[CogSci] Call for special sessions, workshops and tutorials The Conference on Artificial Life - ALIFE 2026

Fri Feb 6 05:27:05 PST 2026

The Conference on Artificial Life - ALIFE 2026, with this year’s theme
“Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems”, will be held on 17–21
August 2026 in Waterloo, Canada. We invite the Alife community to submit
proposals for Special Sessions, Workshops, and Tutorials.
Deadline: 20 February 2026

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CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS

Special sessions will be specially-themed tracks in the main conference.
The idea is to attract high-quality submissions on topics of particular
interest to our community. We are particularly interested in sessions that
will set new directions for future research and bring new voices into our
community. These sessions will be part of the main conference and will run
alongside other conference sessions.

Organizing a special session provides an opportunity to explore in depth a
particular topic within the main conference, and to bring new ideas and new
people into the ALife community. We are open to any ideas you might have
that might create a buzz around your topic or the conference in general,
such as advertising the session outside of the usual ALife community or
holding panel or group discussions as part of the session.

Submissions to your session will go through the main conference review
system. As a session organizer, you would set the topic of the session,
attract submissions through whatever means you wish, and chair the session
at the conference.

Please note that special sessions are different from workshops. The main
difference is that special sessions are part of the main conference – they
share its review process and accepted submissions will appear in the
proceedings.
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We welcome session proposals on any topic.

Submission Process
Every special session proposal should include:

   1.     Title of the special session
   2.     Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) with contact
   details
   3.     Short bio or CV of the organizer(s)
   4.     Description of the session theme, including why this session
   theme deserves special attention from the ALife community (about 250 words)
   5.     What you propose to do to support the session, such as
   advertising it or in terms of organisation (about 150 words)
   6.     List of 3-5 senior reviewers suggestions relevant for your session

Submit proposal with all the above information in a single pdf at
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

TUTORIALS cover current topics relevant to the artificial life community,
such as an introduction to state-of-the-art methods and software. Each
tutorial slot will be 1.5 hours long. We encourage tutorial organizers to
maintain a website that collects the content, demos, and interactive
material.

WORKSHOPS aim to promote and discuss new ideas and topics in the field of
artificial life in a more informal context and might be organized as
invited talks, panel discussions, or contributed talks.

ALIFE will provide the on-site logistics and links from the main conference
website. The tutorial and workshop organizers are responsible for all other
organizational issues.

If you are interested in organizing a workshop or tutorial, please submit
your proposal in a single file specifying:

   1.     The type of contribution (workshop or tutorial)
   2.     Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the organizer(s) with contact
   details
   3.     A short bio or CV of the organizer(s)
   4.     A proposal describing the content and its importance for the
   Alife community (150~250 words)
   5.     The expected number of participants (for our logistics)
   6.     Workshop only: Planned duration, i.e., one or two 90-minutes
   slots.

Submit proposals with all the above information as a single pdf to
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ALIFE/

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More details about the ALIFE 2026 conference can be found at
https://2026.alife.org<https://2026.alife.org/>
For any questions or clarifications, feel free to reach out to
program2026 at ...

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All the best,

Stavros Anagnou
PhD Candidate
Adaptive Systems Research Group
School of Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire
United Kingdom

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