*** WSDM 2026 - Call for Industry Day Talks - Deadline extension *** Great news! The deadline for Industrial Day Talk submissions has been extended.
The 19th ACM International WSDM Conference will take place in Boise, Idaho, USA, as an in-person conference, from February 22nd to February 26th, 2026. The Industry Day event will take place on the first day of the WSDM conference, Monday, February 22nd, 2026. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: November 6th, 2025 Notification Deadline: December 4th, 2025 Camera Ready Deadline: December 17th, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth. ----------------------------------------------- The WSDM Industry Chairs are inviting submissions for technical talks that cover the usage of web search and data mining in an industrial setting. The talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems as well as applied research in relevant areas. The theme this year is: Large Language Models and Agentic AI in Industrial Settings. Particular consideration will be given to talk proposals that are relevant to the theme. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Challenges, applications, and foundational advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) for industrial applications * User behavior patterns and insights as demonstrated in large-scale web search and data mining applications * Building and optimizing modeling pipelines for high throughput and low latency production systems to deliver business impact. * Case studies addressing practical challenges such as data, privacy, ethics, integrity, scale, and regulation. ----------------------------------------------- *** Submission Guidelines *** Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template, two-column format). Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Please include: * Title * Abstract * Outline of the presentation * A brief company portrait (~60 words) * A short bio of the main presenter (~100 words) WSDM is a technical conference, so preference will be given to talks describing novel applications of existing or new research in industrial settings, and technical challenges in applying novel research at industrial scale. Please do NOT submit a sales speech or a product description that does not contain any novel research, novel application of existing research, or novel insights into solving challenging problems at industrial scale! Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsdm2026 ----------------------------------------------- *** Presentation and Publication *** The presentation format will be decided based on submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix of short and long presentations as well as panels. WSDM 2026 is an in-person conference. At least one author of each accepted presentation needs to register and present the work at the WSDM 2026 Industry Day. All talks should be delivered in person. The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a camera-ready copy to be included in the proceedings. *** Industry Day Contact Information *** For more information, contact the Industry Day chairs: [email protected] * Ilaria Bordino, UniCredit, Italy * Yinglong Xia, Meta, USA _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
