Calendar
What's ahead in AI ethics
Every significant upcoming conference, summit and regulatory deadline — 20 events on the calendar.
August 2026
EU AI Act: Article 50 transparency duties apply: chatbots must disclose they are AI; synthetic content and deepfakes must be labeled (watermarking grace period for systems already on market runs to 2 Dec 2026)
Binding compliance milestone under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
AI Village @ DEF CON 34
Adversarial attacks on agents and agentic systems — demos, CTF and poster track under the "Agency" theme.
September 2026
4th UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of AI
UNESCO's flagship ethics forum: "Transforming Global Cooperation for Ethical AI Governance".
RightsCon Continues (online summit)
Access Now's online summit on digital rights and AI, replacing the cancelled Lusaka edition.
October 2026
IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global
The IAPP's combined privacy / AI-governance conference, with on-site AIGP certification.
AIES 2026 — AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
The main academic AI-ethics conference, ninth edition.
November 2026
December 2026
48th Global Privacy Assembly
Annual assembly of the world's data-protection authorities — first Middle East edition; exact December dates TBA.
NeurIPS 2026
Premier ML conference; hosts the major AI-safety, alignment and ML-ethics workshops (list lands Aug–Sep).
February 2027
March 2027
CPDP 2027 — Computers, Privacy and Data Protection
20th-anniversary edition of Europe's leading privacy and AI-governance conference.
IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2027
The largest privacy / AI-governance professional gathering.
May 2027
June 2027
Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2027
Invitation-style workshop for privacy and AI-law scholarship; submissions open November 2026.
Geneva AI Summit 2027
Next edition of the Bletchley → Seoul → Paris → New Delhi summit series, at Palexpo.
ACM FAccT 2027
The main algorithmic-fairness conference; dates from the official call for papers.