Important Dates
| Pre-Conference Preparation | Date |
| Extended deadline for short abstract submission | 31 July 2026 |
| Notification of abstract acceptance | 31 March 2026 – 31 July 2026 |
| Online registration to attend (audience), present and publish, present only, or to publish only (authors of accepted abstracts or attendees without an abstract) | 31 March 2026 – 31 July 2026 |
| Publication Plan: The Proceedings (optional) | Date |
| Invitation to submit (optional) an extended abstract (based on the accepted short abstract), i.e. a short proceedings paper (using this Template) | 31 March 2026 – 31 July 2026 |
| Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (short proceedings papers) | 31 July 2026 |
| Notification of acceptance to publish in the proceedings | 30 September 2026 |
| Signature of the Springer Consent-to-Publish Form | 15 October 2026 |
| Submission to Springer of the proceedings after English revision (free-of-charge) of accepted papers | 31 October 2026 |
| Typesetting, proofreading, corrections, and production of the EMGN-26 proceedings by Springer | 15 Nov. 2026 – 15 March 2027 |
| Online publication of the proceedings by Springer (indexed in Scopus) | 31 March 2027 |
| Conference Preparation & Plan | Date |
| Deadline for online registration and payment as confirmation of participation (see payment rates on Registration) | 31 July 2026 |
| Conference days | 26—28 October 2026 |
| Publication Plan: The Special Issues | Date |
| Invitation (after the conference) to submit in the special issues | 30 November 2026 |
| Deadline to submit the full paper to the special issues (see partner journals on Publications) | 31 January 2027 |
| Publication of the full special issues (however, papers will appear online as soon as accepted) | 31 May 2027 |