NICE 2026


NICE 2026 will take place at the

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

(venue details, register here)

Conference dates:

  • Tuesday, 24 March – Thursday, 26 March 2026: NICE conference days
  • Friday, 27 March 2026 tutorial day

Important dates

  • Papers: for submissions, we will accept regular papers (4-8 pages, not including references) that will be reviewed by the program committee. Paper submissions due: 2 December 2025 24 November 2025. CLOSED
    Please submit your paper suggestions here on easychair.
    The 2026 NICE proceedings will be published and indexed through IEEE Conference Proceedings (but authors can also opt out from being included in the proceedings)
    Submissions can be accepted for a talk (full talk or lightning talk) or a poster presentation by the program committee.
  • We also welcome Abstracts (1-2 pages) for ‘Work in Progress’.
    Submissions can be accepted for a talk (full talk or lightning talk) or a poster presentation by the program committee, but abstract submissions will not be included in the proceedings.
    Abstract submissions are due 2 December 2025 24 November 2025. CLOSED
  • Tutorial suggestions due: 2 December 2025 24 November 2025 CLOSED
  • Acceptance decision notifications for the paper submissions and for the tutorial suggestions have been sent in January 2026
  • Late Breaking News Abstracts suggestions were be possible until: 1 February 2026. CLOSED
  • The “camera ready manuscripts” for publication in the IEEE conference proceedings are due 27 February 2026.
  • The registration to NICE 2026 is open.
  • Poster size limit: Preferred orientation: Landscape posters.
    Size: up to 4ft wide x 3ft high. A0 landscape  (about 84 cm high x 119 cm wide) works fine.
    (Note: portrait poster orientation is also possible).

Talks

For the list of planned talks, please see the agenda page.

Tutorials

On Friday, 27 March 2026 6 tutorials will be offered (2h each, 2 tutorials are in parallel in each of 3 slots). Please find the tutorial descriptions here.

List of Topics of the NICE 2026:

  • Architectures and Hardware 
    • Neuromorphic Hardware
    • Analog/Mixed-Signal and Beyond-CMOS Hardware
    • Compute-In-Memory Architectures
    • Next-Generation Architectures
  • Computational and Systems Neuroscience
    • Neural circuits: Theory and Experimental Support
    • Local learning and Plasticity
    • Connectomics
  • Neural Algorithms and Machine Learning
    • Neuroscience-Inspired Algorithms
    • Resource-Constrained and/or Hardware-Aware Artificial Neural Networks
    • Spiking Neural Networks
  • Neuromorphic Computing Applications
    • Emerging Applications
    • Robotics and Automation
    • High-Performance Computing
    • Edge Computing
    • Biosignal Processing and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Bio-Inspired Sensing
    • Event-Driven Sensing
    • Novel Neuromorphic Sensors
    • Efficient Spike-Based Information Coding and Processing
  • Algorithms and Software Frameworks for Neuromorphic Computing
    • Tools and Programming/Mapping Frameworks
    • Benchmarks, Neuromorphic Datasets
    • Theoretical Frameworks and Models for Neuromorphic Engineering
    • Memory-efficient Spike-Based Simulators