The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Track for visionary papers at SEMANTiCS 2026, the 22nd International Conference on Semantic Systems. The conference was held September 15-17, 2026, in Ghent, Belgium.
SEMANTiCS is a globally recognised venue where researchers, industry experts, and business leaders exchange knowledge on Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence. It is a premier space for exploring applications in Neurosymbolic AI, Machine Learning, NLP, and Enterprise Data Management, turning cutting-edge research into practical, real-world solutions.
SEMANTiCS 2026 Blue Sky Winners
First Place
From Fact to Feeling: Narrative Knowledge Graphs for Human-AI Interaction
Anna Sofia Lippolis, Luiz Do Valle Miranda
Second Place
Can a Knowledge Graph Fall Down? Embodied Knowledge Graphs for Humanoid Robots
Blerina Spahiu, Loris Roveda
Third Place
From Sequential Language to Structural Intelligence: Toward Relationship-Aware AI
Alex Romanova
Want to read these papers? They are open access, hosted alongside the SEMANTiCS proceedings. Check them out here!
Please join us in congratulating the SEMANTiCS 2026 winners!
CCC sponsors many Blue Sky tracks at various conferences in computing every year. If you are interested in requesting sponsorship of a Blue Sky track at your conference, please email blueskyideas@cra.org.
Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.
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