AISyS 2026 — AI-based Systems and Services, Barcelona

AISyS 2026, the Third International Conference on AI-based Systems and Services, takes place September 27 - October 1, 2026 in Barcelona, Spain, as part of IARIA's SoftNet 2026 Congress, where it is co-located with conferences on software engineering, networks, human-oriented systems, validation, simulation, social media and communications. This co-location is a defining feature: a single registration places attendees inside a cluster of systems-and-software conferences, so AI researchers can move between AI-specific sessions and adjacent tracks on testing, simulation and networked systems - useful for anyone whose work sits at the engineering boundary of AI rather than in pure algorithm design. AISyS is a smaller, broad-scope venue rather than a top-tier flagship, and it is best understood as a place to present applied and systems-oriented AI work, get it peer-reviewed, and have it archived in an open-access, indexed proceedings. Its scope spans machine learning and deep learning, natural-language processing, AI ethics and responsibility, AI policy and regulation (the call explicitly flags AI-planned regulation in the USA and EU, timely given the EU AI Act's phased entry into force), and AI in economics and finance, alongside the practical concerns of building and serving AI-based systems and services.

That applied, services-and-deployment framing distinguishes it from theory-heavy venues and makes it a reasonable fit for practitioners and applied researchers who want a reviewed publication and a European presentation slot. On process and publication: papers are peer-reviewed, accepted papers appear in proceedings published by IARIA Press and archived free-of-charge in the open-access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library, and authors of selected papers are invited to submit extended versions to an affiliated IARIA journal. The conference offers both onsite and online participation - virtual presenters can submit slides or pre-recorded video - which lowers the barrier for international authors facing travel or visa constraints. Important dates from the official site: submission June 26, 2026; notification July 26; registration August 9; camera-ready August 23 (deadlines may differ for special tracks, and IARIA does not state an explicit timezone, so authors should treat the date conservatively).

Prospective attendees should weigh the venue honestly: IARIA conferences are useful for early-stage work, applied case studies, PhD students seeking a first reviewed publication and conference experience, and practitioners wanting to engage the EU's evolving AI-governance conversation in a Mediterranean setting. They are not a substitute for the field's selective flagship venues. For researchers whose contribution is a working AI system or service - especially with a software-engineering, ethics or regulatory angle - and who value the cross-pollination of a multi-conference congress, AISyS 2026 in Barcelona offers a legitimate, indexed, open-access outlet with a relatively quick review turnaround.