Scope and Topics of Interest

ACM DXConf solicits original, unpublished contributions that define and advance the state of the art in digital transformation. We explicitly encourage submissions that are interdisciplinary in nature, papers grounded in real use cases or operational environments, and well-justified, substantiated vision papers that articulate new and impactful research directions. We welcome high-quality work spanning, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Programming models and languages for industrial systems
• Formal methods and verification of industrial systems
• Infrastructure resilience
• IT / OT convergence
• Digital twins, digital threads, and system-level modeling of industrial processes
• Cybersecurity of critical infrastructure
• Industry foundation AI models
• AI agents for infrastructure control and automation, AIOps
• Infrastructure nexus (e.g., power/water, food/agriculture, datacenter/X)
• Infrastructure interoperability (e.g., data, protocol standards)
• Case studies of vertical areas (e.g., nuclear, agriculture, water & waste, factories)
• Policies, standards, and regulatory frameworks
• Data models, schemas, and ontologies
• Industrial communication protocols and standards
• Reference architectures, testbeds for large-scale DX deployments
• Digital transformation education; preparing a new engineering workforce
• Human factors in digital transformation

Submission Tracks

ACM DXConf organizes submissions into the following tracks. All page limits exclude references and appendices.

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be original, unpublished work not under simultaneous review elsewhere.
• All papers use double-blind review — submissions must be anonymized.
• At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present at the conference.
• Submissions must follow the ACM Master Article Template (two-column, acmconf format).
• Templates available at: dl.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.

Review Process

All submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. The program committee is drawn from both the computing research community and domain experts across industry sectors, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of DX.

DXConf adheres to the ACM Policy on Authorship and the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Submissions that do not comply with formatting requirements or that raise ethical concerns may be desk-rejected without review.

Community and Vision

DXConf is the inaugural conference of the ACM Emerging Interest Group on Digital Transformation (EIGDX). EIGDX was established to address the fragmentation of the DX research landscape: computing advances and industrial needs evolve largely in parallel, with insufficient exchange between them. The group’s mission is two-fold — to translate the latest computing techniques into impact across industrial sectors, and to bring real-world industrial complexity back into computing as a rich and generative source of new research problems.

DXConf embodies this mission. It aims to become the premier venue where computing researchers and industry practitioners meet on equal footing: where new systems ideas are evaluated against the realities of industrial deployment, and where the messy, constrained, multi-stakeholder nature of real sectors drives fundamental computing research. The long-term vision is for EIGDX to evolve into a full ACM Special Interest Group (SIG), with DXConf as its flagship conference.

We invite researchers, practitioners, domain experts, and innovators from across computing and industry to contribute to and help shape this emerging community. DXConf 2026 is a key step toward establishing digital transformation as a core discipline in computing.