ARC'26 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Cybersecurity
Doors open in
16 – 17 December
2026
NIT
Rahmania, Algiers
3 research tracks
AI · Robotics · Cybersecurity
Hybrid
In-person & Online
Bringing together researchers, students, engineers and industry to build intelligent, autonomous and secure systems.
The Numidia Institute of Technology (NIT) invites researchers, teachers, engineers, PhD and Master students and industry professionals to submit abstracts presenting original contributions to ARC'26. Artificial intelligence, robotics and cybersecurity are reshaping health, agriculture, finance, industry, education and public services; this symposium brings these communities together to build systems that are intelligent, autonomous and secure.
2
days of science
3
research tracks
4
keynote & invited talks
4
big challenges
Open to all Algerian universities, research centres and companies.
Accepted abstracts appear in the book of abstracts. National, non-indexed; full papers may be published elsewhere.
Presentation and participation certificates for all authors and attendees.
Best Oral Presentation, Student Presentation, Poster, Demo and Startup Pitch, plus prizes for the Day 2 big challenges.
Hands-on AI, robotics and cybersecurity workshops; exhibit your robot, drone or AI prototype.
Remote presentation is possible for authors who cannot travel.
The cross-cutting theme connecting all three tracks.
Real-world problems. Collective solutions.
Team competitions with real data and objective scoring: secure machine learning against attackers, read cardiac abnormalities from 12-lead ECGs, recognise weed species in the field, and decode the speech people hear from their EEG. The best teams take the stage on Day 2.
01 · AI Security
Attack. Defend. Detect.
Two parallel tracks on securing machine learning: red-team a deployed classifier and build a federated aggregator that survives malicious hospitals. Every track is scored mostly automatically, on attacks and data the teams never see.
02 · AI in Health
12 leads. 21,799 ECGs. One model.
Develop methods that analyse clinical 12-lead ECG signals and produce consistent predictions for diagnostic and rhythm labels, on PTB-XL — 21,799 recordings from 18,869 patients.
03 · AI in Agriculture
Real fields. Robust models.
Build image classifiers that recognise eight weed species — and the vegetation that is none of them — from outdoor photographs, and stay reliable when light, blur and compression change. Based on DeepWeeds: 17,509 field images.
04 · AI in Health
64 channels. 10 seconds. Unseen brains.
Train on public EEG recorded while people listened to speech, then be tested on private, real recordings from people your model has never seen. The winning team is the one whose model still works on new brains.
Teams register and submit from the participant portal. Data, tracks, scoring and rules for each challenge are on the challenges page.
Share ideas through oral and poster sessions.
Experience AI, robotics and cybersecurity hands-on.
Bring your prototype to the community.
Celebrate the best talks, posters, demos and startup pitches.
ARC'26
Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Cybersecurity
Numidia Institute of Technology · Algiers
Also joining: Prof. Farid Naït-Abdesselam
View all speakers16 – 17 December 2026
NIT Algiers
In-person & Online
Day 01/16 December
Day 02/17 December
Extended abstracts · Poster abstracts · Demo & startup abstracts
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Rahmania, Algiers, Algeria
16 – 17 December 2026
In-person & Online
