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Victor Bahl

Technical Fellow Microsoft; Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators at Microsoft

I am writing today to personally invite you to attend MobiCom 2023 and to thank the MobiCom Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL) and London Cox (Microsoft). As you know, they and their committee have done a very impressive job selecting 92 papers for presentation in our 29th annual celebration event. They will share the details of acceptance rates and other interesting statistics at the conference but what I can tell you is that MobiCom is growing and attendees will have more research results to learn about and enjoy. Our community is thriving and this level of inclusion is a very healthy thing. While this is awesome, it brought up the question of managing the presentation of these papers.  The steering committee met to discuss this issue at length. At the highest level the question was, should we go multi-track or should we extend the conference. Both have their pros and cons. For now, what we decided is that we will move the conference to a 1+4 or 4+1-day format. The reasoning behind this has to do with several factors, which were debated and then a vote was held. We have allocated 15 minutes to each paper. This is a test, which I hope will succeed. There are other options as well, including limiting the number of presentations but we didn’t quite like that. As our community grows, there is much to discuss and adapt, all of which we can do at the conference.   One more point, if you are a presenter, keep in mind that 15 mins, which includes 12 mins. of presentation and 4 mins. of Q&A is tight. You will have the inclination to speak fast but, please don’t. The timing is not only hard for you, it is also tight for the audience. So, practice, practice, practice and then practice again. It is an honor to have several hundred people listen to you. So I encourage you to prepare an excellent talk and to present with great clarity. To the rest, I hope you will make the effort to join us at our flagship, longest-running community conference.

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Great event

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