ICA2S 2026 — International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Society

ICA2S 2026 — the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Society — runs 11–12 December 2026, organised by the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bhopal in collaboration with Vizja University, Warsaw. It carries the theme "AI in Secure and Resilient Digital Infrastructure" and runs in hybrid (online and in-person) mode. As a second edition with a named host institution, an international academic partner and a credible organising structure, it reads as a genuine, if young, academic conference.

The committee is substantial and verifiable, drawing patrons from IIIT Bhopal and Vizja University and an advisory board including Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) and senior figures from Goethe University Frankfurt, TU Berlin and Kyushu Institute of Technology, with programme chairs spread across institutions in India, Japan, Canada, the UK, South Korea and beyond. The scope is broad across AI for healthcare, cybersecurity and digital forensics, smart cities, agriculture, low-resource-language NLP, federated learning, digital twins and cyber-physical systems. Peer review runs through Microsoft CMT, and proceedings are expected in a Scopus-indexed volume (stated as subject to approval), with selected papers extended to journals. Prospective attendees should note this is an author-pays academic conference, with registration tiers for Indian and overseas authors. It suits researchers seeking a publication venue and exchange on socially oriented AI.