Submission Guidelines

General:

All submissions must be made using the CFP2000 electronic submission system. After filling out your contact information and other basic information you may e-mail the body (in plain text) of your submission to us if you prefer. You will receive instructions about where to mail the body of your submission after you fill out the basic information on the submission form.

Submitters' contact information will be used only to contact you about your submission and to send you information about the CFP conference.

Submissions for the Workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design must be received by November 30. All other session, tutorial, and workshop submissions must be received by October 15. BOF submissions may be made until February 18 (and beyond if space permits). Student papers must be received by December 10.

If you have an idea for a session or other activity but do not have a complete session proposal, please use the "topic or activity" suggestion form. If you would like to nominate a speaker, please use the "speaker" suggestion form. The program committee will give preference to complete session proposals, but will also consider these suggestions as well. We are particularly interested in suggestions for keynote speakers.

When providing information about proposed presenters, please do not send us each presenter's entire resume! Just let us know a few relevant details.

The program committee may accept parts of submissions without accepting the entire submission. For example, the program committee might combine multiple proposals, take a session topic but fill it in with different speakers, or take a proposal submitted as a plenary session and turn it into a workshop.

CFP does not generally provide speaker honoraria. We will waive the conference registration fees for speakers from academic, non-profit, and government institutions (except for BOFs). In addition, travel funding may be available for some speakers through the CFP scholarship programs or on a case-by-case basis.

Tutorials:

We are particularly interested in half day tutorials (3 hours, including break) that provide a crash course in a topic of interest to CFP audiences. For example, tutorials on cyberspace law for non-lawyers and encryption for non-technical people have been popular in the past. We will also consider 1 1/2 hour tutorials and full day tutorials.

Tutorials may be presented by a single presenter or a team of presenters. Tutorials should be submitted by one of the proposed presenters. If you have an idea for a tutorial but are not proposing to present it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion."

[Example tutorial submission]

Plenary sessions:

Plenary sessions are sessions held in the main ballroom that will be attended by almost all of the conference attendees (about 500 people). They generally take the form of a panel discussion or debate, but we will consider other formats including talk shows, games, moot courts, role plays, and other creative ideas. Plenary sessions are 1 to 2 hours, and should include at least 20 minutes for audience questions and discussion. When they take the form of a panel discussion, we recommend that the panel include 3 to 5 participants (including a moderator).

Plenary sessions should be organized by the submitter (with help from the program committee). The submitter may optionally also be one of the presenters, but that is not required. We prefer submissions in which all the proposed presenters have been confirmed by the submitter. However, we will also consider submissions in which not all the speakers are confirmed, especially if you list alternative speakers in case your top choices are not available. You might also list a type of person rather than name specific people (for example, an academic intellectual property lawyer, or a musician who distributes music on the Internet for free). However, it is helpful if you can list some possible names so that the program committee has some confidence that you will be able to find the kind of people you describe.

If you have an idea for a plenary session but are not proposing to organize it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion."

[Example plenary session submission]

Workshops:

Workshops sessions are sessions held in parallel, with 30 to 200 conference attendees expected to attend each session. Workshop submissions may include similar content to plenary sessions; however, we are particularly interested in workshop submissions that take advantage of having a smaller audience and promote audience interaction. In addition to the formats suggested for plenary sessions, workshops might take the form of a town hall meeting or a single speaker and audience discussion. Workshops might also be proposed in which the participants are broken up into small groups for brainstorming or discussion and then the groups are brought back together.

Workshops should be organized by the submitter (with help from the program committee). The submitter may optionally also be one of the presenters, but that is not required. We prefer submissions in which all the proposed presenters have been confirmed by the submitter. However, we will also consider submissions in which not all the speakers are confirmed, especially if you list alternative speakers in case your top choices are not available. You might also list a type of person rather than name specific people (for example, an academic intellectual property lawyer, or a musician who distributes music on the Internet for free). However, it is helpful if you can list some possible names so that the program committee has some confidence that you will be able to find the kind of people you describe.

If you have an idea for a workshop but are not proposing to organize it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion."

[Example workshop session submission]

Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

BOFs are informal evening sessions, usually attended by anywhere from 10 to 50 conference participants. They may include presentations, group discussions, open meetings of organizations, or informal opportunities for people with a common interest to meet each other. BOF submitters should be prepared to organize the BOF they submit.

[Example BOF submission]

If you have further questions about submissions please e-mail submissions@cfp2000.org.