Dear Colleagues,

The NEST Initiative is excited to invite everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the NEST Conference 2026. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. Take the opportunity to advance your skills in using NEST at our hands-on workshops!

We explicitly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!

This year's conference will again take place as a virtual conference on Tuesday/Wednesday 16/17 June 2026.

We are delighted to welcome

• Marja-Leena Linne, Tampere University

• Maxime Carriere and Fynn Dobler, Freie Universität Berlin
• Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo, Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Pablo Martínez Cañada, University of Granada

as one of our keynote speakers at this year’s conference. 

Registration and submission of contributions are now open!

We are inviting you to submit contributions in the form of talks and "posters".

Please register and submit your contribution(s) via the conference website

https://nest-simulator.org/conference.

Important dates:

10 April 2026 - Deadline for submission of contributions

05 May 2026 - Notification of acceptance

09 June 2026 - Registration deadline

We are looking forward to seeing you all in June!

Hans Ekkehard Plesser and the conference organizing committee