Code of Conduct

ALE 2026 is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all conference/meeting participants and ALE 2026 team.

All participants, including, but not limited to: attendees, volunteers, ALE 2022 team members, service providers, and all others are expected to abide by this Code of Conduct. Since ALE 2026 is an unconference, all attendees are potential speakers. When you offer a session at ALE 2026, you’re still considered an attendee and will abide by this Code of Conduct.

This Policy applies to all ALE 2026 meetings and events on public or private platforms.

ALE 2026 has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings.

Unacceptable Behaviors

• Harassment, intimidation, or discrimination in any form.
• Verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, ALE 2022 team member, service provider, or other meeting guest.
• Examples of verbal abuse include, but are not limited to, verbal comments that reinforce social structures of domination related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces, presentations, or on online environments (e.g., text, email, social media, etc.), threatening, deliberate intimidation or stalking any attendee, volunteer, ALE 2026 team member, service provider, or other meeting guest in online environments.
• Harassing photography or recording that might be posted or distributed.
• Disruption of presentations during sessions, or at other events organized by ALE 2026 throughout the meeting. All participants must comply with the instructions of the moderator and any ALE 2026 team.
• Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behavior.
• Disrespecting the property and its contents.
• Presentations, postings, and messages should not contain promotional materials, special offers, job offers, product announcements, or solicitation for services. ALE 2026 reserves the right to remove such messages and potentially ban sources of those solicitations.

How to report?

If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, ALE 2026 asks that you either make an anonymous report or a personal report as follows (please use English as we are an international organization team):

Anonymous Report

You can make an anonymous report using this form. Although we cannot follow up on an anonymous report with you directly, we will fully investigate it and take whatever action is necessary to prevent a recurrence.

Personal Report

You can make a personal report by contacting the ALE 2026 team by reaching out to one of the ALE 2026 organizers:

• Inge Gorgon
• Charles-Louis de Maere

How will we deal with unacceptable behavior?

ALE 2026 reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the event without warning in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and ALE 2026 reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting, virtually or in person.