NetLogo Conference 2026! Please fill out interest survey

[Jacob Kelter]

Dear NetLogo Users,

The NetLogo Center is excited to announce the first NetLogo user conference in Chicago, June 22-24, 2026! The conference is intended to bring together agent-based modelers and NetLogo users in education, science, and other fields to share, learn, build networks, provide feedback to the NetLogo team, and have fun. 

We are collecting ideas for events that best serve the NetLogo community. To provide input on conference content, please fill out the short survey available here (if you aren’t interested in a conference please consider still answering just the first two questions—how you use NetLogo and that you aren’t interested).

Other details we know so far are below. 

Happy modeling!

Jacob

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Jacob Kelter

Executive Director, NetLogo Center

Northwestern University

 

The details we know so far

The conference will be on the University of Illinois-Chicago campus. The venue is within walking distance of the Greek Town neighborhood, 1.5 miles from Chicago’s Loop and easily accessible from the airports via mass transit. Low-cost dormitory housing will be available. We have not yet established the registration fee but intend it to be affordable for public school teachers and university students.

The conference will include a mix of events of general interest, events intended especially for educators and (separately) scientific modelers, training opportunities for NetLogo-related software and curricula, mentorship opportunities such as small sessions of new and experienced modelers, and social activities. We plan to offer professional development credit for teachers.

We anticipate approximately the following deadlines as the conference approaches:

• Mid December, 2025: Second announcement with a call for abstracts for contributed papers (presentations, posters, and demonstrations).
• Early March, 2026: Deadline for submitting abstracts.
• Late March, 2026: Notification of contributed paper acceptance:
• Early May, 2026: Early registration for conference with reduced fee.
• Early March - early June, 2026: Registration for the conference and for campus lodging.

Up-to-date information will be available on this webpage, and we will continue to post on the forum, netlogo-users google group, and the NetLogo mailing list (sign up here).