ONDM 2026 is planned to include workshops, keynotes, tutorials, and invited talks, as well as high-quality contributed talks. The conference is expected to be highly interactive and to be a means to disseminate active and emerging areas of optical networking. Following the tradition of past ONDM conferences, ONDM 2026 will address cutting-edge research in established areas of optical networking and their adoption in support of a wide variety of new services and applications. This includes the most recent trends such as new fiber types; data-centre networking; spectrum as a service; fiber sensing; AI/ML use cases; cloud/edge computing; big data, data analytics, network telemetry, and real-time monitoring; autonomic networking; visible light networks; and quantum secured networks.

International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The proceedings  of this event are likely to be indexed in  prominent databases such as Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), Ei Compendex, DBLP, Google Scholar, and many others.