International Quality Conference 2026

Quality:
Powering Performance

Join the global quality community in Cairo for two days of practical insight, international perspectives and ideas that strengthen organizational performance.

10–11 November 2026 InterContinental Cairo Semiramis Garden City, Cairo, Egypt

Organized by Productivity & Quality Institute (PQI),
Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT)

IQC 2026 International Quality Conference

Conference Snapshot

250+

Delegates

4

International
Keynotes

6

Expert
Panels

Practitioner

Workshops

Academic Paper

Presentations

Quality Excellence

Awards

Bilingual:

Arabic & English
with simultaneous
interpretation

About IQC 2026

Where quality meets measurable performance.

Quality management earns its place when it changes what an organization can deliver. IQC 2026 brings together practitioners, executives, policymakers, academics and emerging professionals to examine how quality drives performance in organizations, sectors and national economies.

Held in alignment with World Quality Week, the conference moves the conversation beyond compliance and audit. Delegates will leave with methods they can apply — not only ideas they have heard.Four keynote addresses, six expert panels and a dedicated session on women’s leadership in quality are designed to send delegates home with methods they can apply, not only ideas they have heard. Attendance is in person in Cairo, over two full days.

The 2026 theme

Quality: Powering Performance

The Chartered Quality Institute has adopted “Quality: Powering Performance” as the global theme for World Quality Week 2026. IQC 2026 takes that theme as its full framework. Good quality management is the work of planning, delivering and improving performance — maximizing the value an organization creates while reducing failure, waste and risk. At a moment when economies and organizations face competitive and productivity pressure, and when new technologies offer genuine potential to improve how work is done, the quality profession has an unusually direct contribution to make. The theme is built on three connected pillars, and every keynote and panel at IQC 2026 sits against one of them.

01

Performance drivers

The value customers and stakeholders seek, the risks organizations carry, and the competence required for systematic excellence.

02

Performance systems

How people, technology, partners, governance and management systems integrate to deliver value and control risk.

03

Performance improvement

The measures, governance, tools, culture and innovation that create purposeful, sustained improvement.

Our Vision

A region in which quality is understood and used as a driver of performance where organizations across the Arab world, Africa and the wider Global South compete on the reliability of what they deliver, and where the quality profession is recognized as central to national productivity rather than peripheral to it. The International Quality Conference is PQI’s contribution to that shift: an annual meeting point in Cairo where international evidence and regional practice are brought into the same room, and where the conversation is judged by what participants are able to do differently afterwards.

What we will cover

Conversations that move performance forward.

  • Quality as a driver of organizational performance
  • AI, data and the future of the quality profession
  • Performance measurement: from metrics to decisions
  • Management systems that deliver real results
  • Leadership, culture and quality across borders
  • Women in Quality and inclusive leadership
  • Quality, governance and national competitiveness

Conference program

Two days. One shared agenda.

Registration, Welcome Coffee & Exhibition Opens ·
Official Opening Ceremony and Quality Excellence Awards.
KEYNOTE 1
Quality as a Performance Engine — The Global Imperative in 2026
PANEL 1
Performance Drivers — Do We Truly Understand What Powers Quality?
KEYNOTE 2
AI, SPC and the New Quality Professional
BREAK
Coffee Break
PANEL 2
Performance Measurement — From Metrics to Meaning
KEYNOTE 3 & PANEL 3
Powering Performance Across Borders · Building the Infrastructure That Makes Quality Stick
Day 1 Synthesis & Preview of Day 2 ·
Lunch

Who should attend

For everyone accountable for how well work is delivered.

IQC 2026 convenes people working across Egypt, the Arab region, Africa and the wider international quality community.

  • Quality, excellence and continuous improvement professionals
  • Senior executives and operational leaders
  • Health, safety and environment professionals
  • Government officials and policymakers
  • Academics, researchers and educators
  • Professional, certification and standards bodies
  • Consultants in excellence and transformation
  • Postgraduate students and early-career professionals

Important Dates

Researchers, doctoral candidates and practitioner-authors are invited to contribute original full papers to the IQC 2026 Academic Track.

Now open

Full paper submission opens

30 September 2026

Full paper submission closes

20 October 2026

Notification of acceptance

27 October 2026

Author registration and fee payment close

11 November 2026

Parallel academic sessions, Day 2 afternoon

Partner with IQC 2026

Sponsorship Opportunities

Benefit Premier partner Platinum Strategic partner Gold Supporting partner Silver
Investment 200,000 EGP 4,000 USD 175,000 EGP 3,500 USD 125,000 EGP 2,500 USD
Exhibition stand 12 sqm 8 sqm 4 sqm
Complimentary registrations 8 6 3
Branding Top position on signage, lanyards, website and digital program Second tier on signage, website and digital program Website third tier, digital program and conference signage
Advertising Full-page ad in Conference Proceedings and post-event digital report Half-page ad in Conference Proceedings —
Additional Platinum benefits Co-presenting naming rights; sponsor top management participation in one panel; VIP roundtable dinner seat — —

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and decision-makers.

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Conference fees

Reserve your place in IQC 2026.

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Egyptian delegate6,000 EGP

Full conference access for the two-day IQC 2026 program.

Organized by and in association with

Productivity and Quality Institute (PQI)
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)
University of the West of Scotland
Wilkes University

10–11 November 2026 · Cairo, Egypt

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