SOCSIMFEST 2026
MAY 19 & 20
The Social Simulation Festival is back for its 5th edition!
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About the Event
The biggest online ESSA event of the year.
The European Social Simulation Association (ESSA) is excited to bring to you the 2026 edition of the Social Simulation Festival (SocSimFest).
The FREE festival offers a unique platform for ESSA members and non-members to connect and engage with the social simulation community in a virtual setting.
Over two days in May (19th and 20th) and eight sessions, participants will get access to an amazing set of speakers and interactive workshops.
All sessions are designed to help both new and experienced social simulation researchers gain new knowledge and connections across the community and the globe.
Featured Sessions
Inspirational Talks
Similar to conference keynotes, we provide two inspirational talks to showcase the outstanding work of diverse and often underrepresented scholars that use social simulation in their work.
ESSA@Work - PhD focused
This session focuses on discussing work-in-progress by primarily PhD and other early-career researchers (ECRs). It offers a space where any modeller (regardless of skill) can receive support on simulation work-in-progress from social simulation experts.
Interactive workshops
We emphasise hands-on workshops where the audience can interact with the material at hand. Previous editions have included workshops on empirically informing ABMs, using qualitative data for ABMs and more broadly challenges when designing and implementing simulation models.
Registration
Join the Social Simulation Association (ESSA)
Organisers of the 2026 Edition
Cristina Chueca Del Cerro, Independent Researcher
Fabian Lorig, Malmö University, Sweden
Timo Szczepanska, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Nanda Wijermans, Stockholm University, Sweden
Degined by Cristina Chueca Del Cerro.