Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU) will host BRAINCON 2027, the flagship international conference of the Bharat Research in AI and NextGen Foundation (BRAIN), from 22–24 January 2027 on the NTTU Hi-Tech Park campus in Ho Chi Minh City. The event will centre on the theme “Frugal, Sovereign, Societal Scale AI and Agentic AI,” highlighting autonomous agentic systems alongside resource-efficient, inclusive and sustainable AI innovation.
BRAINCON 2027 highlights
BRAINCON has become a global platform for idea exchange, research presentation and debate on responsible AI. The 2027 edition will feature keynote sessions by leading AI researchers and industry figures, technical paper presentations across six major research tracks, workshops and hands-on demonstrations, student and young-researcher hackathons, and extensive networking across academia, industry, government and civil society.
Conference tracks
Submissions are invited across six thematic tracks: (1) Foundations of Frugal and Efficient AI — data-efficient learning, model optimization, efficient architectures and AI for low-resource scenarios; (2) AI Sovereignty: Policy, Governance, and Security — national AI strategies, data governance, privacy-preserving ML and cybersecurity for AI infrastructure; (3) AI for Societal Impact: Verticals and Deployment — healthcare, agriculture, climate, public services and NLP for low-resource languages; (4) Human-Centered and Ethical AI — explainability, fairness, participatory AI and the future of work; (5) Infrastructure for Decentralized and Edge AI — edge AI, frugal hardware, federated learning and decentralized data architectures; and (6) NextGen AI for Cybersecurity and Threat Detection — network security, AI-powered cybersecurity and AI/quantum applications.
Submission, publication and participation
The Department of Global Engagement at NTTU invites faculty, researchers and students across all NTTU faculties to submit original research to BRAINCON 2027. Accepted papers may be published in Springer venues including the Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) series, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), and a themed issue of SN Computer Science on “Frugal, Sovereign, and Human-Centered AI.” Selected papers may also appear in Transactions in AI and NextGen (TRAIN).
Papers should be submitted via the conference submission portal on CMT (Submit your Paper via CMT). Full submission guidelines and conference information are available on the BRAINCON 2027 website. For questions about submissions or NTTU’s hosting role, contact the Department of Global Engagement.
Key deadlines are: Call for Papers opens 15 May 2026; paper submission deadline 30 September 2026; author notification 25 October 2026; early bird registration 26–30 October 2026; camera-ready copy and copyright submission 30 October 2026. The conference itself takes place 22–24 January 2027.
