Schedule

ICC Sydney. All times are Sydney time (AEDT, UTC+11).

Sydney agenda, Sun 6 to Sat 12 Dec 2026

All times are Sydney time. Checked Sun 1 Nov 2026. Atlanta and Paris are in events-atlanta.json and events-paris.json.

Sun 6 Dec 2026

11:00–12:00 AI That Optimizes AI: Agentic Kernel and Model Optimization in Production Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
11:00–12:00 Any GPU, Any Cloud: Training on a Planetary Fleet Expo talk, Pyrmont Theatre
11:00–12:00 CEO Bench: Evaluating frontier agents on real company work Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B1
11:00–12:00 The Model Is Not the Agent: Building Better Agents from Experience, Systems, and Evaluation Expo talk, Parkside 1
11:00–12:00 Training Data Expires Faster Than Ever: Five Shifts in How Frontier Models Learn, 2024–2027 Expo talk, Parkside 2
11:00–12:00 When Models Optimize: From Automated Red Teaming to Reward Hacking Expo talk, Darling Harbour Theatre
12:00–13:00 A Training-Free Framework for Spatially Grounded 2D Shape and 3D Object Encoding Expo talk, Parkside 1
12:00–13:00 Causal Inference has Entered its Foundation Model Era – What Industry Needs to Know Expo talk, Pyrmont Theatre
12:00–13:00 Continual Learning in Non-Stationary Environments Expo talk, Darling Harbour Theatre
12:00–13:00 Scaling AI Safety & Security Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
12:00–13:00 Tabular Foundation Models Have Taken the Lead: What Changed This Year and How to Use TabPFN Expo talk, Parkside 2
12:00–13:00 The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B1
12:00–14:00 Agent Harnesses in Practice: From Everyday Tasks to Autonomous Research Teams Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Agent-driven training on Modal Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Beyond “The Robot Moved”: Building VLA Systems That Detect Failure and Recover Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Building High-throughput Top Performing Machine Translation System Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Building Self-Improving User Simulators Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Challenge the Guardrails: Can You Outsmart the Model? Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Closing the Agent Learning Loop: Strands, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Feedback-Aware Post-Training Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 CyberStrike: Evaluating whether frontier agents can complete real cybersecurity work Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 From Flat Pixels to Editable Layers: A Live Image-to-Layers System at Production Scale Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Inside the RL Stack: Training Open Models with Custom Rewards, Losses, and Code Sandboxes Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 LEAP: Supercharging LLMs for Formal Mathematics with Agentic Frameworks Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Mirror: Start an Agent Session Anywhere, Never Lose It Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 QuLM-ST: Real-Time Speech Translation on Smart Glasses Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Stump the Model: Become an AI Trainer in Five Minutes Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 Tangent: Autonomous Auto-Research Agent for ML Pipelines Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
12:00–14:00 When Agents Cannot Guess: Grounded Financial Research Under Regulatory Constraints Expo demonstration, Room C3.3
13:00–14:00 Advancing the Frontiers of On-Device AI: Efficiency, Multimodality, and Emerging Models Expo talk, Pyrmont Theatre
13:00–14:00 Applying AI to Financial Markets: A Citadel and Citadel Securities Perspective Expo talk, Darling Harbour Theatre
13:00–14:00 Composing Modular Capabilities into One Deployable LLM Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B1
13:00–14:00 Constructing Data and Rule Ontologies for Enterprise Agents Expo talk, Parkside 1
13:00–14:00 Fine-Tuning Small Models on Real Enterprise Tool Use: A Data and Evaluation Pipeline Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
13:00–14:00 One Market, Many Clocks: Domain-Grounded Multimodal Learning in Quantitative Finance Expo talk, Parkside 2
14:00–17:00 Compute Efficiency & Scalable System Design (Smart Compute Allocation: High-Throughput, Low-Latency AI Across the Model Lifecycle) Expo workshop, Parkside 2
14:00–17:00 Forgetting on Purpose: A Hands-on Tutorial on LLM Unlearning Expo workshop, Grand Ballroom B1
14:00–17:00 From Proteins to Cell State: Toward World Models of Biology Expo workshop, Darling Harbour Theatre
14:00–17:00 Priorities in AI Safety & Security Expo workshop, Pyrmont Theatre
14:00–17:00 Protective and Creative AI for Creators: Foundation Models, Protection Mechanisms, and Audio-Visual Generation Expo workshop, Parkside 1
14:00–17:00 RL in the wild: principles of post-training that work in the real world Expo workshop, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
16:30–17:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Beyond Chat: Always-On Context Engines for Proactive AI Assistants Expo talk, Parkside 1
17:00–18:00 Breaking the Bottlenecks of Autoregressive LLM Inference Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B1
17:00–18:00 Building Enterprise AI for Finance: Structured Models, Adaptive Memory, Trusted Agents, and Scalable Orchestration Expo talk, Pyrmont Theatre
17:00–18:00 Can We Turn Images into Words—and Back Again? Holistic Visual Descriptions for Understanding and Generation Expo talk, Parkside 2
17:00–18:00 Owning the Harness: Durable, Open Infrastructure for Long-Running Agents Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
17:00–18:00 Towards Foundational Robotics Models with 3D Reasoning Expo talk, Darling Harbour Theatre
18:00–19:00 Adapting AI Research to Quantitative Finance Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B1
18:00–19:00 Agents in Production: Evals, Harnesses, and the Reinvention of Recommendation Expo talk, Parkside 2
18:00–19:00 Continual Reinforcement Learning for AI Shopping Assistants Expo talk, Pyrmont Theatre
18:00–19:00 Environments Are the New Data: Building, Verifying, and Training Agents at Scale. Expo talk, Darling Harbour Theatre
18:00–19:00 From Research to Industry: Building Scalable Production Systems and Teams Expo talk, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
18:00–19:00 Turning Academic AI Research into Trusted Real-World Impact Expo talk, Parkside 1

Mon 7 Dec 2026

08:00–09:00 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
08:00–17:00 GlobalSouthAI Affinity event, Room C3.6
08:00–17:00 LatinX in AI Affinity event, Parkside 2
08:00–17:00 Muslims in ML Affinity event, Room C2.2 & C2.3
08:30–16:30 Education Track Education Track, Room C3.4 & C3.5
09:00–12:00 Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning for Physical AI Tutorial, Grand Ballroom B1
09:00–12:00 From Scores to Evidence: Robust Evaluation of Foundation Models Tutorial, Darling Harbour Theatre
09:00–12:00 Multi-Objective Optimization for Modern Machine Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances, and Emerging Applications Tutorial, Pyrmont Theatre
09:00–12:00 The Principles of Diffusion Models: Toward Fast and Scalable Diffusion LLMs Tutorial, TikTok Entertainment Centre
09:00–12:00 Three Geometric Lenses on Graph Machine Learning Tutorial, Parkside 1
09:00–12:00 Uncertainty Quantification: From Detecting LLM Hallucinations to Strengthening Reasoning and AI Agents Tutorial, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
12:00–14:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
13:00–17:00 Indigenous in AI Affinity event, Room C2.5 & C2.6
14:00–17:00 Causal Representation Learning Tutorial, Grand Ballroom B1
14:00–17:00 Distilling Reasoning: From Chain-of-Thought to Agentic Capabilities in Smaller Models Tutorial, TikTok Entertainment Centre
14:00–17:00 Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI Systems Tutorial, Pyrmont Theatre
14:00–17:00 From Heuristics to Guarantees: Bandit and RL Blueprint for Reliable Agentic-AI Tutorial, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
14:00–17:00 Neuro-Symbolic Learning in the Era of Large Language Models Tutorial, Darling Harbour Theatre
14:00–17:00 Principles of Deep Representation Learning via Low-Dimensional Models Tutorial, Parkside 1
15:00–15:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
17:00–17:30 Welcome Remarks Remarks, TikTok Entertainment Centre
17:30–19:00 Welcome Reception Reception, Room not published

Tue 8 Dec 2026

08:00–17:00 WiML Affinity event, Grand Ballroom 1
08:30–09:00 Coffee Break, Room not published
09:00–10:00 Scaling Experience in the Wild: Building the Industrial Learning Loop Invited talk, TikTok Entertainment Centre
10:00–10:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
10:00–13:00 Sydney Poster Session 1 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 1,050 papers
11:00–14:00 Creative AI Session 1 Creative AI, Room not published
12:00–14:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
13:30–14:00 Test of Time Award Award, TikTok Entertainment Centre
13:30–16:30 Affinity Joint Poster Session Affinity event, Hall 1-4
13:30–16:30 Affinity Support Pilot Program Affinity event, Room not published
14:00–15:00 Barbara Engelhardt Invited talk, Room not published
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 1A Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 1B Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 1C Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 1D Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 1E Oral session, Room not published
16:30–19:30 Creative AI Session 2 Creative AI, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Science Communication Training Session 1 Talk, Room C3.6
17:00–20:00 Sydney Poster Session 2 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 1,048 papers
19:00–21:00 AI Infra Builders Social: Bridging Open Source, Research, and Production Social, Parkside 2
19:00–21:00 Building Multilingual and Multiregional Safety Datasets: A Roundtable on Data Collection Methodology Social, Room C3.2
19:00–21:00 Generative AI and the Creator Economy Social, Room C3.6
19:00–21:00 Lost in Translation, Found in Interdisciplinarity Social, Room C2.2 & C2.3
19:00–21:00 Muslims in ML Social Social, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3

Wed 9 Dec 2026

08:30–09:00 Coffee Break, Room not published
09:00–10:00 The Better AIngels of our Future Invited talk, TikTok Entertainment Centre
09:00–17:00 Queer in AI and {Dis}Ability in AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2026 Affinity event, Room C2.2 & C2.3
10:00–10:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
10:00–13:00 Sydney Poster Session 3 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 1,050 papers
11:00–14:00 Creative AI Session 3 Creative AI, Room not published
12:00–14:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
14:00–15:00 To score or not to score Invited talk, TikTok Entertainment Centre
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2A Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2B Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2C Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2D Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2E Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 2F Oral session, Room not published
16:30–19:30 Creative AI Session 4 Creative AI, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Science Communication Training Session 2 Talk, Room C3.6
17:00–20:00 Sydney Poster Session 4 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 996 papers
19:00–21:00 Finding Your Path in AI Safety & Security Research Social, Room C3.2
19:00–21:00 In Silico, In Vitro, In Vivo: The Protein Design Social Social, Room C3.6
19:00–21:00 Multimodal AI Studio: Create Your Virtual Idol Social, Parkside 2
19:00–21:00 The Human Context of AI: Whose Perspective Counts? Social, Room C2.2 & C2.3

Thu 10 Dec 2026

08:00–17:00 MLRC 2026 Reproducibility Track, Room C3.2, 16 papers
08:30–09:00 Coffee Break, Room not published
09:00–10:00 The Knowledge Box: AI and Epistemic Dispossession Invited talk, TikTok Entertainment Centre
10:00–10:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
10:00–13:00 Sydney Poster Session 5 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 989 papers
12:00–14:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
13:30–14:00 Sejnowski - Hinton Award Award, TikTok Entertainment Centre
14:00–15:00 The Future of AI Evaluation Invited talk, TikTok Entertainment Centre
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3A Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3B Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3C Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3D Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3E Oral session, Room not published
15:30–16:30 Sydney Oral Session 3F Oral session, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
17:00–18:00 Town Hall Town Hall, Darling Harbour Theatre
17:00–20:00 Sydney Poster Session 6 Poster session, Hall 1-4, 929 papers

Fri 11 Dec 2026

08:00–10:15 Learn2Design 2026: A physics experiment design competition for gravitational wave detectors Competition, Room C4.2
08:00–10:15 Predictive AI Evaluation Competition Competition, Room C4.3
08:00–17:00 AI at Scale for Clinical Impact (ASCI): Cancer Pathology Foundation Models Workshop, Room C4.11
08:00–17:00 AI for Drug Discovery: Bridging the Translation Gap Workshop, Room C3.3
08:00–17:00 AI for Stochastic Dynamics: From Theoretical Foundations to Scientific Applications Workshop, Room C3.2
08:00–17:00 Agentic AI Benchmark and Application for Enterprise Tasks Workshop, Room C3.4 & C3.5
08:00–17:00 Agentic AI for Biological Discovery: Toward Closed-Loop Life-Science Intelligence Workshop, Grand Ballroom B1
08:00–17:00 AgenticOS: Co-designing Systems and ML Foundations of an OS Layer for Agentic AI Workshop, Room C2.5 & C2.6
08:00–17:00 Collaborative, Open, and Decentralized Training of Foundation Models Workshop, Room C4.4
08:00–17:00 Diffusion Language Models: Foundations, Efficiency, and Reasoning Workshop, Parkside 1
08:00–17:00 Foundation Models for Temporal Systems: From Forecasting to World Modeling Workshop, Room C4.5
08:00–17:00 Grounded and Faithful Vision-Language Models for Real-World Deployment Workshop, Room C2.2 & C2.3
08:00–17:00 I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes of AI in Biology Workshop, Room C4.8
08:00–17:00 Interpretability as a Science: Toward Rigorous Foundations for Understanding LLMs Workshop, Hall 2
08:00–17:00 Machine Learning for Simulations in Biology and Chemistry - The 2nd SIMBIOCHEM Workshop Workshop, Room C4.6 & C4.7
08:00–17:00 Managing Agents that Manage Agents: Workshop on Responsible Use of Meta-Agents that Build, Optimize, and Supervise Other Agents Workshop, Hall 3
08:00–17:00 NEmo: Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence Workshop, Room E5.4 & E5.5
08:00–17:00 NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Dynamic Alignment in Human-AI Coupled Systems Workshop, Cockle Bay Room 1
08:00–17:00 NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop, Cockle Bay Room 2
08:00–17:00 OPT 2026: Optimization for Machine Learning Workshop, Hall 1
08:00–17:00 Physical Understanding for Decision-Making: Bridging Foundation Models and Reliable Agents Workshop, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
08:00–17:00 Robot Learning with World Models: Capabilities, Frontiers, and Challenges Workshop, Parkside 2
08:00–17:00 Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations NeurIPS Workshops 2026 Workshop, Hall 4
08:00–17:00 The Third Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond Workshop, Hall 5
08:00–17:00 Workshop for Autonomous Machine Learning Research Workshop, Room C3.6
08:00–17:00 World Models in Physical AI Workshop, Room C4.1
09:00–09:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
10:30–12:45 RoboSynChallenge: Mastering Real-World Dexterity via Generalizing Synthesized Manipulation Skills Competition, Room C4.3
12:00–13:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
13:00–15:15 NeurIPS 2026 RealPDE Competition: Scientific ML for Real-world Physical Systems Competition, Room C4.3
15:00–15:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
15:30–17:45 Speech Accessibility Project Challenge 2 Competition, Room C4.3
17:30–19:30 Workshop Reception Reception, Room not published

Sat 12 Dec 2026

08:00–10:15 AMP Challenge: A Benchmark for Generative AI in Antimicrobial Peptide Design Competition, Room C4.3
08:00–17:00 2nd Embodied Spatial Reasoning (ESR) Workshop Workshop, Room C4.8
08:00–17:00 8th Robot Learning Workshop: Is Physical AI Going Zero-Shot? Workshop, Grand Ballroom B2 & B3
08:00–17:00 AI Foundations for Power Grids: From Models to Deployment at Scale Workshop, Room C2.5 & C2.6
08:00–17:00 AI for Science: Verification in the Age of AI Scientists Workshop, Grand Ballroom B1
08:00–17:00 AI4Mat-NeurIPS-2026: NeurIPS-2026 Workshop on AI for Accelerated Materials Design Workshop, Hall 2
08:00–17:00 ATTRIB: Workshop on Data Attribution and Provenance Workshop, Room C4.1
08:00–17:00 Beyond Next Token Prediction: Diffusion and Flow Models for Next-Generation Decoding Workshop, Hall 4
08:00–17:00 Beyond Private Training: The New Landscape of AI Privacy Workshop, Room C3.2
08:00–17:00 Can We Trust AI Evaluation? Robustness, Causality, and Risk in Modern AI Assessment Workshop, Room C2.2 & C2.3
08:00–17:00 Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents Workshop, Hall 3
08:00–17:00 Continual World Models Workshop, Room C4.4
08:00–17:00 Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop, Hall 1
08:00–17:00 Interpreting Agent Behavior (IAB): Human-Centered Interpretation for Understanding Agents, Humans, and Interaction Workshop, Room C3.4 & C3.5
08:00–17:00 ML for Systems Workshop, Room C4.5
08:00–17:00 On-Device Intelligence: Foundation Models under Real-World Constraints Workshop, Room C3.6
08:00–17:00 PTA: From Pretrained Representations to Acting Agents -- Bridging Pretraining, Planning, and Test-Time Decision Making Workshop, Parkside 2
08:00–17:00 Real-Time Conversational Agents: Toward Natural Multimodal Interaction Workshop, Room C4.11
08:00–17:00 Responsible Communication of Machine Learning Research in Biomedicine Workshop, Room E5.4 & E5.5
08:00–17:00 Self-Evolving Diversity-Driven Search for Robust AI Systems Workshop, Room C4.6 & C4.7
08:00–17:00 The Third Workshop on GenAI for Health: Agentic Systems, Clinical Trust, and Future Potential Workshop, Parkside 1
08:00–17:00 Transitioning from Pre-training to Post-training Workshop, Cockle Bay Room 2
08:00–17:00 Who Verifies the Agents? Toward Reliable Agent Development Workshop, Hall 5
08:00–17:00 Workshop on the Linguistic Principles for Foundation Models Workshop, Room C3.3
08:00–17:00 XAI4science: Knowledge Discovery and Trust through Interpretable Foundation Models Workshop, Cockle Bay Room 1
09:00–09:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
10:30–12:45 SimulacraBench Competition, Room C4.3
12:00–13:00 Retail Lunch Break, Room not published
13:00–15:15 QuantiPhy Challenge: Quantitative Physical Reasoning for VLMs Competition, Room C4.3
15:00–15:30 Coffee & Snacks Break, Room not published
15:30–17:45 RoCo-Spring: The Robust Correspondence Challenge Competition, Room C4.3

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