From July 10th to 15th, the 31st Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2026), one of the most prestigious international conferences in the field of computer science education research, was held at the Vicálvaro Campus of Rey Juan Carlos University. The conference, supported by the international organizations SIGCSE (ACM Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education), ACM Europe, and Informatics Europe, was organized by ETSII professors Ángel Velázquez Iturbide and Jaime Urquiza Fuentes.
The congress was opened by the Rector of URJC, Abraham Duarte Muñoz, along with the president of SIGCSE, Brian Dorn; the chair of the ITiCSE steering committee, Susan Rodger; the program committee chairmen, Keith Quille and Stephen Cooper; and the congress chairmen themselves.
The congress has been a great scientific and organizational success, thanks in large part to the support of the Vicálvaro Campus Management and the ETSII, as well as the involvement of several professors from the School —Sergio Cavero Díaz, Estefanía Martín Barroso, Pedro Paredes Barragán, Maximiliano Paredes Velasco, Salvador Sánchez Alonso, Liliana Santacruz Valencia and María Zapata Cáceres— and 16 volunteers, most of them computer science students.
ITiCSE is indexed in the iCORE index, and in this edition, the acceptance rate for submissions was only 25% (104 accepted submissions out of a total of 416 submitted). The review process involved 365 reviewers under the supervision of 49 meta-reviewers. In addition, 54 posters and 29 short communications were presented, and three roundtables were held. In total, the congress had 364 attendees from 39 countries.
The program was organized into three initial days dedicated to working groups and the doctoral consortium, followed by three days of presentations. The 12 working groups brought together 150 participants, with the goal of producing a report for each group on various current topics in computer science education. During the conference, two invited lectures were given by Lillian Cassel and Carlos Delgado Kloos, and the SIGCSE Broadening Participation in Computer Science Education Award was presented to Bethany Edmunds. As the main social event, attendees enjoyed a guided tour of the Prado Museum, followed by the traditional gala dinner.
Further information can be found in the conference websiteand the minutes are available at the ACM Digital Library.