Dear company representatives and potential speakers,

The first ever VIS convention - VIScon - will be taking place from the 5th to the 7th of October 2018 in the CAB building at ETH in downtown Zürich. VIScon consists of a 3 day Hackathon combined with a one day Symposium (on Saturday 6th).

The Symposium will be packed with talks, workshops and plenty of opportunities to network. We are looking forward to creating a program aimed at interested and motivated students eager to learn more about the Computer Science happening outside the lecture halls. Therefore, we are seeking for inspiring and fun people, coming from different companies and backgrounds to talk about what they do and how they got there.

The Symposium will consist of two tracks:

A technical Computer Science track with focus on the latest and coolest research fields as well as their uses and implementations in the real world. Talks and Workshops on this track are aimed at Computer Science students and can (and should) dive in some of the deeper technological details.

An Entrepreneurship track aimed at students interested into getting more insights into topics like how to develop an idea, improve one’s soft skills to how to start and run a business.

Creating a schedule that takes into account the speaker's’ needs and wishes as well as ours takes a lot of time and requires some planning. We defined some guidelines to streamline the proposal application process and give everyone the same framework to propose their topic.

Since it is an application process we unfortunately cannot guarantee that every single idea and/or topic you suggest will be selected for the final schedule. However, we will strive to include as many speakers and companies as we can. Please note that there is a limit of 2 units (1 unit = 1 workshop or 1 talk) per company and/or speaker for the Symposium. Thus, feel free to highlight your favorites ideas. Also please note that as a student organization we are unable to pay the speakers and workshop presenters. However, there are also no participation fees for the companies.

Please reach out to us if you have any questions regarding the symposium! We want to make this process and journey as easy and hassle-free as possible for you.

Best regards
Abhimanyu Patel
Head of VIScon Symposium