Industry Day Talks

The Industry Day of CIKM ’26 will be held on 7th November 2026 in Rome, Italy. We call for technical talks that cover how topics of interest relevant to the broader CIKM community (including but not limited to knowledge management, information retrieval, efficient data processing, large language models, evaluation, recommender systems, data mining, and others found in the CIKM ‘26 Call for Papers) are used in an industrial setting. Example topics include how AI is put to use in practical scenarios, how user behavior can be observed and interpreted, how to improve systems in practice, how industrial pipelines can be optimized, how to address cold start issues, or how scale is a challenge in more ways than the academic or the obvious. We encourage talk proposals from small companies, such as startups or spin-offs from university projects, as well as larger companies.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems in areas including but not limited to:

  • Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products
  • System design from industry practitioners which identify best practices and design principles for AI systems and their scalability aspects
  • Metrics and measurement techniques used to understand performance of production systems
  • Practical challenges such as data, privacy, integrity, scale, regulation
  • Domain-specific challenges, learnings, and insights
  • Connections with academia to solve interesting problems, including talk proposals from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners

CIKM is a technical conference, so talks should describe applied research and technical challenges rather than product pitches or presentations.

The accepted proposals will be published as an “abstract” in the conference proceedings. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes long including Q&A. Submissions should include:

  • Title and abstract
  • Speaker’s bio
  • Relevance to above themes and CIKM topics

Speakers will be asked to confirm their in-person presence at the conference if their submission is accepted.

Proposals should be 2 pages and follow the ACM SigConf format.

  • 2 pages. Speaker bio and references do not count towards the 2 pages.
  • Submissions are not anonymous and must contain a final short section with speaker details.
All papers for this track have to follow the template as indicated here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Proposals for this track are to be submitted via EasyChair, selecting “CIKM 2026 Industry Day” track at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm26

Industry Day Track Co-Chairs

cikm2026-industry@easychair.org

  • Tracy Holloway King, Adobe
  • Edgar Meij, Bloomberg

IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are at 11:59pm in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.

  • June 26, 2026 – Submissions Deadline

  • August 3, 2026 – Notification of Acceptance

  • August 20, 2026 – Camera-Ready Submission Deadline