2026 Annual Meeting

June 21-23, 2026

Flagstaff, Arizona

Registration

May 15 is the Early Bird Registration deadline

Register for the 2026 WAEA Annual Meeting by clicking the button below. Members will be required to login to receive discounted registration rates. Not a member? Get started by becoming a member here.

Hotel Reservations

Cutoff date to reserve rooms at the conference rate is May 21

Reserve rooms at the Flagstaff DoubleTree Hilton at the conference rate of $158 + tax. Conference rates apply for June 20 to June 23 (checkout June 24)

Paper Submissions

Welcome to the 2026 WAEA Annual Meeting’s paper submission portal. Proposals must be submitted in pdf format and cannot exceed two pages using double-spacing and a 12-pint font with one-inch margins on all sides. However, references may be included on the third page. Author information will be collected separately during the electronic submission process. Please do not place the author(s) names(s) on the abstract to facilitate the blind review process. The suggested format for the abstract is as follows: Title, Problem Statement, Objectives, Data, Methods, Results or Expected Results, and Implications.

If you are a graduate student who does “not” wish to participate in the graduate student paper competition, please choose the “Selected paper” option.

CLEAR FUTURE DATES AND DEADLINES
- Submission Deadline: February 13th, 2026
- Meeting dates: June 21-23, 2026

COMMITTEE
- William Ridley (wridley@illinois.edu) and Ram Acharya (acharyar@nmsu.edu)
AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed two pages, using double spacing and a 12-point font with 1-inch margins on all sides. However, references may be included on the third page. To facilitate the blind review process, please do not place the authors’ names on the abstract. Author information will be collected separately during the electronic submission process. The suggested format for the abstract is as follows: Title, Problem Statement, Objectives, Data, Methods, Results or Expected Results, and Implications.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposals must be submitted electronically through the link below.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Proposals can be uploaded to the conference software via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WAEA2026/Submission/Index.

HOW TO SUBMIT

If you have not submitted through this system in the past, you will need to create a user account by clicking the “Registration” tab in the online system.

After you log in to the system, click “+Create new submission” in the Author Console.
Enter the title of your proposal.
The section “AUTHORS” should list your email address, Name, Organization, and Country.
To add more authors, please enter the email address of your co-author and click “+ Add.” Fill in the fields to provide the name, organization, and country of your co-author and click “+ Add.” Repeat this process to add more co-authors.
Select the submission category. If you are submitting to the Selected Paper category, please choose the specific topic area that best characterizes your paper. If you are a graduate student who does not wish to participate in the graduate student paper competition, please use the Selected Paper category.
To upload your proposal in PDF format, click “Upload from Computer” and select the file.
Click “Submit.” You will receive notice of your submission.

THE CMT ACKNOWLEDGMENT (question in the request form)

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.