If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a Lab or Interactive Research-Practice Media Roundtable, we encourage you to communicate with the Program Chairs Carlo Salvato and Alessandro Minichilli.

• Labs: Interested companies will be guided in preparing a short (two-page) competitive proposal. Upon acceptance of the proposal, companies will collaborate with the Program Chairs in setting up Lab activities.
• IMRs: Interested academics/practitioners will be guided in preparing a short (two-page) competitive proposal. Upon acceptance of the proposal, organizers will collaborate with the Program Chairs in setting up IMR activities.

We invite you to use our online system to submit a proposal for inclusion in the conference parallel presenation sessions. The submission process has the following 5 steps:

• Step 1: If you are not a registered user of the SMS website already, create an SMS user profile and provide contact information for yourself. Please click here to create a new profile.
• Step 2: After creating your SMS user profile and logging in to the website, you can electronically submit a proposal by uploading a file and providing information on the title, abstract, track, as well as any names of co-authors, if applicable. You can login at any time again to see the progress of your submitted proposal.
• Step 3: If you are not the single author of the proposal, your co-authors will be contacted by email. They will be asked to register and provide their contact information, as well as confirming their involvement with the submitted proposal.
• Step 4: The SMS office will verify the completion of your submission once we have all necessary information on all authors and will forward the submission into a blind peer review.
• Step 5: Once the peer review is completed, you will be informed about the decision of the Program Review Committee regarding your submission.