AAWT 2026 focuses on the design, engineering, evaluation, and deployment of agentic AI workflows and technologies, including autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents, multi-agent collaboration, tool-using AI systems, orchestration frameworks, and workflow automation.
The workshop is organized with the 2026 International Conference on Next Generation AI Systems (NGEN-AI 2026), taking place on 1–4 September 2026 at the University of Trento, Italy, and online over Zoom.
AAWT 2026 invites original submissions on the methods, architectures, platforms, tools, and practices needed to build and evaluate agentic AI workflows and technologies. The workshop welcomes research and practice on systems where AI agents plan, reason, call tools, coordinate tasks, interact with humans, access external services, and execute complex workflows across software, data, business, scientific, and industrial environments.
Agentic AI is rapidly changing the way digital work is organized and automated. New AI agents can support information seeking, software development, decision support, data analysis, customer service, operations, research, and many other tasks. However, building agentic systems that are reliable, transparent, secure, controllable, and useful in real settings remains a major challenge.
AAWT focuses on the full lifecycle of agentic workflows, from design and modelling to orchestration, monitoring, evaluation, deployment, governance, and maintenance. The workshop is interested in both single-agent and multi-agent systems, human-in-the-loop workflows, agent communication protocols, tool integration, memory and context management, workflow verification, and operational risks.
The workshop welcomes full research papers, short papers, position papers, experience reports, industrial case studies, tool demonstrations, benchmark papers, datasets, and papers describing lessons learned from real-world agentic AI deployments.
| Architectures and design patterns for agentic AI systems | Agentic workflow modelling, orchestration, and execution |
| Single-agent and multi-agent systems | Tool-using AI systems and integration with external services |
| Planning, reasoning, memory, and context management for agents | Human-in-the-loop and human-on-the-loop agentic workflows |
| Agent communication, coordination, negotiation, and collaboration | Evaluation, benchmarking, and testing of agentic AI workflows |
| Reliability, robustness, monitoring, and observability of AI agents | Security, privacy, safety, and misuse prevention in agentic AI systems |
| Governance, accountability, explainability, and auditability of agentic workflows | LLMOps, AgentOps, DevOps, and lifecycle management for agentic systems |
| Agentic AI for software engineering, data analysis, operations, and business processes | Industrial case studies and real-world deployment lessons |
| Datasets, benchmarks, tools, platforms, and reproducibility for agentic AI | Ethical, organizational, and societal implications of agentic automation |
All papers submitted to AAWT 2026 must be prepared using the official NGEN-AI 2026 conference template. This requirement applies to every submission.
Before submitting, download the appropriate Word or LaTeX template and follow all formatting instructions provided on the conference submission page.
The workshop follows the NGEN-AI 2026 schedule.
Authors of accepted papers must complete the requirements below and upload one complete publication package by the workshop camera-ready deadline.
Deadline time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Publisher: Springer.
Add a section immediately before the references with the heading Disclosure of Interests. If no conflict exists, include:
“The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.”
If the study involves people, animals, personal data, or biological material, also provide the relevant ethics approval, reference number, participation consent, and publication consent information.
The corresponding author must complete the official form on behalf of all authors. The paper title and author names must exactly match the final manuscript. Sign the form by hand, scan it, and include it as a PDF; typed or digital signatures are not accepted.
The archive must contain:
The PDF must match the source files exactly. Remove old versions and unused files from the archive. After registration, sign in to PayQlick, open View My Tickets, and upload the ZIP package.
Register through the official NGEN-AI Workshops portal. At least one author must register for every accepted paper that will be presented and included in the proceedings.
| Category | Early Registration | Late Registration |
|---|---|---|
| Author | $650 | $700 |
| Attendee / Non-author | $600 | $700 |
| Extra Page | $100 | $100 |
| Extra Gala Dinner Ticket | $100 | $100 |
All fees are in USD. The workshop portal lists early registration through 13 August 2026, late registration from 14 August 2026, and a final registration deadline of 29 August 2026. The registration fee includes access to the conference program, lunches, and the gala dinner.
Approved refunds are reduced by a 20% administrative fee. No refunds are available for cancellations received after 27 July 2026. Contact the organizers with questions about payment, cancellations, or participation.
AAWT 2026 will be held with NGEN-AI 2026 at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, in Trento, Italy.
Host institution: University of Trento
Department: Information Engineering and Computer Science
Venue: Polo Ferrari - Povo 1
City: Trento, Italy
NGEN-AI 2026 is planned as an in-person event in Trento, with online participation over Zoom.
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work through the NGEN-AI 2026 submission system. Please update the button link if AAWT receives a dedicated submission track or workshop link.