From December 5, 2026 to December 11, 2026
NeurIPS 2026 | The 40th NeurIPS splits across Sydney, Atlanta and Paris, with robot learning on the workshop slate
The Fortieth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems holds its main meeting at ICC Sydney on December 6–12, 2026, with official satellites in Atlanta and Paris on December 9–13 and at least nine workshops on robot learning, embodied AI and physical-world AI across the three sites.
QUICK FACTS
| Date | Dec 6–12, 2026 (Sydney, main site); Atlanta and Paris satellites Dec 9–13, 2026 |
| Location | Sydney, Australia (main); satellites in Atlanta, USA and Paris, France |
| Venue | International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) — 14 Darling Drive, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia; exhibit hall Level 4, Halls 5–7. Satellites: Georgia World Congress Center (Atlanta) and Palais des Congrès de Paris |
| Organizer | Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation (non-profit). General Chairs: Hsuan-Tien (Tien) Lin (National Taiwan University) and Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind, Mila); Senior Program Chair: Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard). Atlanta Satellite Chairs: Mark Riedl and Irfan Essa (Georgia Tech); Paris Satellite Chairs include Olivier Cappé (CNRS), Rémi Flamary (École Polytechnique) and Pierre Marion (INRIA) |
| Event type | Academic Conference |
| Official website | https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026 |
| Registration | https://neurips.cc/Register/view-registration |
| Admission | Paid. Registration opened Sep 3, 2026 (Sydney and Atlanta); Paris registers separately via neurips-europe.cc. Rates vary by affiliation (full-time student / academic / industrial), site and component (conference sessions & tutorials, workshops & competitions); a Virtual Only Pass covers live streams and the app. Early pricing ends Oct 30, 2026 AoE. Full refund for cancellations before Nov 4, 2026 AoE. In-person sessions in Sydney and Atlanta are sold out to the general public: each accepted paper keeps one author place, and others can join a site-specific waitlist. Guest banquet/reception tickets cost $100. Dollar amounts are not shown in static form (the official pricing calculator loads them dynamically). |
| Scale | 102 workshops accepted from 454 valid proposals (48 Sydney, 28 Paris, 26 Atlanta); 13 invited talks across the three sites (6 Sydney, 3 Atlanta, 4 Paris). 2026 main-track submission and acceptance counts not yet published. Sydney exhibit hall: ICC Exhibition Centre Level 4, Halls 5–7 |
| Key deadlines | Early registration ends Oct 30, 2026 (AoE); sponsor applications close Nov 3–4, 2026; last day for a registration refund Nov 4, 2026 (AoE); sponsor payment deadline Nov 7, 2026; child-care registration (Sydney & Atlanta) Nov 7, 2026; poster topics deadline Nov 15, 2026 |
EVENT OVERVIEW
NeurIPS 2026, the Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, runs December 6–12, 2026, with its main meeting at the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) in Darling Harbour. This year the conference runs as one main site and two official satellites: the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta and the Palais des Congrès de Paris, both December 9–13. Accepted papers were assigned to one of the three sites for presentation based on author preferences, and each site has its own tutorials, exhibit hall and workshops. The conference is run by the non-profit Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, which has held it since 1987. The General Chairs are Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan University) and Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind, Mila), with Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard) as Senior Program Chair. Georgia Tech's Mark Riedl and Irfan Essa chair the Atlanta satellite, and a team from CNRS, INRIA and École Polytechnique chairs Paris.
In Sydney, December 6 is Expo Day and December 7 is Tutorial Day. The main conference runs December 8–10, the exhibit hall is open December 7–10, and workshops and competitions take December 11–12. The six Sydney invited talks are by Tie-Yan Liu (Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing), Barbara Engelhardt (Gladstone Institutes and Stanford), Satinder Singh, Cheng Soon Ong (CSIRO), Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh) and José Hernández-Orallo (University of Cambridge). Atlanta's speakers include roboticist Ayanna Howard, Stefanie Jegelka and Sasha Luccioni; Paris has Ulrike von Luxburg, Timothy Gowers, Claire Monteleoni and Pelonomi Moiloa. “Robotics, embodied systems, and engineering” is one of the named topic areas in the call for papers. Of the 102 accepted workshops, the robotics-related ones include, in Sydney, the 8th Robot Learning Workshop (“Is Physical AI truly going zero-shot?”), Robot Learning with World Models, World Models in Physical AI, the 2nd Embodied Spatial Reasoning Workshop, Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence, Physical Understanding for Decision-Making, and Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents. Paris hosts RobotPAD, on post-training adaptation of robot foundation models, and Atlanta hosts the 1st Workshop on Physical World AI. Main-track paper counts for 2026 have not been published.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Main meeting Dec 6–12 at ICC Sydney; satellites in Atlanta and Paris Dec 9–13
102 workshops: 48 in Sydney, 28 in Paris, 26 in Atlanta
Robot learning, world-model and embodied-AI workshops at all three sites
Invited talks include Tie-Yan Liu, Satinder Singh, Ayanna Howard and Timothy Gowers
Sydney and Atlanta in-person passes sold out to the public; virtual pass available
RECOMMENDED ATTENDEES
Machine-learning and robot-learning researchers, PhD students and faculty; research teams at AI labs and robotics companies working on robot foundation models, vision-language-action models, world models and embodied AI; technical recruiters (the official career site is open); startup founders and investors scouting research talent; and AI policy and evaluation specialists. The three sites make attendance easier by region: Sydney for Asia-Pacific (including China), Atlanta for North America and Paris for Europe. Note that in-person passes for Sydney and Atlanta are sold out to the general public, so non-authors need the waitlist or a virtual pass. Robotics teams focused on hardware, manipulation or field systems will get more from CoRL (Nov 9–12, Austin), IROS or ICRA, and buyers looking for products should go to trade shows.
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