Call for Presentations

Share Your Expertise at the Preeminent Conference for
Practical Computer Vision and Visual AI

The Embedded Vision Summit is the preeminent conference on practical computer vision and visual AI, covering applications from the edge to the cloud. It attracts a unique audience of over 1,400 product creators, entrepreneurs and business decision-makers who are creating and using vision technology. The 2020 Summit will take place May 18-21 in Santa Clara, California. It’s the ideal venue for sharing your insights and getting the word out about new technologies, techniques, applications, products and practical breakthroughs in computer vision.

All Summit presentation proposals are evaluated for relevance to audience interests, quality of content and the presenter’s public speaking skills.

Important: Talks from companies that supply building-block technologies (such as processors, software tools, camera modules, data labeling services) require a sponsorship fee if the topic of the talk is related to the company’s products (for example, describing the technology underlying the product or a use case of the product). Please contact sponsor@embedded-vision.com for sponsorship details. (If you would like to make a presentation about a product that has not yet been announced, please contact us to discuss options for limiting the information that we will make public prior to the Summit.)

We are still accepting proposals as we look for a few additional strong presentations to round out the program. If you are interested in making a presentation at the Summit, send your proposal as soon as possible. The program is being formed now!

Presentation Tracks

Enabling Technologies

If the presenter’s company supplies building-block technologies (such as processors, software tools, camera modules, data labeling services) and the proposed talk is related to the company’s products (for example, describing the technology underlying the product or a use case of the product), the talk goes in the Enabling Technologies track.

Technical Insights

Talks focused on peer-to-peer technical education at an intermediate or advanced level go in the Technical Insights track. In these talks, experienced engineers present techniques, trade-offs and case studies useful to vision product developers.

Fundamentals

Introductory technical tutorials go in the Fundamentals track. These talks are intended for those who are new to practical computer vision and visual AI—or to some aspects of it. They provide a fast-track technical learning experience delivering practical know-how that attendees can put to work right away.

Business Insights

Talks focused on market research, business models, solution-level case studies and high-level technology trends and challenges go in the Business Insights track. These talks are intended to provide business decision-makers with insights that will help them make important decisions about products, markets and technologies.

Who Can Present

"This is an emerging industry and all the key players are here. If you want to learn quickly, understand the key drivers, and know what’s going to happen in the next few years, you should be here."

Jan Grotenberg
Co-founder, Silicon Valley Link

All companies are welcome to propose presentations for the Embedded Vision Summit. However, presentations regarding building-block technologies that are related to your company’s products or services are only available to Embedded Vision Alliance Member companies.

For information about sponsoring a presentation, exhibiting in the Technology Showcase or sponsoring other elements of the Summit, please contact sponsor@embedded-vision.com.

Presentation Topics

A number of people have asked if we are planning to focus on any particular topics at the Summit this year.  While we will continue to include a wide range of topics related to practical computer vision and visual AI applications, for the 2020 Summit we are expanding the program to address other types of sensor-based AI as well, such as audio, speech and radar.  We especially welcome talks on the following topics:

  • Top-to-bottom software stack for sensor-based AI systems and applications
  • Using other types of sensors for AI (radar, lidar, speech/audio, etc.), in conjunction with or as alternatives to image sensors
  • Privacy, security and bias in sensor-based AI systems
  • Low-power deep learning
  • Edge-cloud trade-offs
  • Training data (including synthetic data and data augmentation)
  • Enterprise applications
  • Applications in mobile autonomous machines (cars, robots, drones, etc.)
  • Applications in healthcare (medical imaging, home healthcare, etc.)
  • Applications in smart spaces (retail analytics, security, etc.)

Presentation Content

Talks should be substantive, insightful & educational.

For the Technical Insights, Business Insights and Fundamentals tracks, talks should present practical insights, data and techniques that attendees can put to use whether or not they use your company’s products. Examples include:

  • Computer vision and visual AI applications such as: automotive, robotics, healthcare, security, entertainment, retail, consumer, industrial, etc.
  • Computer vision and visual AI design and development techniques: software, algorithms, low-power design, trade-off studies, etc.
  • Computer vision and visual AI business opportunities: market data, trends, business models, deployment case studies, etc.
  • Talks in the Technical Insights, Business Insights, and Fundamentals tracks must not be promotional, i.e., they cannot be about promoting your company’s products or services.

For the sponsored Enabling Technologies track:

  • Commercially available components, algorithms and tools that product developers can use to incorporate vision into systems, chips and applications.
  • Talks in this track can be promotional

Speakers & Logistics

We’re looking forward to hearing what you have to say!

Here are some details for your presentation submission to have the most success.

  • Talks should be presented by speakers who have strong public speaking skills and subject matter expertise. For the Technical Insights track, talks should be presented by individuals in engineering or engineering management roles.
  • We encourage joint presentations with customers and partners.
  • All talks will take place on May 19 or 20, 2020 in Santa Clara, California.
  • Most presentations will be 20-25 minutes long, plus about 5 minutes for Q&A. Selected presentations (especially Fundamentals track presentations) will be 45-50 minutes long, plus about 10 minutes for Q&A.
  • All talks must use the Embedded Vision Summit PowerPoint template which will be distributed in January. The template includes a place for your company logo.

Deadline: Embedded Vision Summit presentation proposals will be reviewed as they arrive. We will continue accepting proposals until the program is filled. Speaking slots are limited so submit your proposal as soon as possible.

To propose a Summit presentation, please use the form here:

Speaker Proposal Submission

For your convenience, below is a list of information needed to complete the form.

Company information

  • Company name (as you want it to appear in the program)

Speaker information

  • Name and Job title (as you want it to appear in the program)
  • E-mail address
  • Business phone number and postal address
  • Mobile phone number (not for publication)
  • Speaker bio summary (<150 words).
    • Additional contact person information: [optional]
    • Name and Job title
    • E-mail address
    • Business phone number
    • Mobile phone number (not for publication)

Presentation information

  • Presentation title
  • Targeted track (see track descriptions above).
  • Abstract: Describe the scope and depth of the talk, including key examples (<150 words).
  • Detailed outline
  • Description of target audience (job function, experience level).
  • Purpose: What will the audience gain from this talk (<25 words)?
  • Relationship between the presentation topic and the speaker’s company’s products or services (<50 words)?
  • Have you previously presented at the Summit? (First-time Summit speakers must contact us to arrange a phone call to complete your proposal.)

If your presentation is accepted, you commit to the following:

  • Appearing at the Summit to present (no substitute speakers).
  • Using the official Embedded Vision Summit slide template design.
  • Submitting and revising slides according to the schedule in your acceptance letter.
  • Updating your slides in response to feedback from the organizers.
  • Allowing your slides to be distributed after the event.
  • Allowing a video and/or audio recording of your presentation to be distributed after the event.
  • Following the Speaker Guidelines. (Sent to speakers upon acceptance into the program)

Again, to propose a Summit presentation, please submit the above information ASAP using the following link.

If you have questions regarding submitting a proposal, please e-mail present@embedded-vision.com.

See you at the Summit! May 18-21 in Santa Clara, California!