There will be 10 workshops and 5 tutorials collocated with PLDI this year. Click “Program” above to discover them!

Call for Workshops and Tutorials

PLDI 2024 is a world-class forum for researchers and practitioners in programming language design and implementation. As in previous years, PLDI is soliciting proposals for co-located workshops and tutorials that will take place on Monday June 24th, and Tuesday June 25th.

Please propose your workshop or tutorial via the submission system (click the “Submit proposal” link on the right sidebar).

The following details will be asked requested for each submission:

• Name of the workshop/tutorial.
• Duration of the workshop/tutorial.
• Organizers: names, affiliation, contact information, brief (100 words) biography.
• A short description (150-200 words) of the topic.
• Event format: workshop/tutorial; type of submissions, if any; review process; results dissemination.
• Expected attendance and target audience within the PLDI community.
• How you plan to foster an inclusive environment and promote a diverse attendance.
• Information on any previous iterations of the workshop or tutorial.

Timeline

For workshops with proceedings:

• Organizers submit proposal to chairs: November 10, 2023
• Chairs respond with workshop acceptance: December 8, 2023
• Organizers finalize acceptance decisions for workshop proceedings: no later than April 19, 2024
• Organizers collect final (“camera ready”) versions: no later than May 3, 2024

For tutorials and workshops without proceedings:

• Organizers submit proposal to chairs: November 24, 2023
• Chairs respond with workshop acceptance: December 8, 2023
• Organizers finalize acceptance decisions for workshop speakers: no later than May 3, 2024

Submission and Review

To submit your proposal, please use the “Submit Proposal” link from the sidebar to the right.

Proposals are reviewed by the Workshop and Tutorials Chairs, and if necessary, by the PLDI general chair. Proposals will be evaluated according to the relevance of the topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and their potential to attract participants. Proposals submitted between November 10th and 24th will be evaluated on a first-come-first-served basis, so please submit early!

Dissemination

A proposal should clearly state how the results of the tutorial or workshop — i.e., published papers and other outcomes — will be made available to participants and others before and after the workshop event. The Workshops and Tutorials Chairs will provide guidance to the organizers of accepted workshops that wish to publish proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. For those that choose to publish their papers in ACM Digital Library, please add the following text in the workshop call for papers and on the website:

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.)

Workshops that elect to publish proceedings can do so in the ACM Digital Library with sponsoring by SIGPLAN. The application for SIGPLAN sponsorship includes reviewing the proposed program committee with the SIGPLAN Executive Committee, a process which the chairs will help facilitate.

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs

• Clément Pit-Claudel, EPFL
• Zachary Tatlock, University of Washington

PLDI 2024 Workshop Speaker’s Guide

This document is for those presenting a paper at a PLDI 2024 workshop.

Congratulations on being a presenter! This document will help ensure your presentation runs smoothly and has the best possible audience impact. Please read it in its entirety.

Checklist

Before PLDI:

• Prepare and practice.
• Ensure that your talk runs for the correct duration (be sure to check).
• Sign up for Discord (details TBD).
• Check the program to establish when and where your talk will be.
• Complete the video consent form (details below).
• Ensure you have a HDMI adaptor for your device.

Before your talk:

• Familiarize yourself with the room you will be speaking in.
• Find and introduce yourself to your session chair.
• Find the Discord channel for your session, so you can monitor questions.
• Ensure that you are in the room no later than 5 minutes before your session.

After your talk:

• Expect questions from the floor and session chair.
• Once you’ve finished your talk, check Discord for questions.

Overview

Your program chair should have reached out to you with details about what is expected of you as a presenter. This document assumes you are familiar with those parameters.

Video Consent

All workshop talks will be streamed via Discord and YouTube, and will be available later via SIGPLAN’s YouTube channel. All speakers must therefore consent to being recorded.

If you are participating in ARRAY or SOAP, which have published proceedings, then you will have completed the consent form when you finalized your paper with the publisher.

If you are participating in any other workshop, you will need to complete the ACM video consent form and upload it using this Google form (TBD).

Preparing Your Talk

Your work will have a greater impact if you’re well prepared.

It is very important that you run to schedule. The schedule is extremely tight, with hard stops imposed by FCRC scheduling. Session chairs have been asked to stick rigidly to the schedule.

Guidelines

1. Make sure you know how long you have for your talk. If your program chair has not given you explicit guidance, you should allow for five to ten minutes for questions and speaker change-over.
2. Your talk should be prepared for the standard 16:9 widescreen ratio. If your talk is in a different ratio, at best it will be pillarboxed, wasting screen real estate and diminishing impact, and at worst, it won’t display correctly.
3. You will present your talk from a lectern, using a fixed lectern mic.
4. You will need to provide your talk ahead of time in either pdf or powerpoint.
5. If you have an embedded video in your presentation, please inform the video team during your mandatory video check before your session.

Uploading Your Presentation

As an insurance against technical failures, we ask all speakers to make a backup copy of their presentation available to the video team by uploading it the day before the session. You’re welcome to upload fresh copies at any time.

• Format: your presentation must be saved as a powerpoint or pdf file (sorry!)
• Naming:
• For ARRAY and SOAP, please use the paper ID assigned to you by the publisher (e.g. <paper ID>.[ppt,pptx,pdf])
• For all other workshops, please use the workshop name followed by speaker name in lower case with a [ppt,pptx,pdf] suffix (e.g. <arrray-smith.pptx).
• Location: please use this link: https://bit.ly/pldi23upload

This requirement gives you assurance that if some major technical problem were to arise (such as a failure of your laptop), you will still be able to give your talk. If you do not make your presentation available in advance, and significant technical problems arise, we may have to shorten your presentation to keep to our tight schedule.

The requirement for you to use pdf or powerpoint for your backup copy is a pragmatic tradeoff. These slides will only be used in case of a technical emergency. We want to have the highest possible assurance that they will work without fuss on a third party device should such an emergency occur. If you use Google slides, Keynote, or some other software, please use the export feature to create either powerpoint or pdf backups.

If you elect not to upload a backup copy, please understand that this limits our volunteers’ capacity to assist you if a technical problem arises when you give your presentation.

Advice

There are many excellent sources of advice on giving good talks, including from Simon Peyton Jones, Michael Hicks, Michael Ernst, Ranjit Jhala, and Derek Dreyer. Make good use of these!

Video Check

All speakers are expected to be in the room and check in with their session chair and the video volunteer no later than 5 minutes before their session starts.

Q&A

If you stick to the above schedule you will have a good amount of time for questions. The in-room audience will not ask questions from their seats, but will be able to ask questions via a queue at a single microphone on a mic stand in the center of the room. In-room attendees and remote attendees will also be able to ask questions via Discord. Your session chair will monitor questions on Discord and might ask questions as they see them appearing there.

It is good practice as the speaker to repeat your understanding of the question before providing your answer. This is particularly important when time is tight because it reduces opportunities for time being wasted on account of a misunderstanding.

Once your talk is finished, please go on to Discord and respond to any questions or follow-up questions that appear there.

Remote Audience

Your talk will be streamed to Discord and YouTube. Your remote audience will be able to write questions in the Discord channel created for your session (they won’t be able to ask questions via audio or video). They should see your slides, and a video feed of you speaking.. As mentioned above, your session chair may relay questions from Discord.

Remote Presenters

Authors are expected to be present at the conference. If it is impossible for any of the authors to attend PLDI in person, you will need to have informed your program chair well in advance, and they may make special arrangements for you to present remotely.

The following notes apply only to those who have received permission from their program chair to present remotely. You should have been in direct contact with the PLDI video team on Discord.

Discord

We will use Discord as the virtual platform for this conference. You should familiarize yourself with Discord as an audience member well before your talk. We will use it for: a) the remote audience, b) delivery of remote talks, and c) communicating logistics.

If you are a remote speaker, 15 minutes before your talk, you should go to the voice channel #speakers-queue and wait to receive the Presenter role. With that, you’ll be able to see a private channel. Once that happens, share your screen and wait for the sign to start the presentation.

If you don’t receive the role, send a private message to Hanneli and let her know you are presenting shortly.

Connectivity

Please do the best you can to ensure that you have good connectivity at the time of your presentation. To protect against the possibility of a major technical failure, we encourage you to record a 15 minute video version of your talk, and share it with the video team well before your talk (see notes above for sharing slides). The video team can then use your video as a back-up in case of a major problem.

Limitations

Remote speakers should take care before including embedded audio in their talk. While this is possible, it can be difficult. If you need to do this, please consult directly with the video team and have it tested well in advance.

Q&A

Your session chair will introduce you and field questions just as for in-person sessions. You do not need to monitor Discord during your talk. Your Q&A will involve answering questions verbally, just as for in-person talks, only you’ll do so via video. As with in-person sessions, timing is very tight, so please be sure to stick to your 15 minute speaking time, or risk losing your Q&A time. You can respond to follow-up questions online after your talk has finished.