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The Industry Day of CIKM ’25 will be held on 10th November 2025 in Seoul, Korea. We call for technical talks which will cover how topics of interest relevant to the broader CIKM community, including but not limited to knowledge management, information retrieval, efficient data processing, neural and large language models, evaluation, recommender systems, data mining, and others found in the CIKM ‘25 Call for Papers are used in an industrial setting. Possible topics include how machine learning is put to use in practical scenarios, how user behavior can be observed and interpreted, how to improve systems in practice, how industrial pipelines can be optimized, and how scale is a challenge in more ways than the obvious. We also encourage talk proposals from small companies, such as startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company.
Talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems in areas including but not limited to:
Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products
System design from industry practitioners which identify best practices and design principles for machine learning systems and their scalability aspects
Metrics and measurement techniques used to understand performance of production systems
Practical challenges such as data, privacy, integrity, scale, regulation, etc.
Domain specific challenges and niche focuses
Connections with academia to solve interesting problems, including talk proposals from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners
The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit an abstract to be published in the conference proceedings. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes long including Q&A. Submissions should include:
Title and abstract
Speaker’s bio
Relevance to above themes and CIKM topics
CIKM is a technical conference, so preference will be given to talks describing applied research and technical challenges rather than product presentations.
Speakers will be asked to confirm their presence at the conference if their submission is accepted.
Submission Instructions
Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template).
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm2025
Key Dates
All deadlines are at 11:59pm in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
Submissions Due: June 27, 2025
Notifications: July 16, 2025
Camera ready for abstracts: August 8, 2025
ACM Conflict of Interest Policy
All authors must adhere to the ACM Conflict of Interest policy. For full details, please visit this site:
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/conflict-of-interest
Industry Day Contact Information
For more information, contact the Industry Day chairs: cikm2025-industry@easychair.org
Jingren Zhou, Alibaba Group, China
Soonmin Bae, Korea Telecom, South Korea
Xiangfeng Tang, Amazon, USA