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The ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults. Sessions include "Designing for Attention: Evaluating an Affordable Immersive VR Platform for Neurodiverse Children," "Understanding Accessibility for Physically Disabled Users in VR: Interplay of Physical, Digital, and Experiential Layers," "Exploring AI-Fabrication in Shaping the Future of DIY-AT Design: Insights from Makers," and more. Keynote speaker will be Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft). The event will be held in Denver, Colorado, USA.

The ACM Multimedia Conference is the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. The conference will offer sessions, presentations, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops including: "Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models: Fundamentals and Advances," "Intelligent Immersification in the Metaverse: AI-Driven Immersive Multimedia," "Automotive and Medical Multimedia: Bridging the Gap Between Mobility and Healthcare," and more. Keynote speakers are Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA), Chua Tat-Seng (National University of Singapore), and Steve Hodges (Lancaster University). The event will be held in Dublin, Ireland.

The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of geospatial data ranging from applications, user interfaces, and visualization to data storage and query processing and indexing. Workshops include "AI for Geographic Knowledge Discovery," "Urban Mobility Foundation Models," "Generative and Agentic AI for Multi-Modality Space-Time Intelligence," and many more. Keynote speakers are Amber Roy Chowdhury (Amazon) and Esteban Moro (Northeastern University). The event is being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

The International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking is dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking, serving as a highly selective, premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and mobile computer and wireless network support. Sessions include "Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization," "Wireless of the Students, by the Students, for the Students," "Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems," and more. Keynote speakers will be Olivier Seller (Semtech Corporation) and Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University). The event will be held in Hong Kong, China

The ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology is an international forum dedicated to virtual and augmented reality software and technology. This year, VRST will once again be dedicated to the imperative theme of reproducibility. Papers being presented cover subjects including low-latency and high-performance software and applications, multi-user and distributed XR, interaction techniques, tracking and sensing, multimodal XR including haptics, smell, taste, and brain-computer interfaces, and more. Keynote speaker is Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University). The event is being held in Montreal, Canada.

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. Workshops and tutorials include "Advances in Financial AI: Innovations, Risk, and Responsibility in the Era of LLMs," "Multimodal Generative Search and Recommendation," "Trustworthy Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining," and more. Keynote speakers are Haesun Park (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS), and Yong-Yeol Ahn (University of Virginia). This event will be held in Seoul, Korea.

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The ACM International Conference on AI in Finance is a peer-reviewed scholarly conference that brings together researchers from academia, government and industry to share challenges, advances, and insights on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance. Workshops include "AI and Data Science for Digital Finance" "LLMs and Generative AI for Finance," "Explainable AI in Finance: Achieving Trustworthy Financial Decision-Making," "AI for Resilient & Responsible DeFi Dynamics," "AI for Financial Fraud Detection & Prevention" and more. The event will be held in Singapore.

At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, invited talks will show how translational research and technologies and their applications address some of the most complex challenges of our time. Tutorials and workshops include "Better Software for Reproducible Science," "Connecting the HPC and the Quantum Community," "Modern High Performance I/O: Leveraging Object Stores," "Large Scale Quantum-Classical Computing," "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Scientific Applications," and more. Keynote speaker is Ralph McEldowney (Air Force Research Laboratory). The event will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education
By Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Best Paper at ITiCSE '24: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Mining Domain-Based Policies
By Si Zhang, Philip W. L. Fong
Best Paper Award at CODASPY '24: 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations
By Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, Apu Kapadia
Best paper award at CUI '24: ACM Conversational User Interfaces

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In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.

The report, availablehere, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.

On March 3, 2022, ACM’s Executive Committee decided not to hold any conferences in Russia while the conflict in the Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis in Europe continue. This decision applies to ACM sponsored conferences and workshops as well as in-cooperation events.