Dear all, The Workshop on Chatbots and Agentic Technologies (WOCHAT 2026) invites submissions on the next generation of conversational systems, including agentic dialogue systems, multi-agent communication, multimodal interaction, human-AI collaboration, dialogue evaluation, affective computing, safety, trustworthiness, and reasoning in conversational AI.

WOCHAT aims to bring together researchers and practitioners exploring how conversational agents can move beyond reactive responses toward more intelligent, collaborative, and context-aware interaction.

Topics include (but are not limited to): - Agentic dialogue systems - Multi-agent conversational systems - Multimodal dialogue and grounding - Commonsense reasoning and theory of mind - Emotion and affect modeling - Human-AI interaction - Safety, robustness, and trustworthiness - Dialogue evaluation and benchmarking

Submission Types - Long papers: up to 8 pages (+ references) - Short papers: up to 4 pages (+ references)

Important Dates -Paper Submission Deadline: June 7, 2026 (AoE) -Notification of Acceptance: June 28, 2026 -Camera-Ready Deadline: July 6, 2026 -Workshop: August 2, 2026

Submissions must follow the SIGDIAL 2026 formatting guidelines and will undergo double-blind review.

Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the ISCA Archive.

We look forward to your submissions and to discussing the future of chatbots and agentic technologies at WOCHAT 2026.

WOCHAT is sponsored by the ELRA SigSDS (Special Interest Group on Spoken Dialogue Systems).

More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/wochat2026

WOCHAT2026 Organizing Committee