AI Days @ HES-SO
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Call for Contributions

23 March 2026 (Martigny) • 24-25 March 2026 (Fribourg)

The annual AI days is organized by the Swiss AI Center for SMEs (CSIA-PME), a flagship project of the HES-SO. It brings together AI researchers, entrepreneurs, SMEs, developers, practitioners, and users interested in Artificial Intelligence in the French-speaking Switzerland.

Although the event is public and open to all, it is primarily aimed at people involved in the management and strategy of one or more SMEs, to find out how they can benefit from advances in artificial intelligence in their activities.

Following the great success and interest in the previous years, the AI days'26 will take place in two stages:

  • March 23rd in Martigny for a practice-oriented AI-industry integration program, including hands-on tutorials, industrial collaboration presentations, industrial tracks, round-table discussions, demos and posters. The content is adapted to a beginner and non-expert public.
  • March 24th and 25th in Fribourg for presentations, tracks, demos and posters with academic collaborations as well as peer-reviewed papers.

The organizers are inviting AI and machine learning experts from academia, industry and organizations to submit tutorials, presentations, tracks, round-table discussions, demos and posters for this year's AI days edition.

Topics

Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Ethical AI: responsible, transparent, and explainable AI
  • Privacy, safety, and security in AI
  • Sustainability and AI
  • Industrie 4.0 and AI
  • Healthcare, MedTech and AI
  • AI tools, infrastructure and development
  • Edge and distributed AI
  • Sovereign and multilingual AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • GenAI/LLM
  • AI maturity in SME's

Key Dates

  • Submission deadline: 24 November 2025
  • Notification: 1 December 2025
  • Final programme: end of January 2026
  • Conference dates: 23-25 March 2026

Contribution Categories and Guidelines

Authors can submit a contribution in one of the following categories:

  • Peer-reviewed papers. Please look at the dedicated call for this (comming soon).
  • Track, mini-symposia. A track or mini-symposia can include a variety of talks, roundtables, and keynotes. The submission consists of a title, an abstract (brief motivation and why it is a good fit to the AI days), as well as a detailed schedule including the list of participants.
  • Presentation. Single talk of 30' presenting concrete applications of AI in a variety of domains (see topics), typically involving collaboration between SMEs and academia, industry experience, innovative results from academic, NGO, non-profit and public institutions. The submission consists of a title, a list of authors as well as an abstract containing the motivation/use case, methodology, results obtained and conclusions/future work. If we receive many good quality contributions, some presentation proposals can become a poster contribution.
  • Hands-on workshop. We also invite contributions of a hands-on workshop type, these can be in the form of a tutorial, or a work session aimed to foster collaborations and/or AI adoption including all stages of an AI pipeline. The length can be 2 hours, 4 hours or a day.
  • Posters / interactive demonstration. Poster format: A0 portrait. The poster or demonstration submission must contain a title, a list of authors and an abstract.

Peer-reviewed papers have their own submission site. Please refer to the dedicated page for this.

For all other contributions please use the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/quAqzEmzMd

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