6 December 2026 · Hybrid
Frontier model evaluation day
NeurIPS venue, Sydney, Sydney, Australia — alongside NeurIPS 2026
The annual ACS evaluation day, streamed to US members from the NeurIPS main site.
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Artificial Intelligence Specialist Group
The largest ACS community, covering machine learning engineering, model evaluation, assurance and the responsible deployment of AI systems in production.
Cadence
Monthly
Meeting pattern
Second Tuesday of each month, 18:30–20:30 CT
Home venue
Capital Factory, 701 Brazos Street, Austin, TX
Format
Hybrid — in person with a livestream and recording for members
Members
4,820
Founded
2019
Chair
Dr Amara Whitfield
Role
Chair, AI Specialist Group
What the group covers
- Model evaluation and red-teaming
- AI assurance and audit evidence
- Foundation-model deployment patterns
- Regulation, standards and procurement
Upcoming meetings and satellite days
14 March 2027 · Hybrid
Accelerated computing day
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA — alongside NVIDIA GTC 2027
Next-generation accelerators, memory pressure and inference planning.
20 June 2027 · In person
Computer vision in production day
Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA — alongside CVPR 2027
Perception evaluation, drift monitoring and incident review.
Past meetings
- 2 December 2025Frontier model evaluation day — San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA (alongside NeurIPS 2025)
- 17 March 2025Inference at scale day — San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA (alongside NVIDIA GTC 2025)
- 10 December 2024Frontier model evaluation day — Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada (alongside NeurIPS 2024)
- 21 July 2024Machine learning research day — Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria (alongside ICML 2024)
- 17 June 2024Computer vision in production day — Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA (alongside CVPR 2024)
- 7 May 2024Representation learning day — Messe Wien Exhibition and Congress Center, Vienna, Austria (alongside ICLR 2024)
- 18 March 2024Accelerated computing day — San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA (alongside NVIDIA GTC 2024)