Tapia Conference 2025 - Call for Participation
Claire Stirm
Hope everyone has had a great start to your New Year! Passing along the Tapia Conference has announced it's Call for Participation (see below).
Tapia 2025
NOW OPEN!
Given the transformative impact of generative AI, the Tapia 2025 program is being developed to have major components focused on generative AI, including tutorials, workshops, and a generative AI hackathon.
We invite you to submit topics related to generative AI and other areas for any of the following program components:
Panels and Workshops: Sessions and interactive workshops on current technical topics such as generative AI, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, as well as topics related to broadening participation in computing and professional development for diverse communities
Birds of a Feather (BoF): Sessions that provide an informal, town-hall like forum for the discussion of technical or social issues among interested parties, providing a venue for communities (existing or dynamically organized) to network and collaborate
Scholarships: Students and postdocs at institutions in the U.S. or U.S. Territories and faculty at Minority Serving Institutions are welcome to apply for a Tapia scholarship
Student Posters/ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to present their latest research results and methodologies
Doctoral Consortium: PhD candidates have the opportunity to present and discuss their research with a panel of established researchers
The submission deadline for all components is
March 3, 2025, 11:59 PM HST (Hawaii Standard Time)
SUBMIT TODAY!
The CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference is the premier venue to acknowledge, promote and celebrate diversity in computing. The Tapia Conference brings together undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, researchers, and professionals in computing from all backgrounds and ethnicities to:
Celebrate the diversity that exists in computing
Connect with others with common backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, and gender to create communities that extend beyond the conference
Get advice from and make contacts with computing leaders in academia and industry
Be inspired by great presentations and conversations with leaders with common backgrounds
The Tapia Conference brings together CMD-IT’s target communities: African Americans/Blacks, Native Americans/Indigenous People, Hispanics/Latinxs, and People with Disabilities.
Please visit tapiaconference.org for additional details.