IEEE ICDCS 2026 will feature an Industry Event track in conjunction with the conference, held on 22–25 June 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. The Industry Event track aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in Distributed Computing Systems and Distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote knowledge sharing and innovation across academia and industry.

Contributions can be related to, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Industry Event papers from both industry and academia focus on advancing the understanding of deploying Distributed Computing Systems for AI at scale. This track targets applied work — describing system implementations, white papers, data acquisition, or methodologies addressing a significant real-world problem with measurable benefits and impact.

Authors are invited to submit papers that showcase real-world impact and demonstrate practicality and scalability. Submissions should outline how the work has been deployed or released (and for how long), or describe planned deployment and potential real-world impact.

For each accepted submission, at least one author must pay a full author registration and attend the conference in-person to present. No-show papers will be reported to the publisher and removed from the ICDCS-Workshops proceedings.