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I2S: From Innovation to Scale
Barcelona, Spain, August 25-29, 2024
Conference websitehttps://ai2sdata.github.io/ai2s/
Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i2s1

From Innovation to Scale (I2S)

Discuss and learn how to successfully build, commercialize, and scale AI innovations in challenging market conditions

The 2nd Workshop held in conjunction with KDD 2024

 

In recent years, the AI community has witnessed an exciting acceleration in innovation across foundation models, deep learning, new AI applications across numerous verticals, and more. In addition, AI innovations driven by both academic and industry research labs have rapidly been adopted by big tech companies and startups to deliver value-differentiated products and services.

For many machine learning researchers looking at commercializing their work, one of the frequently wondered questions is - “How do I kickstart a startup that can commercialize my research innovations?”. For many ML practitioners in the KDD community, there is always curiosity on how big tech and startups take AI research and innovations, and scale it to be used by millions of users. With the rapid advances in generative AI algorithms just this past year, the landscape is rapidly evolving around both the opportunities and challenges of building robust and scalable generative solutions.

The second edition of this interactive workshop aims to build on this discourse focusing on two aspects: First, the workshop will bring together invited AI thought leaders working in academia, big tech as well as startups to share their perspective on realizing the opportunities of GenAI in various business verticals via. use-case themes, challenges and risks. Second, the workshop will invite startup founders (from both academia and industry) focused on verticalized GenAI offerings to share their journey on product (commercializing their research into successful enterprises; novel risks and challenges in GenAI productization landscape) and commercial fronts (acquiring customers, building a team, pitching for initial funding) .

Topics of interest in this workshop include but are not limited to:

- Commercializing AI research innovationsn

- Scaling AI startups

- Acquiring customers in challenging market conditions

- Building successful teams

- Pitching for initial funding

- Developing and executing go-to-market strategies

- Best practices for AI innovation

Submission Guidelines

The following proposal categories are welcome:

  • Call for Papers: 

    • Proposal that highlight the use of gen AI in any vertical from health to manufacturing and finance that highlights the challenges to scale foundation model based verticalized solutions and how the research described manages to circumvent these challenges and resulted in scaling the innovation.

    • All submissions should be in PDF format according to the latest ACM template published in the ACM guidelines (two column format). Please select the generic “sigconf” sample and for blind manuscript submission recommended setting for Latex file of manuscript is: \documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart}. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. We invite you all to contribute: full papers (up to 10+2 pages) and short papers (up to 5+1 pages). Full workshop papers should not exceed 12 pages in length (maximum 8 pages for the main paper content + maximum 2 pages for appendixes + maximum 2 pages for references).

    • Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to register to KDD conference to present the paper during the I2S@2024 workshop.

  • Call for Panel:

    • Proposer name and affiliation.

    • LinkedIn profile link. Email address

    • Role on the panel: Moderator or Panelist or Panel Organizer

    •  Proposed Panel Title (10 words max)

    •  Proposed panel Abstract /summary (100 workds max)

    •  Names of Potential Panelists and their affiliation (Proposer should make an attempt to ensure these folks are available and ready to be at KDD in person to be on the panel).

    •  Sample questions for the panel to address

    • All submissions should be in PDF format according to the latest ACM template published in the ACM guidelines (two column format). Please select the generic “sigconf” sample and for blind manuscript submission recommended setting for Latex file of manuscript is: \documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart}. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English.

    • Please note that  panel moderators and guests are required to attend the workshop during the I2S@2024 workshop.

  •  Important Dates: (AOE) 

    • Submission Deadline: 15 June, 2024

    • Decisions: 1 July, 2024 

    • Workshop: 25 August, 2024 

Committees

Organizing committee

  • Ankur M. Teredesai
  • Michael Zeller
  • Mohak Shah
  • Shenghua Bao
  • Wee Hyong Tok
  • Linsey Pang 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to : ai2s.workshop@gmail.com

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