Call for Workshop and Tutorials Proposals
The annual BIR conference is one of the top European conferences in the field of business information systems with a stable research community. Along with the main conference, BIR plans to have a set of co-located workshops and tutorials. BIR 2026 workshops and tutorials are intended to focus on specific aspects of business informatics, offering opportunities for in-depth exploration and discussion. Some of the workshops have been recurring yearly events, but we welcome proposals for additional workshops.
The workshop and tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of scientific and technical interest, clarity of the proposal, the innovativeness of the topic, potential to attract attendees, and relevance to the field of business informatics.
The organisers of approved workshops and tutorials will be responsible for promoting their workshops/tutorials. For workshops, organisers form a program committee and manage the paper review and formatting process. Organisers, workshop participants, and tutorial participants must register for the BIR workshops.
The BIR organisation handles registration, use of conference facilities, financial matters, and communication with the publisher (CEUR).
Proposal guidelines
The proposal (max three A4 pages in PDF format) should include:
- Title of the workshop/tutorial
- Short description of the workshop/tutorial and its goals
- A description of the topic(s)
- A brief argumentation of the workshop’s/tutorial’s relevance for the Business Informatics Research conference
- In the case of a workshop, the Preliminary program committee with specified chair(s) who will be present at the workshop, and are otherwise involved
- Description of workshop/tutorial history (if there were previous editions)
- Previous experience of chair(s) in organising similar events
- For workshops: Preliminary forecast on the number of submissions and accepted papers
- For tutorials: An indication of the desired length of the tutorial
Publication
Proceedings of the BIR workshops and the tutorial abstracts are planned for publication in a single volume of the CEUR-WS proceedings series (indexed by Scopus and DBLP). This means that policies and CEUR-WS preconditions must be met.
Extended versions of the best workshop papers will be invited to be published in the journal Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (https://csimq-journals.rtu.lv/).
Proposal Submission
The proposal is submitted via mail to the workshop chairs.
Important Dates
Workshop and tutorials proposals: March 6, 2026
Notification: March 14, 2026
(Deadlines for the workshop paper submission, acceptance and camera-ready deadlines will be communicated later.)
Workshops and tutorial date: October 7, 2026
The workshops and tutorials will take place on October 7, 2026, and can be half- or full-day events.
Workshop and Tutorial Chairs
Fabrizio Fornari – University of Camerino, Italy, fabrizio.fornari@unicam.it
Raimundas Matulevičius – University of Tartu, Estonia, rma@ut.ee