The International Workshop on AI for Industry (AI4I 2026)
AI4I 2026 is organized with the 2026 International Conference on Next Generation AI Systems (NGEN-AI 2026), taking place on 1–4 September 2026 in Trento, Italy, and online over Zoom.
The workshop focuses on practical, trustworthy, and deployable AI for industrial environments, connecting academic research with real industrial needs and use cases.
AI for practical industrial transformation
AI4I invites original submissions on the design, deployment, evaluation, and governance of AI solutions in industrial settings. The workshop welcomes research papers, short papers, position papers, experience reports, industrial case studies, tool demonstrations, dataset papers, benchmark papers, and lessons learned from real-world deployments.
Scope
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to support automation, optimization, quality control, maintenance, planning, monitoring, and decision-making across industrial sectors. However, applying AI in industry requires more than accurate models. Solutions must be reliable, scalable, explainable, safe, secure, cost-effective, and possible to integrate with existing workflows and legacy systems.
AI4I welcomes contributions that address these challenges in domains such as manufacturing, energy, mobility, healthcare, logistics, construction, agriculture, telecommunications, smart cities, and other industrial contexts. Submissions should clearly describe the industrial problem, the proposed AI approach, the evaluation setting, and the contribution to both research and practice.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to
- AI for manufacturing, production, and process optimization
- Predictive maintenance and anomaly detection in industrial systems
- Industrial IoT, edge AI, and cloud-edge intelligence
- Digital twins, simulation, and AI-enabled monitoring
- Computer vision for inspection, quality control, and safety
- Generative AI and LLMs for industrial workflows
- Agentic AI, autonomous operations, and decision support
- Trustworthy, explainable, safe, and responsible AI for industry
- Human-AI collaboration in industrial environments
- AI for logistics, supply chains, and resource planning
- Federated learning and privacy-preserving AI across industrial sites
- MLOps, lifecycle management, monitoring, and maintenance of industrial AI
- AI for energy efficiency, sustainability, and circular industry
- Cybersecurity, resilience, and risk management for industrial AI
- Industrial datasets, benchmarks, testbeds, and reproducibility
Key deadlines
The workshop follows the NGEN-AI 2026 schedule.
| Paper Submission | August 1st, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Author Notification | August 12th, 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Due | August 20th, 2026 |
| Conference & Workshop | 1–4 September 2026 |
University of Trento, Italy
AI4I 2026 will be held with NGEN-AI 2026 at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, in Trento, Italy.
Location
Host institution: University of Trento
Department: Information Engineering and Computer Science
Venue: Polo Ferrari - Povo 1
City: Trento, Italy
Format
NGEN-AI 2026 is planned as an in-person event in Trento, with online participation over Zoom.
Workshop leadership
Replace the names and affiliations below with the confirmed AI4I committee members.
General Chairs
TPC Chairs
Submit to AI4I
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work through the NGEN-AI 2026 submission system. Please update the button link if AI4I receives a dedicated submission track or workshop link.