NeurIPS MeetUp Cambridge

List of TODOs

Location
- Engineering department (contact person: Kimberly Cole). Currently we have provisionally booked LR4 (flat room), LT1, LT2 (theatres)
- West Cambridge site (email sent, no response yet)
- Newton institute (Ferenc?)
- Secondmind offices ground floor
Date: will depend on availability of the venue but needs to be in the week of December 6th.
Sponsers and money.
- Fix bank account (either ELLIS bank account or Eng. Department)
- Reach out to industry partners (Amazon, Secondmind, MSR, …?)
- Money can be used to pay for student’s posters
Create website: https://www.neuripsmeetupcambridge.info/
- Set up google analytics
- Link to eventbrite
- Update schedule!
Create eventbrite event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurips-meetup-cambridge-tickets-194983399597
- We need to ask for dietary requirements at registration:
Food and drinks
- Breakfast: coffee, tea and pastry
- Lunch: catering, standing
- Networking event: maybe some finger food and drinks
COVID-19: follow local regulations
Poster session:
Organise space
Inform people on size of the poster
Add section to website with info
Program:
- which keynote talk do we stream?
- Reading group: paper?
Advertise:
- Reach out to affinity groups (Black in AI, Latin in AI, Queer in AI, etc…)
- Twitter
- Own departments and friends: ML@CL, MLG, CBL
Lanyard or sticker with name