In order to attend our event, you complete both steps below:

1. Register for NeurIPS 2024 here.
   In-person: To attend our in-person event, you need to register either for the NeurIPS “Conference” or “Workshops” session. Registering for either physical component will grant you access to WiML.
   Virtual: If you are attending virtually, the NeurIPS “Virtual Only Pass” will suffice. 

The deadline for early registration (with reduced rates) is October 20, 2024. 

Information about visa application, including visa letter invitation can be found here. 

2. Fill in our WiML participation form (free): WiML Workshop 2024 Participation Form. This form helps us keep a headcount.
   If you're interested in volunteering, fill out the WiML 2024 Volunteer Interest Form.

Note:  You don’t need to be an author of an accepted submission to our workshop to attend.

WiML will be covering up to the NeurIPS 'Workshops' early registration fee for authors that are in need. The recipients of the support will get an update in early October. We did our best to provide travel funding support and NeurIPS registration fee support to the applicants that most needed it and to the extent our funds allow.

Note: To attend our in-person event, you need to register either for the NeurIPS “Conference” or “Workshops” session. Registering for either physical component will grant you access to WiML . Register to NeurIPS 2024 here.
Early registration (with reduced rates) ends on October 20th. Information about visa application, including visa letter invitation can be found here.

You also need to fill in our WiML participation form (free): WiML Workshop 2024 Participation Form. This form helps us keep a headcount.

We are sorry to hear that! Unfortunately, this year WiML does not provide the option for a virtual presentation. You can consider registering as a virtual NeurIPS attendee (which allows you attend NeurIPS talks) but since WiML is not being conducted in a virtual mode, we will not be able to help you present your poster online. We will definitely record your abstract on our website!

Please note that we will not be able to provide funding for the registration fees for virtual attendees.

NeurIPS requires that you first register for the conference in order to get a visa invitation letter for in-person attendance; if your visa is not processed in time, your registration fee may be reimbursed, see here for NeurIPS cancellation policy. You can find more information regarding visa here: https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/Visa.

As we also require that you register to NeurIPS using the NeurIPS either 'Conference' or “Workshops” registration option (for in-person attendnce), you may request the letter from NeurIPS. Request for invitation letter is included as part of your NeurIPS registration process. The letter is available in section 5 of your registration page. After you have registered, visit your registration and expand section 5 "VISA Letter of Invitation". Fill out the form and email yourself the letter.

If you believe your participation to WiML as a speaker/presenter/volunteer will help you in your visa application, fill in this form WiML 2024 Visa Letter Request (no later than Oct 31) and contact workshop@wimlworkshop.org to request a visa letter from WiML with subject line visa letter request for speaker/presenter/volunteer.

During your visa application process, you may use the following info:

Full Name of Organization:      Women in Machine Learning (WiML)

Phone number:                        (617) 286-4953

Street Address:                        33 Oxford Street

City:                                           Cambridge

State/Province:                        Massachusetts

Postal Zone/Zip code:             02138 

Country/Region:                      USA

In the section "Who is inviting you?", fill in the follwing details:

Terri Auricchio

Vancouver Convention Centre

1055 Canada Pl

Vancouver, BC

V6C 0C3

Phone: 604-647-7299

Email: terri@neurips.cc

• WiML travel funding support: Attendees and authors with submitted abstracts at WiML that have also applied for our travel funding support may receive support to fully or partially cover expenses: see more details here. Decisions on authors that will be receiving support will be out on a rolling basis due to limited funds.
  Volunteers at WiML 2024: Authors with an accepted abstract at the WiML workshop and a successful travel funding application, must apply to be a volunteer at WiML to receive travel funding support. 

• NeurIPS  'workshops' registration fee support: We are able to provide coverage for the NeurIPS 'workshops' registration (as this is required to ensure attendance to our workshop) to authors that were in most need.

• For everyone attending NeurIPS (Conference and/or Workshops sessions): NeurIPS is providing financial support for attendees at different levels of priority. We encourage individuals registered at NeurIPS (“Conference” and/or “Workshops” sessions) who need financial support to apply to:

1. Be a volunteer at NeurIPS (for registration support only), 

2. OR apply to be a volunteer at NeurIPS, and apply for additional financial assistance (for both registration and accommodation support) through NeurIPS. 

Indeed, NeurIPS will not consider a financial support application (as described in bullet point ‘2’) without an accompanying volunteer at NeurIPS application.

Note that NeurIPS is in coordination with the WiML committee to prioritize applicants with no other funding support (e.g., authors that are already receiving travel support from WiML): see here. If you apply for volunteering at NeurIPS and want to attend the WiML workshop in person, please make sure you register for the NeurIPS  'Conference' or 'Workshops' session during registration. 

Reimbursement takes place after the workshop. Details can be found in our Travel funding guidelines.

Probably. See our Logistics page.

Each table seats 6 people (including mentors), with 1-to-2 mentors leading the discussion on a particular topic at each table. WiML attendees rotate between tables every 15-20 minutes. This allows attendees to gain exposure to different topics, and mentors to meet a large number of WiML attendees.

Yes. Allies are welcome to attend! Note, however, that all speakers and poster presenters will primarily identify as women, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming, as our goal is to promote them and their work within the machine learning community.

WiML doesn’t have “members” per se, any women working in machine learning can be part of the WiML network. We have a mailing list for anyone to post announcements of interest to the WiML network and an opt-in, necessarily incomplete directory of women working in machine learning.

Use our mailing list.

Have your resume ready as a view-only link to a PDF file on Google Drive, Dropbox, etc., then fill in this Google Form: WiML@NeurIPS 2024 Resume/CV Book

Hanna Wallach, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Lisa Wainer, and Angela Yu shared a room at NIPS 2005. Late one night, they talked about how exciting it was that there were FOUR female students at NIPS that year. They tried to list all the women in machine learning they know of and got to 10, then started talking about creating a meeting or gathering for all these women and perhaps others that they didn’t know about. Jenn, Lisa, and Hanna put together a proposal for a session at the 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing that would feature talks and posters by female researchers and students in machine learning. The 1st WiML workshop was co-located with the 2006 Grace Hopper Celeberation. In 2008, WiML Workshop moved to NIPS (renamed NeurIPS in 2018) and there has been a WiML Workshop at NeurIPS every year since. In 2020, WiML introduced an “un-workshop” at ICML based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. Read more WiML history here!

No, WiML is a non-archival venue. This means that, if your contribution is accepted, we will not be asking you to submit a camera-ready version of it, nor will we publish it anywhere (neither online nor in proceedings of any sort). We will only make the title and authors’ names available in the program book.

We receive a lot of emails! Help us help you by reaching out through the appropriate channels.

• Job posting, announcement, CFP, etc: Post directly to WiML mailing list.

• Have event pictures to share: post on Twitter and tag @wimlworkshop

• Workshop enquiries: workshop@wimlworkshop.org 

• If you are a company interested in sponsoring WiML: sponsorship@wimlworkshop.org 

• Any other enquiries: info@wimlworkshop.org 

If you email us, don’t cc multiple email addresses — this saves us time routing your email to one mailbox, and reduces the chances of your email getting lost. Thank you in advance!

Thank you for your interest in sponsoring WiML! See this page for more information.