November 1-3, 2026 • Statler Hotel • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Frontiers in Systems Engineering and Workforce Development in the Age of AI
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AI isn’t waiting for our curricula to catch up — and neither can we.
The World Economic Forum projects 92 million jobs disrupted and 170 million created worldwide by 2030, while INCOSE’s own Systems Engineering Vision 2035 warns that the supply of well-trained systems engineers already can’t meet demand. Now add AI rewriting model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, and the core competencies our graduates need on day one. The organizations shaping this field are moving fast; the question is whether industry and academia are moving together. Too often we’re not — employers see the shift in real time, universities feel it a step behind, and the people who could close that gap have too few opportunities to work together.
The 2026 Cornell Systems Summit is designed to create those opportunities. Building on two years of momentum, we’re bringing industry, government, and academic leaders to Cornell for high-energy panels and hands-on working groups where we won’t just talk about the AI-driven skills gap — we’ll work together to define it and develop solutions.
Come tell us what your teams need. Help us design the curriculum, capstones, and competency frameworks that get graduate programs ahead of the curve instead of behind it. Systems engineering has always been the discipline built to integrate across boundaries — this is that challenge, right now, and we want you at the table.
Join us for the 2026 Cornell Systems Summit to share the skills and competencies your organizations need, and help shape the curricula, capstones, and competency frameworks that will prepare the next generation of systems engineers for the challenges ahead.
This Year’s Global Challenge Thrusts
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Energy Systems
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SEMI Systems
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Health Systems
Land Acknowledgment
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.