UPU events

Building on the success of the first three editions, the UPU, in collaboration with the European University Institute's Centre for a Digital Society (EUI-CDS), La Poste Groupe France, India Post and Amazon Web Services (AWS), will host the fourth edition of the UPU Innovation Challenge under the theme "Powering Postal Services With Agentic AI" from 6 to 8 May 2026, held in Köln, Germany, with a supporting session organized in Ghaziabad, India – marking the first time the event is extended across two locations – in conjunction with the 34th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics.
 

• Submit your application and register to participate here.
• Registration is open on a rolling basis and will close once maximum capacity has been reached.

Theme – Beyond the mailbox: redefining the boundaries of the postal sector

The conference will be streamed live on UPU TV here.

Theme – From trends to transformation: challenging postal assumption

The conference will be streamed live on UPU TV here.

Next meetings from 9 to 13 February 2026

The Postal Operations Council (POC) is the technical and operational mind of the UPU and consists of 48 member countries, elected during Congress. The body elects its own chair and meets annually at the UPU's headquarters in Berne.

ICS2 Release 3 implementation – Updates, derogations and lessons learnt
 

• Format: Online on Zoom / Register here
• Language: English only
• Date and time: Tuesday, 4 December 2025, 13.00–14.30 CET (UTC+1)

This event, jointly organized by the UPU, GIGA and Diplo Foundation, and dedicated to the international digital community, aims to share practical experiences from the ground on leveraging existing infrastructure to connect the unconnected and the hardest-to-reach populations.

Register here.

The next CA session will take place from 27 to 28 November 2025.

The next POC session will take place from 24 to 26 November 2025.