[FOIS 2026] FOIS and JOWO registrations open

[Giorgio Ubbiali]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear all,

We are delighted to inform you that registrations for FOIS are now open! 

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

• For FOIS authors, registration is mandatory before 8 July.

• For JOWO and satellite track authors, registration is mandatory before 31 July.

A limited number of student grants for attending FOIS 2026 are available. Grants will be awarded to students attending the conference who lack sufficient funding. Preference will be given to students who are going to present a paper and/or were selected for the Early Career Symposium. These grants will cover the registration fee.

For more information, please visit https://foisconference.org/location/

We would also like to inform you that keynote speeches and tutorials have been announced at https://foisconference.org/program/. 

Keynotes:

• “ML in science: Just a toy?” - Emilly Sullivan (The University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

• “Wikidata: The Final Frontier for Ontology?” - Aidan Hogan (University of Chile and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD))

• Luis Lamb (Full Professor of Foundations of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at UFRGS, Senior Manager of AI and Machine Learning at Boeing)

Tutorials:

• “Python Essentials for the Working Ontologist” - Paweł Garbacz (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

• “From Description Logics to (Virtual) Knowledge Graphs” - Renata Wassermann and João Lima (University of São Paulo, USP, Brazil)

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FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA), a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology.

FOIS is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high-quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2026 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies.

FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web.

FOIS 2025 will be held both online and in Vitória, ES, Brazil, organized by the Federal University of  Espírito Santo.

Best regards,

Vitor Souza and Giorgio Ubbiali (FOIS 2026 Publicity Chairs)