ACM COMPASS

In Toronto for COMPASS’25! @acmcompass.bsky.social.

Great first day with keynote session, paper presentations and much networking. Tonnes of excellent work on AI for sustainability, civic engagement and participatory design.

Looking forward to Day 2.

#compass2025 #computinginplace

A slide from COMPASS 2025 chairs showing the distribution of attendees geographically. Text says 'Attendees: 221 from 22 countries, 42 from 12 countries in the Global South, 58 online (26%), 97 students (44%)'

After two days of workshops, we're kicking off the conference with our keynote and paper sessions throughout the day (programs.sigchi.org/compass/2025). Fun fact: COMPASS 2025 has attendees from 22 different countries!

today is the registration deadline for COMPASS! compass.acm.org/registration...

**Registration deadline extended to July 10th**

You now have two more days to register to attend!
compass.acm.org/registration...

We have an exciting program, workshops, and keynotes. Hope to see you there!

COMPASS'25 registration ends July 8th (less than a week away 😱)

📝 45 papers
❗ 23 late breaking works
👥 10 workshops
🎨 10 arts/demos
💬 7 panels
🎓 20 doctoral consortium participants

come join us in Toronto (July 22-26)

COMPASS'25 is less than a month away! Make sure to register by July 8th! compass.acm.org

Photo of Renee Stiber

Photo of Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

Announcing COMPASS'25 keynotes! We're so excited to host two incredible speakers
Renee Steiber will present "Participatory AI governance as a sustainability goal" and Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar will share "Why Designing with Place Matters in Technology Development"
more @ compass.acm.org/keynote-spea...

Check out this thread to see *all* the workshops at COMPASS'25 this year! Registration deadline is July 8th!

Announcing COMPASS'25 Workshops! Throughout the next few days we'll be posting about the 10 workshops. You can read about all of them here: compass.acm.org/compass-2025... Note: to attend workshops you must register for the conference (deadline: July 8th!)

1 more day to get your designs in!

Workshop on Cybersecurity and Sustainability (Wednesday, July 23)
This workshop explores the complex and often neglected relationship between sustainability and cybersecurity. Devices are being prematurely forced into e-waste streams due to shortsighted cybersecurity decisions. sustainsec.org

Social Agentics (Wednesday, July 23)
This one-day ACM COMPASS workshop invites a diverse group of participants to explore how and why to design agentic systems to be situated within specific social and organizational contexts. Website: sites.google.com/view/social-...

Place-based Climate Data Practices (Wednesday, July 23) This workshop interrogates how place—as physical, cultural, spiritual, and artistic—shapes the creation, circulation, and application of climate data in pursuit of equitable climate futures. Website: sites.google.com/view/pbcd-wo...

DUE THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 27! Make sure to get in your t-shirt designs for a chance for free registration!

Community-Driven Data Practices for Advancing Ethical and Equitable AI in Low-Resource Language Contexts (Wednesday, July 23) This workshop explores pathways for community-driven data practices for low-resource language technologies and their ethical challenges. community-data-practices.github.io

COMPASS Workshop Join our workshop @ COMPASS 2025! Wednesday, July 23rd: Toronto, Canada

Designing Sustainable Indigenous Technology (Wednesday, July 23)
This workshop provides a venue for interdisciplinary approaches and viewpoints to collaboratively explore and design technologies that contribute to Indigenous efforts around sustainability. Read more sites.google.com/view/compass...

COMPASS 2025 Workshop: Writing for Interdisciplinary Computing Audiences Workshop Overview As the COMPASS community grows across fields and global contexts, many early career researchers may face challenges around the often implicit expectations of writing for an interdis...

Writing for Interdisciplinary Computing Audiences (Tuesday, July 22)
We invite researchers who might be from the Global Majority, are new to academic writing, or new to the COMPASS community to a half-day workshop to help uncover the “hidden curriculum.” Apply by July 7 forms.gle/2Rr8fymNpxCP...

Towards Sustainable Community-Designed AI Systems in the Public Sector (Tuesday, July 22)
This workshop will examine how community engagement and qualitative exploratory methods can inform qualitative model development for public sector AI.
See the workshop website: www.hcds-uoft.ca/compass

(Re)working for Sustainable Futures: Climate Change and Platform Economies (Tuesday, July 22)
This workshop responds builds interdisciplinary research foundation for critical studies of climate change and platform economies through lightning talks, mapping exercises, and reflective discussions.

Encrypted Form CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

Humour as Resistance: Creative Approaches to Data Center Accountability (Tuesday, July 22) Join us for an interactive workshop that delves into the ecological and social impacts of data centers, the backbone of AI infrastructure. Register here to attend the workshop: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

Clouded Judgment: Negotiating Data Center Siting Processes (Tuesday, July 22) The rapid expansion of data centers is transforming landscapes globally. This workshop introduces a roleplay negotiation exercise that simulates a contentious permitting process for a proposed 500-megawatt data center.

Announcing COMPASS'25 Workshops! Throughout the next few days we'll be posting about the 10 workshops. You can read about all of them here: compass.acm.org/compass-2025... Note: to attend workshops you must register for the conference (deadline: July 8th!)

*FREE REGISTRATION OPPORTUNITY!* Send us your best t-shirt design for #COMPASS25 in order to win free registration for the conference (open to all). Submit by June 27 for consideration! Read more about the t-shirt design competition here: compass.acm.org/call-for-t-s...

As a reminder - registration ends July 8th! Make sure to register to attend: compass.acm.org/registration...

Photo of Renee Stiber

Photo of Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar

Announcing COMPASS'25 keynotes! We're so excited to host two incredible speakers
Renee Steiber will present "Participatory AI governance as a sustainability goal" and Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar will share "Why Designing with Place Matters in Technology Development"
more @ compass.acm.org/keynote-spea...

ACM COMPASS is now on bluesky! #COMPASS25 will be happening next month at the University of Toronto, Canada from July 22-25, 2025. Registration ends July 8th! Find more at: compass.acm.org