Events

The Long Now Foundation is hosting a public event exploring intelligence across biological, synthetic and interspecies systems. Scheduled for 10 November 2026 at San Francisco’s Cowell Theater, Entangled Intelligences brings together neuroscientist David Eagleman, synthetic biologist Michael Levin, theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker, computer scientist Jaron Lanier and other contributors.

Collective-behaviour researcher Iain D. Couzin will deliver a public lecture in Geneva on 4 November 2026 examining how groups of animals coordinate and make decisions.

The eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence is scheduled for 23–25 April 2027 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

A newly dated conference programme reveals substantial research activity in decentralised space robotics and cooperative planetary exploration. The joint i-SAIRAS and iSpaRo symposium takes place in Cologne, Germany, from 3 to 6 November 2026.

The tenth IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics has opened extended-abstract submissions and is seeking proposals for specialist workshops and tutorials.

An interdisciplinary symposium in Berlin will examine whether intelligence across radically different biological and artificial systems shares common organisational principles.

One of the principal international meetings devoted specifically to distributed autonomous robotics takes place in Tokyo from 26 to 29 October 2026.

This funding call frames AI safety as a population-level problem involving collusion, cascading failures, emergent communication, and collective capabilities. This closes 9-August-2026.

29-Nov-2026 Hong Kong - DAI 2026 places coordination, markets, agent infrastructure, and societies of autonomous agents at the center of distributed AI research.

“Agentic AIs are a feral technology… they are projected to become a wild, self-sustaining, population.” Co-organised with Morgan Stanley, this upcoming Santa Fe Institute gathering takes place 15-Sept-2026 in NYC.

A June workshop dedicated specifically to distributed collective intelligence, including bio-inspired approaches, decentralized trust systems, artificial life concepts, and collective behavior in smart systems.

A notable June event from the Santa Fe Institute, co-sponsored by OpenAI and Google DeepMind, focused on intelligence across multiple organisational and social scales rather than intelligence as an individual phenomenon.