Welcome to the 2026 International Conference on Breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (BAI’26). This conference is organized by the Institute for Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering Research (IICSER). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia, business, industry, and government to exchange significant and innovative contributions and research ideas and to act as a platform for international research collaboration. To this extent, BAI’26 is seeking submissions that furnish innovative ideas, techniques, methodologies, and applications. BAI’26 is currently composed of the following areas:

• Problem Solving
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Communication and Perceiving
• Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence and the Society
• Artificial Intelligence Applications
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence Tools and Hardware

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the conference Proceedings and indexed. The Proceedings will be published by Springer book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, and indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP, INSPEC, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, SCImago, WTI Frankfurt eG, and zbMATH.