June 2026 newsletter

Dear IAOA members,

Below, you will find the news and announcements of our June 2026 newsletter.

If you have information to share with the IAOA’s community, e.g., scientific events you wish to advertise, please do not hesitate to contact us (calendars@iaoa.org).

Best,

The Executive Council of the IAOA

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IAOA ANNOUNCEMENTS

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*16th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2026)
21–25 September 2026 – Vitória, ES, Brazil (Virtual conference: 9 September 2026)
https://foisconference.org/

* JOWO (Joint Ontology Workshops) 2026 – Episode XII: The Tropical Spring of Ontology
21–22 September 2026 – Vitória, ES, Brazil (Co-located with FOIS 2026)
https://foisconference.org/jowo/

Early bird registration: 31 July (or 21 August for students).

FOIS authors registration (mandatory): 8 July.

JOWO and satellite track authors registration (mandatory): 31 July.

Student Grants: A limited number of grants to attend FOIS 2026 are available. Preference will be given to students who are going to present a paper and/or were selected for the Early Career Symposium.

More info: https://foisconference.org/location/

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UPCOMING DEADLINES

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* 45th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2026)

5-8 October 2026, St. John’s, NL, Canada

– Posters and Demos: 28 July 2026

– Workshop paper submission: 6 July 2026

(further info: https://er2026.org/workshops.html)

* 25th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2026)

25-29 October 2026, Bari, Italy

– Poster and Demos: 24 July 2026

– Industry Track: 7 July 2026

– Workshop paper submission: 24 July 2026

(further info: https://iswc2026.semanticweb.org/#/program/workshops)

* 38th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2026)

2-4 November 2026, Boca Raton FL, USA

– Paper submission (extended): 21 July 2026

* 25th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2026)

29 September – 1 October 2026, Torino, Italy

– Posters and Demos (extended): 24 July 2026

* 18th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD 2026)

28-30 October 2026, Angers, France

– Position/Regular papers submission (extended): 3 July 2026

– Abstracts Track Submission: 31 July 2026

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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* 19th Seminar on Ontology Research in Brazil (ONTOBRAS 2026)

23 September 2026 – Vitória, ES, Brazil – (Co-located with FOIS 2026)

* 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2026)

20-23 July 2026 – Lisbon, Portugal

* 17th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2026)

15-17 July 2026 – Washington D.C., USA (Online Participation Available)

* 10th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2026)

24-26 August 2026 – Vilnius, Lithuania

* 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence + 29th European Artificial Intelligence Association (IJCAI-ECAI 2026)

15-21 August 2026 – Bremen, Germany

* 30th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC 2026)

15-18 September 2026 – Enschede, Netherlands

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