# Erlang Workshop 2026 - Call for Papers

25th Edition of the Erlang Workshop
Friday 28 August 2026, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
A satellite workshop of ICFP 2026

https://icfp26.sigplan.org/home/erlang-2026

** Deadline: 14 May 2026 **


## Overview

The Erlang Workshop aims to bring together the open source, academic,
and industrial communities of BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, LFE, etc.),
along with other actor-model systems such as Akka and Clojure,
including the concurrent, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant communities.

The workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn about recent
developments in techniques and tools, explore novel applications,
draw lessons from users' experiences, and identify research problems
and common ground across BEAM languages, related actor-model systems,
functional programming, distribution, and concurrency.

This year the workshop will be hybrid: we encourage authors and
participants to attend in person, but remote talks and participation
will be fully supported. We also plan to provide financial support to
individuals who might not otherwise be able to attend.

## Topics

This year we invite four types of submissions:

* Technical papers describing language extensions, critical
discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language
constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine
extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and
interfaces of BEAM languages in/with other languages, and new tools
(profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.).
Submissions related to BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, LFE, etc.) and
topics in functional, concurrent, and distributed programming
are welcome and encouraged.

* Practice and application papers describing uses of BEAM languages and
related actor-model systems in real-world settings, libraries for specific tasks,
experiences from using BEAM languages in specific application domains,
reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using BEAM languages to
approach or solve particular problems, etc.

* Educational papers describing traditional or novel approaches to
teaching and learning BEAM languages and BEAM-related technologies
(curriculum design, courseware, workshops, tutorials, tooling for
pedagogy, online materials, assessments, etc.).

For all paper categories, both full papers (up to 12 pages) and short
papers (up to 6 pages) are welcome.

* Lightning talks describing topics related to the workshop goals that
allow participants to present and demonstrate projects and
preliminary work in academia and industry. Presentations in this
category will be given at most an hour of shared simultaneous
presentation time, will not be part of the peer review process and
will not be part of the formal proceedings. Notification of
acceptance will be continuous.

## Important dates

Submission deadline: 14 May 2026
Notification: 17 June 2026
Camera ready: 07 July 2026
Lightning talk registration: 07 July 2026
Workshop: 28 Aug 2026

Deadlines are anywhere on Earth.


## Workshop Co-Chairs

* Lee Barney, Brigham Young University-Idaho, USA
* Akos Hajdu, Meta, UK
* Laura Voinea, University of Glasgow, UK


## Program Committee

(Note: the Workshop Co-Chairs are also committee members)

* Viktória Fördős (Cisco Systems, Sweden)
* Jonatan Männchen (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, Switzerland)
* Radu Grigore (Meta, UK)



## Instructions to authors

### Submission

Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN’s republication policy
(http://sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/), and authors
should be aware of ACM’s policies on plagiarism
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Program
Committee members are allowed to submit papers, but their papers will
be held to a higher standard.

Papers must be submitted online via HotCRP at:
https://erlang2026.hotcrp.com

Lightning talks can be submitted via the workshop form:
https://forms.gle/DHcVwEYVkusxfCA19

### Formatting

Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF),
formatted using the ACM SIGPLAN style guidelines. Authors should use
the `acmart` format, with the `sigplan` sub-format for ACM
proceedings. For details, see:

http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/#acmart-format

It is recommended to use the `review` option when submitting a paper;
this option enables line numbers for easy reference in reviews.

### Supplementary material

Authors have the option to attach supplementary material to a
submission, on the understanding that reviewers may choose not to look
at it. This supplementary material should not be submitted as part of
the main document; instead, it should be uploaded as a separate PDF
document or tarball.

Supplementary material should be uploaded at submission time, not by
providing a URL in the paper that points to an external repository.

### Artifacts

Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to make auxiliary material
(artifacts like source code, test data, etc.) available with their
paper. They can opt to have these artifacts published alongside their
paper in the ACM Digital Library (copyright of artifacts remains with
the authors).

If an accepted paper’s artifacts are made permanently available for
retrieval in a publicly accessible archival repository like the ACM
Digital Library, that paper qualifies for an Artifacts Available badge
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging#available).
Applications for such a badge can be made after paper acceptance and
will be reviewed by the PC co-chairs.

## Proceedings

As with previous years, the accepted workshop papers will be published
by the ACM and will appear in the ACM Digital Library.


AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available
in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first
day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for
any patent filings related to published work.

For more information, please see ACM Copyright Policy
(http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and ACM
Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html).

Accepted lightning talks will be posted on the workshop's website but
not formally published in the proceedings.