Call for Affinity Workshops
By Arjun Subramonian, Konstantina Palla and Ogbuokiri Blessing
We are calling for affinity groups to host workshops and/or socials at NeurIPS 2023. NeurIPS 2023 will take place Sunday, December 10, 2023 through Saturday, December 16, 2023. It will be a livestreamed and recorded conference and will be held in New Orleans at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Goal of Affinity Workshops
The main aim of workshops is to encourage people to showcase their work and step into the NeurIPS community. Unlike other workshops, affinity group workshops are centered around creating space for communities marginalized in AI and ML, and generally accept a wider scope of submissions topic-wise. The idea of having affinity group workshops is to establish research communities out of affinity groups and raise awareness of the challenges faced by them. Furthermore, affinity group socials provide safe, inclusive spaces for members of affinity groups to socialize and network.
Previously, affinity groups like Women in Machine Learning (WiML), Queer in AI (QinAI), Black in AI (BAI), LatinX in AI (LXAI), {Dis}Ability in AI, Indigenous in AI, Global South in AI, Muslims in ML, and Jews in ML have organized workshops and socials at NeurIPS. In this call, we welcome applications from all kinds of affinity groups.
Affinity workshops will take place Monday, December 11, 2023, which will overlap with tutorials. By default, affinity workshops will be livestreamed and have Zoom access (unless the organizers wish otherwise). While we encourage workshops to have in-person components, we recognize that this is often difficult or impossible; as such, workshops can be entirely virtual.
Workshops may include but are not limited to one or more of the following: Keynote talks, Lightning talks, Panels, Poster presentations, Discussions and Art exhibits.
We will hold a separate in-person and virtual poster session exclusively for affinity groups on Monday, December 11, 2023. Authors from all affinity groups that issue a call for papers/contributions/media are required to participate in either the in-person or virtual joint poster session.
Every group considering submitting a workshop must read the Affinity Workshops and Socials Call NeurIPS 2023, which describes the philosophy behind hosting workshops, affinity group socials, joint poster sessions, selection criteria and process, format for proposals, and other frequently asked questions.
Submission instructions
You can send the proposal to the Affinity Workshops team (affinity-workshop-chairs@neurips.cc) in the form of a PDF file. Important dates for workshop submissions:
- Workshop Application Open – May 10, 2023
- Workshop Application Deadline – June 10, 2023 AOE
- Workshop Acceptance Notification – June 17, 2023 AOE