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

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.