LACCI 2026 — IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence

LACCI 2026, the IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, takes place 3–6 November 2026 at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru. Backed by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, it is the region's flagship academic conference for computational intelligence—the family of nature-inspired and learning-based methods that includes neural networks, fuzzy systems and evolutionary computation. It is a peer-reviewed, IEEE Xplore-indexed venue aimed at scientists, engineers, educators and especially young researchers across Latin America and beyond.

What LACCI covers

LACCI (also styled LA-CCI) is organised around four thematic pillars that define the computational-intelligence field, and the 2026 call for papers reflects them directly:

• Evolutionary & swarm computation—genetic algorithms and programming, swarm and collective intelligence, bio-inspired and immune-system methods, evolvable hardware.
• Neural & learning systems—neural networks, deep learning and machine learning, complex systems and networks, and molecular/quantum computing.
• Fuzzy & stochastic modeling—fuzzy control and decision-making, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, rough sets, social simulation and game theory.
• Other topics around CI—explainable and trustworthy AI, natural language processing, tiny machine learning, Industry 4.0 and IoT, robotics, bioinformatics, brain–computer interfaces and intelligent transportation.

Papers are submitted via EasyChair, reviewed by an international technical committee under IEEE procedures, and—if accepted and presented—published in the proceedings indexed in IEEE Xplore. The conference is co-located with SSoCIA, with a single registration granting access to both, broadening the technical scope for attendees who want exposure to adjacent work in computational intelligence and its applications.

The role of IEEE CIS and who should attend

As an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society conference, LACCI brings the Society's review standards, publication pipeline and member networks to a regional audience that is often under-served by the larger conferences held in North America, Europe and Asia. That backing is the point: it gives Latin American researchers a high-quality, indexed venue close to home, lowering the cost and visa friction that keep many graduate students from publishing internationally. In practice that means a student in Lima, Quito or Bogotá can present indexed, citable work without the cost of a transatlantic trip, while still being reviewed to the same international standard.

LACCI is primarily a researchers' conference. Its core audience is academics and graduate students in machine learning, optimisation, fuzzy and evolutionary systems, and applied AI, together with R&D engineers applying these methods to industry, energy, transport, health and the smart-grid problems common across Latin America. The 2026 organising committee draws chairs and steering members from Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Uruguay and Honduras—an unusually pan-regional leadership that underlines LACCI's role as connective tissue for the continent's computational-intelligence community. Dedicated Young Professionals and Women in Computational Intelligence networking breakfasts, plus a student lightning-talk session, signal a deliberate focus on early-career and underrepresented researchers.

What is notable for 2026

Two strands stand out. First, the explicit emphasis on explainability, trustworthy AI and tiny machine learning places LACCI 2026 squarely on the questions the wider field is wrestling with—how to make learning systems accountable, and how to run them on the constrained, low-power hardware that matters for deployments in regions where compute and connectivity are not assumed. Second, the conference's location at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima keeps a major IEEE CIS event anchored on the Pacific coast of South America, complementing the robotics-led activity elsewhere in the region and giving Andean and broader South American researchers a nearby flagship. To widen access, LACCI 2026 is offering up to 100 author support grants covering portions of registration for IEEE members, a meaningful gesture toward participation from students and researchers with limited funding.

Practical notes for prospective participants

Following an extended deadline, full papers (up to six pages, IEEE format, in English) were due in late May 2026, with acceptance notifications in July and camera-ready versions in August; the early-bird registration window ran into early September. As is standard for IEEE conferences, at least one full registration is required per paper and every accepted paper must be presented on-site to appear in the proceedings—so authors should budget for travel, not just submission. Most travellers from the Americas and Europe do not require a visa for Peru, and the organisers can supply supporting documentation where needed. Beyond the technical program, the conference folds in a cultural visit and networking events in Lima—one of South America's major culinary and historic capitals—making it a practical and rewarding venue for the regional AI research community in 2026.