2026 Conference

Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan University) and Razvan Pascanu (Google DeepMind)

The planning for NeurIPS 2026 has already begun, and we are excited to have joined this year as co-General Chairs for the conference, and to make our contributions to this important meeting in our field’s annual calendar.

NeurIPS is a large conference and its organization continues to be mostly driven by volunteers from our community committed to its success. As we start this process, we hope to have as wide a set of people from which to select as chairs for the conference. Please consider nominating yourself, or someone you know, as an organiser for one of the roles in the conference, or in a generalist role that you think might serve the conference better. Serving as an organiser is a great way to build experience of crafting large scientific meetings and balancing the many tradeoffs involved, helps build new networks, and a great way to give back to the community in a way that is different from reviewing and workshops. 

Please send nominations by 28 January 2026 using this form.

We encourage early nominations, as submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We will keep the community informed as plans for this year’s conference continue to take shape, including which existing and new roles will be offered for the 2026 edition. Different roles may involve different levels of workload and time commitments, and detailed expectations will be communicated as appropriate.

The main venue of NeurIPS 2026 will be in Sydney, Australia. Chairs are encouraged, though not required, to participate in person. While chairing is primarily a volunteer role, we aim to provide appropriate financial support, in various forms and subject to budget availability, to facilitate in-person attendance. Further details can be clarified as planning progresses.