SIGDIAL 2026 Call for Participants

Dear SIDdial members, SIGDIAL 2026 will be held as follows. Venue: Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Dates: August 2nd - 5th, 2026 Conference Website: https://2026.sigdial.org Early registration deadline will come on July 6. _______________________________________________ SIGDIAL 2026 Call for Participants _______________________________________________ The 27th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) 2026 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, August 2–5, 2026. SIGDIAL brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to advance the frontiers of Conversational AI, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction. We warmly invite you to join us at SIGDIAL 2026! ## Registration Registration is now open. Early registration deadline is July 6, 2026, 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Please visit the Registration page (https://2026.sigdial.org/registration/) for the registration form and full details. ------------------------------------------------ Category Early Late ------------------------------------------------ Main Conference + Workshops (Regular) $500 $650 Main Conference + Workshops (Student) $350 $450 Workshops Only $150 $180 Student Volunteers/Keynote Speakers $0 $0 ------------------------------------------------ ## Keynote Speakers SIGDIAL 2026 features three distinguished keynote speakers: * August 3: Larry Heck — Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (https://2026.sigdial.org/keynotes/larry_heck/) * August 4: Nanyun (Violet) Peng — Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (https://2026.sigdial.org/keynotes/nanyun_peng/) * August 5: Dilek Hakkani-Tür — Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (https://2026.sigdial.org/keynotes/dilek_hakkani_tur/) ## Social Event Join us for the conference social event on August 4 (7:00 PM – 9:30 PM) at Sycamore Chapel (https://sycamorechapel.com/). The event is included in the Main Conference + Workshops registration. ## Visa Support If you require a visa to travel to the United States, we encourage you to begin the application process as early as possible. The registration form includes a field to request a visa support letter. We issue letters only to registrants who have completed registration and paid the applicable fee for their category. ## Contact For general inquiries, please contact the organizing team: sigdial2026_p@softconf.com We look forward to welcoming you to Atlanta!