iGET 2026 Student Poster Contest
About the Contest
The iGET 2026 Student Poster Contest gives undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to present their research, ideas, prototypes, and innovative solutions in emerging technology fields. The contest welcomes student work that demonstrates creativity, technical knowledge, real-world relevance, and future impact. It also encourages projects that explore how technology can support sustainability, responsible innovation, and positive social or environmental change.
Through this contest, students can share their work with the iGET community, including IEEE researchers, educators, industry professionals, practitioners, and fellow students.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for the iGET 2026 Student Poster Contest are listed below. Posters must cover a topic relevant to the conference. The list is intentionally broad. iGET welcomes work that spans theory, applications and cross-disciplinary innovation in emerging technologies.
| Field of Interest | Sample topics relevant to iGET 2026 (not exhaustive) |
|---|---|
| Analytics / Visualization / Data Mining | Turning raw data into insight: interactive dashboards; large-scale visual analytics; real-time streaming analytics; pattern discovery and anomaly detection; explainable data mining; statistical learning for high-dimensional data; reproducible analysis pipelines; data storytelling for non-technical stakeholders. |
| Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / LLM / Gen-AI / Agentic Computing | Next-generation intelligent systems: foundation models and large language models; multimodal learning; self-supervised and label-efficient learning; retrieval-augmented generation; prompt engineering and evaluation; AI agents and tool use; reinforcement learning; reliability, calibration and uncertainty quantification; responsible and trustworthy AI; benchmarks and evaluation methodology. |
| Cloud Computing / Parallel Computing / Distributed Computing / Networking | Scalable computing infrastructure: serverless and microservices architectures; container orchestration; high-throughput distributed training; software-defined networking; 5G/6G and next-generation wireless; edge-cloud continuum; resource scheduling and auto-scaling; performance modeling and benchmarking of distributed workloads. |
| Cyber Security / Information Security / Data Protection / Hacking | Defending the digital frontier: threat detection and response; adversarial machine learning; secure software development; zero-trust architectures; privacy-preserving computation and differential privacy; penetration testing and red teaming; incident response automation; supply-chain and firmware security; security for AI systems. |
| Digital Health / Health Informatics / Decision Support Systems | Technology in service of human health: clinical decision support; medical imaging and diagnostics; electronic health records and interoperability (HL7/FHIR); wearable health monitoring; AI for radiology, pathology and genomics; remote patient monitoring; FDA-aligned good machine-learning practice; health equity and bias mitigation in clinical AI. |
| Digital Twins / Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality | Bridging the physical and the virtual: industrial and urban digital twins; real-time simulation and physics-based modeling; immersive training environments; AR for field operations and maintenance; VR for education and rehabilitation; spatial computing; haptics and embodied interaction; metaverse infrastructure and standards. |
| Distributed Ledger / Blockchain Technology / Knowledge Graphs | Trust, traceability and structured knowledge: smart contracts and decentralized applications; consensus protocols; tokenization and digital assets; supply-chain traceability; verifiable credentials and self-sovereign identity; knowledge graph construction; ontology engineering; graph-based reasoning over heterogeneous data. |
| Human Machine Interaction / Intelligent Systems | Designing systems that work with people: natural language interfaces; conversational AI; brain-computer interfaces; affective computing; multimodal user experience; accessibility and assistive technology; human-in-the-loop machine learning; collaborative robotics; explainability and trust in autonomous systems. |
| Mobile Computing / Edge Computing / IoT and Related Technologies / Smart Tech | Computing at the edge of everything: low-power embedded AI; on-device inference and TinyML; sensor fusion; real-time edge analytics; smart cities and smart buildings; industrial IoT; vehicular and aerial networks; secure firmware updates; energy-aware mobile and wearable computing. |
| Quantum / Cryptography / High-Performance Computing | Pushing the computational frontier: quantum algorithms and circuits; quantum machine learning; post-quantum cryptography; homomorphic encryption; secure multi-party computation; HPC for scientific simulation; GPU and accelerator architectures; energy-efficient supercomputing; benchmarking quantum and classical co-design. |
| Industry-Specific GETs | Emerging technology in vertical domains: FinTech and RegTech; AgTech and precision agriculture; advanced manufacturing and Industry 4.0; smart energy and utilities; transportation and autonomous mobility; aerospace and defense; education technology; legal and government technology; cross-disciplinary applications that bring emerging technologies into a specific industry context. |
Why Submit Your Poster to iGET 2026?
The iGET 2026 Student Poster Contest gives students an opportunity to share their research, gain visibility, and connect with a global emerging technologies community.
Students who participate can:
Showcase their research in front of IEEE researchers, practitioners, educators, and industry leaders working in emerging technology areas.
Gain visibility through IEEE platforms, including the opportunity for recorded poster presentations to be hosted on IEEE.tv.
Present in a hybrid format, either in person in Irvine, California, or remotely.
Build their academic record for graduate applications, fellowship dossiers, internships, and early-career CVs.
Network with the iGET community through live Q&A with judges, session chairs, senior IEEE members, and industry professionals.
Practice professional presentation skills through a short recorded presentation and live Q&A, similar to the format used in major conferences, research interviews, and PhD interviews.
Eligibility
- Open to all undergraduate and graduate students; teams of up to four students are welcome.
- The poster must be the work of the student authors and not based on a paper already accepted to iGET 2026.
- At least one student author must attend the contest to present the poster (in person or remotely).
Contest Timeline
The iGET 2026 Student Poster Contest will follow a step-by-step submission and review process. Students should first submit their poster abstract for review. Selected students will then be invited to submit their final digital poster and participate in the poster session during the conference.
Abstract Submission Deadline—To be announced
Announcement of Selected Poster Abstracts- To be announced
Final Digital Poster Submission Deadline—August 15, 2026
Announcement of Final Selected Posters—To be announced
Poster Session / Meet and Greet- To be announced
iGET 2026 Conference Dates—October 21–25, 2026