ANNOUNCING 🥁🥁🥁: the inaugural ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems! 🚀 (ACM CAIS 2026) Agents are now everywhere, compound AI systems have become the norm. The hard problems now are things like how to compose agents, how to optimize pipelines you can't differentiate

Oh neat there's an account too, follow ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems. This is a good opportunity to reiterate the emerging distinction between systems beneath machine learning (ML Systems) versus systems above machine learning (AI Systems).

I'm thrilled to be co-organizing a new ACM research Conference on Agentic & AI Systems (CAIS) this spring! It's the first conference focused solely on this field. 🌐caisconf.org 📍San Jose, May 26-29, 2026 🗓️Paper deadline Feb 27th Follow ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems for updates!

ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems lingjiao chen and I are the workshop co-chairs, so look out for more info about that in the coming weeks!