Week at a Glance

Below is a concise overview of the conference program. Please note that changes may still be made at short notice.


Doctoral Colloquium

Saturday, November 1, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (CET)
Doctoral Colloquium (Invite-only event)
The Doctoral Colloquium will take place at TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11, 1040 Wien.


Workshop Schedule (Sunday/Monday)

Sunday/Monday sessions will be 90 minutes. We will have two parallel tracks morning and two in the afternoon. Coffee breaks are planned between the first/second and third/fourth block.

  • Morning coffee break: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM (CET)
  • Lunch break: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (CET)
  • Afternoon coffee break: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM (CET)

Sunday, November 2, 2025

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

[Workshop] 8th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI)
[Workshop] 16th Annual Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC)
[Workshop] Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Visualization (TopoInVis)
[Workshop] 9th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities (VIS4DH ↔ DH4VIS)
[Workshop] alt.VIS Workshop 2025 (alt.VIS)
[Tutorial] Developing Immersive Visualizations and Interactions for the Web with Anu.js
[Tutorial] User-centered Evaluation in Visualization
[Competition] Bio+MedVis Challenge

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CET)

[Workshop] 8th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability (VISxAI)
[Workshop] 16th Annual Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC)
[Workshop] Seventh Workshop on Visualization for Communication (VisComm)
[Workshop] Unraveling Relationships of Uncertainty, AI, and Decision-Making (Uncertainty Visualization)
[Workshop] Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO)
[Tutorial] Live Collaborative Immersive Analytics Development with DashSpace
[Tutorial] Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework
[Competition] SciVis Contest


Monday, November 3, 2025

9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

[Workshop] GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (VISxGenAI)
[Workshop] Envisioning a Research Agenda for Input Visualization (InputVis)
[Workshop] Human Factors in Immersive Analytics (Immersive Analytics)
[Workshop] 3rd IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities (EduVis)
[Workshop] 15th IEEE Workshop on Large Data Analysis & Visualization (LDAV)
[Tutorial] MLLM4Vis: Multimodal Large Language Models for Information Visualization
[Tutorial] Using Color Harmony and Gen AI Suggestion to Transform your Data Visualizations
[Tutorial] Hands-On TTK Tutorial: Solving Practical Problems in Small Groups

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CET)

[Workshop] GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (VISxGenAI)
[Workshop] Envisioning a Research Agenda for Input Visualization (InputVis)
[Workshop] 2nd Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz)
[Workshop] Engaging Critical Workforce In co-Design aNd Assessment (ECWIDNA)
[Tutorial] Visualization for Explainable AI
[Tutorial] Building Progressive Visual Analytics Systems with ProgressiVis
[Tutorial] Visualization Analysis and Design
[Competition] VAST Challenge


Conference Schedule (Tuesday - Friday)

Tuesday to Friday sessions will be 75 minutes. We will have two parallel tracks morning and two in the afternoon. Coffee breaks are planned between the first/second and third/fourth block.

  • Morning coffee break: 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM (CET)
  • Lunch break: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (CET)
  • Afternoon coffee break: 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM (CET)

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)

  • Welcome
    • Welcome by the General Chairs
    • VIS Opening
  • Keynote
    • Hans-Christian Hege

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

  • VGTC Awards
  • Best Short Papers

Afternoon

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)

  • Introduction
    • Paper and Short Paper Selection
    • IPC members
  • Best Papers
    • Best Papers 1-3

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)

  • Best Papers
    • Best Papers 4 & 5 (virtual presentation)
  • Test-of-Time Awards
    • SciVis Test-of-Time Awards
    • InfoVis Test-of-Time Awards
    • VAST Test-of-Time Awards

Evening

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)


Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • VA for AI
    • Multivariate and Time
    • Dastardly Dashboards (+ 1 Short Paper)
    • Maps & Spatial Vis
    • Encoding and Comprehension (Virtual Session)
  • Panel
    • VisAble: Who do we exclude by current visualization practices and how do we change that?

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Fields, Fields, Fields
    • Of Trees and Treemaps (+ 1 Short Paper)
  • Short Paper Sessions
    • Visualization with/for/in AI
    • Visualization for Science
    • Charts, Diagrams & Plots
    • Viz for AI & AI for Viz (Virtual Session)
  • Panel
    • TALK, TRY, TELL: Challenges and Opportunities for Theory-Grounded Data Visualization in Extended Reality

Afternoon

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • The VIS in GenAI
    • Embeddings & Metrics
    • Volume
    • Ordering and Layout
  • Short Paper Sessions
    • Explorations in Abstract and Physical Spaces
  • Vis In Practice
    • Research <> Practice Engagement Session
  • Panel
    • From Cognition to Context: A Conversation about Technical Approaches, Social Values, and Tradeoffs in Visualization

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Agentic Visualization and Intelligent Systems
    • Dimensionality Reduction and Parameter Space Analysis
    • Flow and Topology
    • Authoring and Design
    • Graphs and Networks
  • Panel
    • What Does Psychology Really Mean to Visualization Research? Towards PsychXVis and VisXPsych

Evening

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CET)

  • Poster Session

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)


Thursday, November 6, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Explanation, Exploration, and Model Configuration
    • The Color and the Shape
  • Short Paper Sessions
    • Workflows & Infrastructure
    • Visualization in-the-wild
    • Multi-modal and Spatial (Virtual Session)
  • Vis Arts Program
    • VISAP Papers
  • Panel
    • IEEE VIS Reviewing - On a Path to Self-Destruction?

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • From Data to Meaning
    • Games, Sports, and Music (+ 1 Short Paper)
    • Vis & Language
    • Volumes & 3D (Virtual Session)
  • TVCG/CG&A Paper Sessions
    • Visual Analytics Methods, Tools, and Infrastructure
  • Vis Arts Program
    • VISAP Pictoral
  • Panel
    • Industry Meets Research: Future Needs and Opportunities for Visual Analytics in Industrial Manufacturing

Afternoon

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Analysts, Assemble!
    • Algorithms and Workflows
    • Transportation, Buildings, and Urban Vis
    • Immersive & Ubiquitous Analytics
    • Perception
  • Panel
    • Words Divide, Pictures Unite” - Revisiting Otto Neurath’s ISOTYPE at 100

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Interaction, Provenance, and Collaboration
    • Analytics & Reasoning
    • Biomedical Visualization
  • Short Paper Sessions
    • Immersive Visualization and Extended Reality
    • Perception & Semantics
  • Vis In Practice
    • Industry Meetup: How to make money with visualization?

Evening

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (CET)

7:00 PM (CET)


Friday, November 7, 2025

Morning

9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (CET)

  • Full Paper Sessions
    • Trust No One
    • Stories and the Journalists Who Tell Them
    • Models, Methods, and Typologies
    • Visualization Literacy
  • TVCG/CG&A Paper Session
    • Reflections and Looking Forward

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM (CET)

  • Capstone
    • Theo Deutinger
  • Closing
    • Conference closing
    • Outlook

Program Co-Chairs

  • Tushar Athawale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Michelle Dowling, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Michael Oppermann, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
  • Alfie Abdul Rahman, King’s College London
  • Gautam Chaudhary, Alcon

Email: program@ieeevis.org