldwide.
We are thrilled that this year, the IJCAI, one of the world’s most prestigious conferences on Artificial Intelligence research, is coming to Bremen.
The University of Bremen has built a strong foundation for scientific excellence through its high-profile area Minds, Media, Machines (MMM), the DFG Collaborative Research Center EASE, and the EFRE-funded IT infrastructure Biosignals-HUB for biosignal-adaptive systems. This is complemented by numerous other university facilities that explore AI topics from the ground up and drive innovation.
Our strong partnerships enable us to link fundamental research with application-oriented projects. The U Bremen Research Alliance (UBRA) plays a central role in consolidating AI research across Bremen, making a significant contribution to the development of human-centered, responsible AI applications.
Through the Northwest Alliance, we are connected beyond Bremen’s borders. This enables us to combine excellent research in northwest Germany and the Netherlands with societal responsibility, developing innovative solutions to the challenges of tomorrow.
We are pleased to support IJCAI 2026 — one of the most distinguished conferences in Artificial Intelligence research.
At the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, AI research thrives at the intersection of scientific curiosity and practical relevance. The newly established WiZArD — Scientific Centre for Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science — brings together researchers from computer science, natural sciences, law, and medicine. The Oldenburg AI4Health division is dedicated to reliable and explainable machine learning in the biomedical domain. The Computational Intelligence Lab drives research in machine learning, evolutionary computation, and intelligent systems and in three recently awarded Excellence Clusters — Hearing4all.connects, NaviSense, and Ocean Floor — AI-based methods play an increasingly central role.
In close collaboration with the DFKI Lower Saxony laboratory, specializing in marine perception and AI for autonomous systems, and OFFIS, the Oldenburg IT institute, we form part of a dynamic regional AI-research ecosystem.
Together with the University of Bremen, we are part of the Northwest Alliance — a cross-border network spanning northwest Germany and the Netherlands — pursuing AI research that is both excellent and grounded in societal responsibility.
We look forward to welcoming the global AI community to the northwest.
The German Informatics Society (GI) is the largest professional association for computer science and informatics in the German-speaking world, bringing together more than 17,000 individual and 250 corporate members. Since its founding in 1969, the GI has represented the interests of the computing community and serves as a central platform for all disciplines within informatics. With 14 technical committees, more than 150 expert groups and over 30 active regional groups, and numerous special interest groups, it provides a comprehensive network and a strong voice for the field.
The technical committee on artificial intelligence (FBKI) oversees the research activities of the GI in all subfields of artificial intelligence (AI), covering theoretical aspects, software and hardware engineering, and connections to application areas.
As a network of informatics professionals, the GI and the FBKI are committed to shaping a form of digitalization that works for everyone. Its activities are grounded in scientific rigor, guided by a search for integrative solutions, and characterized by openness to innovation and emerging developments.
Together, its members from academia, industry, public administration, and civil society drive the discipline forward, raise critical questions, and continuously generate new impulses. In doing so, they contribute to a public-interest-oriented, inclusive, and forward-looking development of computer science. More information and opportunities for participation: https://gi.de/
Cerence AI is proud to sponsor IJCAI‑ECAI 2026 and to engage with a global community advancing foundational AI research and responsible innovation. We look forward to exchanging ideas and learning from the community shaping the next generation of intelligent systems.
Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC) is a global industry leader in creating intuitive, seamless, AI-powered experiences across automotive and transportation. Leveraging decades of innovation and expertise in voice, generative AI, and large language models, Cerence powers integrated experiences that create safer, more connected, and more enjoyable journeys for drivers and passengers alike. With more than 525 million cars shipped with Cerence technology, the company partners with leading automakers, transportation OEMs, and technology companies to advance the next generation of user experiences. Cerence is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with operations globally and a worldwide team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI innovation. For more information, visit www.cerence.ai.
Rosenxt is a forward-thinking technology group. Launched in 2023 by Hermann Rosen, the founder of the ROSEN Group, the company builds on decades of engineering excellence. As a privately owned global partner with more than 650 employees worldwide, Rosenxt continues to focus on developing cutting-edge technologies and has broad expertise in sensor technology, autonomous robotics, physical AI, and advanced materials. The company explores and develops highly innovative products and advanced technological services for markets in harsh environments – the underwater sector, industrial production, renewable energy, and integrity of assets in water and energy supply. The headquarters of the Rosenxt Group is located in Switzerland. For more information, please visit www.rosen-nxt.com.
Careers at E.ON: We’re transforming Europe’s energy. Together with you!
We are the playmakers of the energy transition: with more than 78,000 dedicated colleagues, we at E.ON are shaping the future of energy. Together we’re driving change – with sustainable solutions, smart services, and a clear goal: a climate-friendly energy future across Europe.
The energy world is complex. That’s why E.ON brings together engineers and accountants, lawyers and technicians, IT specialists and project managers – and many more. We offer exciting roles where you can put your skills and knowledge to work. No matter whether you join us as an apprentice, young talent, experienced professional or leader – you’ll always have opportunities to grow and develop.
Further information about E.ON is available at https://www.eon.com/de/ueber-uns/karriere.html
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is one of the world’s largest independent AI research centers. Founded in 1988 as a public–private partnership, DFKI combines scientific excellence with a strong focus on real-world impact. It advances innovation in key future-oriented areas of artificial intelligence while addressing societal challenges and promoting human-centered, trustworthy AI systems.
With multiple research sites across Germany and a strong international network, DFKI conducts application-oriented basic research in close collaboration with industry and public-sector partners. This approach accelerates the transfer of research results into practice and contributes to technological progress, economic competitiveness, and the responsible use of AI in society.
At its Bremen site, DFKI plays a key role in applied AI research, particularly in robotics and cyber-physical systems. Embedded in a vibrant regional innovation ecosystem, it exemplifies the close integration of research and application – an approach that also highlights Bremen’s role as host of IJCAI-ECAI 2026.
ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence) Dresden/Leipzig is a center for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data with locations in Dresden and Leipzig. It is one of the five new AI centers in Germany funded under the federal government’s AI strategy by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Free State of Saxony. It is established as a permanent research facility at both locations with strong connections to the local universities: the TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Leipzig University.
Learn more about ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig here: https://scads.ai/
SHAPING YOUR DIGITAL FUTURE
team neusta is your strategic partner for the digital future. We have been shaping the digital industry with a pioneering spirit for over 30 years. We offer strategic foresight, effective creativity and technological excellence. Our aim is to actively shape the future – for sustainable success and genuine differentiation.
With nine locations in Germany and Switzerland, team neusta employs around 1,000 people and is, amon others, active in sectors including retail, logistics, the public sector, tourism, defence, insurance and finance.
• Founded: 1993
• Headquarters: Bremen
• Employees: 1,000 experts
• Locations: 9 in Germany and Switzerland
• Focus: Digital consulting, development and operation
At JPMorganChase, AI Research is a global team of 100+ research scientists, engineers and product managers that develop novel AI capabilities and partner across the firm to translate breakthrough AI/ML into deployed solutions. Our team brings together researchers in diverse areas including formal reasoning, planning and verification, trustworthy AI, foundation model training, synthetic data, document AI, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and cryptography. From early-stage innovation through production-scale delivery, we deliver measurable business impact through our research and industry-leading thought leadership.
GPTZero is proud to sponsor IJCAI-ECAI 2026 and to support a global community advancing responsible AI. As the world’s most trusted platform for AI detection, GPTZero serves more than 19 million users worldwide, and helps organizations distinguish between authentic human work and low-quality AI content.
GPTZero’s AI detection and hallucination detection technology is trusted by many of the world’s leading machine learning conferences, including IJCAI, to safeguard the integrity and quality of scholarly work. Beyond the research community, GPTZero has partnered with the American Federation of Teachers — representing two million educators — to help teachers do their best work in the classroom. By combining cutting-edge detection models with a commitment to transparency, GPTZero enables institutions across research, education, and industry to uphold authenticity at scale.
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) conducts research in the Arctic, Antarctic and oceans of the high and mid-latitudes. It coordinates polar research in Germany and provides major infrastructure to the international scientific community, such as the research icebreaker Polarstern and stations in the Arctic and Antarctica. The Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the 18 research centres of the Helmholtz Association, the largest scientific organisation in Germany.
Founded in 2025, the School of Artificial Intelligence (SAI) advances frontier AI research and education. Supported by the Greater Bay Area’s innovation ecosystem, SAI develops core AI technologies and interdisciplinary applications while cultivating global talent.
Our research focuses on multiple areas, from foundational fields such as machine learning, AI foundations, natural language processing, and large language models, to pioneering explorations in cognitive science, embodied intelligence, signal representation, robotics, autonomous systems, and responsible AI. Building on this, the School prioritizes applying AI technologies across disciplines. We are transcending traditional academic boundaries and deploying AI in critical fields such as fundamental sciences, medicine, finance, and social sciences. This strategic approach drives technological innovation and deep industrial integration.
The School strives to elevate China’s teaching and research capabilities in AI through a series of systematic, original breakthroughs with significant international impact. At the same time, supported by a top-tier faculty and cutting-edge research platforms, the School is committed to cultivating the next generation of AI leaders equipped with both deep theoretical foundations and outstanding practical expertise.
We are actively recruiting exceptional faculty members worldwide for positions at all academic ranks. At this conference, SAI seeks to engage with researchers, students, and industry partners to forge new partnerships and collaboration opportunities. Learn more at https://sai.cuhk.edu.cn/en.
The University of Bremen and thirteen non-university research institutes jointly funded by Germany’s federal and state governments collaborate within the U Bremen Research Alliance. Its members include institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, and Max Planck Society, as well as the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Their collaboration spans Marine, Polar, and Climate Research; Materials Science and Health Sciences; and Minds, Media, Machines. The U Bremen Research Alliance fosters close collaboration between university-based and non-university research, creating a regional space for research, innovation, and knowledge transfer that is shaped by unique research infrastructures and cross-institutional cooperation. The U Bremen Research Alliance is contributing to IJCAI-ECAI 2026 as a local co-host and Silver Partner.
The Helmholtz Association is Europe’s largest research organisation and combines unique resources of many scientific disciplines that are distributed across its 18 research centers.
Helmholtz AI is an application-driven AI platform accelerating science across the Helmholtz Association. Our vision is to democratize AI and advance its capabilities for tackling frontier scientific questions while harnessing its power for solving the grand challenges facing research nd society.
Our key objectives include:
- Enabling the development and implementation of AI solutions.
- Promoting collaboration within the Helmholtz Association and with external partners.
- Ensuring accessibility and effective use of tools, data, compute capabilities, and expertise.
- Elevating the Helmholtz Association into top-level international visibility within the applied AI community.
Helmholtz AI hosts AI research groups and AI consultancy teams to ensure wide dissemination of methods as well as broad uptake of data-based research questions. We fund projects that connect researchers across centers and are proud of our annual HAICON AI for Science Conference that recently gathered almost 700 researchers.
We are part of the Helmholtz Information & Data Science ecosystem, which covers digital services and expertise in AI research, consulting, methodology development, imaging, metadata management, as well as technical infrastructure, cloud, and software solutions and runs the Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy with its graduate schools. All offerings and support services are available on the respective platform websites and in our brochure.
Bronze Sponsor
OHB SE is a German space and technology group and one of the leading independent players in the European space industry. With decades of experience in the implementation demanding space projects, the OHB Group offers a broad portfolio of innovative products and solutions. Leveraging the expertise of around 3,500 highly qualified employees across Europe and overseas, the company is strongly positioned in international competition and has earned a reputation as a reliable partner for government institutions and private-sector customers.
A global leader in advanced information and decision support, Elsevier helps to advance science and healthcare, to advance human progress. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making with innovative solutions based on trusted, evidence-based content and advanced AI-enabled digital technologies.
We have supported the work of our research and healthcare communities for more than 140 years. Our 9,700 employees around the world, including 2,300 technologists, are dedicated to supporting researchers, librarians, academic leaders, funders, governments, R&D-intensive companies, doctors, nurses, future healthcare professionals and educators in their critical work. Our 3,000 scientific journals and iconic reference books include the foremost titles in their fields, including Cell Press, The Lancet and Gray’s Anatomy. Together with the Elsevier Foundation, we work in partnership with the communities we serve to advance inclusion in science, research and healthcare in developing countries and around the world.
Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information on our work, digital solutions and content, visit www.elsevier.com.
Donations
The Alumni of the University of Bremen e.V. supports the Diversity and Inclusion Lunch at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, held in Bremen on August 18, 2026. As the University of Bremen’s alumni organization, we view diversity and openness as essential foundations of academic work and inclusion as a key element of socially responsible research, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. Through our engagement, we demonstrate our commitment to openness, equal opportunity, and responsible action.
