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SIG Conference Planning Guide

Volunteer commitment and coordination is the foundation that makes an ACM conference successful. ACM provides a comprehensive planning guide with instructions and best practices to help create the best possible event.

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CSCW 2024, Nov. 9 - 13

The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities. In addition to presentations and demonstrations, workshops include "What is Safety? Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms," "From Stem to Stern: Contestable AI Along AI Value Chains," and more. Keynote speakers are Paola Ricaurte (Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). The event will be held in San José, Costa Rica.

SC24, Nov. 17 - 22

At the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, invited talks will show how translational research and technologies and their applications address some of the most complex challenges of our time. Tutorials and workshops include "Advanced MPI Programming," "Principles and Practice of High Performance Deep/Machine Learning Training and Inference," "Machine Learning with Graphs in High-Performance Computing Environments," "Core-Level Performance Engineering," and more. Keynote speaker is Nicola Fox (NASA). The event will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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MobiCom 2024, Nov. 18 - 22

The International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking is dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking, serving as a highly selective, premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and mobile computer and wireless network support. Sessions include "Physics Embedded AI Solutions in Mobile Computing," "Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems for 6G," "Mobile Computing with Efficient and Interactive Foundation Models,"and more. Keynote speakers will be Jan Rabaey (University of California, Berkeley) and Fouad Tobagi (Stanford University). The event will be held in Washington D.C.

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Middleware 2024, Dec. 2 - 6

The ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. The Middleware conference seeks original submissions of research papers on a diverse range of topics including but are not limited to cloud and data centers, virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling, data-intensive computing, and more. The event is being held in Hong Kong, China.

ACM/IFIP Middleware Conference 2024, December 2 - 6 in Hong Kong, China

CoNEXT 2024, Dec. 9 - 12

The International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies will be a major forum for presentations and discussions of novel networking technologies that will shape the future of Internetworking. The conference is single track and features a high-quality technical program with significant opportunities for individual and small-group technical and social interactions among a diverse set of participants. Workshops include "Decentralization of the Internet (DIN)," "5G and Beyond Network Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases (5G-MeMU)," ad more. The conference will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2024, Dec. 9 - 12 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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ICAIF 2024, Nov. 14 - 18

The ACM International Conference on AI in Finance is a peer-reviewed scholarly conference that brings together researchers from academia, government and industry to share challenges, advances, and insights on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning in finance. Workshops include "AI in Africa for Sustainable Economic Development" "Synthetic Data and GenAI in Finance," "Synthetic Data and GenAI in Finance," "Multimodal Financial Foundation Models," Women in AI and Finance" and more. The event will be held in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

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WSC 2024, Dec. 15 - 18

Winter Simulation Conference 2024 highlights the value of simulation for imagination work, that is, the work of system designers, creators, and innovators. We invite papers that emphasize the latest advances in simulation theory and applications showcasing the power of simulation for imagination and creativity. The conference will host pre-conference workshops, introductory and advanced tutorials, commercial case studies, poster sessions, and the PhD Colloquium. Keynote speakers are Michael Tschanz (Disney Experiences), Amy Sardeshmukh (Disney Experiences), and Frederick Zahrn (The Walt Disney Company). The event is being held in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Winter Simulation Conference 2024, Dec. 15-18, in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Conferences Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are presented at many ACM conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas. By recognizing these select papers for their ingenuity and importance, ACM highlights some of the theoretical and practical innovations that are likely to shape the future of computing.

Desirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education
By Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromir Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
Best Paper at ITiCSE '24: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Mining Domain-Based Policies
By Si Zhang, Philip W. L. Fong
Best Paper Award at CODASPY '24: 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy

The Impact of Perceived Tone, Age, and Gender on Voice Assistant Persuasiveness in the Context of Product Recommendations
By Sabid Bin Habib Pias, Ran Huang, Donald S. Williamson, Minjeong Kim, Apu Kapadia
Best paper award at CUI '24: ACM Conversational User Interfaces

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Virtual Conferences: A Guide to Best Practices

In March 2020 ACM formed a Presidential Task Force (PTF) to help conference organizers transition their events to online. The PTF is working on a guide to offer practical advice and shed light on the largely unfamiliar territory of online conferencing.

The report, available here, includes pointers to a live document with additional resources. We welcome comments, suggestions and experience reports from the community.