The 2026 edition will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and will bring together researchers from various backgrounds, including physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science and machine learning. There will be invited talks by renowned experts in the field and poster sessions covering recent progress and future perspectives on:
- Intelligent matter for information processing and sensing
- Neuromorphic and brain-inspired devices and architectures
- Information processing in natural and complex systems
- Computing in non-digital, physical substrates
- Analog in-memory computing
In addition, there will be a tutorial class on Monday afternoon (12 October), designed as an introduction to the conference for students and young scientists to get an overview of the diversity of topics in the field. If you want to follow this tutorial, please sign up before 31 July.
Why should you join?
- Connect with internationally renowned experts on brain-inspired computing.
- Highly interdisciplinary conference, bringing together researchers from various fields (chemistry, physics, engineering, etc.).
- A focus on thought-provoking discussions among peers.
- A great location for networking: The Lindenberg is close to the station, restaurants, hotels, and the waterfront.
Important dates
31 July - Registration Master's tutorial
1 September - Abstract submission invited speakers and poster
20 September - Registration Brainspiration conference
Speakers
Adnan Mehonic (University College London)
Arvind Murugan (The University of Chicago)
Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)
Daniele Ielmini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Giacomo Indiveri (ETH Zurich)
John Paul Strachan (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Judith Driscoll (University of Cambridge)
Julie Grollier (CNRS- Universite Paris-Saclay)
Nikolaos Farmakidis (University of Oxford)
Paschalis Gkoupidenis (Max Planck Institute For Polymer Research)
Riccardo Zecchina (University of Bocconi)
Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge)
Romain Fleury (EPFL, Zurich)
Wolfram Pernice (University of Münster)
