IMS as your Professional Home

Submission Guidelines

Initiative

• Collect diverse pitch speeches that explains previous, current or new roles of I&M within the I&M Society and how IEEE/IMS serves as their professional home
• Select best set and provide professional audio-video editing and possibly recording support
• Speakers whose pitches are recognized as the most viewed or of top quality will receive a token of appreciation in the form of an IMS gadget and a certificate

Purpose

• Disseminate successful and diverse membership stories to motivate other members and non-members and demonstrate ways in which being a member of the IMS is beneficial to one’s professional career
• Share new roles/views of I&M, especially in Future Disruptor Technologies
• Energize and engage members as ambassadors, as well as provide visibility for their own networks

Eligibility

• Pitcher must be a Member (or higher grade Member) or a Student Member of the IEEE and of I&M Society at the time of the submission of the pitch.
• The pitch must be in English
• Duration: 1 minute or less
• No more than two pitches can be submitted by a single individual
• Not necessary to include the Speaker’s face in the video. Images for which the speaker can release copyright are also acceptable (lab video, cartoon, animated slides, pictures). Use of commercial logos must be very limited and in no way it may constitute the main characterization of the video

Submission/Selection Process

• Electronic submission from May 1 to November 1, 2023
• Reviewed by on a first-come first-serve basis
• Decisions made in June, September and November
• Criteria will include diversity in all possible meanings of the term relevant to IMS

Basis for Judgment

The committee will take in account the following criteria in the evaluation:

• Relevance
• Audio-video quality (the recorded pitch must be good enough to be posted without new recording in case the author declines; if the content is really good but the recording is really poor, then the author will be contacted and the pitch selected only if the author agrees to professional recording)
• Convincing justification of the statements
• Originality and creativity
• In line with the IMS strategy
• Diversity in the context of the pool of selected pitches

Follow Up

The authors of the selected pitches will be contacted to agree on terms of professional editing and/or recording. The IMS will send a token of appreciation to the Speakers of pitches recognized as most viewed or top quality in 2023.

Also, the IMS may:

• Explore the opportunity to re-use the material on the Magazine (e.g. column with summaries of the Pitch contents), or on the website (rotating the videos)
• Invite the Speakers to events at their chapter or other IMS events
• Promote the Pitch by pushing it to IEEE channels.