We are excited to circulate the Call for MICCAI 2026 Satellite Events. Just for clarity, we use the term "satellite events (SE)” to collectively refer to workshops, challenges, and tutorials.
This year everyone considering organizing a SE must submit a Letter of Intent (LOI). See below for more information.
Submission site opens: November 20, 2025
LOI Due: December 15, 2025
Complete SE Proposals Due: January 9, 2026 and January 15, 2026
For a complete timeline please refer to the MICCAI 2026 website. All times are 23:59 Pacific Time
If you are considering submitting a proposal for a MICCAI 2026 SE, you must submit an LOI by December 15, 2025.
The main purpose of this LOI is to help the SE committee identify overlapping topics early. In case of overlapping topics, the SE committee will recommend and encourage collaborations before the full proposal submission, towards improving the thematic content of SEs, as well as increasing the odds of your SE acceptance through stronger collaborative proposals.
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If you are considering submitting a Challenge proposal for MICCAI 2026, you must send an LOI by December 15, 2025.
We invite researchers, clinicians, and industry professionals to propose innovative challenges for MICCAI 2026 that address timely problems in medical image analysis (MIC) and computer-assisted interventions (CAI). Full challenge proposals are due January 9, 2026.
The challenges will take place on October 4 and 8 at the main conference venue. We welcome challenges in numerous areas relevant to the MICCAI community.
Proposals that explicitly address emerging technologies, fairness, global health, and barriers to clinical translation are especially welcome. While we encourage submissions from all geographic regions, we particularly welcome challenges from the Middle East.
MICCAI supports open data; we encourage organizers to use open-source data licenses and/or keep challenges open beyond the conference to provide a sustained benchmarking platform.
Click here for important dates, proposal requirements, submission process, selection criteria, post-acceptance process and organizer responsibilities.
Make sure you select the "CHALLENGES” track in CMT:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MICCAISAT2026/Submission/Index
If you are considering submitting a Workshop proposal for MICCAI 2026, you must send an LOI by December 15, 2025.
We are soliciting proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with MICCAI 2026. Full workshop proposals are due January 15, 2026.
The workshops will take place on October 4 and 8 at the main conference venue. Workshops are intended to convene focused research groups, facilitating engaging discussions and knowledge exchange on specific topics relevant to the MICCAI community. They should attract diverse participants and maintain good attendance.
Due to space and time limitations, as well as to encourage diversity of topic coverage, only a limited number of proposals will be accepted. In the case of small attendance or similar workshop proposals, workshops might be merged with other workshops or moved to a fully separate satellite event.
Click here for submission details, selection criteria, budget, important dates and the workshop proposal submission form outline.
Make sure you select the "WORKSHOPS” track in CMT:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MICCAISAT2026/Submission/Index
If you are considering submitting a Tutorial proposal for MICCAI 2026, you must send an LOI by December 15, 2025.
We are soliciting proposals for tutorials to be held with MICCAI 2025. Full tutorial proposals are due January 9, 2026. The tutorials will take place on October 4 and 8 at the main conference venue, each organized as a half-day (AM or PM) or full-day in-person event.
Tutorials are educational sessions offered by expert researchers and scientists on topics relevant to the MICCAI community. The purpose of tutorials is to provide educational materials for all career levels. Tutorials should focus on a specific theme, e.g., methodology, clinical application, emerging technologies, or software tools, and organizers should explain why the theme is timely and of interest to the MICCAI community.
The tutorial format may combine mini-lectures, demonstrations, hands-on sessions, and hackathons. Topics relevant to MICCAI for global health and proposals from underrepresented regions are strongly encouraged.
Due to space and time limitations, as well as the need to encourage diversity of topic coverage, only a limited number of proposals will be accepted. In the case of small attendance or similar tutorial proposals, tutorials might be canceled or suggested to be merged with other tutorials.
Click here for submission details, selection criteria, budget, important dates and the tutorial proposal submission form outline.
Make sure you select the "TUTORIALS” track in CMT:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MICCAISAT2026/Submission/Index