Demonstrations and PostersICT4S 2026

Call for Demonstrations and Posters

The main purpose of the ICT4S 2026 Demonstrations and Posters Track is to provide an open and inspiring environment to discuss experiences, new ideas, challenges, and recent work. In addition, the session will also provide opportunities for networking and establishing future collaborations.

Besides posters, other presentation formats can be tool demonstrations, videos, artistic interventions, downloadable apps, live coding, physical prototypes, or any other artifacts to showcase to other conference attendees.

Topics of Interest

A broad range of topics is appropriate for Demonstrations and Posters, including all the topics of interest from the ICT4S 2026 research papers track. The following non-exhaustive list illustrates possibilities:

• Reflection on past, present, or future vision of ICT for Sustainability
• Current senior/student research work in progress
• Demonstrations of tools presented in the main ICT4S conference
• Integration of Sustainable ICT research into education
• Energy-efficient and energy-aware software engineering tools and methods
• Experiences and case studies
• Sustainability in practice
• Real-world and/or industrial use cases
• Student research projects

Goals of the track

Demonstrations and Posters can help accomplish a wide range of goals, such as:

• Presenting industry representatives your specific line of research and its practical applications
• Stimulating networking between existing or new ideas, research, and projects
• Connecting graduate students to community members, researchers, and faculty
• Facilitating new collaborations and projects
• Presenting research to the scientific community

Submission

Your submission should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. The submission link will be published soon. The submission should include:

Poster

• In PDF format (electronic) and written in English
• A0 size and in portrait orientation (841mm x 1189mm)
• The poster is only required if your submission is a poster. If you are submitting another form of demonstration (e.g. an artistic showcase) the poster may not be required. If so, please include (links to) relevant materials (e.g. videos, websites) in the explanatory material.
• Consider including a QR code for participants to easily find your website(s) and materials.

Explanatory material

• Consisting of up to 3 pages (including all text and figures), plus max. 1 additional page containing ONLY references.
• Including the following:
  • Abstract - a concise summary of the work
  • Brief technical content description of the work - Research results, efforts to integrate the research into society or education, etc.
  • Relevance and novelty - Why is this interesting for the ICT4S community
  • References are not required but may be included if it helps further clarify topics and claims. However, if the main work in the poster submission is accepted in the main ICT4S track or previously published, it should be referenced.
  • Author names and affiliations

Formatting of the explanatory material:

• Use the 1-column CEUR Article format.
  • The template is available on Overleaf
  • Link to the ODT version

Please note: Submission must not have been previously published in demonstration form and not simultaneously submitted to any venue other than ICT4S.

Presentation

Instructions will be given to accepted poster submission authors prior to ICT4S 2026. At least one of the authors has to be present at ICT4S 2026 to present the work.

Evaluation

Each submission will be peer-reviewed by at least two members of the demonstrations and posters program committee. The evaluation criteria include:

• the novelty and relevance of the poster/demonstration for the ICT4S audience and topics of interest;
• the originality of its underlying ideas and contribution;
• the quality of textual presentation of the poster submission.

Publishing

The accepted poster submissions will be published in an open access archive (CEUR).

Timeline

The following timeline is binding.

Questions

In case of questions, please feel free to contact the track chairs: Stefanie Kunkel (stefanie.kunkel@rifs-potsdam.de) and Saran Wongmahacharoen (wongmahacharoen-saran-hn@ynu.jp).