The current agenda for the 2026 Artificial Intelligence and Robotics National Institute is available above.
Please note that the agenda is still being finalized, and panel titles, descriptions, speakers, and schedule are subject to change.
Keynotes
- Agentic AI – Novel Legal Issues
- AI and the California Courts: Fireside Chat with California Administrative Presiding Justice Mary Greenwood
- AI Meets the Law School: Santa Clara’s New AI Law Specialization
- The Mythos Moment: How Frontier AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Cybersecurity
Programming Listing
- Breaking Bad: Who’s Liable When AI Agents Do Bad Things?
- Keeping Up with AI: The Latest Regulation and Governance
- "I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I don’t want to do that.” Law and Policy of Uncooperative, Uncontrollable, and Downright Dangerous AI in Coming Decades
- Senior In-House Counsel Take on Hot AI Topics
- Emotional Intelligence? Smart Ways to Address the Legal Challenges of Emotion AI
- One Battle After Another: AI vs. Ethics
- Is the Future Rosy for Robots? Legal Challenges for Mass-Market Household Humanoid Robots and Other Physical AI
Choose from two breakout tracks:
Track 1: AI in Practice
AI in the Courtroom and in Chambers
Track 2: Intellectual Property
Tools of the Trade:
AI Automation of IP Applications and Enforcement
Track 1: AI in Practice
Let’s Make a Deal:
How AI and Robotics are Changing M&A
Track 2: Intellectual Property
Music to My Ears?
The Not-So-Silent Threat of AI
Track 1: AI in Practice
Human in the Loop: An AI Crisis Tabletop
Track 2: Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Legal Risk and Mitigation With Agentic AI and AI Use