Dear Colleagues,  The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the 17th annual BCCCD meeting in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will be held between January 7th and January 9th, 2027.  INVITED SPEAKERS  Isabelle Dautriche<https://voynich.univ-amu.fr/> (Aix-Marseille University) Willem Frankenhuis<https://www.willemfrankenhuis.com/> (University of Amsterdam) Julian Jara-Ettinger<https://compdevlab.yale.edu/> (Yale University) Alongside our invited program, we welcome symposium, talk, and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive development. Previous BCCCD meetings featured a wide range of topics, such as communication, pragmatics, social cognition, conceptual development, language acquisition, numeracy, object cognition, perceptual learning, inductive learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, cognitive bases of culture, and comparative cognition.  We will have a single deadline for all symposium, talk, and poster submissions. Authors can elect to have talk submissions considered for posters as well. You can find the timeline of the submission and review process below or at this link:  https://bcccd.org/timeline.htm We also welcome proposals for half-day pre-conference workshops or tutorials relevant to the BCCCD audience.  IMPORTANT DATES  Submission opens: June 22, 2026 Submission deadline: September 7, 2026 Registration opens: September 8, 2026 Pre-conference workshop submission deadline: October 5, 2026 Notification of decision*: November 9, 2026 *For authors who require a visa to attend, we can provide a letter to support your visa application shortly after the submission deadline.  We expect to hold BCCCD27 entirely in-person in Budapest. While CEU has relocated much of its operations to Vienna, we would like to reassure all prospective participants that we are committed to maintaining the tradition of the Budapest campus of CEU as the site of BCCCD meetings in 2027 and for the foreseeable future. We hope to see you there!  Mariem Diané & Beyza G. Çiftçi BCCCD27 Conference chairs