ICML 2016 is in New York City. I expect it to be the largest ICML by far given the destination—New York is the place which is perhaps easiest to reach from anywhere in the world and it has the largest machine learning meetup anywhere in the world.
I am the general chair this year, which is light in work but heavy in responsibilities. Some things I worry about:
- How many people will actually come? Numbers are difficult to guess with the field growing and the conference changing locations. I believe we need capacity for at least 3000 people based on everything I know.
- New York is expensive. What can be done about it? One thought is that we should actively setup a roommate finding system so the costs of hotels can be shared. Up to 3 people can share a hotel room for the conference hotel (yes, each with their own bed), and that makes the price much more reasonable. I’m also hoping donations will substantially defray the cost. If others have creative ideas, I’m definitely interested.
Markus Weimer also points out the 2016 KDD Cup which has a submission deadline of December 6. KDD Cup datasets have become common reference for many machine learning papers, so this is a good way to get your problem solved well by many people.
“the place which is perhaps easiest to reach from anywhere in the world”.
That would be London.
As a Asian, I would prefer London because of the short distance.
However there seems to be more flights to New York.