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NeurIPS 2026 Call for Workshops

By Ghada Zamzmi, Elisa Ricci, Shao-Hua Sun, Khoa Doan, Theodore Papamarkou, Piotr Koniusz

Dates:

  • Fri Dec 11 and Sat Dec 12, 2026 (Sydney)
  • Sat Dec 12 and Sun Dec 13, 2026 (Paris, Atlanta)
 

Following the NeurIPS 2026 main conference, workshops on a variety of current topics will be held. We will provide more details in NeurIPS 2026 Guidance for Workshop Proposals. 

We invite researchers interested in organizing these workshops to submit proposals. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including coordinating workshop participation and content, publicizing and providing the program in a timely manner, and moderating the program throughout the workshop. 

 

Goals of NeurIPS Workshops

Workshops provide an informal, dynamic venue for in-person discussion of work in progress and future directions. High-quality workshops have helped to crystallize common problems and emerging scientific paradigms, explicitly contrast competing frameworks, and clarify essential questions for a subfield or application area. Workshops are a structured way to bring together people with common interests to form communities. We expect the workshops to include some form of community building and stand apart from other parts of the NeurIPS program, such as Tutorials or Competitions.

 

Each workshop is expected to have approximately 7 to 9 hours of session content, with considerable free time between the sessions for individual exchange. NeurIPS will host only in-person workshops this year, with full-stack technical support to broadcast the workshop to the online audience.

 

Potential workshop topics range from Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Reinforcement Learning, Human-AI Collaboration, Learning Theory, Robotics, Probabilistic Models and Inference, Computer Vision, Speech, Natural Language Processing, Emerging Applications for Machine Learning, and Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence, as well as any other topic relevant to an appreciable fraction of the NeurIPS community. Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found in last year's online schedule (San Diego) and last year's online schedule (Mexico City)

 

Every group submitting a workshop proposal must read the NeurIPS 2026 Guidance for Workshop Proposals, which describes the philosophy behind hosting workshops, formatting requirements, details of the selection criteria and process, what is considered a conflict of interest, and other frequently asked questions. We highly recommend that each group utilize the provided template in the guidance to draft their proposal. Please also note this year’s limits on the number of organizers (no more than 8 per proposal) and the number of proposals sharing the same author (no more than 2). Please see our LLM use policy too. Finally, please note that opening a new Open Review account can take two weeks or more.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should be submitted through an application using the OpenReview system at https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop_Proposals

 

Important dates for workshop submissions:

  1. Workshop Application Open: April 21, 2026, AoE
  2. Workshop Application Deadline: June 06, 2026, AoE
  3. Workshop Acceptance Notification: July 11, 2026, AoE
  4. Suggested Submission Date for Workshop Contributions:  August 29, 2026, AoE
  5. Mandatory Accept/Reject Notification Date: September 29, 2026, AoE
 

The criteria and process for assessing proposals are described in the NeurIPS 2026 Guidance for Workshop Proposals.

 

Funding

NeurIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop organizers or speakers. In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding from external sources to bring in outside speakers. A number of complementary registration tickets will be provided to each accepted workshop. 

 

Resources

Each accepted workshop will be provided 1 meeting room/exhibition hall, an AV standard set (1 podium mic & 1 Q&A mic), panel table with 1 wireless microphone, and a designated space with poster boards for poster sessions. Neither Sydney or Atlanta venues allow posters to be taped to the walls (Paris case TBC). Workshops can order (at the expense of the organizers/sponsors) additional items (e.g., extra microphones, extra furniture, sponsor tables, catering, etc.) Each workshop will receive 5 full conference registrations. The conference will offer live streaming and recording.

 

Ghada, Elisa, Shao-Hua, Khoa, Theodore, and Piotr 
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop Chairs
workshop-chairs@neurips.cc