University of Bahrain Hosts 7th Sustainability and Resilience Conference on Digital Innovation for a Sustainable Future

The University of Bahrain hosted the 7th Sustainability and Resilience Conference (SRC 2026), under the theme “Digital Innovation for a Sustainable and Resilient Futures,” on Wednesday and Thursday, 17–18 June 2026.

Held remotely, the conference featured the discussion of 48 research papers addressing advanced topics that help shape the future of sustainable and resilient development. It focused on the transformative role of emerging technologies—most notably artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchain, remote sensing, and digital twins—in reshaping sustainable systems and strengthening their ability to withstand future challenges.

The Sustainability and Resilience Conference is committed to fostering innovation, embedding the principles of sustainability, and building a future better equipped to adapt to change. It serves as a platform for knowledge exchange, advancing multidisciplinary research collaboration, discussing innovative solutions to emerging global challenges, and building internationally competitive research partnerships.

For his part, Dr. Fuad Mohammed Al-Ansari, President of the University of Bahrain, noted during his opening speech that the conference has evolved into an international platform uniting researchers, academics, industry experts, and policymakers to address climate adaptation, green economies, renewable energy, and the circular economy of water and waste. These focus areas, he stressed, reflect an era of intersecting environmental, economic, and technological shifts that demand the continuous advancement of development models—an advancement now driven by the convergence of AI, IoT, blockchain, and digital twins into an integrated ecosystem that is redefining industry and business.

Organizing the conference reaffirms the University of Bahrain’s leading role in supporting scientific research and innovation, and in contributing to addressing the accelerating global challenges related to the environment, technology, and society. It stems from the importance of digital innovation as a pivotal force capable of bringing about a qualitative shift in the trajectories of sustainability and resilience, in a world experiencing rapid changes that demand innovative and sustainable solutions.

Since its launch in 2018, the conference has attracted over 1,800 researchers and participants from 50 countries across seven successive editions. This has broadened the scope of cooperation between the University of Bahrain and international universities and research institutions, and reinforced the conference’s standing as an international scientific platform for exchanging expertise and exploring the future of sustainability and resilience.

• 
• 
• 
•