Kamal Ghorui
PUNE: The IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Web Technologies (CCWC 2026) announced its Best Paper Awards, recognizing two outstanding contributions that address some of the most urgent questions at the intersection of artificial intelligence, governance and nextgeneration computing infrastructure.The conference received about 3,434 submissions from researchers across the globe, of which only 266 were accepted after a rigorous multistage review, underscoring the selectivity and technical depth of the event, said a statement issued by the organisers.One of the best paper awards went to “Governance-as-Architecture: A Framework for Compliance-Native AI in Regulated Large-Scale Data Ecosystems” by Sudhir Vishnubhatla. Reviewers praised the paper for moving the debate on AI governance beyond policy checklists and proposing a deeply engineered, compliancenative framework in which policy, controls and evidence become firstclass architectural constructs rather than afterthefact documentation. The work introduces a multiplane reference architecture—control, data, model and decision planes—that shows, with unusual clarity, how policyascode, lineagebydefault, modelrisk gates and humanintheloop safeguards can be wired into large, distributed AI ecosystems so that compliance is continuously enforced and continuously provable. The committee noted that the paper “reads like an operating manual for regulators and chief data officers” and combines conceptual rigor with an implementation roadmap that is immediately relevant to financial services, healthcare, critical infrastructure and publicsector AI deployments.The second Best Paper Award was conferred on “Quantum Computing as a Service (QCaaS): Architecture, Orchestration, and Performance Trade-offs” by Rajesh Kumar, Hemang Upadhyay, Chandra Prakash Pandey and Priya Ranjan Kumar. In a field often dominated by highlevel promises, this work was distinguished for its systematic, engineeringdriven treatment of hybrid quantum–classical cloud platforms, from layered architecture and orchestration patterns to concrete performance and resourceutilisation analysis, added the statement. The paper lays out a clear QCaaS stack—from user APIs and orchestration services down to quantum processing units and cloud infrastructure—and then examines how scheduling, communication latency, error mitigation and costaware resource management shape realworld performance. By comparing classical, hybrid and purequantum execution models and grounding the discussion in domains such as optimisation, financial governance, ethical AI and supplychain management, the authors provide what reviewers called “one of the most practically useful blueprints for enterprises planning serious quantum experiments over the next decade”.According to the CCWC 2026 technical programme committee, both winning papers stood out not only for their technical sophistication but also for their maturity of insight and clarity of presentation, turning complex topics regulatorygrade AI governance and quantum cloud computing into actionable guidance for practitioners, policy makers and industry leaders.CCWC also have keynote Speakers like Rishiraj Kohli Independent Researcher , USA andSumeer Basha Peta, Independent Researcher Massachusetts, United States.
