Call for Industry Day Presentations

The Industry Day of ECIR 2026 will be held on April 2nd, 2026 in Delft, The Netherlands, immediately after the main conference program. Our goal is to bring together the practitioners and researchers in the Information Retrieval field to promote knowledge sharing and innovation across academia and industry.

The ECIR 2026 Industry Day will highlight the growing role of IR in agentic AI systems-intelligent agents that plan, act, and retrieve. As such agents increasingly rely on IR for grounding, memory, and tool use, we invite work on the design, integration, and evaluation of IR components that enable agents to perform real-world tasks reliably and safely at scale.

Similarly to previous years, we encourage presentations of research works carried out during student internships and showing how interns contributed impact on real-world products with innovative ideas.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on any topic relevant to the general field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026.

Accepted industry track contributions will be presented at the Industry Day, and the corresponding proposal will be published as a 4-page (excl. references) scientific paper detailing the presentation and its contributions in the official ECIR 2026 proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals are limited to 4 pages, excluding references. Proposals should include:

  • Title, abstract, and contents of the work.
  • Submissions should focus on business and product context, as well as the solutions that were deployed and the research that went into it. We particularly encourage authors to include practical lessons learned.
  • A short CV of the presenter(s) (up to 150 words)
  • A short description of the company (up to 100 words)

There will be a lightweight evaluation procedure where the main focus will lie on the interest for the ECIR audience and the cross-over between academia and industry.

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid).

All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2026.

A 4-page (excl. references) scientific paper of accepted proposals (excl. CV and company description) will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series conference proceedings. The corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted presentations/extended abstracts will have to be presented in person at the conference – and at least one author will be required to register.

Ethics and Professional Conduct

ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely:

Important Dates

  • Industry day proposals submission: November 6, 2025, 11:59 pm (AoE)
  • Notification: December 16, 2025
  • Industry Day: April 2, 2026

Industry Day Chairs

  • Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS/Sorbonne University, France
  • Vinay Setty, Factiverse AS/University of Stavanger, Norway

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