[GRID-ANNOUNCE] Call for IRUS Session Leads - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019

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HiPC 2019 CALL FOR IRUS Session Leads
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BACKGROUND ON CONFERENCE
HiPC, Data and Analytics is Asia's premier IEEE international annual
conference on computational and data sciences. The 26th edition
(https://hipc.org/) of this conference will be held in Hyderabad
during December 17-20.

BACKGROUND ON SYMPOSIUM
Industry Research and User Symposium (IRUS) brings together solution
providers and users of HPC, cloud and data platforms, providing a
venue where they can share their challenges and successes and discuss
relevant technology issues related to computational and data sciences.
Previous IRUS sessions* had tremendous participation from conference
attendees and included senior speakers from industry like Amazon,
Flipkart, Intel, Microsoft, Shell and Xilinx, academia like CERN, IISC
and TIFR and start-ups such as Khosla Labs and Forus Health.

*PREVIOUS IRUS SESSION LINKS
2018: https://hipc.org/hipc2018/industry-research-and-user-symposium/
2017: https://hipc.org/hipc2017/industry-research-and-user-symposium/
2016: https://www.hipc.org/hipc2016/irus.php

CALL FOR IRUS SESSION Leads
We are looking for Leaders from industry or academia to help put
together a great IRUS session on a relevant topic in computational and
data sciences. As a session lead, you are responsible to organize an
IRUS session (~2 hours) during a suitable slot in the conference
duration. You will have freedom on the contents and panelists you wish
to invite – you will be supported by the HiPC team in local logistics.

WHAT'S THERE FOR YOU?
* Opportunity to lead session in an area of your interest within
computational and data science
* Help shape the agenda amongst leading industry practitioners and
academic experts from around the world
* Engage with student and young researchers showcase your ideas and
develop as a thought leader

HOW TO APPLY (LAST DATE: JULY 31, 2019)
Drop a line to:
Chiranjib Sur (HiPC 2019 Conference General Chair) – sur.chiranjib at hipc.org
Laks Raghupathi (HiPC 2019 IRUS Chair) – laks.aarthi at gmail.com