SCORED 2026 (Conference on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses)

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Linux Foundation

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Invite for academia, industry, and governmental entities to submit original research papers or security-in-practice talks concerning the security of software supply chains from both technical and policy perspectives.

Submit a SCORED Paper

Submissions in SCORED 2026 fall under two tracks: research papers and security-in-practice talks.

Research papers:
a) Original research on a software supply chain security topic.
b) Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) of software supply chain security.

For the submission, the main content of the paper should fit into no more than 8 pages; references and appendices do not count towards this page limit. For final (accepted) version of papers, the total page count (including references and appendices) must fit into 10 pages.

Submissions in the research paper track must be a PDF file in double-column ACM format (see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version at https://github.com/acmccs/format).

*Note that reviewers are not required to read the appendices or any supplementary material.

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Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format.
Accepted papers will be published by the ACM Press and/or the ACM Digital Library.
A shepherd may be assigned to ensure the quality of the proceedings version of the submission. Each accepted submission must be presented at SCORED by a registered author.

Security-in-practice talks: Focus is on presenting experiences and perspectives from industry, open-source, NGOs, or policymakers/law. Talks may discuss key challenges in risk management or adoption, recommend opportunities to address as a research topic, or project demos.

Submissions in the SIP talk track propose a 20-min one or two-speaker talk on a specific workshop topic. Submissions must include two parts:
(1) an Abstract that provides a detailed and focused summary of the proposed talk (max 300 words), and (2) a “Relevance and Benefits to the Ecosystem” section that describes how the content of your presentation will help better the ecosystem or anything you wish to share with the program committee (max 500 words).

These two sections must not exceed 2 pages, including any supplementary materials, figures, tables, and references. Final versions of SIP talk abstracts must use the provided template to be included in the proceedings.

For questions about the CFP process, please contact cfp@linuxfoundation.org.

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*Submissions accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms will not be considered.

*Submissions that do not follow the required format may be rejected without review.