Program

You can browse the full RecSys 2026 conference program via the ACM SIGCHI conference web app (using a web browser from a PC, tablet, or mobile device).

RecSys 2026 Doctoral Symposium (by invitation only) will be held on Sun, Sept 27, at 9am - 5pm, in Wayzata Bay room (8th floor).

CDT	Mon, Sept 28
	Tutorials	Workshops
08:30 – 10:00	Composing Agents, Compounding Risks: A Tutorial on Robustness and Alignment in Multi-Agent Recommender Systems Elk/Deer Lake Transformer-based Sequential Recommender Systems Trees Recommender Systems in Delivery Platforms: Challenges, Solutions and Learnings Ballroom 1 Continuous Automated Reproducibility: Practical Tools and Workflows for Repeatable and Reproducible Research Ballroom 2	RecTemp Minnesota OARS Ballroom 3 CARS Ballroom 4 IntRS St. Croix 1 DaQuaMRec St. Croix 2 RecTour Spring Park Bay
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00	Composing Agents, Compounding Risks: A Tutorial on Robustness and Alignment in Multi-Agent Recommender Systems Elk/Deer Lake Transformer-based Sequential Recommender Systems Trees Recommender Systems in Delivery Platforms: Challenges, Solutions and Learnings Ballroom 1 Continuous Automated Reproducibility: Practical Tools and Workflows for Repeatable and Reproducible Research Ballroom 2	RecTemp Minnesota OARS Ballroom 3 CARS Ballroom 4 IntRS St. Croix 1 DaQuaMRec St. Croix 2 RecTour Spring Park Bay
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00	Beyond Searching a Village: Learning to Recommend Diverse and Successful Collaborative Teams Elk/Deer Lake Cognitive Biases in Recommender Systems Trees Reward Optimizing Recommender Systems Ballroom 1 Recommender Systems and Sustainability: Bridging Algorithmic Design and Societal Impact Ballroom 2	FRAME Minnesota MuRS Ballroom 3 GenAI-eCom Ballroom 4 RecSys in HR St. Croix 2
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00	Beyond Searching a Village: Learning to Recommend Diverse and Successful Collaborative Teams Elk/Deer Lake Cognitive Biases in Recommender Systems Trees Reward Optimizing Recommender Systems Ballroom 1 Recommender Systems and Sustainability: Bridging Algorithmic Design and Societal Impact Ballroom 2	FRAME Minnesota MuRS Ballroom 3 GenAI-eCom Ballroom 4 RecSys in HR St. Croix 2

CDT	Tue, Sept 29
08:30 – 09:00	Conference Opening with Awards Ballroom
09:00 – 10:00	Keynote by Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face) Ballroom
10:00 – 10:45	Coffee Break Atrium
	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Amazon Prime Video/Music (10:10-10:30am) Elk Lake	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Google (10:10-10:30am) Deer Lake
	Poster Session: Day 1 posters Atrium/Trees
10:45 – 12:15	Paper Session 1A: Semantic IDs & Generative Interfaces Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 1B: Personalized Search, Retrieval & Ads Ballroom 3&4
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch Break Women in RecSys Luncheon (pre-registered participants only)***Minnesota
14:00 – 15:30	Paper Session 2A: Long-Horizon Sequential Recommendation Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 2B: User Modeling, Intent & Cross-Domain Personalization Ballroom 3&4
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Amazon Prime Video/Music (3:35-3:55pm) Elk Lake	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Target (3:35-3:55pm) Deer Lake
	Poster Session: Day 1 posters Atrium/Trees
16:00 – 17:30	Paper Session 3A: Robust & Adaptive Sequential Recommendation Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 3B: Conversational Recommendation, User Agency & Safety Ballroom 3&4
17:30 – 19:30	Welcome Reception: Visit our Sponsors and Demos Atrium
	Demo session Atrium/Trees

CDT	Wed, Sept 30
08:30 – 10:00	RecSys 20th Anniversary Presentation Ballroom
10:00 – 10:45	Coffee Break Atrium
	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Netflix (10:10-10:30am) Elk Lake	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Target (10:10-10:30am) Deer Lake
	Poster Session: Day 2 posters Atrium/Trees
10:45 – 12:15	Paper Session 4A: Agentic Recommendation & Autonomous Optimization Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 4B: Fairness, Privacy & Safety Ballroom 3&4
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30	Paper Session 5A: Industrial Ranking, CTR & Scalable Models Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 5B: Explainability Methods & Human-Centered Evaluation Ballroom 3&4
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break Atrium Platinum Sponsor Talks: Meta (3:35-3:55pm) Deer Lake Poster Session: Day 2 posters Atrium/Trees
16:00 – 17:30	Paper Session 6A: Graph, Knowledge & Content Representations Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 6B: Groups, Markets & Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation Ballroom 3&4
18:00 – 21:00	RecSys Social Event ( Offsite at Mill City Museum)

CDT	Thu, Oct 1
08:30 – 10:00	Paper Session 7A: Online Experimentation & Exploration Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 7B: Health, Society & Mobility Applications Ballroom 3&4
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break Atrium
	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Netflix (10:05-10:25am) Elk Lake	Platinum Sponsor Talks: Google (10:05-10:25am) Deer Lake
	Poster Session: Day 3 posters Atrium/Trees
10:30 – 12:15	Paper Session 8A: Generative Recommendation: Retrieval, Ranking & Content Generation Ballroom 1&2	Paper Session 8B: Evaluation, Reproducibility & Benchmarks Ballroom 3&4
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30	ACM ToRS Highlight Presentations Ballroom
14:30 – 15:30	Women in RecSys Journal Awards Ballroom
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break Atrium Poster Session: Day 3 posters Atrium/Trees
16:00 – 17:00	Keynote by Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University) Ballroom
17:00 – 17:30	Conference ClosingBallroom

CDT	Fri, Oct 2
	Workshops
08:30 – 10:00	CONSEQUENCES Ballroom 1 USRW Ballroom 2 BEYOND Ballroom 3 RecSoGood Ballroom 4 RecSys Challenge Elk/Deer Lake
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00	CONSEQUENCES Ballroom 1 USRW Ballroom 2 BEYOND Ballroom 3 RecSoGood Ballroom 4 RecSys Challenge Elk/Deer Lake
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00	CONSEQUENCES Ballroom 1 USRW Ballroom 2 AltRecSys Ballroom 3 RecSoGood Ballroom 4 RecSys Challenge Elk/Deer Lake
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00	CONSEQUENCES Ballroom 1 USRW Ballroom 2 AltRecSys Ballroom 3 RecSoGood Ballroom 4 RecSys Challenge Elk/Deer Lake

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