Information Processing & Management Conference 2026 (IP&MC2026)

The Information Processing & Management Conference 2026 (IP&MC2026) will be held under the theme ‘Documents to Dialog and Retrieval to Reasoning: Reimagining the Computational Information Sciences in the Age of AI and Large Language Models’.

Sponsored jointly by the journals Information Processing & Management and Data and Information Management, this innovative conference acknowledges the decades of foundational breakthroughs, including ranking algorithms, indexing architectures, metadata schemas, transformers, user experience, information governance, and theories of information behavior, while boldly confronting today’s frontier of AI, natural language processing, and human-centered AI.

Large language models, agentic AI, robotics, and other forms of AI are redefining how information is represented, retrieved, synthesized, and acted upon, fundamentally changing the entire lifecycle of data and information. Therefore, researchers and practitioners in our field must ask ourselves: “What does information ‘processing’ and ‘management’ mean when systems no longer just retrieve but infer, collaborate, and create with humans?”

Answering this question is the critical first step in understanding how we can live with, manage, and harness the power of AI for the benefit of humans and organizations, enabling them to face the many planetary challenges.

We invite scholarly contributions that bridge theoretical rigor with empirical execution, honoring the past scientific foundations to avoid retreading old ground while charting a novel, responsible, and human-centered path toward cognitive information systems in the Age of AI.

We encourage submissions that advance the computational foundations of reasoning and dialog systems, as well as those that investigate the profound impacts of AI on information governance, scientific discovery, and human information behavior.

All accepted conference submissions are automatically eligible for submission to the related special issues in Information Processing & Management and Data and Information Management.

Conference features

The following features are all planned to enhance your experience with the conference and will make IP&MC2026 a vibrant event for networking, learning, and collaboration. IP&MC2026 is an in-person only conference.

• Plenary and keynote presentations, regular papers and poster presentations, and other initiatives and opportunities such as:

• Plenary and keynote presentations, regular papers and poster presentations, and other initiatives and opportunities such as:

  • Meeting the journal Editors-in-Chief workshop

  • Young Scientists Development workshop

  • Industrial exhibits

Call for Conference Tracks

Thematic tracks organized by experts in a particular area constitute the core of IP&MC2026. These tracks will provide forums for the discussion of novel topics in the fields of computational, communication, or information science among an international group of researchers.

Click here for more information on how to submit

Deadline: 15 December 2025

(Please note that proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the call may close earlier if a sufficient number of high-quality tracks are accepted.)

Conference deadlines

Track proposal deadline: 15 December 2025

Manuscript opening date: 1 January 2026

Manuscript submission deadline: 31 July 2026

Author notification deadline:

Author registration deadline:

Early booking deadline:

Organizers

This conference is organized by Elsevier.

Co-organizers

This conference is organized by Elsevier and School of Information Management, Wuhan University

武汉大学信息管理学院

Supporting publication

Conference History

Information Processing & Management Conference 2022 Online – Live and On-demand | 20-21 October 2022