The 2026 (9th Edition) International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD) is a leading conference in the soft computing and communication systems. icABCD 2026 will be held physically from 6-7 August 2026 at the Riverside Hotel, Durban, South Africa. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from all over the world working on soft computing, big data technologies, data communication systems and computer security on a common platform so that they can present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in these highly challenging research fields. ICABCD has the following thematic priorities: Artificial Intelligence, Communication Technologies, Information Security, Computer Vision, ICT in Society and Emerging Trends in Technology.

The paper submission guidelines are available at: https://icabcd.org/paper_submission/