While much of the current research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is focused on content analysis, the ultimate success of AI also relies on the continuous generation of content. Activity Engineering  addresses the ability of a computer to create new or new kind of activities that in turn generate the content. A major type of activity is conversation. Other types of activity include game, problem solving, e-commerce, virtual and augment reality, and social networking.

Activity Engineering 2020 (AE 2020), technically sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, iis an international forum for academia and industries to exchange visions and ideas in the state of the art and practice of Activity Engineering, as well as to identify the emerging topics and define the future of Activity Engineering.