Share Your Expertise on Practical Computer Vision and AI

The call for proposals for the 2026 event will open in October 2025.

The Embedded Vision Summit is the premier conference for innovators incorporating computer vision and AI in products. It covers technologies and techniques for the entire spectrum of applications including consumer, automotive, healthcare, industrial, retail and more.

It attracts a unique audience of more than 1,400 product creators, entrepreneurs and business decision-makers who are creating and using vision and AI technology.

The 2026 Summit will take place as a live, in-person event in May, 2026 in Silicon Valley, California. It’s 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 AI.

All Summit presentation proposals are evaluated for relevance to audience interests, quality of content and the presenter’s public speaking skills. Proposals will be considered until the agenda is full–submit early for your best chance at being accepted to speak at the Summit.

Important: Talks 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 give a presentation 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.)

Presentation Topics

The Summit will continue to include a wide range of topics related to practical computer vision and AI. Included below are a selection of topics on which we especially welcome proposals (Click here for a more in-depth list of topics of interest):

Algorithms

Approaches and advances in deep neural networks, including transformer-based networks and state-space models
Vision language models, large multimodal models and large language models
Conventional (non-ML based) algorithms, including signal/image processing, detection, classification
Improving neural network model accuracy in the real world
Sensor integration and fusion in ML-based systems—vision, depth, acoustic, haptic, etc.

Fundamental Techniques

Camera selection and image quality metrics
Ensuring quality data for deep learning: data collection, curation and annotation
Fundamentals of optics and image sensors
Introduction to ML for visual perception
Understanding vision language models, large multimodal models and large language models
Introduction to model compression approaches—quantization, pruning, sparsity, distillation, etc.
Model training problems, fixes, insights, best practices

Advanced Computer Vision System Design Techniques and Components

Case studies of end-to-end computer vision and AI-based solutions, pitfalls and insights
Image and non-image sensors and processing techniques: lidar, radar, time-of-flight, stereo, audio
Insights and best practices in selecting AI/CV technologies and techniques for real-world products
Low-power, low-cost computer vision and AI components—SoCs, NPUs, etc.
Building applications with vision language models, large multimodal models and large language models
Training data collection, curation, annotation, generation, augmentation
MLOps—deploying and maintaining models in production
Tools, frameworks and techniques for developing and deploying AI-based products
Using AI agents in products

Applications

Agriculture
Automotive
Construction
Consumer
Defense and aerospace
Healthcare
Industrial and manufacturing
Retail
Security and surveillance

Who Can Present

Anyone with relevant expertise is welcome to propose a presentation. Presentations by 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 presentation, a Technology Exhibit or other elements of the Summit, please contact our team below.

Presentation Content

Talks should be substantive, insightful and educational.

For the Technical Insights, Business Insights and Fundamentals tracks, presentations should deliver 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 AI applications such as: automotive, robotics, healthcare, security, entertainment, retail, consumer, industrial, etc.
Computer vision and AI design and development techniques: software, algorithms, low-power design, trade-off studies, etc.
Computer vision and AI business opportunities: market data, trends, business models, deployment case studies, etc.

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

Commercially available components, algorithms and tools that product developers can use to incorporate computer vision or AI into systems, chips and applications.
While a talk 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 presentations:

Presentations should be given by speakers who have strong public speaking skills and subject matter expertise. The Technical Insights, Fundamentals and Enabling Technologies track talks should be presented by individuals in engineering or engineering management roles.
We encourage joint presentations with customers and partners.
Most presentations will comprise up to 20 minutes of prepared content and 5 minutes of Q&A. Selected presentations (especially Fundamentals track presentations) will be up to 40 minutes long, plus 10 minutes for Q&A.
All talks must use the Embedded Vision Summit PowerPoint template. The template includes a place for your company logo.

Information Needed to Apply

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

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 (<150 words)
Social media

Additional contact person information (optional)

Name and job title
Email address
Business phone number
Mobile phone number (not for publication)

Presentation information

Presentation title
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?

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
Complying with the Summit Attendee Registrant Terms and Conditions

Call for Presentation Proposals