Climate Informatics is an open, interdisciplinary community at the intersection of climate science, statistics, machine learning, and data mining. Our goal is to accelerate discovery in climate research by connecting diverse fields and fostering collaboration between data scientists and climate experts. The community provides a platform for exchanging ideas, sharing tools and datasets, and advancing methods that deepen our understanding of the Earth’s climate system.
University of Lausanne, CH
April 27th-30th, 2026
About the conference
A core activity of the community is the Climate Informatics Conference, held annually since its founding by Claire Monteleoni and Gavin Schmidt. It brings together researchers from across disciplines to present advances in data‑driven climate science, address emerging methodological and scientific challenges, and foster new collaborations. Through the conference and its broader community, Climate Informatics promotes innovation, openness, and exchange, contributing to progress in understanding and modeling the Earth’s changing climate.
Climate informatics 2026 will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland from April 27 to April 30, 2026.
The conference is hosted by the Expertise Center for Climate Extremes (ECCE) and the Geocomputing Center (GC) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). It is organized in partnership with the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC), the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC), the University of California Davis (UC Davis), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Bern (UNIBE), the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), and the Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM). The conference is sponsored by the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment at UNIL, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (INRIA), NVIDIA, and Foundation for UNIL.
You can register using the following link: https://conferences.unil.ch/CI2026 and consult the tentative schedule using: https://wp.unil.ch/ci26/tentative-schedule/.
News
- The submission deadline has passed & we received more than 100 submissions!
- We recommend that participants register for the conference at their earliest convenience (registration page). Please register before April 9, 2026.
- (IMPORTANT) For participants who registered for the conference but have yet to make your payment for the registration fee, we invite you to go back to the registration portal and select the « Pay by credit card (incl. Twint) » to finalize your payment. Your registration will only be considered complete once the payment is made.
- (IMPORTANT) The deadline to process registration refunds is April 16, 2026. Refund requests after this date will not be considered.
- (IMPORTANT) Conference participants should bring their own Swiss adapters.
Important Dates
- (Passed Deadline) Abstract & Paper Submission: Jan 23, 2026
- (Passed) Notification of results: Mar 9, 2026
- (Passed) Camera-ready copy of full papers: Mar 31, 2026
- Deadline to register for the conference:
Apr 1, 2026Apr 9, 2026 - Conference: Apr 27-30, 2026
CI 2026 Committee Members
General co-chairs: Tom Beucler (ECCE & GC – UNIL), Sebastian Engelke (UNIGE)
Local and finance co-chairs: Erwan Koch (ECCE & GC – UNIL), Marj Tonini (GC & ECCE – UNIL)
Scientific committee: Maike Sonnewald (UC Davis), Frederick Iat-Hin Tam (UNIL)
Hackathon committee: Tobias Finn (ENPC), Nikolay Koldunov (AWI), Jussi Leinonen (NVIDIA)
Local/finance organizational committee: David Ginsbourger (UNIBE), Devis Tuia (EPFL), Mathieu Salzmann (EPFL, SDSC), Michele Volpi (SDSC)
Student/Postdoc committee: Shivanshi Asthana, Ariane Bietighoefer, Milton Gomez, Ayoub Nicolas Hartaoui, Fangfei Lan, Theresa Meier, Filippo Quarenghi (UNIL), Hugo Porta, Jan Zgraggen (EPFL)
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