IPCL 2026 will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, during August 19–21, 2026. The symposium seeks to ground learning methods in the physics and statistics of data acquisition, and emphasizes validating ideas using real data, real-time sequences, and real operational scenarios, thereby enabling research outcomes to transition from the laboratory to real-world applications. By focusing on the entire end-to-end pipeline, the conference aims to inspire new theoretical advances, improved datasets and benchmarks, practical toolchains, and robust systems that remain reliable as conditions change – from day to night, from the lab to the field, and from prototype to production.