Demonstrations and PostersICT4S 2026

Call for contributions

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

Submission is now open. Papers have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair in the Demonstration and Posters Track. Please carefully follow the submission instructions.

The submission has to 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.

Poster paper

In your poster paper you describe the work presented on the poster or in your demonstration. You should address the following aspects:

• Title, authors and affiliations
• Brief abstract
• Context and motivation
• Brief description of materials and methods
• Summary of key research results
• Key takeaways, conclusions and/or next steps
• References

You can find examples of poster papers from ICT4S 2023 here.

We are aiming to publish these short papers jointly with the workshop and doctoral symposium proceedings via CEUR workshop proceedings. Therefore, you have to stick to the following requirements:

• Use the 1-column CEUR Article format for formatting papers
  • The template is available on Overleaf
  • Link to the ODT version
• The maximum length has to be no more than four standard pages (with 2500 characters per page) including references
• Do not use the capitalization style for titles. E.g. write Materials and methods and not “Materials and Methods
• Contributions must be original, i.e. not published in an earlier workshop or conference or journal!
• The confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the review process.

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 relevance of the poster/demonstration and short paper for the ICT4S audience and topics of interest;
• the originality of its underlying ideas and contribution;
• the quality of the poster submission and the short paper (including the visual and textual representation).

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).

Accepted Papers