Communities and Technologies (C&T) Panels aim to highlight emerging and innovative topics in the field so that C&T 2025 attendees can explore, engage with, and ultimately encourage the transformation of C&T research – for stimulating debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities, in their multiple forms,  and information and communication technologies – to move in new and provocative directions.

The format of a panel provides a unique opportunity to bring together a diverse range of voices to collectively offer a range of viewpoints and positions. In this way, panels act as a vital medium for the C&T community to discuss emerging topics and research agendas, and debate issues that may not yet become fully recognized, acknowledged, or discussed. 

We welcome researchers, designers, educators, industry, practitioners, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology.

Ideally, panel proposals will be organized around 3-4 participants who represent a diversity of ideas and approaches related to a given topic. Topics should be novel, lively, or controversial so that they can inspire and engage conference attendees, provoke elaborative discussion, and help move forward core concerns for C&T research. We encourage panel proposers to identify prospective panellists who can not only share their expertise on a particular topic but also represent diverse perspectives, disciplines, methods, and approaches. Each panel should be facilitated by a moderator who will guide the conversation among panellists and engage the audience. In their proposals, we encourage panel organizers to articulate how they will creatively facilitate audience engagement and other proposed interactions during their panel session. 

We invite proposals that widen the framing and understanding of computer-supported cooperative work arrangements by promoting cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity.  All panel submissions must include the following details: 

• A detailed treatment of the topic to be discussed, including a brief review of related literature;  
• A description of proposed panellists and their topical positions; 
• A well-structured session plan, including the intended organization of panellist presentations and audience interaction; 
• Brief biographies of proposed panellists describing salient expertise relative to the proposed topic; 
• A provisional plan for how the panel will be run should it need to be conducted virtually.