INSTICC

What INSTICC does

INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) is a non-profit scientific association headquartered in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2003 and operating with 11-50 employees. Its mission is to serve the international scientific community by connecting researchers worldwide through international conferences, peer-reviewed publications, and an open scientific community. The primary customer segment is academic researchers (professors, scientists, and graduate-level authors) seeking to disseminate work, obtain peer review, and network with peers across computing, engineering, and applied science domains. A secondary segment consists of scientific conference organizers and program committees that rely on INSTICC's event management and publication infrastructure.

INSTICC's core products are the INSTICC Portal (a web-based hub for conference discovery, deadlines, keynote videos, best paper awards, and partner information) and PRIMORIS, a proprietary event management system introduced around 2008 that supports paper submission, peer review, and registration workflows for program chairs, committee members, invited speakers, and authors. The organization runs a portfolio of recurring conference series including BIOSTEC (Biomedical Engineering), ICAART (Artificial Intelligence), ICISSP (Information Systems Security), ICORES (Operations Research), ICPRAM (Computational Intelligence), MODELSWARD (Model-Driven Engineering), PHOTOPTICS (Photonics/Optics/Laser Technology), ROBOVIS and VISAPP (Computer Vision), with regional extension via BIOSTEC_CHINA. Adjacent products include a peer-reviewed Digital Library of proceedings published in partnership with SciTePress and an archive of keynote presentation videos featuring senior researchers.

INSTICC's business model combines revenue from conference registration and participation fees, publication and proceedings fees transacted via SciTePress, and community membership subscriptions. Distribution is mediated through flagship technical co-sponsorship with ACM and IEEE, core partnerships with AAAI and IAPR, and relationships with hundreds of additional academic societies and ACM Special Interest Groups, supplemented by dedicated conference websites on the scitevents.org domain and in-person conference attendance. The organization operates on a non-profit, association basis with no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and no ownership commentary beyond self-sustaining operations through conference and publication activities.

Name

INSTICC

Legal name

Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

Website

https://insticc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

INSTICC is a Lisbon-based, non-profit scientific association that connects academic researchers worldwide through recurring international conferences, peer-reviewed proceedings, and a proprietary event management platform (PRIMORIS), serving authors, program committees, and conference organizers across computing and applied science domains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisboa

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Conference Services: INSTICC generates revenue through conference organization, including registration fees for attendees at international scientific conferences across fields including biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, computer vision, operations research, and photonics.
2. Publication Fees: Revenue from peer-reviewed publication processing through their digital library and partnerships with publishers like SciTePress, supporting conference proceedings and academic publishing.
3. Membership Programs: INSTICC offers community membership providing access to events, publications, and networking opportunities for researchers worldwide.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

INSTICC is a non-profit scientific association that organizes and runs a portfolio of international peer-reviewed scientific conferences across technology domains (visualization, software modeling, AI agents, information security, operations research, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, photonics, robotics, and bio-inspired systems) and supports them through its proprietary PRIMORIS event management platform and a peer-reviewed Digital Library of proceedings.

Product overview

INSTICC operates as a conference and publication organization offering two core products: the INSTICC Portal (a web-based platform for conference discovery, submission management, and community access) and PRIMORIS (an event management system handling paper submission, peer review, and participant registration for scientific communities). The organization supports multiple conference series across technology domains including AI, computer vision, biomedical engineering, and photonics, complemented by a digital library for peer-reviewed publications and a repository of keynote video content. PRIMORIS serves as the underlying technical platform enabling all event processes including submission workflows, review stages, and registration management.

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Brands

• Primoris: Event management system for scientific communities, supporting paper submission, review and registration processes. The name derives from Latin meaning 'the most prominent, first; foremost' or 'primus inter pares'.

Products and services

• PRIMORIS Event Management System Proprietary event management platform that supports the full conference workflow — paper submissions, peer review, registration, and proceedings — used to run INSTICC's portfolio of scientific conferences.
• INSTICC Conference Series Recurring annual peer-reviewed scientific conferences organized by INSTICC across multiple technology domains, including VISAPP (computer graphics theory and applications), MODELSWARD (model-driven software engineering), ICAART (agents and artificial intelligence), ICISSP (information security), ICORES (operations research), ICPRAM (pattern recognition), BIOSTEC (bioinformatics), PHOTOPTICS (photonics), and ROBOVIS (robotics). Offered to academic researchers, PhD students, postdocs, and professors for paper submission, presentation, and proceedings publication.
• INSTICC Digital Library Online library hosting the peer-reviewed proceedings and publications produced by INSTICC's conference portfolio, providing access to published papers for the research community.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• SciTePresscoreTechnology or IntegrationSciTePress is a key publishing partner for INSTICC's conference proceedings and digital library, providing publication infrastructure for scientific research outputs from INSTICC-organized conferences.
• SCITEVENTScoreTechnology or IntegrationSCITEVENTS provides the conference management platform infrastructure for INSTICC's multiple conference websites, supporting event organization across scientific domains.
• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerACM is a premier partner providing technical co-sponsorship and promotion of INSTICC conferences through its extensive network of special interest groups covering computing disciplines.
• IEEEflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerIEEE partners with INSTICC to provide technical co-sponsorship for conferences, leveraging IEEE's global engineering and technology community networks.
• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAAAI provides co-sponsorship for INSTICC's artificial intelligence conferences, connecting AI researchers through the partnership.
• IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIAPR co-sponsors INSTICC conferences in pattern recognition and computer vision domains, facilitating academic collaboration.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition): IAPR co-sponsors INSTICC's pattern recognition and computer vision conferences (ICPRAM, VISAPP). It is directly comparable as an international scientific association organizing peer-reviewed conferences in overlapping technical domains.
• SciTePress: SciTePress is INSTICC's publishing partner, producing the proceedings and digital library for INSTICC conferences. It is directly comparable as a scientific conference proceedings publisher with overlapping author and organizer communities.
• AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence): AAAI is a core partner of INSTICC and runs its own premier AI conferences and publications. It is directly comparable as a scientific association focused on AI research dissemination through conferences and peer-reviewed venues.

Others

• Springer Nature: Springer Nature is a major academic publisher that indexes and hosts conference proceedings, including those in computer science and engineering. It is comparable as an adjacent ecosystem participant enabling the same research dissemination workflow that INSTICC conferences depend on.
• Frontiers: Frontiers is a major open-access publisher with journals and conference outputs in computer science, AI, and biomedical fields. It is comparable as an adjacent publishing venue targeting the same researcher base with alternative dissemination models.
• Elsevier: Elsevier is a leading academic publisher operating conference proceedings platforms and indexing services across scientific domains. It is comparable as an adjacent publishing infrastructure provider serving many of the same researcher audiences as INSTICC.
• MDPI: MDPI is a large open-access academic publisher that hosts journals and conference proceedings in many of INSTICC's domains (AI, computer vision, biomedical). It is comparable as an adjacent open-access publisher competing for the same author and readership communities.

Emerging players

• Conference Catalysts: Conference Catalysts provides event management and publishing services for academic and scientific conferences. It is comparable as an emerging technology and services provider overlapping with the capabilities of INSTICC's PRIMORIS platform.

Broad incumbents

• ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): ACM is INSTICC's flagship co-sponsorship partner and also the dominant computing society globally, running hundreds of conferences and publication venues. It is directly comparable as a computing-focused scientific membership organization that organizes peer-reviewed conferences and proceedings.
• IEEE: IEEE is a flagship partner of INSTICC and operates one of the world's largest conference and publishing portfolios across engineering and technology. It is comparable as a broad scientific association running co-sponsored international conferences and indexed proceedings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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Investments

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