CFP: Industry Track of The ACM Web Conference 2026

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We invite contributions to the Industry Track of The Web Conference 2026 (formerly known as WWW). The conference will take place in Dubai, UAE, from April 13 to 17, 2026.

The Web Conference is the premier conference focused on understanding the current state and the evolution of the Web through the lens of different disciplines, including computing, computational social science, economics, and political sciences.

The Industry Track welcomes contributions showcasing original results obtained in an industrial environment, having clear industry relevance, and highlighting new research challenges motivated by practical tasks and practical settings. The Industry Track is distinct from the Research Track in that submissions focus on applied work describing, for example, an implementation of a system, acquisition of data, or application of a methodology, that solves a significant real-world problem and demonstrates benefits as well as impact. Submissions must clearly describe how their work has been deployed or released, and for how long.

This year, the Industry Track has been “elevated” to have equal standing with the Research Tracks. Consequently, the Industry Track papers will be part of the Main proceedings of The ACM Web Conference 2026, alongside the Research Tracks papers.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Abstract deadline: September 30, 2025
- Full paper deadline: October 7, 2025
- Rebuttal period: November 24 – December 1, 2025
- Closed door discussion: December 1 – 10, 2025
- Meta-reviews due by: December 10, 2025
- Notification of acceptance: January 13, 2026
- Camera ready: January 25, 2026
- Conference: April 13 – 17, 2026

All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.


SUBMISSION SITE

Abstracts and papers can be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/TheWebConf/2026/Industry/

Submissions will not be made public on OpenReview during the reviewing period.


SCOPE

We welcome high-quality submissions that highlight novel applications, architectures, deployments, and insights derived from operational data, as well as engineering breakthroughs that push the boundaries of what is possible on the Web at scale.

Industry papers should emphasize practical relevance, system design trade-offs, real-world constraints, or lessons learned from large-scale deployments. Submissions may focus on new technologies, product experiences, tools, or services that address concrete problems faced in practice. We especially encourage papers that demonstrate measurable impact in industrial settings or those that bridge the gap between theory and application.

Papers will be reviewed with an emphasis on clarity, originality, significance of insights, and relevance to the broader Web community, with a focus on real-world applicability over theoretical novelty.

Submissions to the Industry Track may include, but are not limited to:
- Web Search and Recommendation Systems at Scale
- Applied Generative AI and Large Language Models (or more generally, foundation models) in Web Services
- Content Moderation, Trust & Safety, and Platform Integrity
- Personalization and User Modeling in Commercial Systems
- Real-time Data Processing and Stream Analytics
- Ad Targeting, Auction Systems, and Online Marketing Technologies
- Web-scale Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Technologies
- A/B Testing, Experimentation Infrastructure, and Causal Inference in Practice
- Scalable Machine Learning Infrastructure and MLOps
- Deployment and Monitoring of AI Models in Production
- Edge Computing, CDNs, and Performance Optimization for the Web
- Privacy Engineering and Federated Learning in Industry Settings
- Conversational Agents and Multimodal Interfaces for the Web
- Human-Centered Design and UX Innovations at Scale
- Engineering for Accessibility, Inclusivity, and Global Reach
- Industrial Applications of Blockchain and Web3 Technologies
- Operational Experiences with Open-source or Open-data Web Platforms
- Security, Abuse Prevention, and Fraud Detection at Web Scale
- Practical applications in healthcare
- Submission Guidelines


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

- Non-anonymity. Submissions are not anonymous, hence authors should list their names and affiliations.

- Maximum authorship. The number of submissions allowed per author to the Industry track is limited to 5 (five) maximum. If more than 5 papers are submitted with the same person listed as an author, the additional papers submitted after the first 5 by submission id, will be desk-rejected.

- Authorship changes. The full list of authors, including the ordering, must be finalized at the point of submission. There cannot be any addition, removal, or reordering of authors after submission time. The only changes allowed are the correction of spelling mistakes or new affiliation.

- Maximum length. Submissions must be a single PDF file: up to 8 (eight) pages as the main paper, followed by references and an optional Appendix (that can contain details on reproducibility, proofs, pseudo-code, etc), for a maximum total PDF length of 12 (twelve) pages.

Please read the detailed guidelines on the published Call for Papers: https://www2026.thewebconf.org/calls/industry.html


INDUSTRY TRACK CO-CHAIRS

- Evgeniy Gabrilovich
- Hady W. Lauw (Singapore Management University)
- Natasha Noy (Google)

Contact: industry...@acm.org