Call For Competitions And Challenges

We invite proposals for Competitions and Challenges of IJCAI 2025, the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, planned to be held in Montreal, Canada, on 16–22 August 2025 and a satellite event to be hosted in Guangzhou, China, from August 28 to August 31, 2025. The competitions and challenges can be on any topic of interest to the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community.

Proposal Submission

Proposals should be submitted at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IJCAI2025 by choosing the “Competitions” track from the drop-down menu.

Proposals must be submitted as PDF files (max two pages, excluding references) in the IJCAI format.

Each proposal must include the following information:

  1. The organizers’ names and email addresses (and optionally, websites).
  2. The overall goal of the challenge or competition and its relevance to the AI community.
  3. The number of expected teams.
  4. The rules and guidelines for the competition/challenge.
  5. The expected duration of the competition/challenge and the resources needed (physical space, monitors, tables, chairs, electricity sockets and watts). The evaluation of the proposal will take into account the minimum requirements you provide. Once we accept the proposals we will allocate the resources as fairly as we can over all accepted competitions/challenges.
  6. Optional: Links to the previous editions of competition/challenge.

You may refer to the competitions accepted at IJCAI 2024 (https://ijcai24.org/competitions-and-challenges/) as examples. 

One of the main goals of the competitions/challenges is to enable other researchers, and the society in general, to benefit from the competition/challenge. In particular, we expect the participants to share the source code of their participating systems. 

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline – March 18, 2025
  • Notification – On a rolling basis (i.e., April 8 or sooner, the notification will be sent within three weeks after you submit the proposal)

The deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

Demo Paper at IJCAI 2026 

Proposer(s) of accepted competition/challenge proposals will be encouraged to submit a demo paper at IJCAI 2026 summarizing their experience at the 2025 conference. 

Contact

The IJCAI 2025 Competitions and Challenges Track chair is:

  • Hao Liu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

Please send all inquiries to the chair via: competitions@2025.ijcai.org.