IIT RoparICA 2026
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ICA 2026 • IIT ROPAR

International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation

Theme: AI Meets Farm – Digital Agriculture for a Sustainable Future

The Fourth ICA (ICA 2026), hosted by IIT Ropar, Punjab, India. The inaugural ICA was held at IIT Ropar in May 2023, with selected papers published in Springer CCIS.

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Dates

1–4 Nov 2026

Submission: 15 June 2026

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Venue

IIT Ropar

Punjab, India

IIT Ropar Campus

Global Nexus for Agri-Tech Innovation

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Welcome to ICA 2026

We are delighted to invite you to the Fourth International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation (ICA 2026), hosted by IIT Ropar, Punjab, India. The inaugural ICA was held at IIT Ropar in May 2023, with selected papers published in Springer CCIS.

Since then, ICA has established itself as a premier platform for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers exploring the transformative role of computation and system architectures in agriculture.

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Springer

CCIS Publication

Scope: Three Levels of Computation

Agriculture is increasingly shaped by computational models, system architectures, and knowledge representations operating across multiple levels.

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Activity Level

Computations and architectures for individual farming tasks, including IoT sensing, drone navigation, computer vision for crop monitoring, and secure on-farm data sharing.

Focus: Precision
Agricultural Process
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Process Level

Computational frameworks and architectures that enhance cultivation, optimize supply chains, integrate agriculture ontologies, and enable secure and trusted information exchange.

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Ecosystem Level

Large-scale simulations, architectures for food security and climate adaptation, federated data ecosystems, and knowledge bases supporting collaboration, governance, and resilience.

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