Share Your Expertise on Practical Computer Vision and Visual AI

Submit your proposal for a session at the Embedded Vision Summit!

The Embedded Vision Summit is the premier conference on practical computer vision and visual AI, covering technologies and techniques for the entire spectrum of applications including consumer, automotive, health and fitness, industrial, retail and more. It attracts a unique audience of more than 1,000 product creators, entrepreneurs and business decision-makers who are creating and using vision technology. The 2022 Embedded Vision Summit will take place as a live, in-person event on May 16-19, 2022 in Santa Clara, California. The Summit is known for high-quality, relevant content, so 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 and visual AI.

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

Session Formats

To maximize audience learning and engagement, Summit sessions will have a variety of formats, including:

Interviews
Round-table discussions
Expert Bars (dedicated to audience Q&A on a specific topic)
Presentations

Important: Sessions presented by companies that supply building-block technologies (such as processors, software tools, algorithms, sensors, camera modules, data labeling services) require a sponsorship fee if the topic of the session is related to the company’s products (for example, describing the technology underlying the product or a use case of the product). Please contact us for sponsorship details. (If you would like to host a session on 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.

Session Tracks

Enabling Technologies

Sessions from companies that supply building-block technologies (such as processors, software tools, algorithms, sensors, camera modules and data labeling services) on topics related to the company’s products. Examples include describing the technology underlying the product or a use case of the product appearing only in the Enabling Technologies track. Note: sponsorship required.

Technical Insights

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

Business Insights

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

Fundamentals

Introductory technical tutorials go in the Fundamentals track. These sessions 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.

Who Can Present

Anyone with relevant experience, products, use cases or specific AI and vision expertise is welcome to propose a session at the Embedded Vision Summit. Sessions from companies that supply building-block technologies on topics related to the company’s products are available only to Edge AI and Vision Alliance Member companies.

For information about sponsoring a session, a Technology Exhibit or other elements of the Summit, please contact one of our team members below.

Session Topics

The Summit covers a wide range of topics related to practical computer vision and visual AI. We especially welcome sessions on the following topics:

Top-to-bottom software stacks for vision-based AI systems and applications
Tools and techniques for training and deployment of deep neural networks
Using other types of sensors for AI (radar, lidar, speech/audio, etc.), in conjunction with or as alternatives to image sensors
Depth sensing
Image sensors and image signal processing
Tracking
Assessing algorithm accuracy in real-world applications
Privacy, security and bias in sensor-based AI systems
Selecting processors, image sensors, algorithms and development tools
Low-power and low-cost edge vision and machine learning
Edge-cloud trade-offs
Federated learning and edge learning
Obtaining and managing training data (including synthetic data and data augmentation)
Edge AI DevOps (“MLops”)
Enterprise and consumer applications of computer vision and visual AI
Applications in mobile machines (cars, robots, agricultural equipment, etc.)
Applications in healthcare (medical imaging, home healthcare, etc.)
Applications in smart spaces (retail analytics, security, etc.)
Industry and technology trends

Session Content

Sessions should be substantive, insightful and educational.

For the Technical Insights, Business Insights and Fundamentals tracks, sessions 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.

Note: Sessions in the Technical Insights, Business Insights, and Fundamentals tracks may not promote products or services.

For sponsored, product-related sessions (Enabling Technologies track):

Commercially available components, algorithms and tools that product developers can use to incorporate vision into systems, chips and applications.
While a session in this track can be about your company’s product, content should be educational rather than promotional in substance and tone.

Speakers and Logistics

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

Here are some important details about sessions:

Sessions should be presented by speakers who have strong public speaking skills and subject matter expertise. The Technical Insights, Fundamentals and Enabling Technologies track sessions should be presented by individuals in engineering or engineering management roles.
We encourage joint presentations with customers and partners.
Most sessions will be comprised of up to 20 minutes of prepared content and about 10 minutes of Q&A. Selected presentations (especially Fundamentals track presentations) will be about 40 minutes long, plus about 15 minutes for Q&A.
All talks must use the Embedded Vision Summit PowerPoint template. The template includes a place for your company logo.

Deadline: Although the deadline to submit a proposal has passed, we will consider new proposals until the agenda is full. Space is limited, so submit your presentation now!

Information Needed to Apply

For your convenience, below is a list of information needed to propose a session.

Speaker information

Name and job title (as you want it to appear in the program)
Email 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
Email address
Business phone number
Mobile phone number (not for publication)

Presentation information

Presentation title
The preferred format for the session: interview, Round-table discussion, presentation, Expert Bar (dedicated to audience Q&A on a specific topic)
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, which will be sent to speakers upon acceptance into the program

2022 Call for Proposals