CFP

WiT2020: 1st Annual Nelms Workshop on Women in IoT

Warren B. Nelms Institute

Gainesville, FL, United States, October 12, 2020

Conference website	http://iot.institute.ufl.edu/events/women-in-iot-2020/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wit2020

The web of smart and connected devices that form the Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to impact every sphere of our lives as well as every market sector, and drive the fourth industrial revolution. While IoT, in convergence with artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics, is rapidly changing our lives and society at large, we also face an increasing gender gap in the field of IoT technology and applications encompassing all aspects of research, development and practice. The goal of this workshop is to bring together women leaders from all sectors of IoT and students interested in the field of IoT to promote and enable increasing participation of women and addressing the gender gap issue in the field of IoT. This workshop is organized by the members of the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World at University of Florida, in collaboration with several other universities in the state of Florida. It will be held virtually and is free to join and open to all with registration. We cordially welcome participants from all sectors to join the workshop and contribute to its mission.

Submission Guidelines

Graduate and undergraduate student researchers are invited to submit an abstract at WiT. Since this workshop celebrates the accomplishments of women in IoT, we request that the abstract submission include the contributions of a female author or co-author. We welcome abstracts on any of the topics listed below. For consideration, abstracts must have been submitted no later than September 21, 2020 at 11:59pm Eastern Daylight Time. Poster presenters must be registered to attend the conference by Friday, September 25th.

All abstract submissions will be peer-reviewed and scored by a panel of judges prior to the workshop. Judging will be based on 1) Relevance to workshop topics; 2) Potential for scientific contribution and innovation, and 3) Clarity and completeness of the abstract. Those with accepted abstracts will participate in a live poster session during WiT and will provide a 5-minute pre-recorded spotlight talk to facilitate follow-up discussions.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent on September 23, 2020. Students with accepted abstracts must submit their posters and 5-minute spotlight video by October 5, 2020.

Key Dates:

September 21th: Abstracts due
September 23th: Notifications of acceptance
September 25th: Registration deadline for poster presenters
October 5th: Final posters and spotlight presentations due

How to Prepare Your Poster: All posters must include a title and information about the author(s), including name(s), affiliation(s), etc. The poster should be focused and include the following:

Clear and concise title describing the content of the poster
An abstract / summary / overview that will motivate the research
Clear objectives of the research or work presented in the poster
Materials and Methods in a concise and informative way
Results and discussions including figures and tables
Conclusions that highlight the main findings of the research

We strongly encourage the use of tables, photographs, diagrams, charts, and other graphics to help convey important information.

How to Prepare Your Spotlight Talk:

Step 1: RECORD YOUR VIDEO Prepare a 5-min video presentation to highlight your study and results. We suggest using either Google Meets or Zoom to record your presentation. These video conferencing apps allow you to record your screen (presentation slides), your webcam and voice at the same time. With these apps, you can also invite multiple authors to present together.

Here are some tutorials on how to use Zoom to record your presentation:

Giving PowerPoint Presentations on Zoom

Recording Video & Presentations with Zoom

How to use Zoom to give a PowerPoint presentation

5 Tips for delivering ZOOM presentations like a pro

Step 2: UPLOAD YOUR POSTER AND VIDEO (*by October 5, 2020*) Once your poster and video presentation is ready, save it on your computer first and then use the link below to submit your video file to us: https://forms.gle/bSvCY3a3bEDPb5hq8

Step 3: HOW TO WATCH YOUR VIDEO All pre-recorded videos will be released on YouTube on October 9th via our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0eTvQiF5XQkk7cTYW8r5gQ?disable_polymer=true.

Step 4: Handling Q&A During the workshop, we will invite the WiT community and the public to watch your presentation and post their questions in an asynchronous fashion by using YouTube’s commenting feature. All comments will be auto-filtered by YouTube. We encourage you to check for any questions about your study and reply using the YouTube’s commenting feature as well.

List of Topics

RFID, Sensors, and Actuators
Power and Energy for IoT
IoT Enabling Technologies
Computing Platforms for IoT
Data Acquisition, Storage and Management for IoT
IoT Applications and Services
Security and Privacy for IoT
IoT Social Impact
Design, Integration and Testing Methods
5G and IoT Networks
IoT Data Analytics
Signal Processing for IoT
IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios
Machine Learning for IoT
AI for IoT
Blockchain and IoT
Electronics and Signal Processing for IoT
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in IoT
Human Interaction with IoT
Interoperability in IoT
IoT Communication Technologies
IoT Edge and Cloud Architectures
IoT Enabled Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Robotic IoT Systems
Security and Privacy for IoT
Self-adaptation for IoT Systems
Software Engineering for IoT
Web of Things
IoT Mobility, Localization, Tracking & Security
IoT Engineering Education
IoT Engineering Ethics
Women in Engineering

Invited Speakers

Opening Address: Cammy Abernathy, Dean, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida
Keynote Speaker: Wendi Heinzelman, Dean of the Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Rochester

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Tempestt Neal at tjneal@usf.edu.