Important Dates
Submission deadline: May 15, 2026
Decisions: May 29, 2026
D&I Workshop Activities: August 15-17, 2026
D&I Community Gatherings: August 18-21, 2026
Participation is essential to assure that AI development and AI applications reflect the diversity in society. Underrepresented and marginalized groups in particular continue to play an important role in raising awareness of emerging or persisting challenges and in leading efforts to include diverse perspectives. Here, diversity can have many facets, including race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, cultural background, geographic region, and their intersections.
In this call for diversity and inclusion (D&I) activities, we invite submissions of proposals with the goal of broadening participation in the field of AI. Activities can range from community building activities, e.g., networking meetings, panels to empower researchers, or mentoring sessions, to reports on outreach activities and underexplored societal research avenues, all the way to full-scale workshops, focusing on, e.g., discussion of the present state of participation, public inclusion, identification of harms, calls to action and proposals for changes. The suggested activities are non-exhaustive examples and the length of activities can vary from two hours to a full day.
Requirements for Proposal Submission:
D&I activity proposals should be submitted as a single PDF through the conference’s Chairing Tool: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/IJCAIECAI2026/diversity-inclusion.
All activities are expected to be held in person, with a suggested maximum of 4 organizers. Workshop-scale events will be held at the same time as all other IJCAI-ECAI 2026 workshops and are subject to the same policy of receiving two complimentary registrations. Other community strengthening events are assumed to be catered to regular conference attendees and will take place during the main program. Respective attendees are expected to be registered. If required, we encourage people to apply for the financial aid grant program. Proposals should be short (at most 2 pages in pdf format plus the resumes) and address the following:
- What activity is proposed and what are its specific objectives?
- The name, organization, email, and homepage URL of each organizer, with an indication of whether they will be able to attend IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in person.
- A brief 1 page resume for each organizer.
- What is the target audience (academics, industry, (under-)graduate students, etc)?
- What is the expected number of participants?
- Duration of the proposed activity and proposed schedule.
- Suggested time of the event (workshop days or main conference).
- Will there be an open call for participation/submission or will it be by invitation only?
- What is the expected timeline (call out, deadline, notification)?
- Advertisement strategy: how will the event be advertised?
Please send all questions to the IJCAI-ECAI 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Chairs (di@2026.ijcai.org), Maria Vanina Martinez and Martin Mundt.