IEEE WCCI 2026: World Congress on Computational Intelligence
📅 Sunday, 21 June 2026 → Friday, 26 June 2026
IEEE WCCI 2026 — the world's largest computational-intelligence congress (IJCNN + FUZZ-IEEE + CEC), Maastricht, 21–26 June.
IEEE WCCI 2026, the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, runs 21–26 June 2026 in Maastricht, the Netherlands — the world's largest CI event, uniting three major conferences under one roof: IJCNN (neural networks), FUZZ-IEEE (fuzzy systems) and IEEE CEC (evolutionary computation).
What you gain
Expect a world-class programme of keynotes, technical sessions, tutorials, competitions, a dedicated Industry Day and an early-career mentoring programme. Sponsors include ASML, Google, OpenAI and Atos — a strong signal of industry engagement and recruiting opportunity. Organised by IEEE CIS, INNS, Maastricht University and the University of Nottingham.
Where it fits
WCCI is where the non-deep-learning branches of AI — neuro-inspired, evolutionary and fuzzy methods — stay alive and cross-pollinate, a reminder that the field is broader than the current transformer monoculture. For CI researchers it's the once-every-two-years gathering of the whole community.
