Invited Paper Sessions – Open for Proposals!

The ISI invites the statistical community to submit proposals for sessions for the Invited Paper Sessions (IPS) programme of the 66th World Statistics Congress, to be held 11-15 July 2027 in Lusaka, Zambia.

The WSC 2027 will highlight the newest insights, developments and challenges of statistics, statistical science, and data science in all aspects of life in the era of AI. The congress will host key notes, talks and presentations on a wide variety of topics, with the overall goal of presenting a balanced programme that provides a sense of the current state and future direction of statistics and their applications.

The programme will span the full field of statistics and data science including academia, business, industry, government and official statistics in line with the breadth of the ISI and the Associations affiliated with the ISI. Topics include but are not limited to official statistics, survey statistics, environmental statistics, business and industrial statistics, applications of statistics, mathematical statistics, probability, biostatistics, statistics education, statistical literacy, statistical computing, data visualization, statistics and geospatial information.

Invited Paper Sessions – Submit your Proposal by 9 April 2026.
Each IPS proposal should include a brief description and justification for the proposed session and a list of presenters and discussants who have agreed to participate. The selection criteria will take into account scientific quality, impact, and overall diversity. 

The IPS is 100 minutes in length and has 1 Chair and a maximum of 5 speakers and 3 panellists or 3 discusssants.

Before submitting your IPS proposal, please review the following two pages.

1. Guidelines for Session Organisers, Chairs, Presenters and Discussants
2. A step-by-step guide on how to submit your IPS proposal in the system

Acceptance of your IPS proposal will be e-mailed by July.

The ISI ensures that:

• The programme is of high quality, with sessions that emphasize innovative ideas, approaches and/or applications to problems of importance;
• The sessions have a balance of Organisers / Presenters / Discussants from around the world; and
• The congress has a diversity of participants with respect to age, gender and statistical interests.

Do you have questions or issues submitting your IPS proposal? Please send an e-mail to scientific@isi-wsc.org.

Fabrizio Ruggeri ISI President	Rolando Ocampo (CEPAL) SPC Chair