Workshops on AI agents: smaller sessions, many held alongside the major research conferences, where new work on agents is presented and discussed. Many are for researchers and builders; their pages say who may attend. Each is checked against its official page.
For students: we check each organizer's pages for a student price, a free or discounted pass, volunteer places, or a travel grant, and say under each event what we found and when, with a link to the organizer's page (18 of these 21 offer something). Prices and deadlines change: always confirm with the organizer.
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Trustworthy Agentic Systems (TAS 2026), AAAI 2026 Fall Symposium Series
Workshop · Arlington, Virginia, United States · Governance and security, Research
An in-person research symposium on making AI agents reliable, safe, and accountable, run as working groups that produce shared tools such as evaluation methods and a research roadmap, with registration listed by AAAI from $225 for student members to $660 for late nonmembers.
Students: AAAI Fall Symposium student registration: $325.00 for student members, $435.00 for nonmember students (after October 2, 2026). As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Workshop · New York, United States · Research, Governance and security
A free one-day symposium, run by the nonprofit EvalScience, for researchers and practitioners on how AI agents should be tested and measured; the host must approve each registration.
Students: Free for everyone; the host must approve each registration. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
A free-to-register, live online build day from Microsoft with guided levels, from a no-code first agent for beginners to production agents for developers.
Students: no student offer found on the organizer's pages (checked Nov 1, 2026).
Managing Agents that Manage Agents: Workshop on Responsible Use of Meta-Agents (at NeurIPS 2026)
Workshop · Sydney, Australia (NeurIPS 2026 main conference) · Research
A research workshop on AI agents that build, improve, and supervise other agents, bringing together AI and organizational researchers to cover human oversight and the controls needed to stop such systems.
Students: NeurIPS has a student rate for full-time students, but the amount isn't shown. Financial assistance and volunteer applications closed 6 Oct. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
The Third Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond (at NeurIPS 2026)
Workshop · Sydney, Australia · Governance and security, Research
Researchers and practitioners discuss how to make AI agents work reliably and how to manage their safety and security risks once they act in the real world.
Students: NeurIPS has a student rate for full-time students, but the amount isn't shown. Financial assistance and volunteer applications closed 6 Oct. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Who Verifies the Agents? Toward Reliable Agent Development (at NeurIPS 2026)
Workshop · Sydney, Australia · Governance and security, Research
A workshop on how to check whether a change to an AI agent actually made it better, which the organizers call the bottleneck between fragile prototypes and reliable agent systems.
Students: NeurIPS 2026 has a full-time student registration rate, but the page doesn't show the amount. Aid and volunteer applications closed in October. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Human-AI Coevolution: Measuring Human-Agent Teams in the Agentic Era (at NeurIPS 2026)
Workshop · Atlanta, United States (NeurIPS 2026 satellite) · Research
A research workshop on how to measure teams of people and AI agents as both change over time, with examples from healthcare, aviation, and finance.
Students: NeurIPS 2026 has a full-time student registration rate, but the page doesn't show the amount. Aid and volunteer applications closed in October. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
PAgE 2027: Principles of Agentic Engineering (workshop at POPL 2027)
Workshop · Mexico City, Mexico · Research, Building agents
A research workshop that brings together experts in formal methods (ways to prove that software is correct) and AI researchers to work on how to check, test, and fix AI agents that plan, use tools, and take actions on live systems.
Students: Student volunteers get free POPL 2027 registration, lunches and refreshments. Apply by November 11th 2026, AoE. Fees aren't posted yet. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Workshop · Helsinki, Finland · Research, Governance and security
A one-day research workshop on agent-based legal reasoning workflows, how several agents coordinate, and how people can steer and step into AI-assisted legal work.
Students: Held at IUI 2027: student registration €410 for ACM/SIG student members and €460 for non-members (early, by Jan. 9). As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Who Does Your AI Agent Work For? A Workshop on Loyal Agents (at AAAI-27)
Workshop · Montréal · Research, Governance and security
A one-day, in-person workshop by researchers from Stanford, Harvard, and MIT on how to build and govern AI agents that stay loyal to the people they act for; its page says AAAI will choose either February 22 or 23, which has not been announced yet.
Students: AAAI-27 workshop student registration $240 early (to Dec 15, 2026), $290 standard (to Jan 10, 2027), $340 late. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
WMAC 2027: Third Workshop on Multi-Agent Collaboration, Measuring Collective Intelligence in Agentic Systems (at AAAI-27)
Workshop · Montréal · Research
This one-day research workshop looks at how to measure what groups of AI agents and mixed human and AI teams achieve together; the page has not yet said which of the two days it will be held on.
Students: AAAI-27 workshop student registration $240 early (to Dec 15, 2026), $290 standard (to Jan 10, 2027), $340 late. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Trust4RSI-Agent: Trustworthy Evolution of AI Agents, An Agent Operating System Perspective (at AAAI-27)
Workshop · Montréal, Canada · Governance and security, Research
A one-day workshop, with its exact day still to be announced, on keeping AI agents trustworthy as their memory, tools, and models change over time, including how to audit them.
Students: Student authors of accepted papers can apply for a grant that pays back the workshop student registration fee after the event; deadline TBD. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
Workshop · Montréal, Canada · Work and HR, Research
A workshop, with its exact day not yet announced, on how people, AI agents, and machines can work as teams that depend on each other where safety and reliability matter.
Students: AAAI-27 workshop student registration $240 early (to Dec 15, 2026), $290 standard (to Jan 10, 2027), $340 late. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
IntelliSym2027: Intelligence Symbiosis, Emergent Ethics and Infrastructure for Human–AI Co-existence (at AAAI-27)
Workshop · Montréal, Canada · Governance and security, Research
A one-day workshop, on February 22 or 23 (AAAI has not yet assigned the day), on agent identity, provenance, and accountability across chains of delegation, along with stopping agents and reporting incidents.
Students: AAAI-27 workshop student registration $240 early (to Dec 15, 2026), $290 standard (to Jan 10, 2027), $340 late. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
FinFM: Foundation Models and Generative AI for Finance (at AAAI-27)
Workshop · Montréal, Canada · Governance and security, Research
A one-day workshop, on February 22 or 23 (day not yet set), on AI agents for financial research, trading, compliance, and advice, and on using them safely in regulated institutions.
Students: AAAI-27 workshop student registration $240 early (to Dec 15, 2026), $290 standard (to Jan 10, 2027), $340 late. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
PerAgents 2027: First International Workshop on Pervasive Agentic Systems and Multimodal Foundation Models (at PerCom 2027)
Workshop · Goa, India · Research, Building agents
A research workshop on AI agents running on everyday devices and sensors, including trust, safety, and letting people override agents that act in the physical world; the exact workshop day within PerCom's dates has not been announced.
Students: PerCom 2027 lists a Student Travel Award ('Will be announced soon!'); registration fees, including any student rate, are not yet posted. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
ArgMining 2027: 14th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning (at EACL 2027)
Workshop · Athens, Greece · Research
A research workshop held alongside EACL 2027 whose 2027 theme is argument in agent and human-AI settings, including debate among several AI agents; the dates are the EACL window, and the workshop's exact day is not yet announced.
Students: EACL 2027 student volunteers get free main-conference registration (apply 16th November 2026–10th January 2027); D&I subsidies close January 10, 2027. As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
ML4CPS 2027: 10th Machine Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems workshop
Workshop · Berlin, Germany · Research, Building agents
A one-day research workshop at Fraunhofer Forum Berlin with a topic on AI agents and multi-agent systems that plan, diagnose, and act in physical industrial systems.
Students: no student offer found on the organizer's pages (checked Nov 1, 2026).
A one-day event before KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe for engineers who build and run AI agents and MCP, the open standard that connects agents to tools and data.
Students: Full-time students pay the KubeCon academic rate: All-Access €250.00 (excl. VAT), with proof required. Scholarship details are "coming soon." As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
CALM-27: 4th International Workshop on Causality, Agents and Large Models
Workshop · Delft · Research
A research workshop on agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and explainable AI, with topics that include human factors, held alongside the 18th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies.
Students: no student offer found on the organizer's pages (checked Nov 1, 2026).
A research workshop on designing, building, evaluating, and running agentic AI systems, held during ICSE 2027 (April 25 to May 1); the workshop's own day is not yet announced, and papers are due November 13, 2026.
Students: ICSE 2027 student volunteers (master's or doctoral) get main-conference access, meals and social events; apply by January 8, 2027 (AoE). As of Nov 1, 2026; confirm on the organizer's page.
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