AI Summit Styria 2026 - International Conference on Generative AI and Applications in Software Engineering and IT Security

We cordially invite you to submit contributions from industry and academia that describe original and unpublished results from application-oriented research on Generative AI and its application in Software Engineering and IT Security.

**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following**:

**Fundamentals & Infrastructure**

- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- LLM-based agent architectures
- Collaboration & self-organization in multi-agent systems
- MLOps & LLMOps for AI systems
- System & software architectures for AI
- Selection, deployment, and roll-out of LLMs & Generative AI
- Handling overconfidence and hallucinations
- Evaluation metrics and validation rules

**Software Engineering**

- Integration of GenAI in SDLC & CI/CD
- AI for requirements engineering & architecture design
- AI-assisted code generation, refactoring & performance optimization
- Context-aware code suggestions
- Automated test case generation & test suite optimization
- Regression tests & coverage analyses
- AI-assisted formal verification
- Automated code reviews & defect prediction
- AI for performance testing & monitoring
- Automated code documentation
- Detection of architectural patterns & automated validation
- Specialization of language models for existing codebases

**IT Security**

- Automated penetration testing & ethical hacking
- Intrusion & anomaly detection (incl. IoT & critical infrastructure)
- Malware & phishing detection with AI
- AI for vulnerability detection in code & patch generation
- AI-assisted secure software architecture & threat modeling
- AI-assisted network protocols & anomaly analysis
- Detection of web vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, …)
- AI-supported attack prevention & privacy
- Standardized datasets & tools for reproducible research

**Interdisciplinary**

- Legal frameworks for AI-assisted software development
- Compliance, data protection (GDPR), and liability issues
- Regulatory requirements for critical systems
- Bias mitigation and ethical guidelines in development & testing
- Acceptance, trust, and transparency in automated processes
- Cost-benefit analyses for the use of generative AI
- Business models and ROI for AI-assisted development and security solutions
- Practical examples of AI integration in companies
- Lessons learned from pilot projects in software development and IT security

**Submission**

Submitted contributions will undergo a peer-review process and be evaluated based on originality, timeliness, correctness, and relevance to the conference. Previously published contributions cannot be submitted.

Accepted contributions will be published in the AIS26 Conference Proceedings.

Submissions at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ais26

**Important Dates**

- Full Paper Submission (talks & poster): 29.05.2026
- Author Notification: 30.06.2026
- Camera Ready Submission: 11.09.2026
- Main Conference: 22/23.10.20.26