Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Technical Workshops are an excellent venue to articulate and debate potential directions for future research in the SIGGRAPH community. Potential topics might include: physical AI, Gaussian splatting, the ethics of generative AI, physics simulation using neural fields, robotics, bringing VR to the masses, customized clothing, autonomous vehicles, digital twins, digital design in the 21st century, etc.
The Technical Workshops program is distinct from, and a complement to, SIGGRAPH’s long-running Courses program. Technical Workshops is not the appropriate program for tutorials or state-of-the-art reports. Instead, Technical Workshops should focus on emerging, open research questions and encourage a deep exploration of topics relevant to the SIGGRAPH technical community.
Technical Workshops also complement the Technical Papers program by offering the community curated and thoughtfully assembled programs that feature invited speakers, panels, and discussions untethered to a particular collection of papers. Unlike Technical Papers where accepted papers are grouped into sessions as best as possible, the Technical Workshops format allows organizers to thoughtfully curate and structure the session to explicitly explore a topic.
Technical Workshops are also distinct in intent from Frontiers Workshops. While Frontiers Workshops seek to broaden the definition of SIGGRAPH by exploring nearby and related fields, Technical Workshops should generally explore topics that are already of interest to the SIGGRAPH technical community, particularly if those topics are emerging interests. Additionally, as they have the same intended audience, Technical Workshops should have the same level of technical rigor as Technical Papers; in contrast, Frontiers Workshops should appeal to the wider audience at the SIGGRAPH conference and may be less technically rigorous in nature
Submit your work by 27 January: s2026.siggraph.org/program/technical-workshops
Technical Workshops are an excellent venue to articulate and debate potential directions for future research in the SIGGRAPH community. Potential topics might include: physical AI, Gaussian splatting, the ethics of generative AI, physics simulation using neural fields, robotics, bringing VR to the masses, customized clothing, autonomous vehicles, digital twins, digital design in the 21st century, etc.
The Technical Workshops program is distinct from, and a complement to, SIGGRAPH’s long-running Courses program. Technical Workshops is not the appropriate program for tutorials or state-of-the-art reports. Instead, Technical Workshops should focus on emerging, open research questions and encourage a deep exploration of topics relevant to the SIGGRAPH technical community.
Technical Workshops also complement the Technical Papers program by offering the community curated and thoughtfully assembled programs that feature invited speakers, panels, and discussions untethered to a particular collection of papers. Unlike Technical Papers where accepted papers are grouped into sessions as best as possible, the Technical Workshops format allows organizers to thoughtfully curate and structure the session to explicitly explore a topic.
Technical Workshops are also distinct in intent from Frontiers Workshops. While Frontiers Workshops seek to broaden the definition of SIGGRAPH by exploring nearby and related fields, Technical Workshops should generally explore topics that are already of interest to the SIGGRAPH technical community, particularly if those topics are emerging interests. Additionally, as they have the same intended audience, Technical Workshops should have the same level of technical rigor as Technical Papers; in contrast, Frontiers Workshops should appeal to the wider audience at the SIGGRAPH conference and may be less technically rigorous in nature
Submit your work by 27 January: s2026.siggraph.org/program/technical-workshops
