| September 1, 2025 | Start of the challenge |
| September 21, 2025 | Leaderboard opens for official validation dataset. |
| October 13, 2025 | Release of non-blind test data. Leaderboard switched to non-blind test data. |
| November 3, 2025 | Release of blind test data. Leaderboard switched to blind-test data for final ranking. |
| November 7-28, 2025 | Subjective tests for the blind-test submissions |
| November 28, 2025 | Notification of final results |
| December 7, 2025 | 2-page papers submission deadline (by invitation only) |
| May 4-8 (TBD), 2026 | ICASSP 2026 SPGC Sessions for the URGENT challenge |
| May 8, 2026 | End of the challenge |