2026 Events

The National AI Institute for Exceptional Education is transforming the future of special needs education by bringing together cutting-edge AI research with deep collaboration among speech-language pathologists, educators, policymakers, families and community partners. Through these relationships and active sharing of knowledge, the institute ensures that innovative technologies meaningfully support students with speech and language disabilities and help shape practices and policies across education and workforce development.

Staff members of Western New York Regional Information Center visited AI4ExceptionalEd to learn about the Institutes mission and hear what tools offered to help SLPs scale their services.

Staff members of Western New York Regional Information Center visited AI4ExceptionalEd to learn about the Institutes mission and hear what tools offered to help SLPs scale their services.

Staff members of Western New York Regional Information Center visited AI4ExceptionalEd to learn about the Institutes mission and hear what tools offered to help SLPs scale their services.

August 2026

8/14/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Visit from Azerbaijan AI Leaders

8/11/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Visit from Quebec Delegation

8/5/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Visit from New York Rep. Tim Kennedy

July 2026

7/30/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tour for Science and Technology Entry Program Summer Camp

7/29/2026 - Buffalo, NY
CSExplore Camp Tour

7/23/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tour for Western New York Regional Information Center (WNYRIC)

7/22/2026 - Chicago, IL
Fifth Annual Web3 Conference and Investor Day

7/21/2026 - Reno, NV
Robotics Summer Engineering Camp

7/17/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tour for Student Technology Leadership Program

7/14/2026 - Limassol, Cyprus
Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

7/11/2026 - Queensland, Australia
International Society for Research in Emotions Conference 2026

7/9/2026 - London, UK
The Computing Conference 2026

7/1/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tour for Upward Bound Program

7/1/2026 - Seattle, WA
KidsTeamUW Summer Camp Program

June 2026

6/30/2026 - Urbana, IL
PhD Candidate Tracy Preza Dissertation Defense

6/24/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Summer 2026 Bridge Lecture Series

6/23/2026 - Brighton, UK
Interaction Design and Children 25th Conference

6/22/2026 - Baltimore, MD
12th Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop on Speech and Language Technology

6/14/2026 - Denver, CO
Human-Computer Interaction Consortium 2026 Annual Meeting

6/10/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB University Advancement Executive Team Retreat

6/5/2026 - Madison, WI
46th Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders

6/5/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB Alumni Association Info Session

6/2/2026 - Denver, CO
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

May 2026

5/29/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Exploring a UB-IBM Partnership in AI and Quantum Computing

5/23/2026 - Buffalo, NY
2026 Western New York Turing Challenge

5/21/2026 - Urbana, IL
UIUC AI & Society Workshop

5/20/2026 - Manchester, UK
Emotional Intelligence Conference 2026

5/19/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB IAD Strategic Engagement Forum

5/19/2026 - Reno, NV
GradFit 2026 Lab Tour

5/12/2026 - Evanston, IL
2026 Lambert ANN SONIC NICO Workshop

5/12/2026 - Buffalo, NY
AI in the Writing Classroom

5/11/2026 - Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2026

5/6/2026 - Barcelona, Spain
2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

5/5/2026 - Buffalo, NY
NSF AI4ExceptionalEd Year 3 Site Visit

April 2026

4/30/2026 - Urbana, IL
2026 AImpact Workshop

4/29/2026 - Urbana, IL
IMMERSE Symposium 2026

4/28/2026 - Buffalo, NY
NYSERNet Connect Event Day

4/25/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Level Up Learning Community Event

4/23/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB Center for Information Integrity Member Workshop

4/21/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB Tech Talk Podcast

4/16/2026 - Urbana, IL
Uni High Symposium

4/14/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tech Exchange Seminar Series

4/13/2026 - Barcelona, Spain
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2026

4/10/2026 - Pittsburgh, PA
AI Emergence in Nonverbal Communnication Research Symposium

4/9/2026 - Buffalo, NY
AI4ExceptionalEd Spring 2026 Student Workshop

4/3/2026 - Miami, FL
Knight Foundation School Talk

March 2026

3/24/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tech Exchange Seminar Series

3/19/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Institute Tour for UB Tech Talk Crew

3/19/2026 - Orchard Park, NY
STEAM Expo 2026

3/14/2026 - El Paso, TX
North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference 2026

3/11/2026 - Salt Lake City, UT
Council for Exceptional Children Conference and Expo 2026

3/11/2026 - Stanford, CA
Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Seminar

3/11/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Institute for Learning Sciences Speaker Series

3/10/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Tech Exchange Seminar Series

3/9/2026 - Pocatello, ID
Interdisciplinary Class Talk

3/6/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Univesity at Buffalo and New York Power Authority Team Building

3/5/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Superintendent Info Session

February 2026

2/27/2026 - Stony Brook, NY
Embodied AI Workshop

2/27/2026 - Buffalo, NY
AI and Society Workshop

2/25/2026 - Buffalo, NY
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Spanish Language Instruction for Health Professionals and AI

2/12/2026 - Buffalo, NY
CELaRAI Quarterly Forum

2/11/2026 - Stanford, CA
AI + Education Summit 2026

2/9/2026 - Seattle, WA
Scholar Exchange Visit

2/5/2026 - Buffalo, NY
UB Business Services Tour and Demos

2/1/2026 - Seattle, WA
AI Puzzlers Game used in UW Class

January 2026

1/30/2026 - Villanova, PA
Villanova University Talk

1/22/2026 - Chuncheon, South Korea
Hallym University Speech and Language Pathology Program Workshop

1/13/2026 - Carson City, NV
Sierra Nevada Forums