Informatik Festival 2026
Abstract
The Informatik Festival is the annual conference of the German informatics society Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (GI), which brings together more than 17,000 members from the computer science community. Since 1971, the event has been a fixture in the field, offering participants a wide range of opportunities to exchange ideas with computer scientists – on current debates, future trends and scientific, political and social issues relating to computer science. Since 2023, the conference has been held as a festival: this means that, in addition to the usual programme items of a traditional academic conference, there are other highlights, such as a relaxed, free welcome reception in a special venue or a festival night.
Robust and adaptable systems are essential for responding flexibly to crises, threats and unforeseen challenges. Under the theme of ‘Digital Resilience’, the 2026 GI Annual Conference at TU Dresden will explore how digital infrastructures, applications and organisations can be made more resilient. The focus will be on innovative contributions to digital resilience – whether through resilient architectures, trustworthy AI, adaptive human-machine interaction, adaptive systems, sustainable digitalisation or robust processes in development and operation. Furthermore, the conference will explore how digital resilience promotes not only technological adaptability, but also organisational and societal adaptability. The conference invites participants to discuss digital resilience across its entire spectrum and to develop forward-looking solutions.
This year, the 56th edition of the GI annual conference will be celebrated in Dresden from 22 to 25 September 2026, marking the fourth time it has been held as the Informatik Festival. As usual, alongside the main and evening programmes, there will once again be a comprehensive range of workshops. Participants can apply to present a scientific paper during the workshops and advance their academic careers through publication in the digital conference proceedings.
On the fourth day of the conference, Morpheus.Lab will host a full-day workshop on the topic of ‘Modelling and Simulation in the Life Sciences’. In addition to multicellular modelling, standard design and model implementations, we will also look closely at repositories, FAIR publication and certification – including aspects such as metadata formats, standardised annotations and repository interconnection – as well as encouraging community work within the biological and medical research community to promote the exchange across relevant modelling formalisms, simulation environments, repository providers and networks.
Picking up on the theme of the event, our workshop addresses digital resilience by strengthening the robustness, interoperability, discoverability and long-term sustainability of models, simulation environments and research infrastructures, achieved through open standards for research data, software and other scientific outputs, FAIR practices, as well as community-driven Trustworthy Digital Repositories (TDRs) and their certification.
