Hey @shane.mccracken.org.uk - would be lovely to catch up and explore. Can you pop over an email and let's find a time?

If you've been thinking of sending in an abstract - please do!

2026 Timeline: short abstracts due Friday 31st October; Notifications by 5th December; final papers, posters or presentations due 30th Jan.

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When we ran the 1st edition of PAIRS in Paris in Feb we were blown away by range of work shared on putting public voice at the heart of AI development, governance, audit & response. Hoping to build on that with discussions at PAIRS26. Recordings from 2025 here: www.pairs.site/Participator...

...and we're pleased to have just secured budget this year for some travel support to people with selected papers, presentations or posters at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium - helping with our goal of supporting a diversity of voices to shape AI governance discussions.

This is the nerve-wracking week of preparing a conference, as there is ofter a flurry of submissions just before the deadline, but I never want to bank on it! This year, our submission deadline is quite a bit ahead of the AI Summit we're running alongside to help with travel arrangement etc...

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In 2026 we'll have a global online-only day of papers and panels on 17th Feb, and an in-person session in New Delhi on the 18th Feb. Find our more and submit abstracts here www.pairs.site/PAIRS-2026-2...

PAIRS exists to provide a platform to share case studies of participatory AI practice; critical evaluation of its impacts; and translational insights that challenge us to collectively develop better ways of putting people first in the development and governance of developing digital infrastructures.

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