IWOCL 2026 marks the 14th anniversary of the annual gathering of the international community of OpenCL and SYCL developers, researchers, implementers, scientists and Khronos Working Group members to share best practice, and to advance the use and evolution of these Khronos open compute languages for programming heterogeneous platforms.

This pioneering workshop has been attracting an international audience of leading academic and industrial experts since 2013 and is the premier forum for the community to present, discuss and learn about applying OpenCL and SYCL to solve computationally-demanding problems across a wide range of application domains.

Submission Guidelines

The IWOCL 2026 call for submissions is Now Open and the organisers invite OpenCL and SYCL developers and implementers from academia, industry, and government to contribute by presenting their work and discoveries.

IWOCL welcomes the following four types of submissions, all of which will undergo peer review by at least three members of the Program Committee comprising experts in OpenCL and SYCL.

• Technical Presentations & Case Studies (500 word abstract)
• Short Research Papers (3-4 page paper)
• Full Research Papers (8-12 page paper)
• Posters (1-2 page abstract)

Submissions should be made through the Easychair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=iwocl2026

Additional information at: https://www.iwocl.org/call-for-submissions/

Committees

Organizing committee

• Conference Co-Chair: Tom Deakin, University of Bristol, UK.
• Conference Co-Chair: Brice Videau, Argonne National Laboratory.
• Local Co-Chair: Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Heilbronn School of Computation.
• Local Co-Chair: Hartwig Anzt, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Heilbronn School of Computation.
• OpenCL Program Chair: Pekka Jääskeläinen, Tampere University.
• SYCL Program Chair: Dounia Khaldi, Intel.
• Proceedings Chair: Aditya Sadawarte, University of Bristol, UK.
• Organising Chair: Tim Lewis, The Khronos Group.

Program committee

• View the full Program Committee

Publication

IWOCL 2026 proceedings will be published in ACM Digital Library.  See ACM archive proceeedings.

Venue

The conference is being hosted by the Technical University of Munich and will takeplace at the School of Computation, Information, and Technology in the beautiful city of Heilbronn, Germany. Heilbronn is approximately 1-hour north of Stuttgart by train and car.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed submissions@iwocl.org