Call for Proposals
Share Your Expertise on Practical Computer Vision, Visual AI and Other Sensor-Based AI
By submitting your proposal for a session at the Embedded Vision Summit!
By submitting 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 1,200 product creators, entrepreneurs and business decision-makers who are creating and using vision technology. The 2021 Summit will be a virtual conference, taking place online on May 25-28. The Summit is known for very high quality, highly 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.
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!
Please be sure to read the details below before applying.
If you are interested in having a session at the Summit, send your proposal as soon as possible. The program is being formed now!
If you are interested in having a session at the Summit, send your proposal as soon as possible. The program is being formed now!
Session Types
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)
- “Over-the-Shoulder” tutorials with step-by-step instruction
- Brief presentations
To minimize technical issues, all content except for audience Q&A will be pre-recorded. Most sessions will be broadcast at a scheduled time slot, and immediately followed by live Q&A. Some sessions will be made available “on-demand” ahead of the live conference dates, and will have audience Q&A enabled through online text chat.
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 sponsor@edge-ai-vision.com 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
Product-related sessions from companies that supply building-block technologies (such as processors, software tools, algorithms, sensors, camera modules, data labeling services) go in the Enabling Technologies track 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.
These are sessions from companies that supply building-block technologies on topics related to the company’s products—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
All companies are welcome to propose presentations for the Embedded Vision Summit. However, Enabling Technologies track sessions are available only to Edge AI and Vision Alliance Member companies.
For information about sponsoring a session, presenting a demo, exhibiting in the Technology Showcase or sponsoring other elements of the Summit, please contact sponsor@edge-ai-vision.com.
All Summit session proposals are evaluated for relevance to audience interests, quality of content and the presenter’s public speaking skills.
All Summit session proposals are evaluated for relevance to audience interests, quality of content and the presenter’s public speaking skills.
Session Topics
We will continue to include a wide range of topics related to practical computer vision and visual AI applications. We especially welcome sessions on the following topics:
- Top-to-bottom software stack for sensor-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
- 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 deep learning
- Edge-cloud trade-offs
- Federated and edge learning
- Obtaining and managing 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.)
Sessions Content
Sessions should be substantive, insightful & 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.
- Sessions in the Technical Insights, Business Insights, and Fundamentals tracks may not promote products or services.
For sponsored, product-related sessions:
- 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 & Logistics
We’re looking forward to hearing what you have to say!
Here are some details to maximize the chances of success for your session proposal:
- Sessions should be presented by speakers who have strong public speaking skills and subject matter expertise. For 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 comprise 15 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!
Submit your proposal for a session at the Embedded Vision Summit
Information Needed for the Form to Apply
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)
If you have questions regarding submitting a proposal, please e-mail present@embedded-vision.com.
