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Sometimes, timing makes all the difference between useful feedback and a rather unfortunate surprise.

This cartoon by Brian Douglas gives a whole new meaning to “recalculating”… 😅

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November 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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ACODS 2026 — 9th ACDOS/IFAC Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of
Dynamical Systems

From November 18 to 21, 2026 in Warangal, Telangana, India.

Control and optimization, from theory to industrial practice.

👉 acods-conference.org

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November 3, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Hot off the press 📖
Discover our President’s vision, meet our new Secretary, celebrate excellence in control education, and look ahead to Amsterdam 2029—with a festive challenge along the way! 🎄

📖 Read the latest IFAC Newsletter ifac-control.org/publications...
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October 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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IFAC's vision puts people at the centre: promoting #AutomaticControl for the benefit of humankind.

That purpose shapes how #IFAC brings the community together, shares knowledge and supports participation. Explore our aims, vision and mission: 🔗 ifac-control.org/about/
October 28, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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CCA 2027 — Control Conference Africa — the continent's control community, co-sponsored by IFAC.

From September 7 to 8, 2027 in Pretoria, South Africa.

👉 www.ifac-control.org/conferences/...

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October 27, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Have you ever seen IFAC on a conference programme and wondered, what connects it all?
#IFAC brings the international #AutomaticControl community together to exchange knowledge, share research and contribute to the field.
Get to know IFAC and find your starting point: ifac-control.org/about/
October 21, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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INCOM 2027 — Information, control and optimisation in manufacturing — the 19th edition, 50 years after the first.

From June 28 to 30, 2027 in Nantes, France.

👉 hub.imt-atlantique.fr/incom2027/

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering
October 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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Three co-located conferences in Angers, France, from October 26 to 30, 2026: ICINCO, IN4PL & EI2N — control, robotics, intelligent production & enterprise integration.

👉 icinco.scitevents.org

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October 13, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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📢 #SYSID2027 Call for Papers!

21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification — July 7–9, 2027 in Lyon, France.

Where system ID meets machine learning & reinforcement learning.

📅 Submissions are open
📄 Papers due Nov 2, 2026

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#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #CfP
October 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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🔬 ICFDA 2027 — 14th IFAC Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications

📍 Delft, Netherlands | Aug 23–26, 2027
🏛️ Hosted by TU Delft

Fractional calculus meets control & signal processing.

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #ICFDA2027
October 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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📊 7,793 IFAC affiliates in 113 countries and regions.

But connected is not visible: in Korea 245 affiliates are connected to the portal, only 55 have a public profile.

Your profile decides what the community sees of you 👉 affiliates.ifac-control.org

#AutomaticControl
October 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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TDS 2027 — Stability, control and estimation of time delay systems — the 20th edition.

From June 27 to 30, 2027 in Naples, Italy.

👉 www.ifac-control.org/conferences/...

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September 29, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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🔍 What is control research working on? From the Busan submissions:

Titles: learning (368), estimation (348), networks (275), data (265)
Areas: energy (260), robots (216), vehicles (183)

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September 28, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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🔬 #SYSID2027 — 21st IFAC Symposium on System Identification

From July 7–9, 2027 in Lyon, France.

System ID meets machine learning, reinforcement learning & industrial applications.

📅 Paper submission opens June 1, 2026

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#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering
September 25, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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🔗 Recap: BIKA 2025, the IFAC Workshop on Blockchain Intelligence & Knowledge Automation, met in Macau from Nov 8–9, 2025: 34 submissions, 14 accepted, 3 sessions, 4 keynotes.

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September 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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🎓 Recap: Hideaki Ishii gave his IFAC Distinguished Lecture on resilient multi-agent consensus at ASCC 2026 in Bali. He is now IFAC Vice President for Technical Activities.

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September 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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🤖 An IFAC Activity Fund project in Ireland had primary school kids voice-guide a robot through a maze and place numbers on an electronic number line. 450+ participants reached.

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#AutomaticControl #STEM
September 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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🔍 Call for Papers — SAFEPROCESS 2027
Theme: "AI for Safety"

📍 TU Delft, Netherlands
📅 from June 29 to July 2, 2027

⚡ Sep 30: proposals
⚡ Oct 31: papers

👉 conferences.ifac-control.org/safeprocess2...

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September 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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🎓 Recap: IFAC Distinguished Lecturer Bruno Siciliano gave his plenary "Robot Manipulation and Control" at ASCC 2026 in Bali on June 19.

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#AutomaticControl #Robotics
September 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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📈 One IFAC triennium:

➡️ 106 conferences from 35 NMOs in 38 countries
➡️ IFAC journals in JCR Q1: from 3 to 5
➡️ A World Congress first: 570 papers submitted to journals at the same time

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September 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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#ECC2027 — 25th European Control Conference (in cooperation with @ifac-control.bsky.social)

From July 13–16, 2027 in Brussels, Belgium.

🏆 European Control Award, Best Paper & Student Awards, PhD Thesis Award + industry program!

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September 10, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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🛠️ IFAC's technical structure had barely changed since 2002. In three years:

➡️ 950 keywords streamlined to 520
➡️ New CC10 on Power and Energy Systems
➡️ TCs from 39 to 41

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September 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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🌊🤖 Recap: 16th IFAC CAMS 2025 (Aug 25–28, Wuhan, China) — a first for mainland China.

200+ participants, 155 papers, 14 sessions on marine robotics & autonomy. Hosted by HUST.

Video ⬇️ conferences.ifac-control.org/cams2025/

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #CAMS2025
September 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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😄 Control engineering, but make it funny.

The IFAC Cartoon Archive gathers the lighter side of feedback loops, stability & the daily life of control engineers.

👉 www.ifac-control.org/publications...

#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #ControlHumor
September 3, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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📖 The IFAC Story is now an e-book.

Trace the people, ideas & milestones behind automatic control's international home — with a Secretariat based in Laxenburg, Austria since 1978.

Read it ⬇️
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#AutomaticControl #ControlEngineering #IFACHistory
September 2, 2026 at 11:41 AM