Call for Participation

DiverseInAI.org is an affinity group which aims to foster links between participants from underrepresented populations in the field of artificial intelligence. After organizing diversity and inclusion workshops at AAAI in 2020, 2021, and 2022, and being invited to develop a D&I workshop at AAMAS 2022 (which hold in May 2022), our members wish to organize a similar seminar at IJCAI. The organizers of this seminar strongly believe in facilitating entry by diverse members of our society – as reflected in race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and cultural background – into the field of AI (including autonomous agents and multiagent systems). Bringing this diversity in AI is extremely crucial as AI has and continues to shape our collective future, and therefore the representation of every aspect of society, especially the marginalized ones, is important to have an inclusive development of AI. Inspired by initiatives such as the Grace Hopper Conference (GHC), which provides opportunities to technologists in understanding the needs of underserved populations, the organizers of this workshop also wish to bring together participants from underrepresented communities, help them via inter-disciplinary collaboration, dissemination of information regarding best practices in the field of AI and mentor students/future technologists from these communities.

The seminar will be a half-day event featuring two 90-120 minute sessions. In the spirit of fostering new collaborations and meaningful exchange of ideas, care will be taken to allocate sufficient time for discussions and questions. Since, the seminar will be in-person, time-allocation for talks, panel discussion, poster session, and Q&A sessions will be done to accommodate maximum participation and used Whova app. All the talks and presentation was recorded by the presenter due to pandemic who cannot attend in-person. The program committee will aim at accepting papers for long papers (5-8 pages), short papers (2-4 pages/abstracts) and contributed talks. The contributions should focus on best practices in AI research, education research pertinent to AI, challenges and opportunities for mentoring underserved populations, AI for Good and implications of AI on society

The workshop will begin with brief welcome remarks, followed by a 90-120 minute session of invited talks, contributed talks, and half of the oral presentations. The second session will include the second half of papers, followed by an optional poster session. This session will also include a panel discussion as has been held at the previous three DiverseInAI.org workshops. The session will conclude with an online social event open to everyone, using the gather town platform for one-to-one and many-to-many interaction and networking. A mentoring sub-event will be offered to junior attendees during the online social event in order to encourage interactions.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines for PMLR(single column style).

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Long papers (5-8 pages)
• Short papers and poster abstracts (2-4 pages)
• Contributed talks

Publication

Workshop papers will be published with the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). Submissions must follow the PMLR standards, and PDF versions should be submitted via EasyChair.