Are you considering organizing a conference? Or starting a new conference series? Think about requesting either sponsorship or in-cooperation status from SIGAI!
Your conference advertisement will reach more than a thousand members of the SIGAI organization and thousands more at ACM. The ACM organizer conference manual provides detailed information. Here is a brief description of the sponsorship and in-cooperation or sponsorship possibilities.
Check all the available information and resources:
Requesting Conference Sponsorship with ACM/SIGAI
A sponsored or co-sponsored conference is a conference for which SIGAI assumes financial and technical responsibility. Proceedings will be copyrighted by ACM and be in the Digital Library, unless specific agreements are in place with other co-sponsors.
To request sponsorship from SIGAI, contact the SIGAI Chair providing the following information:
- Name, time and place of the conference.
- Description of the conference.
- Intended audience and size.
- Organization of the conference.
- Preliminary budget including any financial resources, including other sponsorships and grants.
SIGAI sponsorship provides many benefits:
- ACM will assist the conference organizers with overall conference arrangements and budget planning
- ACM will assist the conference organizers with hotel selection and contract negotiations
- ACM will support financial transactions for the conference with an option to coordinate registrations on-line with the conference accounts
- The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library
- The announcement of the conference will be posted on the SIGAI web site
- The ACM SIGAI logo and name can be used on any publicity about the conference
- The conference will be listed in the ACM calendar
Holding a Conference In-Cooperation with ACM/SIGAI
An in-cooperation conference is a conference sponsored by another organization that wishes to have a formal connection with ACM/SIGAI and its members. This arrangement implies no financial involvement from SIGAI, and it is straightforward to obtain, provided that
- The technical meeting meets Association standards of technical excellence and has reasonable relevance to the activities of ACM.
- Benefits will accrue to the technical meeting because of the cooperation of ACM
- Benefits will accrue to ACM because of its cooperation.
- Association members are encouraged to participate on the organizing com
- The organizing committee agrees that within 3 months a short post-meeting report summarizing the results is to be forwarded to the Conference Committee of ACM.
- The organizing committee agrees to state that this meeting is “in-cooperation with ACM” in all references to the conference including conference promotions, proceedings, press releases, etc.
- ACM members are entitled to the same registration fee as available to member of sponsoring organizations.
- ACM members may purchase proceedings at the same rate as sponsoring organizations.
- A table is provided in the registration area for a display of ACM membership and publication literature if needed.
- Proof of liability insurance is provided by all sponsoring organizations.
In-cooperation provides important benefits:
- The announcement of the conference will be posted on the SIGAI web site.
- The ACM SIGAI logo and name can be used on any publicity about the conference.
- The conference will be listed in the ACM calendar.
For information on how to obtain the in-cooperation status read the SIG Conference Manual – In-Cooperation Conference Guidelines and submit to ACM the In Cooperation Technical Meeting Request Forms (InCoop TMRF) using the on-line application. Note that official approval may take up to six weeks after receipt of all application documents.
SIGAI sponsored conferences
K-CAP
International Conference on Knowledge Capture
IUI
Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
HRI
Human-Robot Interaction
ASE
Automated Software Engineering
WI-IAT
ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
EAAMO
ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization
Sponsored and in-cooperation conferences
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