Below is a concise overview of the conference program. Each session links to its page with the full list of presentations. You can also browse all sessions or view the program calendar. Please note, this is a preliminary schedule. The session times are subject to change and details will be added at a later date.
Wednesday’s Feature Events
Cluster: Practitioners’ Summit is a dedicated practitioners’ summit for people who build, ship, and defend visualizations for a living. View the full summit schedule below.
VISions: Forward-Thinking Provocations. A single-track event for forward thinking ideas to inspire the broad visualization community. See the presenter and talk information below.
Coffee Breaks and Lunch
Coffee breaks are planned in the middle of the morning and afternoon sessions.
- Morning coffee break: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)
- Lunch break: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
- Afternoon coffee break: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)
Doctoral Colloquium
Doctoral Colloquium (Invite-only event)
Details to follow on time and location.
Monday Schedule
Monday workshop sessions will be 3.5 hours (including a 30-minute coffee break). We will have up to nine parallel tracks (morning and afternoon).
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)
[Workshop] BELIV: Learning What’s True, Doing What’s Right (Part 1)
[Workshop] vis4climate: Building a Transdisciplinary Climate Vis Community
[Workshop] VISxGenAI: 2nd GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS
[Workshop] EduVis: 4th IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization Education, Literacy, and Activities
[Workshop] Considering Context: Approaches for Responsible Data Practices
[Workshop] VisxVision: Workshop on Novel Directions in Vision Science and Visualization Research
[Workshop] SciFi-VIS: Way Out There - How SciFi and Visualization Influence Each Other
[Workshop] AccessViz: 3rd Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)
[Workshop] BELIV: Learning What’s True, Doing What’s Right (Part 2)
[Workshop] TopoInVis Connect: Topology meets Artificial Intelligence
[Workshop] VISxAI: 9th Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability
[Workshop] VAxAutoSci: Visual Analytics in the Age of Autonomous Scientific Discovery
[Workshop] Uncertainty Visualization: How to Make it Interpretable, Integrable, and Accessible?
[Workshop] Grand Unified Grammar of Graphics (GUGOG)
Tuesday Schedule
Morning
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EST)
VIS Opening + Keynote: Keynote by Kimberly K. Arcand — America North / America Center / America South
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] Talk to my agent — Essex Center
[Full Papers] The more the merrier — America North
[Full Papers] Please don’t just stare at the picture — America Center
[Short Papers] Form Follows Function — Essex North
[Panel] Challenges and Opportunities for Evaluating AI-Assisted Generation of Visualizations — America South
[Tutorial] Introduction to Quantum Computing for Visualization Researchers (Part 1) — St. George (C+D)
[Tutorial] From Decisions to Designs: A Hands-On Tutorial with the Typology of Decision-Making Tasks (Part 1) — St. George (A+B)
Afternoon
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)
[Full Papers] Making things visual in science and engineering — Essex Center
[Full Papers] How you show it makes a difference! — Essex North
[Full Papers] Modern talking-visually — America Center
[Full Papers] Can we have a (real) doctor, please? — America North
[Panel] Molecules to Humankind: Challenges in Multiscale Visualization — America South
[Tutorial] Introduction to Quantum Computing for Visualization Researchers (Part 2) — St. George (C+D)
[Tutorial] From Decisions to Designs: A Hands-On Tutorial with the Typology of Decision-Making Tasks (Part 2) — St. George (A+B)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)
[Full Papers] Great, now you scattered the data everywhere! — Essex Center
[Full Papers] Data really is everywhere — Essex North
[Full Papers] Figuring out how to do good research — America Center
[Full Papers] Let me through, I’m a scientist! — America North
[Panel] Facts & All the Feels: Data Visualization Through the Affective Lens — America South
Evening
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (EST)
VGTC Awards
Test of Time Awards
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (EST)
Welcome Reception
Posters Session
Wednesday Schedule
Morning
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] I feel tangled in a net — America Center
[Full Papers] Let’s dig into the data (from France) — America North
[Short Papers] Can We Trust This Chart? (Asking for a Friend) — America South
[VISAP] VISAP Paper 1 — Essex South
[Tutorial] Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework (Part 1) — Essex North
[Tutorial] Custom widgets for Python notebooks with anywidget and marimo (Part 1) — Essex Center
[Cluster] The Practitioner’s Summit (Part 1) — St. George (C+D) / St. George (A+B)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] What does it mean to live, anyway? — America Center
[Short Papers] Data, Meet Human: Vis That Cares — America North
[Panel] Beyond the Last Mile: What Should Visualization Own in the Age of Data Systems and AI Agents? — America South
[VISAP] VISAP Paper 2 — Essex South
[Tutorial] Running Online User Studies with the reVISit Framework (Part 2) — Essex North
[Tutorial] Custom widgets for Python notebooks with anywidget and marimo (Part 2) — Essex Center
[Cluster] The Practitioner’s Summit (Part 2) — St. George (C+D) / St. George (A+B)
Afternoon
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)
[Full Papers] Let’s figure out how things work behind the scenes — America North
[Full Papers] Did you see that? Are you sure? — Essex Center
[Short Papers] Me, Myself, and AI — America Center
[Short Papers] Connecting the Dots — Essex North
[Panel] Industry Meets Academia: Data and Visual Analytics in the Agentic Era — America South
[VISAP] VISAP Pictorial — Essex South
[Cluster] The Practitioner’s Summit (Part 3) — St. George (C+D) / St. George (A+B)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)
VISions — America North / America Center / America South (details below)
Cluster: Practitioners’ Summit (Wednesday)
A dedicated gathering for people who build, ship, and defend visualizations for a living, held in St. George (C+D) and St. George (A+B).
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EST) · Part 1
Welcome & Short Keynote
Live PolicyViz Podcast with Jon Schwabish
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)
Coffee Break & Anonymous Vis Feedback
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST) · Part 2
Live PolicyViz Podcast Q & A
Practitioner Lightning Talks
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
Catered Lunch & Anonymous Vis Feedback
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EST) · Part 3
FAQ Freelancing Info Session
Closing Notes
VISions (Wednesday)
A venue for forward-thinking ideas to inspire the broad visualization community (including both researchers and practitioners).
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EST) · VISions session
Will Visualization Help Humans Act on Data or Help AI Act on Humans? by Zhu-Tian Chen
Ways of Thinking, Ways of Doing, and the Future of Visualization Research by Ana Crisan
Evening
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST)
Banquet hosted at the MIT Museum, Cambridge
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST)
VIS Arts Program (VISAP) hosted at the MET Warehouse, MIT, Cambridge
Thursday Schedule
Morning
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] Story time — America North
[Full Papers] How can I do this myself? — America Center
[Full Papers] I’m not so certain — Essex North
[Short Papers] Is the Model Even Thinking? — America South
[CG&A] Applications, Domain Science & Data Representation — Essex Center
[Tutorial] Lossy Compression for Scientific Data: Principles, Tools, and Implications for Visualization (Part 1) — St. George (A+B)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] Time after time — America North
[Full Papers] My followers need to know about this! — America Center
[Full Papers] That’s way too many dimensions for me — Essex North
[Panel] Friction in Visualization: When Should We Slow People Down? — America South
[Tutorial] Lossy Compression for Scientific Data: Principles, Tools, and Implications for Visualization (Part 2) — St. George (A+B)
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (EST)
Town Hall Meeting
Afternoon
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)
[Full Papers] Turn up the volume(s)! — America North
[Full Papers] Places and spaces — America Center
[Full Papers] From design spaces to visual design — Essex North
[Short Papers] Tools of the Trade — Essex Center
[Panel] Visualization as a Foundational Act of Placemaking: Future Places and Alien Worlds — America South
[Tutorial] Visualization Analysis and Design (Part 1) — St. George (A+B)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (EST)
[Full Papers] Kids these days don’t learn anything anymore, let’s fix that! — America North
[Full Papers] That’s way too big! — America Center
[Short Papers] Lost in Dimensions — Essex North
[CG&A] Human-Centered Design, Accessibility & Interaction — Essex Center
[Panel] From Correlation to Causality: Future Directions in Visual Causal Inference — America South
[Tutorial] Visualization Analysis and Design (Part 2) — St. George (A+B)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (EST)
VIS 2027 Kickoff
Friday Schedule
Morning
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM (EST)
[Full Papers] This feels amazingly real! — America North
[Full Papers] Let’s dig into the data (from China) — America Center
[Full Papers] I don’t trust you, explain yourself! — Essex North
[Short Papers] Big Data, Bigger Physics — America South
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EST)
Capstone: Capstone by Nils Gehlenborg and VIS Closing — America North / America Center / America South
Paper Sessions, Panels, and Tutorials (Tuesday - Friday)
Sessions are 90 minutes, with up to six parallel tracks in the morning and in the afternoon. Full details for every session are on the sessions page and the program calendar.
- Morning coffee break: 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM (EST)
- Lunch break: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
- Afternoon coffee break: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)
Program Chairs
- Tushar Athawale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Alfie Abdul Rahman, King’s College London
- John Thompson, Autodesk Research
Email: program@ieeevis.org