The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.

Following the successful BESC 2014 (Shanghai, China), BESC 2015 (Nanjing, China), BESC 2016 (Durham, USA), BESC 2017 (Krakow, Poland), BESC 2018 (Kaohsiung, China), BESC 2019 (Beijing, China), BESC 2020 (Bournemouth, UK), BESC 2021 (Doha, Qatar), BESC 2022 (Ehime, Japan), BESC 2023 (Larnaca, Cyprus), BESC 2024 (Harbin, China), and BESC 2025 (Hong Kong, China), BESC 2026 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand from 26-28 October 2026.

The proceedings of BESC 2026 will be included in the Springer LNCS series.