Dear all, We’re excited to announce IWSDS 2026, The 16th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems. It will take place on Feb 26 – Mar 1, 2026 in Trento, the gateway to the Dolomites following the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The theme of this year is "Human-Machine Dialogue in the Era of Multimodal Foundation Models" IWSDS 2026 aims to bring together researchers working on the theoretical foundations, systems and methods, and applications of spoken and multimodal dialogue systems in robotics, XR and digital services. The Call for Papers is now open for long papers (up to 8 pages + references), as well as short papers, position papers, demos (up to 4 pages + references) Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published in the ACL Anthology. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: October 12, 2025 Acceptance Notification: December 10, 2025 Workshop Dates: February 26 – March 1, 2026 📌 Website & CfP: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/iwsds26/ 🐦 Twitter: https://x.com/iwsdsmeeting 🌿 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iwsdsmeeting.bsky.social We look forward to welcoming you to Trento in 2026! On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Giuseppe Riccardi IWSDS'26 General Chair --- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering University of Trento Room D206, via Sommarive 5 38123 Povo di Trento, Italy Home Page: http://disi.unitn.it/~riccardi/