IFAC co-sponsorship “light” for NMOs: IFACx: This service allows IFAC NMOs to give an IFAC label to some domestic technical events organized under their supervision.
IFACx COUNTRY/REGION Events:
Each NMO can request the IFACx COUNTRY/REGION label for at most 2 domestic events. These may typically be a domestic Conference + one other event such as a summer school, a Webinar series, etc.
The labeled events are not bound to be held in English. IFAC has no financial liability with respect to these events. The technical and scientific quality is the responsibility of the NMO, without any verification by IFAC. The events should be well aligned with IFAC ́s mission of promoting automatic control, and
respectful of IFAC’s code of conduct www.ifac-control.org/about.
Application Document:
In a single document, the NMO should provide for each event:
- Name of the event, location, dates
- Type of event: Conference, School, etc.
- Website (will be used by IFAC to promote the event)
- Short description (typically 1 or 2 sentences)
Validation by IFAC:
All submitted requests shall receive the approval of the Technical Board and Conference Board Chairs.
Approval ensures advertisement of the event in the IFAC channels (website, newsletter, social media etc.)
and gives the right to use the "IFACx COUNTRY/REGION" logo.
The following events were approved for 2026
Name of the event, location, dates, Congresso Brasileiro de Automática (CBA 2026)
São Paulo, Brazil — October 06–09, 2026
Type of event. Conference
Website: https://sites.usp.br/cba2026/
Short description. The 26th CBA 2026 is the leading Brazilian conference in the field of Automatics and will take place in São Paulo from 6 to 9 October. The event brings together the scientific, academic, and industrial communities to discuss advances in Control, Automation, Robotics, and their applications.
CBA 2026 is a commemorative edition, celebrating the 50th anniversary of both the first CBA and
the Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA).
1) SAGIP 2026, Bordeaux, 10-12 June, 2026
Type of event: National Conference
Website (will be used by IFAC to promote the event): https://sagip2026.sciencesconf.org/
Short description: The fourth Annual Congress of SAGIP, IFAC NMO in France, will be held in Bordeaux, June 10-12, 2026. It will be organized by the IMS laboratory (UMR 5218 CNRS, https://www.ims-bordeaux.fr/) at Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux (UBx). As previous events in the series, it will gather the Automation and Control scientists and engineers from all research academic and industrial centers in France. The program includes plenary and semi-plenary presentations, dedicated workshops and parallel technical sessions of presentations selected by the SAGIP Editorial Board composed of the
Chairs of the SAGIP Technical Committees. The event includes presentations about IFAC and IFAC
related activities in France.
2) MACS fall seminar 2026, Paris, 7-8 October, 2026
- Type of event: National Conference
- Website (will be used by IFAC to promote the event): https://gdr-macs.fr/node/5173
- Short description:
The seminar will be the third in a series started in 2024 with an event dedicated to Multi-Agent
Systems followed in 2025 by a seminar on Learning and dynamical systems. The 2026 event will take
place in Paris on October 7-8. It will be dedicated to Human-Cyber-Physical Systems. The seminar will
include: tutorial presentations on the state of the art; presentations of recent results both from the
MACS network and for connected research fields; poster sessions; and a round table on prospective
in the field.
The Research Group MACS is a group of the CNRS Informatics institute (INS2I, https://www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/en). It is built with the aim of animating and networking the field of Automatic Control in France. Automatic Control considered in a broad sense of a science that produces methods and tools for controlling systems. The network is made up of some fifty research teams spread across the country. The seminar will also be supported by the French IFAC NMO SAGIP https://www.sagip.org/en.
1) the annual German AUTOMATION congress
Name, location, dates: VDI Congress AUTOMATION, Congress Center Baden-Baden,
June 17. and 18., 2026 (annually)
Type of event: Conference
Website: https://www.vdi-wissensforum.de/automatisierungskongress/
Short description: The AUTOMATION is the leading congress in measurement and automation technology and a partner event of the VDI Wissensforum and the VDI/VDE -GMA. With up to six
parallel tracks, the congress is the largest networking event in the field of automation, bringing together science and industry in Germany. This congress is a call for paper event with paper selection by a program committee consisting of experts of ac ademia and industry. The topics covered include:
• AI, data science and dataspaces
• Process automation
• Discrete manufacturing
• Safety & security
• Robotics & autonomous systems
• Sustainable technologies, energy and circular economy
• Technology and innovation management
• Industrial communication
2) annual scientific workshop
Name, location, dates: Joint workshop of technical committees “Modeling, identification and simulation in automation” and “Systems theory and control”, Anif near Salzburg, Austria, September 2026 (annually)
Type of event: Scientific Workshop
Website: https://www.uni-ulm.de/in/gma-fa-2-14/
Short description:
Two technical committees of GMA's automation technology methodology division organize an annual joint workshop with lectures and intensive discussion. Traditionally, this workshop of the German member organization GMA takes place near Salzburg in Austria. The GMA Technical Committee 2.13 is dedicated to questions of modeling, identification and simulation of dynamic systems at the interface to control engineering. The focus is on theoretical aspects and numerical methods as well as concrete applications from industry and research. The GMA Technical Committee 2.14 deals with current developments in control theory and their application in the industrial environment. The main topics are model predictive control of dynamic systems, nonlinear observers and state estimators as well as control of networked and distributed parametric systems.
1) SIDRA PhD School on Automatica, Bertinoro, Dates
July 13-18, 2026
Type of event: Summer school for PhD students in systems and control
Website: https://sidra2026.dei.unibo.it/ (under construction), see this year’s website
https://sidra2025.dei.unibo.it/
Short description: The SIDRA PhD School on Automatica is organized annually by the Italian
Society of PhD and Researchers in Automatica1 in July in the beautiful location of Bertinoro. It
consists of a week of classes (two parallel courses by renown international researchers in the
field) held in a friendly and stimulating environment.
This initiative has the sponsorship of IEEE Italy Chapters of the Control Systems Society (CSS)
and of the Robotics Society (RAS).
2) DAuSy PhD School on Autonomous Systems, Politecnico di Bari, Bari (Italy), January 19–22, 2026
Winter school for PhD students in systems, control, and autonomous
systems
Website: http://dausy.poliba.it/phd/winter-school-2026/ (to be completed)
Short description: The DAuSy PhD School on Autonomous Systems is organized within the
framework of the Italian National PhD Program in Autonomous Systems (DAuSy)1, coordinated
by Politecnico di Bari and involving 20+ Italian universities. The 2026 edition—the first in the
series—will be hosted in the beautiful city of Bari, located in the Apulia region of Southern Italy.
The Winter School will feature four days of advanced lectures delivered by internationally
renowned experts in the fields of control, robotics, optimization, and autonomous
systems, all within a collaborative, friendly, and intellectually stimulating environment.
This initiative is sponsored by the IEEE Italy Chapters of the Control Systems Society (CSS),
the Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), and the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
(SMCS).
Name of the event, location, dates: 69th Japan Joint Automatic Control Conference (JJACC), Tokyo, Japan, November 7 (Sat) and 8 (Sun), 2026
Type of event: Conference
Website (will be used by IFAC to promote the event): https://www.sice.jp/rengo69/
Short description: JJACC has been held annually since 1958 and is organized by the Japan NMO, which is part of the Science Council of Japan. The conference is sponsored by seven societies related to automatic control including SICE (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers), ISCIE (The Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers), and JSME (The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers).
Name of the event: 2026 The 41st ICROS Annual Conference (ICROS 2026)
Location: EXCO, Daegu, Korea
Dates: July 1~ 3, 2026
Type of event: Conference
Website: https://2026.icros.org/
Short description: ICROS 2026 is the main domestic conference of ICROS (Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems). The main themes of the conference are control and robotics. The conference language is Korean.
1) Congreso Nacional de Control Automático 2026 (CNCA 2026)
o Location: Monterrey, Mexico.
o Dates: October 6-9, 2026.
o Website: http://amca.mx/congresos/cnca2026/
o Description: The Congreso Nacional de Control Automático (CNCA 2026) is the flagship annual conference of the Asociación de México de Control Automático (AMCA), and on this occasion it will be co-organized with the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. This event serves as a central forum for the Mexican control engineering community to present and discuss its most relevant and recent achievements. All contributions undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure high academic and scientific quality. The conference proceedings are published in the annual journal Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, providing an accessible and enduring record of the research presented.
2) Summer School: Escuela de Verano de Control Automático.
o Location: Mexico City, Mexico.
o Dates: July 30-31, 2026.
o Website: https://amca.mx/escuelas/ev2026/
o Description: The AMCA Summer School is primarily designed for master’s and Ph.D. students, researchers, and scholars interested in the theory and practice of automatic control, as well as in emerging related areas. On this occasion, the Summer School will be held in parallel with other Ibero-American control schools, fostering a broader environment for academic exchange, collaboration, and community building across the region.
1) Jornadas de Automática 2026, Córdoba, Spain, 2-4 September 2026
Type of event: Conference
Website: https://jautomatica.es
Short description: "Jornadas de Automática" is the CEA flagship event. It is an annual event with more than 40 years of history. The event brings together a large number of control professors and researchers from all over Spain and other countries. The event presents scientific works but also addresses issues of interest to the industrial community.
2) CEA Webinars. Online via Zoom and scheduled once a month on Thursdays at 18:00 (GMT +1).
- Type of event: Series of Webinars
- Website: https://www.ceautomatica.es/blog/2018/02/10/webinarizate/
- Short description: This event represents an opportunity to learn and share the experiences of researchers facing the challenges that arise in the field of automatic control. The presentations are planned to address a wide variety of topics, such as robotics, intelligent control, or control engineering, among others.
2026 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Systems and Emergent Technologies
(IC-ASET’2026), Hammamet-Yasmine Tunisia, 26-28 March 2026.
- Type of event: Conference,
- Website: https://attend.ieee.org/aset/
- Short description: This Conference serves as a platform for researchers, academics, and industry practitioners to come together and share their latest findings, technological advancements, and groundbreaking research in the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering and related emergent technologies. It is an annual Scientific event organized by the ASET Association, the Tunisian National Member Organization (NMO) of IFAC.
1) 2nd Rosenbrock Lecture Series
Nancy Rothwell Building, Manchester, 11 June 2026
Type of event: Seminar
Website https://uom-csrgroup.uk/rosenbrock-lecture-series-2026/
Short description: The University of Manchester is pleased to host the second Rosenbrock Lecture Series, celebrating ground-breaking research accomplishments in Control Engineering and Robotics. The keynote lectures will be delivered by four world-leading experts: Prof. Kristin Y. Pettersen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Prof. Malcolm Smith (University of Cambridge), Prof. Anders Rantzer (Lund University), and Prof. Robert Bishop (Texas A&M University). This event will be of interest to academic and industry colleagues, researchers, and PhD students across the nation and beyond. We look forward to welcoming you all in Manchester.
2) ACE-UKACC 2026: Automation and Control Conference
Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
23–25 June 2026
Conference
TBD (base site: https://ukcontrol.org/)
The ACE–UKACC 2026: Automation and Control Conference brings together the ACE Network and the UK Automatic Control Council’s biennial UKACC Conference in a single three-day event. ACE, established with EPSRC support, helps coordinate and strengthen the UK control engineering community, while UKACC is the UK’s national IFAC member organisation. Co-locating the events creates a coherent forum for research, industrial engagement, and future direction. The programme opens with the ACE Forum & Roadmap Launch, followed by two days of UKACC sessions.