WorkshopsICT4S 2026

Call for Workshops

Workshop topics of interest

We welcome a broad range of workshop proposals addressing the design, impacts, opportunities, risks, and potential solutions at the intersection of ICT and sustainability. Proposals can both address the sustainability of digitalization and/or digitalization for sustainability. You can refer to the research papers track for exemplary topics.

Workshop formats

We invite workshop proposals of traditional or unconventional formats for half-day or full-day workshops. Workshops are to be held at ICT4S 2026 in Bern (hybrid may be possible upon request) on Friday, June 12th, 2026.

For inspiration, workshops can take a community workshop format, for example, community building and passionate discussion of emerging topics relating to ICT4S or a co-design workshop format where attendees convene to develop a vision paper or a special-issue journal topic where they complete a draft within the workshop.

Please note that you are welcome to publish a proceedings volume from your workshop. However, this would need to be facilitated by you as the workshop organizer(s).

Submission guidelines

Please follow the guidelines for submitting a workshop proposal.

1. Write a workshop proposal (2-4 pages long). The workshop proposals must include the following:
• Title – a workshop title
• Background - rationale for the workshop, including the aims and objectives
• Organizers - name and affiliations, short backgrounds/bios, including experience in organizing workshops or similar events
• Type of workshop - full-day, half-day, or evening and expected number of participants
• Preliminary agenda - a short description of the activities during the workshop and timeline
• Pre-workshop plans - details on recruitment for the workshop, e.g., the target audience communities, strategy for communication with these communities.
• Workshop requirements – specify requirements regarding room size, technical infrastructure, whiteboard, pens etc.
• Post-workshop plans - plans for the creation of tangible outcomes or outputs, and follow-up with attendees/ICT4S
• Call for Participation (CfP) - a 250 word CfP that will be posted on the ICT4S website in January
• References - a list with relevant references


2. Submit your proposal electronically via EasyChair. The submission link will be published soon.

Workshop submission evaluation

In case we receive an exceptionally high number of proposals, we may not be able to select all workshops. We will choose workshops that best fit the technical program, offering a balance across the conference topics.

Acceptance notifications will be sent out on 19 December 2025.

The following timeline is binding.

Questions

In case of questions, please feel free to contact the track chairs: Emilie Vrain (emilie.vrain@eci.ox.ac.uk) and Anna Furberg (annafur@kth.se).