ICANN 2026: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks

ICANN 2026, the 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, takes place 14–17 September 2026 at the University of Padua, Italy, organised with the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). It is one of Europe's premier conferences on neural networks, neuroscience and brain-inspired computing.

What you gain

Beyond cutting-edge papers and invited keynotes, ICANN 2026 runs an unusually rich set of special sessions and workshops that map the field's frontier: spiking neural networks and neuromorphic computing, explainable neurosymbolic AI, multimodal data fusion with LLMs, graph neural networks, reservoir computing, deepfake detection, neurorobotics and AI for drug discovery.

Where it fits

While the headlines focus on ever-larger transformers, ICANN keeps alive the broader, biologically-inspired study of neural computation — neuromorphic hardware, spiking models and neuro-symbolic integration — that many believe holds the keys to more efficient and more trustworthy AI. For researchers bridging neuroscience and machine learning, it's a key European gathering.