Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2026

Our Call for Contributions is Live!

Submit to our OpenReview here (#TODO add link after FAccT). For more details, see the Call for Contributions section.

Important Dates

**AoE = Anywhere on Earth

Visa-friendly submission deadline: August 03, 2026 AoE

Visa-friendly notification deadline: August 20, 2026 AoE

Final submission deadline: September 03, 2026 AoE

Final notification deadline: September 17, 2026 AoE

Conference:

  • Sydney, Australia: Dec 06-12

  • Paris, France: Dec 09-13

  • Atlanta, Georgia, USA: Dec 09-13

Mission

Queer in AI’s workshop and socials at NeurIPS 2026 aim to act as a gathering space for queer folks to build community and solidarity while enabling participants to learn about key issues and topics at the intersection of AI and queerness.

Planned Events

Note that these events are currently tentative and it is possible our plans will change as we get closer to the conference. This website will have our most up-to-date schedule.

Sydney, Australia

  • Affinity poster session (in-person)

  • Social (in-person)

  • Full-day workshop (hybrid)

Paris, France

  • Affinity poster session (in-person)

  • Social (in-person)

  • Half-day workshop (hybrid)

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  • Affinity poster session (in-person)

  • Social (in-person)

  • Half-day workshop (hybrid)

Virtual

  • Affinity poster session

Call for Contributions

Submit here on OpenReview (#TODO add link after FAccT)

We welcome submissions from queer researchers, as well as any and all work that explores the intersectionality of AI and ML with queer issues, including but not limited to: addressing shortcomings in current state-of-the-art models, biases, and more queer-friendly research. Submissions can be in the form of research papers, extended abstracts, position papers, opinion pieces, surveys, or media pieces (art, music, videos, etc.). The workshop is non-archival, so full papers, work-in-progress papers, dual submissions, and works submitted or accepted elsewhere are all welcome!

Generative AI Usage Policy

We require that authors use generative AI as a supportive tool at most. For the scope of our workshop, we do not wish to see generative AI used as a replacement for the process of creation. AI-generated submissions will be filtered out and not considered for inclusion in our workshop.

Accepted authors will have the opportunity to:

  • Have their work showcased by Queer in AI

  • Control how their name appears in public listings of accepted submissions

  • Present at the NeurIPS 2026 conference. We hope to be able to provide complimentary NeurIPS registrations to authors (stay tuned for updates!). The workshop is non-archival, so full papers, work-in-progress papers, dual submissions, and works submitted or accepted elsewhere are all welcome!

We are so excited to review everyone’s submissions + showcase our community’s amazing work at NeurIPS 2026. Email us at queer-in-ai-neurips-2026@googlegroups.com with any questions, comments, or concerns.

Queer in AI @ NeurIPS 2026: Organizers

  • Sharvani Jha (she/her) is a technologist who has worked as a software engineer on Microsoft Word (Clippy forever!) and led software development on a UCLA-run NASA mission studying space weather. At Queer in AI, she focuses on publicity, graphic design, and workshop organization. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA, where she founded ACM AI’s Outreach division and co-founded QWER Hacks, MLH’s first queer hackathon that is still going strong six years later.

  • NOTE: The rest of the bios will be filled out when I get consent from the organizers who put their bios in the affinity application form (and before we post our call for contributions).