Call for Proposals
Share Your Expertise on Practical Computer Vision and Visual 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 1,400 product creators, entrepreneurs and business decision-makers who are creating and using vision technology. 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.
The 2022 Summit will take place May 16-19, 2022 in Santa Clara, California.
The official Call for Proposals will be sent out in October 2021. To receive updates about the Call for Proposals, send an email with your name, job title and company name to [email protected].
All companies are welcome to propose sessions for the Embedded Vision Summit program. However, sessions on building-block technologies and techniques (such as processors and software tools) that are related to the presenting company’s commercial offerings require sponsorship and are only available to Edge AI and Vision Alliance Member companies.
For information about sponsoring a session, exhibiting in the Technology Showcase or sponsoring other elements of the Summit, please contact [email protected]. If you have questions regarding submitting a session proposal, or would like to discuss a potential topic, please email [email protected].
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)
- 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected].
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 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: We will begin accepting proposals in October 2021. Space will be limited, so plan to submit your proposal early!
Information Needed to Apply
For your convenience, below is a list of information needed to propose a session.
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 photo
- Speaker bio summary (<150 words)
- Name and job title
- E-mail address
- Business phone number
- Mobile phone number (not for publication)
Additional contact person information
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)
