Can We Digitize Smell Like We Digitized Sound and Vision?
Sound became music streaming.
Images became digital photography.
Language became generative AI.
Now comes the next frontier: smell.
Jesús Lozano Rogado and Marvin Edeas, President and DOS Founder, stated: The question is no longer whether digital olfaction is possible. The real question is: Who will build the operating system of scent?
Who will build the operating system of scent?
DOS 2026: the 9th World Congress of the Digital Olfaction Society will gather researchers, AI pioneers, sensor engineers, neurotechnologists, healthcare innovators, robotics experts, food industries, fragrance companies, and deep-tech start-ups in Tokyo on December 9–10, 2026.
A major shift is underway.
Digital olfaction is evolving from isolated electronic noses toward integrated intelligent systems capable of:
- Capture odors from one place,
- Turn them into digital data
- Transmit and restitute them in another place
Smell may become one of the next strategic datasets of medicine, industry, AI, and human machine interaction.
DOS 2026 will place a strong focus on:
- AI for olfactory prediction and modeling
- Scent digitization infrastructures
- Olfaction and brain interfaces
- Breathomics and precision diagnostics
- Robotics and autonomous sensing
- Sensory communication technologies
- Digital fragrance innovation
- Neurodegenerative disease detection
- Start-up acceleration and innovation showcase
Special initiative:
Global Scent Digitization Challenge
“Digitizing the Invisible”
Tokyo is not only hosting a congress.
It is becoming a launch platform for the next generation of sensory technologies.
Key Dates:
August 18th – Call for Proposal Deadline
November 4th – Short Oral Submission Deadline
November 18th – Poster Submission Deadline
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