EMERGE 2026: Emerging Design Inquiry

Emerge 2026 is a three-day seminar with the theme of Product Design and Innovation sponsored by the Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and hosted by the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. Thanks to a sponsorship from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, presenters under the age of 35 who have an accepted paper, poster or demo will get a waiver of registration fees. The seminar will also be able to cover travel and accommodation costs for a limited number of presenters under the age of 35. Instructions about this will be sent along with the acceptance notifications.

 The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.