OPEN CALL FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS
Important dates
Submission deadline:
April 7, 2025
Acceptance notification:
April 24, 2025
Camera-ready version deadline:
May 15, 2025
Questions
Please contact Simone Pasolini simone@ddsa.dk
How to submit a proposal
Submissions can be made through the Microsoft CMT submission system.
All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Program Committee.
The Microsoft CMT service is used for managing the peer reviewing proces for this conference. This service is provided for free by Microsoft and they bear all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Session format
A session can take a variety of formats, from workshops, seminars, or panels to problem-solving sessions, hackathons, or other novel formats. Organizing a session as a mini-conference is discouraged.
All sessions are 90 minutes.
Themes
Topically, a session must be within the research scope of the three parent organizations DIREC, DDSA, and P1.
A non-exhaustive list of the different research areas represented
- Big Data management & analysis
- Algorithms and data structures
- Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, autonomous systems
- Verification and software engineering
- Cybersecurity, privacy, and blockchains
- Digital business innovation, processes and models
- HCI, CSCW, participatory design, and information visualization
- Artificial Intelligence theory
- Responsible and ethical AI and digital technologies
- Explainable AI
- Natural language processing
- Graphs and network science
- Computer vision and pattern recognition
- Data Science and AI for signal processing and decoding
- Data science with statistical methods or other computational sciences (incl. mathematical modelling, simulations, etc.)
- Data Science in/for other sciences
- Digitalization topics within quantum computing
- Societal impact of digital technologies, data science and AI
We also welcome cross-cutting sessions that bring together researchers on the below societal issues
We encourage you to use our LinkedIn group to search for people from different disciplines to work together to create synergies through your D3A sessions and expand your network.
- Biotech, life and health sciences / Digital health
- Climate and conservation / Climate change
- Green transition / Sustainability
- Crisis response
- Economic growth and entrepreneurship / Future of work
- Education and capacity building
- Energy and infrastructure
- Equality and inclusion
- Information verification and validation
- Security, ethics and justice / Cybersecurity
- Public and social sector
- Agriculture
Examples of possible sessions
- Current research overviews in a specific area
- Workshops discussing work-in-progress
- Cross-disciplinary session with the purpose of establishing new collaborations
- Seminars dedicated to using digital technology for contributing to solving societal challenges
- Discussions of possible joint project proposals
- Workshops focused on best practices for collaboration between academia and industry or public institutions
- Thematic meetings that gather researchers within a specific DIREC workstream, DDSA research area or P1 collaboratory
Session organizers
A primary purpose of sessions is to strengthen the network for PhD students, postdocs, and junior faculty, and this should be reflected in the organization of the sessions.
As a result, each session organizing team should at least strike a balance between junior and senior researchers, although we would prefer a majority of junior researchers to make up the organizing team.
Session speakers
Sessions are welcome to feature one or more invited speakers. We expect speakers to be people who would participate in the conference anyway.
We actively encourage and expect diverse perspectives and experiences in the speaker lineup. This includes a range of viewpoints and approaches to the session’s topics, alongside a diverse pool of session speakers in terms of gender, ethnicity, career stage, affiliation and more.
Please be aware that we will offer no travel or funding support for speakers, except in highly exceptional situations. Instead, we have reduced the registration fees as much as possible.
If there is a specific reason why you think we should waive the registration fee for a speaker, please reach out.
Who can submit a proposal?
D3A is a scientific event that will mostly cater to researchers within digitalization research. Nevertheless, we also welcome contributions from corporations, startups and public institutions that have a scientific purpose.
You cannot bring external sponsors to or distribute merchandise at the conference. However, you can hand out prizes, e.g., the best paper award.
Proposal submission format
- Title
- Overall topic
- Brief description of the workshop: Introduce the topic of the session and argue for its interest to the D3A community (max. 500 words).
- Main activities: Provide a tentative schedule for the planned activities in the workshop.
- Tentative speakers’ list: Be as concrete as possible about the speakers and/or panelists you plan to invite.
- Target audience and size: Specify who the target audience for the workshop is. If you want a maximum cap on the number of participants, please specify this.
- Workshop outcome: Please describe what you expect participants will get out of participating in your workshop
- Level: Specify what level attendees should expect
◦ Introductory: Suitable for beginners with little to no prior knowledge of the subject.
◦ Intermediate: For attendees who have basic understanding or some experience with the subject but are not yet advanced.
◦ Advanced: Aimed at attendees with significant experience and a strong understanding of the subject. - Organizers: Provide the names, affiliations and email addresses of the organizers. There should be at least 2 organizers with one of them designated as the lead organizer, who will then serve as the point of contact with the Organizing Committee.
Selection of proposals
When selecting session proposals, the Scientific Program Committee will consider the following assessment criteria:
- Scientific merit (1-5)
- What is the scientific merit of the proposed session?
- Relevance to the Danish community (1-5)
- How relevant is the session topic for the Danish digitalization, data science and AI communities?
- Session format (1-5)
- Does the proposed session format have the potential to result in an engaging and/or interactive session?
- Diversity and inclusion (1-5)
- How diverse and inclusive is the session in terms for organizers, speakers, participants and topics?
- Balance between junior and senior organizers (1-5)
- Is there a fair balance between junior and senior organizers/speakers in the proposed session?
Scientific Program Committee
- Toine Bogers, ITU / P1 (Head of the commitee)
- Adam Hulman, AU / DDSA
- Melanie Ganz, KU / DIREC