Call for Participation

The 15^th European Computer Science Summit – ECSS 2019 – is calling the participation of the community and in particular of:

Heads (deans, chairs) of Academic Informatics /Computer Science /IT Departments (Schools, Faculties, Institutes);
Research Directors and Managers of Research Centres, Institutes and Labs, both in public institutions and in industry;
Faculty members and researchers from both academia and industry;
Members of funding and governmental agencies at European, national regional and local level;
Experts, advisors and thinkers of numerous key issues like ethics, the relation between Informatics and other sciences, the discipline’s future and its influence on the academic world and society.

The European Computer Science Summit is the meeting place for anyone interested in issues of research, education and policy in Informatics. The annual summit is a unique opportunity to meet some of the prominent decision makers and discuss critical issues for the discipline.

The ECSS 2019 will be held in Rome, Italy, October 28-30, 2019 at the Hotel NH Collection Roma Centro. The conference in 2019 will have a renewed and enriched format consisting of a main summit of three days composed of a number of complementary events and sessions.

The conference opens on Monday with a Workshop for Leaders of Informatics Research and Education, and a Workshop of the WIRE working group. The program continues with keynote addresses and a thought-provoking discussion panel on the central theme “Social Responsibility of Informatics”. An array of interdisciplinary topics regarding the interplay between Informatics and Ethics, Law, Privacy as well as Responsible Research and Innovation and Artificial Intelligence will be addressed by a selection of distinguished speakers from all over Europe. Rounding up Tuesday’s program, we will have the Informatics Europe and ERCIM Awards Ceremony, the Dialogue with Members Session and the Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly where key topics of relevance to the community and the development of the organisation will be actively discussed. We want to encourage a closer dialogue and an even more active participation from our members. The program will include a Creative Coffee Break and a Members' Voice track where members will have the opportunity to actively contribute and discuss ways to implement their ideas. The Summit is concluded on Wednesday with a very special workshop on Bridging the Digital Talent Gap in Europe organised by Informatics Europe in partnership with the European Commission’s DG CONNECT. The workshop will bring together leaders from Universities, Industry and the European Commission for an open, transparent and productive conversation on the complex, pervasive and pressing issue of the digital talent gap.

The Summit is co-chaired by Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe President, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and Gianfranco Basti, Pontifical Lateran University, with organisational support by Alessandro Mei and Tiziana Catarci, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Paolo Atzeni, Roma Tre University and Roberto Basili, University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Program Chairs include Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, and Paola Mello, University of Bologna; Geraldine Fitzpatrick, TU Vienna and Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn; Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Lejla Batina, Radboud University, and Alexandra Silva, University College London; Fabrizia Benini and Alexander Riedl, European Commission (DG CONNECT).

The information about the venue, coordinates and logistics is available on the Venue webpage.

An advance detailed schedule is also available on the ECSS 2019 website. For further information about the events and sessions, you can access directly the information concerning each specific session:

Registrations will open by the end of June. Follow the ECSS 2019 website and our Twitter with hashtag #ecss_2019 for up to date information.