We solicit short position papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers reporting technical, research or industry experience (up to 8 pages) on all dimensions of the privacy engineering domain. IWPE offers the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. Each paper, written in English, must follow IEEE EuroS&P Proceedings format.

Abstracts should be less than 300 words, entered as plain text at the submission page at EasyChair. Position papers must be up to 4 pages and long papers must be up to 8 pages, including references. 

Papers must be typeset in LaTeX in A4 format (not "US Letter") using the IEEE conference proceeding template available here. We suggest you first compile the supplied LaTeX source as is, checking that you obtain the same PDF as the one supplied, and then write your paper into the LaTeX template, replacing the boilerplate text. Please do not use other IEEE templates. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for rejection.

Abstracts must be entered as plain text at EasyChair.

Papers must be uploaded to EasyChair and must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers. Your document should render correctly in Adobe Reader 9 and when printed in black and white.

All abstracts and papers must be submitted via EasyChair at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwpe26

The review process is double-blind, submissions are therefore anonymous. Please take the following steps when preparing your submission:

• Do not include the names and affiliations of authors on the title page.
• Do not include acknowledgment of identifying names and funding sources.
• Do not include references to your institution, for example in survey materials or in git repositories.
• Do not include references to other external content that obviously deanonymizes the authors, e.g., an author's webpage or a git repo with author attribution. If it is important to reference such material, consider setting up a cloned version with identifying information removed, perhaps using anonymization tools.
• Use care in referring to related work, particularly your own. Do not omit references to provide anonymity, as this leaves the reviewer unable to grasp the context. Instead, reference your past work in the third person, just as you would any other piece of related work by another author.

Violating author anonymity is ground for desk rejection.

IWPE offers the choice of archival and non-archival paper submissions. The non-archival option is offered to avoid precluding future submissions to area-specific venues. Accepted archival submissions will be published in IEEE eXplore, which is indexed by EI Engineering Index, ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI-S), Scopus, etc.

IWPE allows the usage of AI-based systems for improving language and grammar issues, but not for content generation of submissions. Moreover, the use of AI tools has to be made explicit in the paper. Regarding reviews, the use of AI of any sort is not allowed for IWPE.

Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the paper.

All participants are expected to adhere to the Code of Conduct of the EuroS&P conference, as detailed at https://eurosp2025.ieee-security.org/code_of_conduct.html, especially regarding the principles on “Open Science”' and “Proactive Prevention of Harm”.