International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

What International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence does

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is a non-profit corporation founded in California in 1969 for scientific and educational purposes, primarily the dissemination of Artificial Intelligence research. It operates two core divisions: the Conference Division, which organizes the annual IJCAI conference — the premier international gathering of AI researchers and practitioners — and the AI Journal Division (AIJD), which manages editorial activities for the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), a leading AI journal founded in 1970 and published under contract with Elsevier B.V. since 2002. The conference features a Main Track for peer-reviewed technical papers (with a rigorous ~15% acceptance rate), a Survey Track, a Sister Conferences Track, a Journal Track, four Special Tracks (AI4Tech, AI and Social Good, AI the Arts and Creativity, Human-Centred AI), workshops, tutorials, a Doctoral Consortium, Industry Day, an Art Gallery, and competitions. Attendance exceeds 3,000 participants drawn from top technical universities, research labs, and industry.

IJCAI's revenue model rests on three streams: conference registration fees (tiered by regular vs. student and early/late/on-site timing), sponsorship and exhibition fees (a five-tier sponsorship ladder from Bronze at $5K to Diamond at $60K, plus exhibition stands), and royalties from the AI Journal's partnership with Elsevier, which handles subscriptions, copyright, and production. The organization is governed by a Board of Trustees with the IJCAI Secretariat handling day-to-day operations, supported by 51–100 employees. Its customer base spans three primary segments: AI researchers and academics (primary), graduate students (discounted registration, doctoral consortium, travel grants), and industry AI practitioners and companies (sponsorship, exhibition, talent recruitment, Industry Day). Distribution is event-driven — centralized registration at registration.ijcai.org and journal access via Elsevier's ScienceDirect — with an additional content channel through the recently launched AI Hub (aihub.org).

IJCAI transitioned its conference cadence from biennial (odd-numbered years, 1969–2015) to annual starting in 2016, materially expanding revenue-generating events. It operates globally, with IJCAI-25 held in Montreal and Guangzhou (2025) and IJCAI-ECAI-26 scheduled for Bremen, Germany (2026). Platinum sponsors Baidu, DIDI, and Huawei have committed to three consecutive conferences, and the organization maintains GDPR-compliant data practices, a published anti-discrimination policy, and a longstanding archive of proceedings dating to 1969.

Name

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

Legal name

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence

Website

https://ijcai.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

IJCAI is a 1969 California non-profit that organizes the annual premier International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and co-manages the Artificial Intelligence Journal with Elsevier, serving the global AI research community of academics, students, and industry practitioners.

Ownership category

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Product category

Academic Conference Services and Scientific Publishing

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (611430)

akta.pro primary industry

AI & Machine Learning (Foundations & Applied) (EDAMACAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Research Collaboration & Joint Labs (International Partnerships) (EDAIABAC)

Keywords

• Academic AI conferences
• AI journal publishing
• Scientific peer review
• Conference organization
• AI research community

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration Fees: IJCAI generates revenue through conference registration fees from participants attending the annual IJCAI conferences. Registration fees vary by category (regular/student) and timing (early/late/on-site).
2. Sponsorship and Exhibition Fees: The organization receives sponsorship revenue at multiple tiers (Diamond $60,000, Platinum $30,000, Gold $20,000, Silver $10,000, Bronze $5,000) plus exhibition fees ($5,000 for commercial, $2,500 for publishers/universities/non-profits).
3. AI Journal Partnership with Elsevier: The Artificial Intelligence Journal division operates under contract with Elsevier B.V. for publication. Elsevier handles subscriptions, copyright management, and publication preparation while IJCA manages editorial activities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

IJCAI organizes the premier annual International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, featuring peer-reviewed technical tracks, workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, industry day, competitions, and special tracks. It also operates the AI Journal Division, which publishes the long-standing Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) in partnership with Elsevier for dissemination of peer-reviewed AI research.

Product overview

International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) operates two core divisions: the annual IJCAI Conference Division and the AI Journal Division. The IJCAI Conference is the premier annual international gathering of AI researchers featuring a Main Track for technical papers, Survey Track, Sister Conferences Track, Journal Track, and four Special Tracks (AI4Tech, AI and Social Good, AI the Arts and Creativity, Human-Centred AI). The conference also includes workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium, industry day, competitions, and an art gallery. The Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), published by Elsevier, is the flagship academic journal publishing broad aspects of AI research since 1970. IJCAI also disseminates conference materials through proceedings, books, and video recordings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ): The longstanding premier journal on Artificial Intelligence, founded in 1970, publishing key papers in the field.

Products and services

• IJCAI Conference
• Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
• IJCAI Proceedings
• IJCAI Video Recordings
• IJCAI Workshops, Tutorials, and Doctoral Consortium Program
• IJCAI Industry Day
• IJCAI Competitions and Challenges
• IJCAI Sponsorship and Exhibition Program

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Cambridge University PressminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2025Exhibitor at IJCAI-25 conference.
• Tsinghua University PressminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2025Exhibitor at IJCAI-25 conference.
• Elsevier B.V.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublisher of the Artificial Intelligence Journal under contract. Elsevier handles publication, subscriptions, copyright management, and preparation of final manuscripts. IJCAI's AI Journal Division manages editorial activities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining): Premier data mining conference with comparable peer-review prestige, industry sponsorship structure, and academic-community orientation to IJCAI.
• CVF / CVPR (Computer Vision Foundation): Runs CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV — the dominant computer vision conferences. Comparable scale and industry sponsorship profile to IJCAI within an adjacent AI subfield.
• ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics): Major scientific society running flagship NLP/CL conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL); comparable in scale, prestige, and industry sponsorship to IJCAI, though focused on language rather than general AI.

Direct peers

• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence): Organizes the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the closest direct peer to IJCAI as a flagship general-AI academic conference with peer-reviewed proceedings, sponsored exhibits, and a multi-decade history.
• ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning): Premier machine learning research conference operated by the IMLS society; competes directly with IJCAI for ML/AI submissions, attendees, and sponsorship dollars.
• ACM SIGAI: ACM's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence; publishes AI Magazine and supports multiple AI conferences, overlapping IJCAI's mission of advancing and disseminating AI research.
• ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence): Europe's flagship AI conference, organized by EurAI and historically co-located with IJCAI (IJCAI-ECAI-22, IJCAI-ECAI-26); direct peer in geographic and academic mission.
• NeurIPS Foundation (Neural Information Processing Systems): Runs the NeurIPS conference, the largest machine-learning research conference and a direct substitute for IJCAI in terms of soliciting top AI papers, industry sponsorship, and researcher attendance.
• ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations): Fast-growing learning-focused AI conference that has become a top-tier venue for deep learning research, competing with IJCAI for high-impact submissions and industry sponsors.

Emerging players

• Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (AUAI): Smaller, focused AI society running the UAI conference; comparable academic conference format and peer-review model to IJCAI but on a narrower topic and scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

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