Each sponsor appoints members from its organization to represent them on the Technical Program Committee.
The Technical Program Chair is responsible for delivering a well-balanced and high-quality technical program at the conference. The Technical Program Committee oversees the submission and review of papers, and organizes the presentations delivered at the conference.
Committee members are experts in their fields and may represent different areas within the domain of the conference. The size and scope of your conference will dictate the number of members needed for the Technical Program Committee and the functions they perform.
All conferences planning a technical program should:
The scope of the conference should include one or more of the following subject areas:
Set guidelines for managing the quality of the technical program.
Learn more IEEE conference subject matter content scope and other conference quality criteria
Set a schedule that allows enough time for writing, reviewing, selecting, formatting, and publishing the conference papers. Publish all important dates on the website and in the Call for Papers so authors can meet deadlines. If deadlines are extended, contact IEEE Meetings, Conferences & Events (MCE) to update your conference record and references in IEEE search and social media tools. Schedule dates for:
The Call for Papers is a public solicitation of papers for the conference. Unless you are limiting the conference to invited speakers, you must publish a Call for Papers.
Learn more about managing the Call for Papers
Helping authors meet open access publishing requirements
One of the trends in publishing is to make research articles publicly available through a process called "open access" (OA). To help ensure that your conference authors can meet open access guidelines from their funding agencies, below is information on how the IEEE Author Posting policy can address their concerns and make them comfortable submitting papers to your conference.
Learn more about open access and the IEEE Author Posting policy (PDF, 100 KB)
Each conference is responsible for communicating IEEE policies in the Call for Papers, website, and other materials. IEEE has the sole ability to decide which papers accepted for presentation at the conference are eligible to be included in the IEEE Conference Publications Program (CPP) and ultimately, in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
Learn more about handling non-presented papers
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The Technical Program Committee manages the paper-review process. Select independent reviewers who are knowledgeable in the subject area of the conference. The number of reviewers depends upon the estimated number of expected submissions and accepted papers.
IEEE requires all publications to be submitted to a plagiarism-detection process prior to being uploaded to IEEE Xplore to ensure originality of content. Organizers are encouraged to sign up for CrossCheck, a plagiarism-detection tool that is offered at no cost to all IEEE publications. The Technical Program Chair can determine when the plagiarism checking will occur, whether at submission or upon acceptance.
If IEEE is unable to confirm that conference papers have been screened using CrossCheck, then IEEE will use for the conference CrossCheck prior to posting in IEEE Xplore. The organizer will be notified of any problematic papers detected and held from Xplore. The conference will be responsible for notifying authors of the decision to remove the paper.
Once the papers for the conference have been selected, organize them into sessions for presentation at the conference. During the conference, the Technical Program Committee should be available to assist authors and ensure that papers are successfully presented. If you are following IEEE's Non-Presented Paper policy, monitor the presentations to identify any authors that do not present their papers at the conference and communicate this to the Publication Chair so those papers can be noted when submitted to IEEE for publication.
The Technical Program Chair coordinates with the Conference Publication Chair to provide authors with instructions for submitting papers for publication in IEEE Xplore. The Conference Publication Chair submits the IEEE Publication Form and manages the production of conference publications.
Learn more about preparing papers for the IEEE Xplore Digital Library
The Technical Program Chair provides authors with information needed to transfer the copyright for their papers to IEEE. All papers copyrighted to IEEE should be registered through the Electronic Copyright Form (eCF). The Technical Program Chair:
Authors must transfer copyright of their individual papers to IEEE if IEEE is the copyright holder of the proceedings. The transfer is made prior to publication so that IEEE has clearance to publish the paper. The authors, not IEEE, are responsible for determining whether disclosure of their material requires the prior consent of other parties and, if so, obtaining the consent.
Learn more about the technical program responsibilities for the copyright transfer
You can provide more value and attract more participants if you offer education credits for conference workshops and tutorials. Conference participants can apply IEEE Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to their professional-development hours for licensing and certification.
IEEE must review and approve your workshop or tutorial before you can offer IEEE CEUs.
Complete the IEEE Certificate Program Event Application and submit to IEEE. The application should be submitted at least three months before your conference.
IEEE is ready to help. If you have questions about the conference technical program or have other questions about organizing a conference, please contact the IEEE Meetings, Conferences & Events (MCE) at ieee-mce@ieee.org.
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