Workshops & Tutorials

Overview

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials in conjunction with the 1st ACM Conference on AI and Agentic Systems. The workshops will be in-person on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, the day before the main conference.

The workshops and tutorials aim to provide a forum for exchanging opinions, presenting ideas, and discussing preliminary results with a diverse group of conference attendees. We welcome proposals on topics including, but not limited to: design and optimization of agentic systems, systems support for agentic systems, and tutorials for frameworks to build or debug agentic systems.

Important Dates

Proposal Format

Submissions for workshop organization should be no more than 3 pages (with additional pages permitted for references); the 3 pages should include the workshop content itself and information about the organizers.

Submissions must follow the ACM SIGPLAN template and be submitted via the workshop submission site.

Template: ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings Template on Overleaf

For LaTeX, we recommend the following:

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Proposal Content

Workshop and tutorial proposals should include the following:

• The workshop/tutorial name and a 150–200 word abstract describing the workshop/tutorial, suitable for the conference website.
• A summary of the topic, scope, and significance of the workshop/tutorial, including a discussion on the relevance to the main conference.
• Information about past iterations of the workshop/tutorial, if any.
• An account of any efforts to include diverse participants (e.g., via mentoring, subsidies, or the wording and topics in the call for proposals).
• A brief CV/bio of each of the organizers, including contact addresses and identification of a single primary contact.

Specifically for Workshops

• Information about the procedure for selecting papers and/or presentations, the expected number of participants, and the planned workshop format.
• Tentative schedule including paper submission dates, notification dates, camera-ready dates (if any), and registration.
• Any program committee members already chosen.

Specifically for Tutorials

• Information about the schedule and activities planned (e.g., what the tutorial will cover, what participants will need to follow along).

Selection Criteria

All proposals will be judged on their merits using the following criteria:

• Importance and relevance: Is the workshop focused on a clear and topical problem, and will the community find it interesting, exciting, and useful?
• Opportunity for discussion: The degree to which the proposed program offers an opportunity for discussion among participants and for community building.
• Diversity and inclusion in all forms.
• Organizational experience: The potential and ability of the organizing team.

Workshops/tutorials organized at previous conferences (including, but not limited to, NeurIPS, ICLR, SOSP, ICML) will not be automatically accepted.

Organizer Support

ACM CAIS 2026 provides workshop and tutorial organizers with the following:

• Registration management for participants (there is no separate workshop registration—workshop attendance is included with conference registration).
• Meeting space and equipment at the conference venue.
• Coffee breaks and lunch arrangements.
• Organization of the common poster and demonstration session during the extended afternoon coffee break.

Note: We will not be providing support for official proceedings from workshops. Workshop organizers are responsible for creating their own website and publishing versions of the workshop papers. The workshop website can be linked from the main CAIS workshops page.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Deepti Raghavan

Brown University

Lingjiao Chen

Microsoft Research