Planning for the SIGCHI Futures Summit 2026 is underway and we wanted to share a gentle reminder to encourage you to participate, so we're following up on the call we sent out in July.

The Call for Participation: https://forms.gle/n811bmQvtGMzEP677. You can fill this out whether you are interested in merely attending and bringing your voice to these conversations, OR if you (or a group of you) are interested in leading a conversation. Please email us if you have any questions re: filling out the form. We will close this on September 24, AoE. If you invest your time and thinking cycles towards the future of SIGCHI conferences and of the SIG, we’d like to encourage you to fill out this form.

The Program: The event will go for three days, from November 16 to November 18, and will be held in Paris. Each day has a different focus; the first day will be more outward focused, covering the state of the SIG, ACM-level updates, conversations with other SIG leadership. The second day will be more about the SIG, including conferences and communities. The final day will be more focused on taking action based on the conversations from Day 1 and Day 2.

September 18: Our coffee hour with the conferences will touch on volunteering, and challenges conferences and their communities are seeing on this front. If this is a conversation you’d like to join, here is the Zoom link. It will be at 3pm EDT, 8pm BST, 9pm CEST. Apologies for the short notice.

October 2: Our next conversation on Summit prep will feature Thomas Zimmermann, the SIGs’ Publications Advisor who serves on the SIG Governing Board Exec. Committee. We will talk about policies around AI and pubs. This is a conversation that we anticipate many of you would be interested and like to participate in. Details forthcoming.

The Executive Committee will be holding a series of biweekly coffee hours in preparation for the next SIGCHI Futures Summit, focusing on topics relevant to SIGCHI conferences..

The second coffee hour will take place on Friday, July 31, at 13:00-14:00 CEST. The first half will be dedicated to Conference Budgets 101, and the remainder will be left for open discussion. The event is open to representatives of our 30 conferences, as well as aspiring conference leaders and community members who would like to participate.

The Zoom link is available on the event page: https://sigchi.org/events/sigchi-conferences-coffee-hour-2.

The Executive Committee will be holding a series of biweekly coffee hours in preparation for the next SIGCHI Futures Summit. We will target SIGCHI conference-relevant topics, such as:

• Separating Publication from Presentation: Interactive Health 26 as a Case Study

• Understanding ACM/SIGCHI Policies in this Age of AI

• Conference Budgets 101

• Sustainability Best Practices: UIST 25 as a Case Study

• Accessibility Best Practices: CHI and AccessSIGCHI

• Journals and Conferences: Different Models Across SIGCHI

• Open Access: How it’s Going

• SIGCHI Spend on Conferences

The first coffee hour will take place on Friday, July 24, at 15:00-16:00 CEST. The event is open to representatives of our 30 conferences and aspiring conference leaders and community members who would like to participate.

Zoom link is available on the event page: https://sigchi.org/events/sigchi-conferences-coffee-hours-1.