Call for Papers
CIST 2026 - Oct 31–Nov 1, 2026, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Conference Website: https://cist2026.github.io
Overview
The Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2026 invites original research submissions in all areas of Information Systems and related fields, especially those that seek to address issues related to the conference theme: "Agentic AI in Action: Building and Governing Intelligent Ecosystems".
As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, adaptive, and embedded in organizational and societal contexts, they are transforming how decisions are made, work is organized, and value is created. CIST 2026 invites research that examines the design, deployment, and governance of agentic AI and the intelligent ecosystems emerging around it.
We welcome and encourage contributions employing a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches, and hope that a broad set of the Information Systems community will be represented at CIST 2026.
Join us for an in-person conference experience in the vibrant city of San Francisco. Paper submissions open on May 15, 2026. For updates on registration, submission guidelines, event logistics, and important dates, please visit our official website: https://cist2026.github.io
Important Dates
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Milestone
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Date
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Submission system opens
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May 15, 2026
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Submission deadline
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June 12, 2026 at 11:59 pm PT
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Notification of acceptance
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August 21, 2026
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Early registration deadline
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September 12, 2026
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Speaker registration deadline
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September 12, 2026
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Conference
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October 31 – November 1, 2026
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Submission Portal
Papers should be submitted via Paperfox: https://www.paperfox.ai/conference/cist2026/submission
Submission Guidelines
Only papers that follow the specific guidelines below will be considered for acceptance:
- Submissions must be blind - author names, contact, and affiliation information should not appear anywhere in the paper.
- Papers are limited to a maximum of 15 pages of body text with at most 5 additional pages for abstract, references, tables, and figures. Papers that exceed the page limit will be desk rejected.
- Papers must be printable on 8.5 × 11-inch paper, use 12-point Times New Roman font with one-inch margins on all four sides, and be double-spaced.
- Student papers must indicate on the first page whether the bulk of the work was done by a student, to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award.
- Papers must be submitted in PDF format and be no larger than 50 MB.
Submission Policy
- If your paper has already been accepted or conditionally accepted for publication, please refrain from submitting it to CIST 2026. In the spirit of promoting original work, we ask that authors submit new work, and discourage work that has recently been presented at major IS conferences and workshops.
- To promote diversity, we strongly recommend that no individual appears as an author on more than three papers submitted to CIST 2026.
- We recommend that no individual serves as the presenting author for more than two papers submitted to CIST 2026.
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Zhuoxin Li
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Middleton WI
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