Registered participants will receive specific joining instructions two weeks before the conference. In the meantime, we hope you find the following, more general, ICAIR Practical Information helpful.

Conference Location

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI in Kaiserslautern
Trippstadter Straße 122
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

University Information

The University of Kaiserslautern was founded in 1970 and is the only university in Rhineland-Palatinate with a technical and natural science focus. On 1 January 2023, the university was merged with the Landau campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau to form the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). With about 14,500 students, the RPTU in Kaiserslautern offers a wide range of courses in twelve faculties, with most degree programmes taking an interdisciplinary approach. The students and (young) scientists benefit from the research facilities located in Kaiserslautern, such as the Fraunhofer Institutes (IESE, ITWM), the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The DFKI was founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership (PPP) and currently operates sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Lower Saxony, as well as laboratories in Berlin, Darmstadt and Lübeck, and a branch office in Trier. The DFKI combines scientific excellence and business-oriented value creation with social appreciation. DFKI has been researching artificial intelligence (AI) methods for over 35 years and is orientated towards social relevance and scientific excellence in the key future-oriented research and application areas of artificial intelligence. DFKI is one of the most important ‘centres of excellence’ in the international scientific community. About 1,560 employees from over 76 nations are currently researching innovative software solutions.

Local Information

Kaiserslautern, located on the edge of the biosphere reserve Pfälzerwald-Nordvogesen, offers attractive leisure, sports and shopping opportunities for hikers and football fans alike. It was already a royal court in Carolingian times and the settlement began to flourish in the middle of the 12th century when Friedrich I. Barbarossa expanded the castle, built around 1100, into a Pfalz. From the mid-19th century, the city, which was now part of the Kingdom of Bavaria, became the centre of the Palatinate Uprising; at the same time, however, it developed into one of the most important industrial locations in the Palatinate thanks to the establishment of numerous companies in the textile industry, the metal industry and mechanical engineering. The city achieved international fame primarily through its football club, 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

Getting to ICAIR 2026

The conference is taking place in Kaiserslautern which is located in the west of Germany. There are direct and indirect transport links from Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Luxembourg and Paris, all of which take around 1h30-3hrs.

Frankfurt Airport
https://www.frankfurt-airport.com/en.html
• By Train: 2 hours
• By Car: 1 hour 10 min

Stuttgart Airport
https://www.flughafen-stuttgart.de/
• By Train 3hours
• By car 2 hours

Luxemburg Airport
https://www.lux-airport.lu/
• Route options from the Airport
• By Train ~3 hours
• By car 1 hours 45 minutes

Alternatively, the airport in Paris is also an option. From Paris it is about 2.5 hours by ICE to Kaiserslautern

Useful transport options

https://www.bahn.de
https://www.flixbus.co.uk/

Travelling in Kaiserslautern

The city centre where most of the hotels are located is about 35 minute walk to the conference venue at the DFKI. There are two buses that you can take on this route. SWK106 & SWK115.

Accommodation Information

Suggested local hotels can be seen in the table below. The main conference hotel will be highlighted in green.

This is usually the most convenient to the conference venue and is usually where pre-conference drinks are held.