Technical Workshops

Log into the submission portal. To see the information you need to submit, view the sample submission form.

In particular, please be aware of these fields:

• Unique emails per contributor are required.
• One representative image suitable for use on the conference website and in promotional materials. See the Representative Image Guidelines tab located on the Submissions FAQ.
• Proposal. The Workshop Proposal should include a description of the workshop topic, objectives, format, etc, and brief biographies and qualifications of the organizers and invited speakers. The proposal should note whether the workshop will include Sketches (For more information see the tab: Workshop Sketches) and, if so, include a draft call for submissions and a tentative review committee. Diversity of the organizing committee and invited speakers and ethical and social considerations should be addressed, if applicable.The proposal document you submit for review should be a single column PDF, which can be prepared however you choose (LaTex, Microsoft Word, Google Docs). If using LaTeX the “manuscript” parameter to the \documentclass will prepare the PDF as a one-column document:  \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} At your discretion, you may use this LaTeX template/example adapted from ICCV 2025. If you are not using LaTeX to prepare your submission, print the document to a PDF file. There is no page limit for this “submitted for review” PDF, but we expect 2-6 pages depending on complexity.If your workshop is accepted, an extended abstract for inclusion in the Technical Workshop Proceedings will be generated in TAPS from LaTex or Microsoft Word source material.
• A complete list of confirmed invited speakers is not required at submission, however, confirmed speakers will be considered and aid in the evaluation of the proposal.

The format of workshops is flexible and could include panels, presentations, “lightning talks”, posters, and open discussions. Interactive content that blurs the line between attendee and contributor is strongly encouraged. Workshops that blended visionary perspectives on the future from invited speakers with short presentations or “lightning talks” from junior members of the community were particularly successful during the 2025 pilot.

Organizers should not feel pressured to fill every minute of the program, workshops that leave space for organic interactions through extended Q&A and flexible scheduling can be more successful than a dense program that rushes from one speaker to the next.

New this year, Workshops will have the option to accept submitted content. For more information see the tab: Workshop Sketches. Note that submitted content should account for no more than ⅓ of the workshop program.

We expect most workshops to be half day (3.25 hours), but will consider proposals for 90-minute, full-day, or 3/4-day (4.75 hours) workshops.

SIGGRAPH 2026 will be in-person. Standard A/V (projector, head table, podium, microphone(s), speakers) will be provided. No virtual participation, recording, or streaming will be officially supported by the conference.

To bring more voices into the discussion, this year workshops will have the option to accept submissions. While in these pages we refer to these submissions generically as “Workshop Sketches” ¹, they could take the form of extended abstracts, posters, technical briefs or sketches, opinions, essays, or other forms of non-APC-eligible content; because the goal of these contributions is not to publish definitive manuscripts but rather to engage a broad range of voices, Workshops are prohibited from accepting “Papers” or other APC-eligible articles. A draft call for participation should be included with the workshop proposal. Accepted submissions will be included in the Technical Workshop Proceedings along with the abstract describing the workshop. Note that including Workshop Sketches is entirely optional, the choice to forgo Workshop Sketches will not prejudice review of the Workshop proposal.

The sketch submission, review, and decision process and schedule will be the same for all workshops and will use Linklings. See the Timeline tab for schedule. The process will be similar to the SIGGRAPH Specialized Conferences, with the Workshop Organizers acting as Program Chairs. The Organizers will assemble a committee to review submissions, after review there will be a BBS-style discussion phase, and Organizers will make the final judgments on which submissions to include in the program. Unlike the SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program, there will not be a rebuttal or synchronous committee meeting. As indicated in the ACM guidelines for non-APC-eligible articles, review should only be for relevance and quality.

All Sketch submissions must be formatted using the ACM authoring template. The draft call should explicitly state any additional constraints, such as page length. Final documents must be uploaded to TAPS by Tuesday, 19 May 2026.

¹ Unlike SIGGRAPH’s bygone Technical Sketches program these submissions are not inherently limited to one page.

The review of workshops will be editorial in nature, with the review panel potentially asking follow-up questions for clarity or items we neglected to include in the submission form. We also expect substantive feedback from the panel for improving the workshop. We welcome questions from and are open to preliminary discussions with potential submitters in the months leading up to the deadline.

If your Technical Workshop is accepted, you will be required to submit an extended abstract for archival inclusion in the Technical Workshop Proceedings. This abstract should be derived from the Workshop Proposal submitted for review. The abstract should include an overview of the topics being discussed, objectives, format, etc, and brief biographies of each organizer and invited speaker.

You will be notified of acceptance or rejection of your workshop Tuesday, 17 February 2026 and receive an email from “rightsreview@acm.org” with a link to your work’s rights permission form within 72 hours of notification of acceptance of your work to the conference.

Your representative image and text may be used for promotional purposes. Several SIGGRAPH 2026 programs will prepare preview videos of accepted content for pre-conference promotion.

Complete Stage 2: Program Materials by Tuesday, 10 March 2026, which includes:

• Review your submission through the submission portal and add a 250-word synopsis suitable for conference publicity.
• If you plan to include Workshop Sketch submissions the call for submissions must be ready in Linklings by this date. Confirmed invited speakers and other promotional material about the workshop that is in Linklings by this date will likely impact the number of submissions.
• Provide a valid ORCID identifier (ACM now requires that all accepted contributors register and provide ACM with valid ORCID identifiers prior to publication.) Corresponding contributors are responsible for collecting these ORCID identifiers from co-contributors and providing them to ACM as part of the ACM eRights selection process. You and your co-contributors can create and register your ORCID identifier at https://orcid.org/register. ACM only requires you to complete the initial ORCID registration process. However, ACM encourages you to take the additional step to claim ownership of all of your published works via the ORCID site.

Publication

When your ACM Rights Management Form has been delivered to ACM, you will then receive an email from “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” with information about the preparation and delivery of your material to TAPS for publication.

Note:

The listed contact organizer for the Workshop will receive the ACM Rights Form, and is responsible for completing it on behalf of ALL of the participants in the Workshop.

Make sure that emails from “rightsreview@acm.org” and “tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com” are part of the “allow list” in your email program, so that you do not miss these email messages.

The source (Word or LaTeX) of your abstract, as well as any supplemental materials, must be delivered to TAPS, ACM’s article production system. TAPS will generate the PDF and HTML5 versions of your abstract for publication in the ACM Digital Library.

You must deliver your material to TAPS, resolve any formatting issues identified by TAPS or by the proceedings production editor, and approve your material for publication by Tuesday, 19 May 2026. If you cannot meet that deadline, you will not be allowed to present your material at SIGGRAPH 2026.

Information about the preparation and delivery of your final material to TAPS also can be found here.

In-Person Presentations

If your Technical Workshop is accepted, the contributors must:

• Attend and present your Technical Workshop in-person at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.
• Contributors should plan to present from their own personal laptops. SIGGRAPH will provide the adapters needed to connect personal computers to the session projector.

All deadlines are 22:00 UTC/GMT unless otherwise noted.

27 January 2026, 22:00 UTC/GMT
Workshop initial submission deadline

17 February 2026
Acceptance or rejection notices are sent to all Workshop Proposal submitters.

10 March 2026
Deadline to make any changes to materials (i.e., approved title changes and descriptions) for publication on the website.
Call for Workshop Sketch Submissions opens.

7 April 2026
Workshop Sketch Submission Deadline

28 April 2026
Workshop Sketch Reviews Due, BBS Opens

5 May 2026
Workshop Sketch Decision Notification

8 May 2026
Early Registration Deadline

19 May 2026
Workshop Abstract and Workshop Sketches upload to TAPS deadline.
If we do not receive your abstract by Tuesday, 19 May, you will not be allowed to present at SIGGRAPH 2026.

17 July 2026
Official publication date for the ACM Digital Library

Please Note: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

19-23 July 2026
SIGGRAPH 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California