| name | facct-workflow |
| description | Use when planning an ACM FAccT project timeline from venue fit through abstract registration, OpenReview submission, the rebuttal window, the new Accept/Revise/Reject revise-and-resubmit round, two-round camera-ready, and in-person presentation, with backward-planning offsets for an interdisciplinary responsible-AI paper and honest handling of the single annual deadline. |
FAccT Workflow
Use this as the project-management skill for a FAccT submission. Replace every date with the current
official Important Dates page and work backwards from the abstract-registration deadline, which
precedes the paper deadline and is a hard gate: miss it and OpenReview will not accept your PDF.
FAccT runs a single annual research deadline, and — new for the 2026 edition — a genuine
Revise-and-resubmit round sits inside the review cycle, so plan for a possible revision, not just
an accept/reject.
FAccT is a conference with no standing editor-in-chief; leadership is the per-edition General
Chairs and Program Chair (FAccT 2026: General Chairs Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat, PC Chair
Michael Madaio, verified 2026-07-09). Chairs rotate yearly; re-check the committees page rather than
carrying a name forward. Since 1 January 2026 all ACM proceedings are Open Access, so budget for
the ACM Open / APC question early rather than at camera-ready.
Milestones (FAccT 2026 calendar as the worked example)
- Venue fit: confirm FAccT over a pure-ML/HCI/law venue and confirm the contribution is
fairness/accountability/transparency-first (
facct-topic-selection).
- Abstract registration: submit real title, abstract, authors, and focus areas by the
abstract deadline (FAccT 2026: 8 January 2026). This gate cannot be reopened.
- Paper submission: upload the anonymized acmart PDF with its endmatter statements
(FAccT 2026: 13 January 2026).
- Preliminary reviews + rebuttal: reviews released (FAccT 2026: 20 February 2026); a short
rebuttal window for factual corrections, not debate.
- First notification: Accept / Revise / Reject (FAccT 2026: 2 March 2026).
- Revision (if issued): address Area-Chair-prioritized concerns and resubmit by the revision
deadline (FAccT 2026: 25 March 2026); re-reviewed before a final decision.
- Camera-ready: Round-1 accepts (FAccT 2026: 24 April 2026); Revise-and-resubmit accepts
(FAccT 2026: 11 May 2026).
- Present: every accepted paper — archival or non-archival — is presented at the conference
(FAccT 2026: Montréal, June 25-28, 2026).
Backward plan from the paper deadline
| Weeks out (heuristic) | Interdisciplinary-responsible-AI milestone |
|---|
| 10+ | Research/critical question fixed; affected populations and disciplinary lane named |
| 8 | Data collected / interviews done / legal-doctrinal analysis drafted; provenance and consent logged |
| 6 | Analysis complete; disaggregated results or qualitative codes done; limitations drafted alongside |
| 4 | Full draft in the acmart template; endmatter statements drafted (ethics, adverse impacts) |
| 3 | Internal mock review by a reader outside your discipline (the mixed-reviewer stress test) |
| 2 | Harm/limitations hardened; related-work delta across disciplines sharpened; page budget met |
| 1 | Anonymity sweep (strip positionality/acks); Generative AI Usage Statement written; focus areas set |
| 0 | Abstract registered by its earlier gate, then paper + endmatter on OpenReview |
These offsets are planning heuristics only — anchor every one to the current Important Dates page,
never to a previous cycle.
The single-deadline calendar reality
FAccT runs one annual research deadline. As of 2026-07-09 the FAccT 2026 edition has just
concluded in Montréal, so the live next target is FAccT 2027 (dates/venue 待核实). Two planning
consequences:
- Missing the annual deadline costs roughly a year at FAccT; if the work is time-sensitive, a
sibling venue (AIES, a fairness-focused ML workshop, or a CHI/CSCW deadline) or the CRAFT track
may have a nearer date — factor that into routing rather than idling.
- A Revise decision keeps you inside the same cycle (revision deadline weeks after
notification), not a year later — but this revise-and-resubmit round is new for 2026, so
confirm it still exists and re-read its exact timing before relying on it.
Failure modes by stage
- Missing the abstract-registration gate — the single most common fatal error; without a
registered abstract and focus areas there is no paper slot at all.
- Leaving endmatter statements to the final night — a rushed Ethical Considerations or Adverse
Impacts statement reads as an afterthought to reviewers who take reflexivity seriously.
- Skipping the cross-discipline mock review — forfeits the one chance to hear "a lawyer/social
scientist will not accept this framing" from a friend instead of a reviewer.
- Treating a Revise as a guaranteed accept — the re-review is real; budget the short revision
window like a deadline.
- Positionality/acknowledgement leak — placing an identity-revealing statement in the anonymous
submission is an anonymity violation, not a virtue.
Coordination notes
- Assign one owner for the endmatter statements (ethics, adverse impacts, Generative AI Usage)
and another for the anonymity sweep; shared ownership is how both slip.
- Archive the exact submitted PDF and, later, the rebuttal and revision response — the re-review
quotes them and the response must map each reviewer concern to a change.
Output format
[Current stage] idea / evidence / writing / registration / submitted / rebuttal / revise / accepted
[Next official deadline] <date and source, or unknown>
[Critical path] <three tasks that determine readiness>
[Risk register] <abstract gate / anonymity / endmatter statements / evidence / revision window / presentation>
[Owner map] <task -> person or role>
