Important Dates

All dates are to be intended anywhere on earth time (AoE) and are provisional

• 1st September 2025: Challenge launch with training/development datasets; baseline; rules and documentation.
• 1st November 2025: Release of evaluation data and opening of submission window.
• 1st December 2025: Submission deadline. All entrants must have submitted their predictions plus a draft of their technical report.

If CLIP1 is accepted as an ICASSP SP Grand Challenge (decision in July)

• 7th December 2025: Top teams invited to submit 2 page paper for ICASSP
• 11th January 2026: ICASSP paper acceptance notification
• 18th January 2026: ICASSP camera-ready 2-page papers due.
• 3rd-8th May 2026: Session during ICASSP 2026, Barcelona, Spain.

If CLIP1 doesn't become an ICASSP SP Grand Challenge, we'll organise a separate Cadenza workshop for entrants.