American Modelica and FMI Conference 2026

The American Modelica and FMI Conference 2026 will be an in-person conference event. The conference will take place at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the Aerospace Design Laboratory from October 12–14, 2024. It is organized by NAMUG, the North American Modelica Users Group, in cooperation with the Modelica Association. Join us in person in Atlanta!

About the Conference

The Modelica and FMI Conference is the main event for users, library developers, tool vendors and language designers to share their knowledge and learn about the latest scientific and industrial progress related to Modelica, FMI, SSP, eFMI, DCP and methods and tools for equation oriented languages. Please take a look at the Call for Papers if you are interested in submitting.

  1. The program will cover processes and tools for the modeling of complex physical and cyber-physical systems as applied to a wide range of research and industrial applications, and will have a new track in this conference that covers technical contributions from equation-oriented languages other than Modelica.

  2. It is supported by many Modelica and non-Modelica tools and is the key to utilizing Modelica models in non-Modelica environments.

For the 2026 conference we will include a new track on the structure and application of equation-oriented modeling languages other than Modelica into the program, since we see many similarities that will enrich a conversation centered on principles of equation-oriented modeling.
We invite users of these other modeling languages to submit their technical publications to this conference, and hope that the broader scope will benefit the growth of equation-oriented modeling.

In addition to paper presentations, the conference features several Modelica tutorials for beginners and advanced users, as well as industrial user presentations, vendor sessions, and an exhibition.

Workshops and Tutorials will be given on the afternoon of October 12th 2026, the keynotes, paper presentations and other parts of the program will be on October 13th and 14th.

In building on the successes of the previous American Modelica conference, we are also happy to announce a Student Best Paper competition.
Additional details are available in the call for papers.

Sponsorship opportunities

The American Modelica conference will be your opportunity to meet your customers again in a personal setting, at a great location. Please stay tuned for details about our sponsorship opportunities, we will post them here in the near future. Note that all sponsors will have the opportunity to exhibit at the conference, and that we don’t offer a separate way to exhibit at the conference.

The American Modelica Conference 2026 relies heavily on sponsors to maintain the affordability of the ticket prices. If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please check out the conditions at in our call for sponsors and contact us as soon as possible at modelicaNA2026@groups.liu.se.

Scope of the Conference

Modelica is a freely available, equation-based, object-oriented language for convenient and efficient modeling of complex, multi-domain cyber-physical systems described by ordinary differential, difference and algebraic equations. The Modelica language and the companion Modelica Standard Library have been utilized in a variety of demanding industrial applications, including full vehicle dynamics, power systems, robotics, buildings and district energy systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulations and embedded control systems. The Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) is an open standard for the tool-independent exchange of models and for co-simulation. It is supported by many Modelica and non-Modelica tools and is the key to utilizing Modelica models in non-Modelica environments.

Development in the Modelica Association is organized in Modelica Association Projects:

These projects collaborate to design and maintain a set of coordinated standards for modeling and simulation of complex physical systems.

The Modelica and FMI conference will bring together people using Modelica and/or other Modelica Association standards for modeling, simulation, and control applications, such as Modelica language designers, tool vendors and library developers. The Modelica and FMI Conference provides Modelica users with the opportunity to stay informed about the latest language, library, and tool developments, and to get in touch with people working on similar modeling problems. The conference will cover topics such as the following:

Call for papers, user presentations and tutorials

Please see the call for papers for details about paper submissions, and the calls for industrial user presentations, tutorials, and vendor presentations. Please look at the author instructions before submitting. The submission deadlines are as follows:

Organization and Contact

The conference is organized by NAMUG in cooperation with the Modelica Association.

For general questions, please send an email to: modelicaNA2026@groups.liu.se

Conference Board