[RecSys 2026] First Call for Demos
Noemi Mauro
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the 20th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2026) by submitting a demonstration to the Demo Track. Demonstrations present implementations of novel, interesting, and important recommender systems’ concepts or applications. Allowing potential users to see and use a demo of a research work makes them excited about it – it makes the work real and tangible. Demos also allow researchers from academia and developers from small start-ups to large industries to present new recommender ideas and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community.
We welcome new demonstrations of recommendation technologies coming from diverse communities, ranging from psychology to mathematics. In particular, we care as much about the human and economic impact of these systems as we care about their underlying algorithms. We also encourage authors to provide links to external materials in their reports, while ensuring anonymity during the review process.
RecSys has an excellent history of being well-attended by industry representatives – past conferences have had attendees and presenters from Netflix, Amazon, Booking, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Criteo, Pandora, Spotify, etc. The blend of industry and academic attention provides an excellent environment to demonstrate and discuss the latest inventions or ideas.
We invite demonstrations relevant to all aspects of recommender systems, including, but not limited to:
- Interaction techniques (preference elicitation interfaces, recommendation presentation, explanations, and more).
- Tools for development and analysis of recommender systems (design and analytics tools).
- Tools for evaluation (methods, frameworks, and metrics for assessing recommender systems).
- Innovative applications of recommender systems.
- Recommender user experiments.
- Recommender platforms.
- New code libraries for recommender systems.
Accepted demonstrations will be published as extended abstracts in the ACM RecSys 2026 conference proceedings. At least one author will be required to present a poster and a live demonstration of their work in person at the conference.
Details & submission guidelines can be found here:
https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/#content-tab-1-8-tab
Key Deadlines for DemoTrack Submission (11:59 pm, AoE):
Paper Due: July 15, 2026
Paper Notifications: August 10, 2026
Camera-Ready Due: August 17, 2026
We encourage you to submit your demo to ACM RecSys 2026. Looking forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
Noemi Mauro and Pan Li
On behalf of the ACM RecSys 2026 Organizing Committee