The general co-chairs Pierangelo Veltri (University of Calabria, Italy) and Giuseppe Pozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) are pleased to invite you to participate in the The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2026) is the flagship conference of ACM SIGBio.

It moves for the first time to Europe and will be held in Calabria, Italy from June 30 to July 3, 2026. The conference aims to promote big data, AI and algorithms for health and biomedicine including cutting-edge advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, biology, health and medicine.
The conference will be hosted at University of Calabria Congress Center.

As per its tradition, ACM BCB 2026 will host invited talks from outstanding speakers.

Keynote #1: Interpretability for Responsible Medical AI.
Aidong Zhang, University of Virginia, USA

Keynote #2: Designing biological molecules with generative AI: from RNA structure to synthesisable drugs
Pietro Liò, University of Cambridge, UK

Keynote #3: Data for Health AI in a Time of Change
Tom Pollard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Keynote #4: From Algorithm to Antibiotic: An Infectious Disease Physician's View on Computational Health
Raffaele Bruno, University of Pavia, Italy

Detailed program can be consulted at https://acm-bcb.org/index.php