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Enhancing Conference Competitiveness through Best Practices and Strategic Planning

The 2010 CS Planning Committee meeting focused on improving conference quality by learning from competitors. Key strategies included assessing competing conferences' attributes, financial models, and registration fees. The initiative aims to boost attendee satisfaction, sponsor financial backing, and overall conference margins. By establishing a collaborative web portal for sharing best practices and conducting competitive reviews, we seek to support our conference chairs in meeting or exceeding benchmarks set by ACM and other leading organizations.

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Enhancing Conference Competitiveness through Best Practices and Strategic Planning

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  1. 2010 CS Planning Committee • Technical & Conferences Activities • Conference Competition Strategy • John Walz • 21-Jan-10

  2. Conference Competition: Goals • Improve our conferences by learning from our competing conferences’ best practices • request TC Chairs and their Conference Chairs to identify their completing conferences • conference attributes, e.g. quality of authors, program committee, ease of doing business, etc • conference registration fees, • Compete against ACM Full Service Conference Business Model • confirm ACM Full Service Conference Business Model could work for TC and our sponsored Conference Steering Committees in USA • confirm feasible CS Full Service Conference Business Model • articulate, pilot, learn, offer, & plan CS Full Service Conference Business service • Improve Conference margins • For 2008 & 2009 conferences with small margins / deficit, request General Chair to identify competing conferences as a possible root cause; compare and analyze registration fee structure • During conference proposal, offer range of competing conf. reg. fees January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting

  3. Conference Competition: Measurable Benefits • Active web portal to share best conference practices derived from CS, IEEE, and non-IEEE conferences • Increase # of financial sponsor conferences • ACM win-backs, move TCS into Financial • Increase # authors & attendees for conferences using best practices • Improve large conferences’ attendee satisfaction with new Full Service option • Increase overall conference margin related to increased conference fees • # deficit conferences decrease January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting

  4. Conference Competition: Resources • Staff / volunteer partnership for annual competitive reviews • Develop COG database to collect & maintain competitive information • Startup funds for CS Full Service Conference Business service • financial modeling, financial policies / accounting practice • staffing: COG, Accounting January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting 4

  5. Conference Competition: Timeline • 14-Jan T & C Vice-Chairs agreed to support project • Feb-May Recruit Volunteers, assign CS Staff, collect data and prepare report • 15-May Business Case / model completed • 9-Jun Propose CS PPM competitive changes • Jun-Jul Full Service process, skills, resources, & first pilot identified; • Sep COG staff/outsource decision; First Full Service pilot started • 17-Nov Report to CS BOG on progress of changes to PPM • 2011 Pilot organizers satisfaction survey, lessons learned; Service revised January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting

  6. Background January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting

  7. Background details • Keep in touch with our CSC Chairs with online surveys • CS Full Service Conference Business service should include • license for a good peer-review system • content management system for input into proceedings production and CD-ROM for Xplore • conference registration information imported into TECA • Benchmark low cost conference business models, e.g. International Quality and Productive Center (IQPC) • Understand registration fee elasticity due to conference maturity / life cycle January, 2010 CS Planning Committee Meeting

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