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VRST 2025, Nov. 12 - 14

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology is an international forum dedicated to virtual and augmented reality software and technology. This year, VRST will once again be dedicated to the imperative theme of reproducibility. Papers being presented cover subjects including low-latency and high-performance software and applications, multi-user and distributed XR, interaction techniques, tracking and sensing, multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces, and more. Keynote speaker is Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University). The event is being held in Montreal, Canada.

ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

CIKM 2025, Nov. 10 - 14

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Workshops and tutorials include "Advances in Financial AI: Innovations, Risk, and Responsibility in the Era of LLMs," "Multimodal Generative Search and Recommendation," "Trustworthy Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining," and more. Keynote speakers are Haesun Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS), and Yong-Yeol Ahn (University of Virginia). This event will be held in Seoul, Korea.

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

ICAIF 2025, Nov. 15 - 18

The ACM International Conference on AI in Finance is a peer-reviewed scholarly conference that brings together researchers from academia, government and industry to share challenges, advances, and insights on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance. Workshops include "AI and Data Science for Digital Finance" "LLMs and Generative AI for Finance," "Explainable AI in Finance: Achieving Trustworthy Financial Decision-Making," "AI for Resilient & Responsible DeFi Dynamics," "AI for Financial Fraud Detection & Prevention" and more. The event will be held in Singapore.

ACM International Conference on AI in Finance

SC25, Nov. 16 - 21

At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, invited talks will show how translational research and technologies and their applications address some of the most complex challenges of our time. Tutorials and workshops include "Better Software for Reproducible Science," "Connecting the HPC and the Quantum Community," "Modern High Performance I/O: Leveraging Object Stores," "Large Scale Quantum-Classical Computing," "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Applications," and more. Keynote speaker is Ralph McEldowney (Air Force Research Laboratory). The event will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

CoNEXT 2025, Dec. 1 - 4

The International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The conference is single track and features a high-quality technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group technical and social interactions among a diverse set of participants. Workshops include "Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics," "A First Large-Scale Study of Operational 5G Standalone Networks," and more. The conference will be held in Hong Kong.

International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies

WSC 2025, Dec. 7 - 10

Winter Simulation Conference 2025 will continue the tradition of including pre-conference workshops, introductory and advanced tutorials, commercial case studies, poster sessions, and the PhD Colloquium. It will also host the International Conference on Modeling & Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM). WSC 2025 will showcase professional development opportunities, a Simulation Challenge for teams to compete on an industrial case study, and the Simulation Exploration Experience. Keynote speakers are Michael McFarlane (NASA), Charles M. Macal (Argonne National Laboratory), Ganesh Nanaware (Amazon), and Devadas "Dave" Pillai (Intel). The event is being held in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Winter Simulation Conference 2025

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Middleware 2025, Dec. 15 - 19

The ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference is a major forum for discussing innovations and recent scientific advances in middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms, and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. The conference seeks original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics, particularly those identifying new research directions. Keynote speakers will be Dahlia Malkhi (University of California, Santa Barbara), Douglas C. Schmidt (College of William & Mary), and Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (DFINITY). The event is being held in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference 2025

Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education
By Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Best Paper at ITiCSE '24: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Mining Domain-Based Policies
By Si Zhang, Philip W. L. Fong
Best Paper Award at CODASPY '24: 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations
By Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, Apu Kapadia
Best paper award at CUI '24: ACM Conversational User Interfaces

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Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.

The report, available here, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.

On March 3, 2022, ACM’s Executive Committee decided not to hold any conferences in Russia while the conflict in the Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis in Europe continue. This decision applies to ACM sponsored conferences and workshops as well as in-cooperation events.