KES2026 International Programme Committee
The role of the IPC is as follows:-- To advise on the organisation of the conference;
- To promote the conference and bring it to the attention of other researchers;
- To advise on the topics of the conference;
- To help with the paper review process
- To assist in monitoring overall quality.
The IPC consists of the following members and, in addition, all Invited Session Chairs.
| Name | Affiliation |
| Dr. Jair Minoro Abe  | Graduate Program in Production Engineering, ICET - Paulista University & Institute For Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo  |
| Prof. Piotr Artiemjew  | University Warmia and Mazury  |
| Prof. Valentina E. Balas  | Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad  |
| Prof. Andrzej Banaszek  | West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland  |
| Prof. Dariusz Barbucha  | Gdynia Maritime University, Poland  |
| Prof. Alfonso Mateos Caballero  | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  |
| Prof. Massimo Conti  | Universita' Politecnica delle Marche  |
| Dr. Paulo Cortez  | University of Minho, Campus de Azurem, 4804-533 Guimaraes  |
| Prof. Paolo Crippa  | Università Politecnica delle Marche  |
| Dr. Gloria Cerasela Crisan  | Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau  |
| Dr. Krzysztof Ejsmont  | Warsaw University of Technology  |
| Prof. Margarita Favorskaya  | Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Russia  |
| Dr. Arnulfo Alanis Garza  | Tecnológico Nacional de México, campus Tijuana  |
| Dr. Ayse Glass  | HafenCity University  |
| Prof. Nobukuni Hamamoto  | Gunma University  |
| Prof. Tarek Hamrouni  | LIPAH  |
| Dr. Krzysztof Hauke  | Wroclaw University of Economics and Business  |
| Dr. Petr Hayek  | University of Pardubice  |
| Assoc. Prof. Daocheng Hong  | East China Normal University  |
| Prof. Wei-Chiang Hong  | School of Education Intelligent Technology, Jiangsu Normal University  |
| Prof. Anca Ignat  | University Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi  |
| Dr. Atsushi Inoue  | Mie University, Japan  |
| Assoc. Prof. Radu Tudor Ionescu  | University of Bucharest  |
| Dr. Marta Kadlubek  | Czestochowa University of Technology  |
| Prof. Haruhiko Kaiya  | Kanagawa University  |
| Prof. Hideyuki Kanematsu  | Graduate Scool of Engineering, Osaka University  |
| Assoc. Prof. Eiji Kano  | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  |
| Prof. Nikos Karacapilidis  | University of Patras  |
| Prof. Arkadiusz Kawa  | Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Logistics and Wareousing  |
| Dr. Imen Khamassi  | University of Tunisia  |
| Prof. Aleksandra Klasnja-Milicevic  | University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Serbia  |
| Prof. Laszlo Koczy  | Budapest University of Technology and Economics  |
| Dr. Agnieszka Konys  | West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin  |
| Prof. Boris Kovalerchuk Kovalerchuk  | Central Washington University  |
| Dr. Adrianna Kozierkiewicz  | Wroclaw University of Science and Technology  |
| Dr. Kinga Krupcała  | Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Poland  |
| Prof. Konrad Kułakowski  | AGH University of Science and Technology  |
| Dr. Christos Makris  | University of Patras  |
| Dr. Fabrizio Marozzo  | University of Calabria  |
| Dr. Maroua Masmoudi  | University of Toulouse  |
| Dr. Mayuri Mehta  | Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Sarvajanik University, Surat  |
| Dr. Lin Meng  | Ritsumeikan University  |
| Prof. Lyudmila Mihaylova  | University of Sheffield  |
| Prof. Polina Mihova  | New Bulgarian University  |
| Prof. Victor Mitrana  | Polytechnic University of Madrid  |
| Prof. Mikhail Moshkov  | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology  |
| Prof. Piotr Nikończuk  | West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin Faculty of Maritime Technology and Transport  |
| Prof. Vesa Niskanen  | University of Helsinki, Vytautas Magnus University  |
| Asst. Prof. Wieslaw Paja  | University of Rzeszow  |
| Prof. Ingrid Pappel  | Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia  |
| Prof. Marcin Paprzycki  | Polish Academy of Sciences  |
| Dr. Ilona Paweloszek  | Czestochowa University of Technology  |
| Dr. Grzegorz Popek  | Wrocław University of Science and Technology  |
| Prof. Dorin Popescu  | University of Craiova  |
| Prof. Jim Prentzas  | Democritus University of Thrace  |
| Dr. Malgorzata Przybyla-Kasperek  | University of Silesia in Katowice  |
| Dr. Hadi Saleh  | HSE University  |
| Prof. Marcello Sanguineti  | University of Genova  |
| Dr. Gaetano Settembre  | Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy  |
| Prof. Roman Šperka  | Silesian University in Opava  |
| Assoc. Prof. Catalin Stoean  | University of Craiova  |
| Assoc. Prof. Ruxandra Stoean  | University of Craiova  |
| Dr. Piotr Szczuko  | Multimedia Systems Department, Gdańsk University of Technology  |
| Prof. Eulalia Szmidt  | Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw  |
| Prof. Hironori Takeuchi  | Musashi University  |
| Prof. Edmondo Trentin  | University of Siena  |
| Prof. Hiroshi Ueda  | Hosei University  |
| Asst. Prof. Hiroyasu Usami  | Chubu University, Japan  |
| Prof. Florin Mircea Vaida  | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca  |
| Prof. Jordi Vallverdu  | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona  |
| Prof. Juan D. Velasquez Silva  | University of Chile  |
| Prof. Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi  | Shimonoseki City University  |
| Prof. Ching-Nung Yang  | National DOng Hwa University, Taiwan  |
| Dr. Beata Zielosko  | University of Silesia in Katowice, Institute of Computer Science  |