16th International Conference on Information Society and Technology will take place on Kopaonik, Serbia on Mar 8-10, 2026.

ICIST Conference series is one of the top IT scientific events in the region, with 60-100 papers presented each year, average of 200 participants per edition, attended also by the number of IT industry representatives in the region. It hosts distinguished scientists keynotes (in past years, we were honored to share the stage with Richard Mark Soley, Orri Erling, Howard Moskowitz, Bran Selić and others), scientific sessions, panel discussions, industry presentations with exciting social programme for motivated and successfull networking. It is a perfect venue for networking, dissemination of recent research results, getting new project ideas, finding new scientific partners and bringing great vibes back home.

The conference is open for all scientific contributions to the different areas of ICT. It also welcomes technical papers with case studies and demonstrations of novel ICT technologies and approaches in industry and society. It hosts loyal research communities dealing with the areas of information systems, model-based software engineering, e-government, big data, biomedical engineering, semantic web research and since recently, Internet of Things.

All accepted papers will be published in ISOS Conference Proceedings Series (ISOS-CPS, ISSN: 2738-1447) book with title Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Society and Technology or Springer's Lecture Notes book. Past editions of the online proceedings can be viewed here: ICIST2014, ICIST2015, ICIST2016, ICIST2017, ICIST2018, ICIST2019, ICIST2020, ICIST2021, ICIST2022, ICIST2023, ICIST2024, ICIST2025.

This year, we welcome both extended abstracts and full paper submissions.

Contributions submitted as full papers before the deadline (strict deadline of 1.2.2026) will undergo single blind review and be considered for publication in the Springer's Lecture Notes book.

Contributions submitted as extended abstracts will undergo double blind review and be considered for publication in ISOS Conference Proceedings Series (ISOS-CPS, ISSN: 2738-1447) online book with title Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Society and Technology.

We moved to using a new submission platform: Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). You can submit both extended abstract and full paper, here, after registering to the platform.

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Call for extended abstracts

We welcome submission of extended abstracts presenting original unpublished work which is not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Initial submissions must comply to the specific requirements, as it follows.

Download the template for extended abstract, here. The extended abstract must consicely and clearly highlight all following aspects: research motivation and the problem, the research question(s), methodology, description of the solution and/or the discussion. The evaluation of the extended abstracts will be double-blind. Thus, author names, addresses, emails and affiliations MUST NOT be included in the extended abstract. The extended abstract must be created by using the template below, submitted in PDF format, and it MUST NOT exceed 4 A4 pages including figures. Only key references should be included.

The authors of the extended abstracts will be invited to submit full papers after the conference. Those papers will be published in ISOS Conference Proceedings Series (ISOS-CPS, ISSN: 2738-1447) online book with title Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Society and Technology.

Submit the extended abstracts, here.

Call for full papers

The authors are invited to prepare the full papers by using this template. Full papers must not be shorter than 8 pages and no longer than 16 pages, after using the above template. The use of template is mandatory and the authors are invited to fully comply to formatting instructions. The authors are invited to strictly follow instructions for authors.

Accepted full papers presented in the regular sessions and special tracks will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes book. If review results with the reject decision, the paper will be considered for publishing in ISOS Conference Proceedings Series book. 

In order to have the submitted full paper published in the Proceedings books, at least one author or co-author must have been registered at the conference and presented the paper.

Submit the full paper, here.