About the workshop

What would it take for AI models to enter a power grid control room? A workshop on benchmarks, model training, and real-world considerations.

The power grid is one of the most consequential open problems in applied machine learning – hard physics constraints, real-time closed-loop operation, structural non-stationarity, and societal-scale consequence – yet it attracts a fraction of the methodological attention given to vision, language, or biology. This workshop brings power systems to the ML community as a first-class methodological challenge and focuses on the central bottleneck: how to evaluate learning-based methods under realistic and evolving operating conditions.

Key dates (AoE)

Milestone Date
Submission deadline August 29, 2026
Author notification September 29, 2026
Workshop December 11 or 12, 2026 (Sydney)

Submission tracks

  1. Methods with rigorous evaluation.
  2. Benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation protocols.
  3. Position and empirical-evaluation papers.
  4. Negative results and failure modes.

See the full Call for Papers for scope, submission format, and the domain evaluation checklist.