Summary
This conference is the fifth annual program-wide meeting in the National AI Research Institutes Program, advancing U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence research. The Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL 2026) is an NSF-sponsored conference organized and executed by the program’s hub activity, the AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO). The conference gathers the leaders and other key personnel from all AI Institutes to foster community building of those Institutes and other related activities into a network of collaborating organizations conducting knowledge exchange, growing the
