Call for presenters

Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium

The Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN) aims at showcasing the research developed by scientists in/from Barcelona. That is, scientists who currently work in Barcelona or who pursued part of their academic career in Barcelona. This unique meeting gathers multidisciplinary researchers in the field of deep learning, and shows the potential of the city to become the AI hub in Southern Europe. 

Presenters

The presenters in the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium must have developed part of their research career or academic studies in the city of Barcelona or its proximity, whether currently or in the past.

Call for Spotlights + Posters

The call for speakers in the spotlight sessions aims at researchers who have published in top tier conferences or journals, preferably during 2026, and whose contributions are closely related to the theory or applications of deep neural networks. We provide, as a reference, the common publication venues from past works presented during the oral sessions in DLBCN: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, ICASSP, ISMIR, and Science. Spotlight presenters will also have an allocated board in the poster session after the talk, where they can answer questions and dive deeper with the support of a poster.

Call for Posters

The call for posters invites researchers who have a peer reviewed publication during 2026. The aim of this call is creating opportunities for discussion and networking between researchers, both local and from overseas.

New in 2026: Only peer-reviewed publications will be accepted. We can no longer accommodate posters from preprints and/or ongoing doctoral research.

Contents of the spotlights & posters

The contents of the presentations must cover the contents of the publication(s) referred in the submission, but presenters are also encouraged to include related posterior work and discuss future research directions. Find the detailed presentation instructions here.

Selection criteria for presenters

The selection of the DLBCN Symposium speakers not only aims at high scientific quality, but also targets diversity from different perspectives, including gender, institutions and research groups, local and overseas speakers, research topics, and talks on previous editions of the symposium. As a consequence, and due to the limited time for spotlight presentations, it is possible that excellent scientific contributions may not not be included in the spotlight program. In these cases, authors will be invited to present their work only as a poster. 

The program will be defined by the program committee, with the help of a representation of all organizing institutions. See the organizing committee here.

Important dates

Submission deadline: October 17, 2026.

Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2026.

Symposium date: December 21, 2026.

Submission forms

Choose one call or another, based on the descriptions above. Please do not duplicate submissions. The organising committee will already consider spotlight submissions for posters only, if needed.

• Spotlight + Poster presentations

• Poster presentations