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Onward! 2026: ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software

Submission Date:
2026-05-15 Closed
Notification Date:
2026-06-22
Conference Date:
2026-10-03
Location:
Oakland, California, USA
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46.4 / 100
Ranked #2,626 of 5,777 conferences · Top 46%

#154 of 249 in Software Engineering

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Onward! 2026 (ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software) is a ICORE C conference held in Oakland, California, USA on 2026-10-03. The paper submission deadline is 2026-05-15. Acceptance notifications are sent on 2026-06-22.

The Character of Onward! Papers Onward! Papers is looking for grand visions and new paradigms that could make a big difference in how we will one day build software. But it is not looking for research-as-usual papers—conferences like OOPSLA are the place for that. Those conferences require rigorous validation such as theorems or empirical experiments, which are necessary for scientific progress, but which typically preclude discussion of early-stage ideas. Onward! papers must also supply some degree of validation because mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Onward! accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use of worked-out examples to support new ideas is strongly encouraged. Onward! papers are peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner. Accepted papers will appear in the Onward! Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions will be judged on the potential impact of the ideas and the quality of the presentation. Onward! Papers follows a two-stage review process with an initial review and a revision period. This enables us to welcome papers that contain promising ideas and have the potential to meet the conference’s standards, but which may fall short of this in the initial submission. At the end of the initial review, all papers will be either: accepted normally; conditionally accepted pending revisions; or rejected outright. The authors of conditionally accepted papers will get one month to complete the revisions, at which point the original reviewers decide on the final acceptance of the paper. The program committee may identify certain papers with promising ideas as needing important revisions. These papers will be handled in one of two ways. They may be assigned a shepherd, in the tradition followed by numerous conferences. Otherwise, they will be given a concrete set of goals to accomplish in the revision. In the latter case, the revised paper must then be accompanied by a cover letter mapping the revision requests to specific parts of the paper; the program committee will use the cover letter and revised paper to arrive at a final decision. The revision period will only be used to elevate promising papers to the conference’s standard, not to require additional work of papers already deemed up-to-standard. The revision period is not open to new submissions. Instructions for Authors For fairness reasons, all submitted papers should conform to the formatting instructions (see below). Submissions that violate these instructions may be rejected without review, at the discretion of the Program Chair. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to present their work in person at the conference, but that is not required. For those unable or unwilling to attend in the US, remote presentations are possible, although they might be subject to technical constraints.
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