We will follow the procedure which was used successfully at the NIPS 2015 Deep Learning Symposium. Please note that this is very different from the usual workshop and conference submission/reviewing process, but closer to the good old method of inviting selected speakers to talk in a workshop, now using a web-based social network.

We have invited a small number of leading experts in the field to serve as our Program Committee (PC). PC members can recommend papers and speakers (selected outside their own groups and conflict of interest) for the Symposium, based on papers they have read or talks they have attended recently. There will be no formal review process to select papers. Instead, papers and talks will be selected based solely on our PCs recommendations.

The schedule will be divided into several parts, grouping work by area. Each talk will be followed by a Q&A session, with questions taken from the audience, our PC members as well as via public polls which will be opened a week before the event. In addition to invited talks, we will also have panel discussions concluding each session, bringing together the invited speakers, the organizers and leaders in the field.