2026 ETFA – IEEE 31st International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation
22 April, 2026

ETFA 2026 will be held on 8-11 September 2026, in Västerås, Sweden.
The conference ETFA 2026 is a premier event sponsored by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, aimed at bringing together the international community to present the latest research results, share new ideas and engineering breakthroughs, and discuss state-of-the-art challenges and future directions in technology and innovation.
Topics of Interest
- Information Technology in Automation
- Industrial Communication Technologies and Systems
- Real-Time and Networked Embedded Systems
- Automated Manufacturing Systems
- Industrial Control
- Computer Vision and Human-Machine Interaction in Industrial and Factory Automation
- Intelligent Robots & Systems
- Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing
- Complex Automation Systems and Systems Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence for Cyber-Physical Systems in Automation
- Vehicular Embedded Systems
Important Dates
- Special Session Proposal Deadline 19 February 2026
- Notifications for proposed Special Sessions 27 February 2026
- Deadline for Workshop proposals 13 March 2026
- Notifications for proposed Workshop 27 March 2026
- Deadline for regular and SS papers submission 29 April 2026
- Notifications for submitted papers 7 June 2026
- Deadline for Work-in-Progress and Workshops papers submission 31 May 2026
- Notifications for submitted WiP and Workshops papers 19 June 2026
- Deadline for submitting final versions 4 July 2026
