Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics has evolved drastically during the last decade due to the ever-tightening experimental constraints on new physics that explains the Fermi scale and the dominant dark matter paradigm of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). The fundamental mysteries of the SM have further deepened. In response to this, physicists have started exploring new avenues for addressing both the hierarchy problem and the dark matter problem, as well as focusing on bottom-up approaches with an improved understanding of the underlying QFT principles. On the experimental side, we are now in the era of high-luminosity data collecting at the LHC, making previously challenging signals accessible. At the same time, many new proposals are being developed for smaller-scale experiments for fundamental physics. We expect the following key topics to be prominently featured: light dark matter, axion-like particles, cosmological solutions to the hierarchy problem, effective field theory methods and positivity bounds, new symmetries, and their potential phenomenological applications. This program will bring together experts in novel theoretical and phenomenological approaches to navigate these new horizons and to help define the next era of particle physics.
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