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1. Call for IMC 2028 and 2029 site proposals
The IMC Steering Committee is currently soliciting site proposals for IMC 2028 and 2029. Qualifying proposals should be for sites outside North America (2028) and in North America (2029). If you are interested, please write a short preliminary proposal following the instructions below. For full consideration, please submit your proposal by January 31st, 2026.
There is a two-year rotation between North America and anywhere outside of North America. The schedule for recent and the subsequent years is as follows:
2019: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020: Virtual (was: Pittsburgh, PA USA)
2021: Virtual
2022: Nice, France
2023: Montreal, Quebec Canada
2024: Madrid, Spain
2025: Madison, WI USA
2026: Karlsruhe, Germany
2027: Atlanta, GA USA
2028: Outside North America
2029: North America
In deciding between proposals, the SC tries to balance cost, availability of local organizers, and availability of conference facilities. We encourage potential organizers in the appropriate geographical scope to submit a short (up to 3-pages) preliminary application. We will select a few of these preliminary applications to gather additional information and from which the final selection will be made.
For more details on the selection process and criteria, please visit:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ly3CJS5qJHdpU5ZwemYrEiXe_PfFUvM3Xpbkj6-q-ww/edit?usp=sharing
Send proposals via email to the IMC SC (imc-sc@sigcomm.org) with the header: "IMC site proposal - YEAR" by January 31st, 2026.
2. NSDI 2026 calls for artifact evaluation committee for the Fall Cycle
The NSDI 2026 Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) is seeking dedicated experts to review research artifacts from accepted papers of Fall Cycle. This involves assessing their availability, functionality, and reproducibility.
We encourage faculty members, industry leaders, postdocs, and senior PhD students with a strong interest in the practical implementation of scientific publications to self-nominate. While artifact evaluation is distinct from paper reviewing, ideal candidates will have published at least one full-length paper in major systems and networking venues like SIGCOMM, NSDI, OSDI, SOSP, USENIX ATC, EuroSys, MobiCom, CoNext, IMC, or ASPLOS.
Fall Cycle Dates:
Notification to authors: Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Artifact submission deadline: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 8:59 PM PDT
Artifact decisions announced: Thursday, February 26, 2026
Final paper files due: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Please self-nominate for serving on the NSDI 2026 AEC by Nov 21st 2025.
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/19KScuqD4DwxzJMPA
Should you have any questions, please contact the NSDI 2026 AEC chairs at nsdi26aec@usenix.org.
3. SIGCOMM'26 Call for Papers and TPC Nomination
The preliminary CFP for SIGCOMM'26 and the nomination form for TPC are available. Please check them out for details and submission information.
Preliminary CFP: https://www.polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/nBcsBKSMfDsBADj
Important dates:
Abstract registration deadline: Friday January 30, 2026 AoE
Paper submission deadline: Friday February 6, 2026 AoE
TPC Nomination Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bb2mIIUiu7xSoeeqvqIG_dXAzhR0REDmxy-xN_X9ZjA/edit. Applications for the SIGCOMM 2026 PC are due by Friday Nov 21st, 2025.
4. ACM CoNEXT 2025 Call for Participation
ACM CoNEXT 2025 will take place December 1-4 2025 in beautiful Hong Kong, and promises to be an exciting gathering for the networking research community. As one of SIGCOMM’s flagship conferences, CoNEXT offers a platform for presenting innovative and forward-looking work in computer and data networking. The program will feature a record number of 50 exciting papers across the spectrum of networked systems, with a notable growth in networking for machine learning or machine learning for networking. The program is completed by the SIGCOMM Rising Star talk by Ang Chen,anindustry keynote by Kun Tan, and seven workshops and offers plenty of opportunities for students and professionals to connect and collaborate. Whether you're exploring new architectures, tackling real-world deployment challenges, or advancing the state of the art in networked systems, CoNEXT is the place to share your ideas and engage with a global community. We invite researchers, practitioners, and students to participate and help shape the future of networking. Registration details and program updates are at https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2025/.
5. CoNEXT’26/PACMNET calls for papers
The Proceedings of the ACM on Networking (PACMNET) journal is seeking papers containing significant and novel research results on emerging computer networks and its applications. All accepted long papers will also be presented in the ACM CoNEXT 2026 conference (https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2026/#!/home), which will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands in December 7-10, 2026. This is a new model that strives to combine the benefits of both conference and journal based publication. We especially encourage submissions that present novel experimentation, creative use of networking technologies, and new insights made possible using analysis. There are two submission opportunities over the course of the year. The December submission deadline is December 12th, 2025 (the registration deadline is December 5th, 2025). A link to the call for papers is here: https://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2026/#!/cfp.
6. Join the SIGCOMM Paper Reading Group
The SIGCOMM Paper Reading Group is an international educational initiative designed to engage students in the study of cutting-edge research from premier networking and systems conferences, including SIGCOMM, NSDI, SOSP, and OSDI. Through biweekly Zoom sessions, student volunteers present selected papers, followed by interactive discussions with the authors. Each meeting features a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute Q&A, fostering direct dialogue between emerging scholars and leading researchers. In addition to papers from the four aforementioned conferences, we will also occasionally organize special sessions to dab into papers from other venues and areas, such as ACM Computing Surveys and arXiv. The rationale is to expand our views to encourage interdisciplinary research, such as network+AI, system+data sciences, etc.
This structured and inclusive format aims to broaden participation in networking research, especially among students from underrepresented regions, while promoting the latest advancements to a global audience. For inquiries or to get involved, you may:
1. Check out the Everything-in-SIGCOMM forum at https://everythinginsigcomm.group/c/sigcomm-paper-reading-group,
2. Check out past video archives on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7_zr3-D_s-z_D7hKS55w6uaT2OmAzmSS
3. Add this biweekly event to your calendar (from your PC browser): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmUwY2lxZmpvYzJkMTZxaWhraTMyYXYxajlfMjAyNTEwMDhUMTUwMDAwWiB4aWFuZ3EyN0Bt&tmsrc=xiangq27%40gmail.com&scp=ALL
4. Drop an email to the organizer Qiao Xiang at xiangq27@gmail.com or simply DM him on Slack.
7. Join Us for the Fall 2025 Season of The NetworkingChannel
The NetworkingChannel began during the COVID pandemic, when traditional forms of community gatherings were not possible, as a twice-a-month informal online activity “to maintain and build our networking research and education community.” The NetworkingChannel is a series of events – organized as an online ‘channel’ – with events on topics of interest to the networking community, ranging from research, to descriptions/discussions of commercial networked systems, to global societal considerations, to education and careers in networking.
This Fall 2025, we’re excited to bring you another season of engaging, free events — live every other Wednesday at 8am PST (11am EST, 5pm CET, 1am JST). All sessions are streamed online and archived on our site for later viewing.
The NetworkingChannel welcomes the entire networking community: academics, industry professionals, students, and individuals from government and NGOs. Our events attract participants from around the world, helping broaden access to networking research and education for those who may not be able to attend in-person meetings.
Explore the full Fall 2025 lineup and join us here:
https://networkingchannel.eu/networking-events/
We hope to see you there!
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