The 29th international conference
INTERNET AND MODERN SOCIETY (IMS–2026)

April 27–28, 2026, Dubai, UAE
June 22–24, 2026, St. Petersburg, Russia

International conference Internet and Modern Society (IMS-2026) is mainly organized by ITMO University, held in St. Petersburg, from 22 to 24 June 2026. Its main organizer is ITMO University (Russia).

The International Workshop Interactive Systems & Information Society Technologies (InterSys-2026) will be a part of IMS-2026 and is going to include an additional session in Dubai, UAE on April 27–28, 2026, organized by Birla Institute of Technology And Science – Pilani (Dubai Campus)/

Main tasks of the IMS-2026 are contribution to the formation of specialists’ international community and promotion of research and development in the field of information society technologies.

Important events of IMS-2026:

- 9^th International Conference Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (DTGS-2026)
- Young Scholars’ Poster Session Digital Transformation in Governance and Society (Young DTGS-2026)
- Interactive Systems & Information Society Technologies (InterSys-2026)
- Computational Linguistics (CompLing-2026)
- International Art and Innovation in Museums Seminar (AIMs-2026)
- Cyberpsychology and Post-AI Education (CyPsy-2026)

DTGS-2026 is an international collaborative platform for researchers to discuss transformative impact of digital technology on governments and societies across the globe, with a special emphasis on the BRICS countries. The key topic of DTGS-2026 is related to the digital transformation of governance, as well as political communication online. See CFP for details.

Young DTGS-2026 is an academic event for students and young scholars (under 35 years of age). It provides a collaborative platform for researchers to discuss transformative impact of digital technologies. See CFP for details.

The goal of the InterSys-2026 workshop is to discuss to the problems of interactive technologies development in the digital environment (science, education, healthcare, business, public administration and civil society). See CFP for details.

The goal of the CompLing-2026 is to discuss the actual issues of interaction of linguistics and information technologies – regarding the development of technology solutions on the basis of a natural language, and the influence of information technologies on the language. Target audience are linguists of all profiles, the staff of organizations developing information systems that involve natural language processing, specialists in knowledge representation, higher education teachers, translators. See CFP for details.

The goal of the AIMs-2026 is to discuss the current state, prospects, and directions of using digital technologies in museums. Thus, the event serves as a platform for discussing the impact of digital technologies in the museum environment and implies the presence of two components – practical cases and scholarly analysis. See CFP for details.

CyPsy-2026 aims to explore the interplay between psychological factors and educational systems in the era of AI-driven technologies as well as the features of human-virtual environments interactions. See CFP for details.

All submissions will be carefully reviewed by the program committee and selected for the IMS-2026 Proceedings. The accepted and presented papers will be included in the IMS-2026 Proceedings and indexed in Scopus.