MELECON is one of the flagship conferences of IEEE Region 8 and will be held in New Cairo, Egypt on 2-4 February 2026, supported by the IEEE Egypt Section. IEEE MELECON 2026 is a major international forum presenting design methodologies, techniques, and experimental results in emerging electro-technologies. It is one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Region 8 (the largest region of IEEE including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East). It is expected to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields of Electrical Engineering. The technical program will include plenary sessions, regular technical sessions, special sessions, panels, tutorials, and special events devoted to Students and Young Professionals, Women in Engineering, Entrepreneurs, and Industries. The technical sessions will be organized into four main tracks:
TRACK 1 – Power, Energy, and Power Electronics
1.1 Conversion and Control of Sustainable Energy Sources
1.2 Power Electronics and Control in Smart Grids
1.3 Energy Storage Systems
1.4 Electrical Machines and Drives
1.5 Renewable Energy Systems
1.6 Energy Management, Smart Metering, and Distributed Energy Resources
1.7 Electric Mobility: Challenges, Trends, Safety, and EMI issues
1.8 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Electric and Multi-Energy Systems
1.9 Energy Harvesting
1.10 Cyber Security and Failure Analysis for Smart Grids
1.11 Applications of Superconductors in Electric Energy Systems
1.12 Wireless Energy Transfer
1.13 Power Electronics
TRACK 2 – Smart Industry and Manufacturing
2.1 Materials and Sensors for Industry 4.0
2.2 Sustainable Industrial Processes and Products
2.3 Advanced Products and Manufacturing Processes
2.4 Digital and Additive Manufacturing Technologies and Applications
2.5 AI for Manufacturing and Industrial Systems
2.6 Autonomous Systems: From Robots to Drones
2.7 Collaborative Machines and Systems
2.8 Augmented and Virtual Reality in Industry
2.9 Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture: Technology and Solutions
2.10 Digital Distributed Manufacturing: From Data Collection to Intelligent Systems
2.11 Aerospace Technologies
2.12 Metrology for process control and innovative processes certification
2.13 Human-centric Manufacturing Technologies
2.14 Resilient and Secure Manufacturing Systems
2.15 Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) for Industrial Traceability
2.16 Novel Architectures for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
2.17 Asset Management and Condition Monitoring
2.18 Robotic Systems in Intralogistics
TRACK 3 – Smart Healthcare
3.1 Services, Applications, and Solutions
3.2 Health Informatics and Big Data
3.3 Telemedicine and E-health
3.4 Personalized Medicine and IoT
3.5 Neural Engineering
3.6 Bioinstrumentation: Advanced Devices and Sensors
3.7 Physiological Processes Modelling
3.8 Micro and Nano Technology in Bioengineering
3.9 Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Health
3.10 Biomedical Robotics
3.11 Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
3.12 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
3.13 Therapeutic Applications of Robotics and Immersive Systems
TRACK 4 – Digital Transformation
4.1 Sensors and Electronics
4.2 Signal and Image Processing
4.3 Artificial Intelligence
4.4 6G and Beyond Communications Systems
4.5 Computer Networks and Cloudification
4.6 IoT and Blockchain
4.7 Education Technologies
4.8 Semantic Web and Big Data Analytics
4.9 Smart Living Technologies
4.10 Smart Mobility and Transportation
4.11 Remote Sensing and Edge-Computing
4.12 Digital Twins and Metaverse
4.13 Cybersecurity
4.14 Human-Computer Interaction
4.15 Sustainability: From Green IoT to Responsible AI
GENERAL CHAIRS
Prof. Reem Bahgat President, Egypt University of Informatics (EUI)
Prof. Reem Bahgat serves as the President of Egypt University of Informatics (EUI) and is a Faculty Member at Cairo University. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College London. Prof. Bahgat has held various leadership positions, including Director of the Egyptian Bureau for Cultural and Educational Affairs in the UK, Assistant to Cairo University President for Informatics and Information Technology, and Dean of the Faculty of Computers and Information. She co-founded and served as Deputy Director of CULTNAT, and is currently an Advisor to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
Prof. Amr Adly
President, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)
Prof. Amr Adly serves as the President of Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cairo University. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA, and has contributed extensively to the field, authoring over 135 research papers and holding a U.S. patent. Prof. Adly is an IEEE Fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. His distinguished career includes roles as Egypt’s Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Cairo University’s Vice President for Graduate Studies, and the Executive Director of Egypt’s Science and Technology Development Fund. His accolades include Egypt’s First Class Medal of Science and Arts, the University of Maryland Distinguished Alumni Award, and the Shoman Foundation Arab Scientist Prize.
Prof. Ahmed Madian
Professor, Director of Electronics and Computer Engineering Program, Nile University
Prof. Ahmed Madian is a Professor and Program Director of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Nile University, on leave from the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority. With over 190 publications, Prof. Madian has held leadership roles, including Director of the Nanoelectronics Integrated System Design Research Center and the Microelectronics System Design Master’s Program. A Senior IEEE member and Chair of the IEEE Egypt Section, he has actively contributed to IEEE through various roles, including conference coordination and technical program committees. He is also a member of the National Radio Science Committee and the ASRT’s Information Technology Council, overseeing key research initiatives and promoting proposal writing and fundraising activities.
Prof. Ahmed Hassan Yousef
President, ElSewedy University of Technology
Prof. Ahmed Hassan Yousef is the President of ElSewedy University of Technology and a Computer Engineering Professor at Ain Shams University. He chairs the National Committee of Information and Communication Technology at the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology. A dedicated IEEE volunteer, Prof. Yousef has served in numerous roles across IEEE Region 8, the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE Systems Council, including as the past chair of the IEEE Egypt Section. His research focuses on software engineering, informatics, high-performance computing, and natural language processing.
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