[IVA26] Call for Doctoral Consortium: ACM’s International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

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Call for Doctoral Consortium: 26th ACM International Conference on 
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

Sept, 7-11, 2026 - Puebla (Mexico)

Co-located with ACII 2026 (the Int. Conf. on Affective Computing and 
Intelligent Interaction)

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Important dates

Submission Deadline: July 1, 2026

Notification: July 31, 2026

Doctoral Consortium: September 11, 2026

Registration details for the doctoral consortium will be announced 
later.

All deadlines are anywhere on earth (23:59 UTC-12).
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About the Doctoral Consortium

The Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) 2026 Doctoral Consortium occurs 
September 11, 2026, the day after the main conference. We invite Ph.D. 
students working in the area of intelligent virtual agents to present 
their research to peers and a panel of distinguished researchers, who 
will provide students with valuable feedback, additional ideas, and 
suggestions regarding parallel ongoing work. We will also pair each 
attendee with an expert mentor to provide individualized feedback and 
guidance. The Doctoral Consortium will also introduce students to a 
network that can be very helpful with their career once they graduate. 
We particularly encourage applications from Ph.D. candidates who have 
made some progress on a clear topic and research approach, but are not 
too far advanced to benefit from feedback and guidance.

Based on student applications, the organizing committee will select a 
group of students that will be invited to participate. Attendees will 
present their work in three formats to give them practice addressing 
audiences in a range of venues: a 2-minute flash talk, a 20 minute oral 
presentation, and a poster presentation.

Submissions consist of the following:

1. A four-page extended abstract of the student's thesis work (in the 
IVA submission format) submitted through the IVA submission site (please 
select the Doctoral Consortium track).

2. A short (2-page) resume (Curriculum Vitae) of the student.

3. A recommendation letter from the student's advisor/supervisor.

These items should be emailed to the consortium chairs Timothy Bickmore 
([email protected]) and Stefán Ólafsson ([email protected]).

The student's advisor/supervisor should directly email their letter of 
recommendation to the consortium chairs by the same deadline. The letter 
should address the expected benefit of the student attending, the 
significance of the research, and the anticipated graduation date of the 
student.
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Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the DC chairs: Timothy 
Bickmore ([email protected]) and Stefán Ólafsson 
([email protected])

(c) 2026 26th ACM IVA Conference [1]

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X: https://x.com/IVA_conference [2]
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LinkedIn: 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-virtual-agents-iva-conference/ 
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Links:
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[1] https://iva.acm.org/2026/
[2] https://x.com/IVA_conference
[3] 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-virtual-agents-iva-conference/

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