Call for presenters

Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium

The Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN) aims at showcasing the research developed by scientists in/from Barcelona. That is, scientists who currently work in Barcelona or who pursued part of their academic career in Barcelona. This unique meeting gathers multidisciplinary researchers in the field of deep learning, and shows the potential of the city to become the AI hub in Southern Europe. 

Presenters

The presenters in the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium must have developed part of their research career or academic studies in the city of Barcelona or its proximity, whether currently or in the past. Their presentations can be based 

Call for Spotlights + Posters

The call for speakers in the spotlight + poster sessions aims at researchers who have published in top tier conferences or journals, preferably during 2025, and whose contributions are closely related to the theory or applications of deep neural networks. Presentations may focus on one or multiple papers, if these are related. We provide, as a reference, the common publication venues and h5-index from the works presented during the oral sessions in DLBCN: NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, ICCV, ECCV, EMNLP, Science, Interspeech, and ISMIR.

New in 2025: Those presenters accepted as spotlight + poster will first present their work during 5 minutes of an oral session, and afterwards present a related poster. 

Call for Posters

The call for posters invites researchers who have a peer reviewed publication during 2025 and doctoral students to present work related to their thesis. The aim of this call is creating opportunities for discussion and networking between junior and senior researchers, both local or from overseas.

Contents of the spotlights & posters

The contents of the presentations must cover the contents of the publication(s) referred in the submission, but presenters are also encouraged to include related posterior work and discuss future research directions.

Selection criteria for presenters

The selection of the DLBCN Symposium speakers not only aims at high scientific quality, but also targets diversity from different perspectives, including gender, institutions and research groups, local and overseas speakers, research topics, and talks on previous editions of the symposium. As a consequence, and due to the limited time for spotlight presentations, it is possible that excellent scientific contributions may not not be included in the spotlight program. In these cases, authors will be invited to present their work only as a poster. 

The program will be defined by the program committee, with the help of a representation of all organizing institutions. See the organizing committee here.

Important dates

Submission deadline: October 17, 2025.

Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2025.

Symposium date: December 17, 2025.

Submission forms

Choose one call or another, based on the descriptions above. Please do not duplicate submissions, the organising committee will already consider spotlight submissions for posters only, if needed.

• Spotlight + poster presentations

• Poster presentations