Modelware founder and CEO, Dr. Maged Elaasar, is co-organizing the onto:Nexus Workshop 2026, formally the International Workshop on Ontological Modeling and Analysis, taking place on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 in Málaga, Spain, co-located with MODELS 2026.

He is joined on the organizing committee by Dr. Bentley Oakes (Polytechnique Montréal), Dr. Wahab Hamou-Lhadj (Concordia University), Dr. Mohammad Hamdaqa (Polytechnique Montréal), and Dr. Eduard Kamburjan (IT University of Copenhagen).

The workshop is a venue for peer-reviewed work on ontological modeling and analysis applied to model-based software and systems engineering: formal methods for rigor, DevOps practices for agility, and AI techniques for automation. Those three threads are the same ones that OML Code is built on, which is why this community matters to us.

This edition features a keynote by Prof. Andreas Harth (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Fraunhofer IIS) on unified process descriptions for monitoring, executing, verifying, and governing behavior. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the joint workshop proceedings.

Attending MODELS 2026? Reach out to meet with us in Málaga.