AIS26 – AI SUMMIT Styria 2026
We warmly invite you to submit contributions from industry and academia that describe original and unpublished results from applied research on Generative AI and its application in software engineering and IT security.
Topics & Tracks
An exemplary list of possible topics can be found here:
Foundations & Infrastructure
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- LLM-based agent architectures
- Collaboration & self-organization in multi-agent systems
- MLOps & LLMOps for AI systems
- System & software architectures for AI
- Selection, deployment, and roll-out of LLMs & Generative AI
- Handling overconfidence and hallucinations
- Evaluation metrics and validation rules
Software Engineering
- Integrating GenAI into SDLC & CI/CD
- AI for requirements engineering & architecture design
- AI-assisted code generation, refactoring & performance optimization
- Context-aware code suggestions
- Automated test case generation & test suite optimization
- Regression testing & coverage analysis
- AI-assisted formal verification
- Automated code reviews & defect prediction
- AI for performance testing & monitoring
- Automated code documentation
- Detecting architectural patterns & automated validation
- Specializing language models for existing codebases
IT Security
- Automated penetration testing & ethical hacking
- Intrusion & anomaly detection (incl. IoT & critical infrastructure)
- AI-based malware & phishing detection
- AI for vulnerability detection in code & patch generation
- AI-assisted secure software architecture & threat modeling
- AI-assisted network protocols & anomaly analysis
- Detection of web vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, …)
- AI-supported attack prevention & privacy
- Standardized datasets & tools for reproducible research
Interdisciplinary
- Legal frameworks for AI-supported software development
- Compliance, data protection (GDPR), and liability issues
- Regulatory requirements for critical systems
- Bias mitigation and ethical guidelines in development & testing
- Acceptance, trust, and transparency in automated processes
- Cost–benefit analyses for deploying Generative AI
- Business models and ROI for AI-supported development and security solutions
- Practical examples of AI integration in companies
- Lessons learned from pilot projects in software engineering and IT security
Submission
Submitted papers will undergo a peer-review process and will be evaluated based on originality, timeliness, correctness, and relevance to the conference. Previously published papers cannot be submitted.
Accepted papers will be published in the AIS26 Conference Proceedings.
Submissions via: EasyChair Submission.
Template
Please use the following template for your submission:
Submissions must meet the following requirements:
Format: PDF
Length: 4–12 pages
Language: English
Presentation language: German / English
– Length of the abstract for poster contributions: 2–4 pages
Timeline
Full Paper Submission (talks & poster): 29 May 2026
Author Notification: 30 June 2026
Camera-Ready Submission: 11 September 2026
Main Conference: 22–23 October 2026
