Report on the 9th Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI 2025) at IJCAI 2025

The goal of Search-oriented Conversational AI is to design systems that allow for a more convenient information access by means of a conversational user interface. Further development of Conversational Search systems requires closer integration and better information exchange between the diverse research communities. Over the past years, the Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) workshop became an established venue that provides a discussion platform on Conversational AI for intelligent information access, bringing together researchers and practitioners across artificial intelligence, natural language processing, information retrieval, recommender systems, machine learning, dialogue systems and human-computer interaction subfields. This year, the full-day SCAI workshop at IJCAI 2025 once again brought together a group of researchers interested in informing the design of a new generation of systems for conversational information access. This paper, co-authored by both organizers and participants of the workshop, presents a summary of the insights gathered from the joint discussions that followed the invited talks. Date: 18 August 2025. Website: https://scai.info/scai-2025/.