The 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment(HCOMP 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026 at Virginia Tech’s Academic Building One near Washington, D.C., USA.

This year, the conference will be co-located and tightly integrated with the 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026), creating a unique synergy between researchers in collective intelligence and human-AI collaboration.

The theme of this year’s co-located event is Connections. We encourage submissions that explore connections across disciplines; across humans, animals, and machines; between individuals and communities, and beyond.

About the Conference

ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment(HCOMP) is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research that advances the theoretical and empirical understanding of collective performance in diverse systems, whether biological, technological, or a combination. We are interested in research on a broad range of systems that vary in scale and scope and focus on implications for a diverse range of social, ecological, and economic outcomes.

HCOMP has a transdisciplinary focus devoted to advancing the theoretical and empirical understanding of collective intelligence, broadly designed. The community does basic science on emergent collective phenomena, as well as designing and engineering systems for combining computational and human intelligence. We are interested in research on a broad range of phenomena that vary in scale and scope with implications for a diverse range of social, ecological, and economic outcomes.

Learn more about the ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment (HCOMP) series and steering committee.

Important Dates

All dates are 11:59pm AoE in 2026.