NeurIPS Newsletter – August 2026
Welcome to the August edition of the NeurIPS monthly Newsletter!
The NeurIPS Newsletter aims to provide an easy way to keep up to date with NeurIPS events and planning progress, respond to requests for feedback and participation, and find information about new initiatives. This newsletter will focus on NeurIPS 2026, held in Sydney, Australia, with official Satellites in Atlanta, USA and Paris, France. The conference will be held on the following dates:
- Sydney, Australia: from Sunday, Dec 6th to Saturday, Dec 12th
- Atlanta, USA: from Tuesday, Dec 8th to Sunday Dec 13th
- Paris, France: from Wednesday, Dec 9th to Sunday Dec 13th
You are receiving this newsletter as per your subscription preferences in your NeurIPS profile. As you prepare to attend NeurIPS, we hope that you will find the following information valuable.
This NeurIPS Newsletter includes:
- Calling AI Science Communicators: NeurIPS 2026 Education Track
- Meet the Organizing Team Behind NeurIPS 2026
- Announcing the NeurIPS 2026 Workshops
- Breakdown of the Multi-Site Registration Process
- NeurIPS Registration is Open Now for Sydney and Atlanta!
- NeurIPS Hotel Accommodations are Live!
- Free Childcare Reservations are Now Available for Registered Attendees!
- Calling AI Science Communicators: NeurIPS 2026 Education Track
We’re inviting science communicators in AI to submit proposals to teach an emerging technical concept. Concepts can be any technical idea that has underpinned a large set of papers at top-tier AI conferences over the past year, from new architectures to training and alignment techniques to evaluation and reasoning methods. Think the 2026 equivalents of the Transformer, the reparameterization trick, or LLM judges. You don’t need to be the original author of the concept, just able to explain it with real clarity.
Accepted proposals must be paired with original teaching materials (code notebooks, demos or short videos) and will be presented as part of a full-day primer in Sydney on 7 December 2026, ahead of the main NeurIPS conference. All materials will be gathered in an open repository, free for the community after the conference.
Submissions close 4 September 2026 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Submit via OpenReview: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallforEducationalResources. Learn more about the track at https://neurips-education-track.github.io/2026/. - Meet the Organizing Team Behind NeurIPS 2026
Every year, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) relies on the incredible dedication, vision, and hard work of our volunteer organizing committee. We are so excited to introduce the wonderful group of researchers, practitioners, and leaders who will bring NeurIPS 2026 to life!
We are incredibly grateful to the diverse group of individuals who have agreed to take on these vital roles. To see the full roster of individuals who are making NeurIPS 2026 happen, please visit the Official NeurIPS 2026 Committees Page. On behalf of our biggest organizing committee ever, we look forward to welcoming you to NeurIPS 2026 across our global locations in Sydney, Atlanta, and Paris! Read more details on our Organizing process at https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/08/11/meet-the-organizing-team-behind-neurips-2026/. - Announcing the NeurIPS 2026 Workshops
We are excited to announce the list of NeurIPS 2026 workshops. We received 477 submissions (454 valid), a significant increase over last year’s numbers. From this great batch of submissions, we have accepted 102 workshops: 48, 28, and 26, to be hosted in Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta, respectively. The acceptance rates were 21.5%, 25.4%, and 23.6% for Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta, respectively. These variations reflect different numbers of submissions for each location and different numbers of rooms available per venue.
The workshops will take place on:
– Fri Dec 11 and Sat Dec 12, 2026 – Sydney
– Sat Dec 12 and Sun Dec 13, 2026 – Paris and Atlanta
We want to thank everyone who put in tremendous effort in submitting a workshop proposal. We would also like to thank the reviewers who worked tirelessly to assess all proposals.
The detailed blog post can be found here: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/08/10/announcing-the-neurips-2026-workshops/. - Breakdown of the Multi-Site Registration Process
With NeurIPS 2026 adopting a distributed, multi-site format across Sydney, Atlanta, and Paris, managing attendance is a significant logistical challenge. Given the size of the conference, our primary goal is to provide fair access to participants worldwide while allocating registrations across the three venues.
Registration for the Sydney and Atlanta sites will open on Thursday, September 3rd, at 23:00 AEST. The Paris registration system is currently undergoing separate testing by our Paris and EventHost teams, and we will announce its opening date soon.
Please take note of the time zone and try to register as early as possible to secure your spot. We selected this time with the aim of making registration reasonably accessible to as many members of our global community as possible. The following describes the process for registrations for each participant type.
Further details on the Multi-Site Registration Process can be found at https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/08/27/navigating-neurips-2026-a-breakdown-of-the-multi-site-registration-process/ - NeurIPS Registration is now Open for Sydney and Atlanta!
Registration for the Sydney and Atlanta sites is open now!. The Paris registration system is currently undergoing separate testing by our Paris and EventHost teams, and we will announce its opening date soon.
Please read our blog post for details on how the available registration places will be allocated across our three locations: https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/08/27/navigating-neurips-2026-a-breakdown-of-the-multi-site-registration-process/. We look forward to welcoming our community across all three sites!
- NeurIPS Hotel Accommodations are Live!
The NeurIPS hotel links are live for attendees to book their accommodations. Please visit https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/Hotels to book accommodations at official group rates across all three conference locations. Reserve your room now before availability runs out! - Free Childcare Reservations are Now Available for Registered Attendees!
NeurIPS is proud to offer free child care for registered attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Free on-site child care and family policies for NeurIPS 2026 attendees — Please reserve a spot at your conference location at https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/Children. Capacity is limited, please reserve soon!
Hsuan-Tien Lin, Razvan Pascanu, Jean Kossaifi, Aadirupa Saha, Khimya Khetarpal, Feng Liu, Christian Wolf
NeurIPS 2026 General Chairs and Communication Chairs
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