Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2026

A two-day academic conference on emerging technologies at the NYX Hotel Berlin Köpenick, organised by The Science and Information Organization. The format is paper sessions across computing, AI, robotics, communications and applied engineering, drawn from an international call for papers rather than an invited industry line-up. SAI has run FTC annually for over a decade, so the structure is a familiar conference-proceedings one: presentations, discussion, published papers. Tickets are 650 euros, which is standard for an academic registration covering proceedings but steep if you are coming purely to listen. Why go: it is one of the few genuinely research-first technology conferences sitting in Berlin this autumn, and the paper sessions put you next to people presenting unpublished work rather than a product roadmap. Best for researchers, PhD students and R&D engineers who want the literature before it reaches the industry stage; skip it if you are looking for commercial contacts.