Hi, I'm Philippe Palanque. I'm the site selection director within CHI
steering committee. And I'm here to disclose detailed information
about CHI 2023 conference, and also to tell you a bit more about the
selection process for CHI conferences. I guess most of
you are currently attending the CHI 2021 conference that
unfortunately, cannot happen physically, but is currently
happening virtually. And I guess you know that CHI 2022
will take place in New Orleans in the USA next year. We are really looking
forward to getting it organized physically. So a
bit of suspense for CHI 2023. I would like to give you a bit of
a challenge. I would like you to try to write down immediately
the name of the city in which the conference will take place.
And also try to write the number of seconds that have been
elapsed since the beginning of this video. 15 00:00:54,089 --> 00:00:57,929 and we will see who is winner afterwards. To face this challenge you have to be careful, and you have
to be ready and you have to be alert. But, I will give you
of course, some hints, so you can find the location more
easily. The first hint is that we usually don't have CHI
conference happening in the same location several times, at least we try to avoid
that. So if you look at the previous CHI conferences,
you can try to guess in which continent, the
conference will take place. Okay? Now I can tell you
more precise and breaking news information, which is that
CHI 2023, we'll go back to Europe. I know it's a good hint,
but might not be enough, because in fact, Europe is pretty large.
And you have here a picture of Europe. You can try to
locate the city that will host CHI which is visible. It's
currently displayed on this map, where CHI 2023 will take place. If you
have not found yet I will give you some more hint. First a
a short video, then some famous people from that place
and who were born in that city. And then the most famous
invention from this city that is coming from the 16th century and more precisely from 1758.
So maybe with this piece of information you already know,
because this invention is very famous, and everybody here has
been trying it at least once. So coming back to the hints, the
first hint is the video that will give you some concrete information.
So I show you the video right now, it's a very short
video, you only have 10 seconds. I don't tell you more. It's a
video that shows some objects. It shows you also some
technology, maybe some AI-based technology, I can't tell. But
what I can tell you now is that one of the objects that was
displayed in this video is exactly coming from that city.
And that's the one I was trying to make you guess. Second
information may give you some hint about the country where CHI 2023 will take place. The
most famous politicians from this country are Helmuth Schmidt
and Angela Merkel. So that gives you some idea if you're, of
course from Europe, but from outside it might be a bit more
difficult. I can give you some information also related more to
the CHI conference. So if you look at people who have
been doing some engineering, so Henrich Hertz is from that
country and born in that city. And on the design side of
the world, you have Karl Lagerfeld who was a famous designer,
for Chanel was from this city also. And he's very famous for
his hate of the yellow color. So he always said that it's ugly, it's
yellow, it doesn't go with anything at all. No idea yet. So
that last one should make it very easy. It describes the object that you
were looking for, and I was trying to make you guess in
the beginning. It is a hamburger, it is an
invention from the city of Hamburg. As for CHI 2023, I'm
very happy to tell you that it will take place in Hamburg in
Germany. And you see the orange dot on this map that shows
you where Hamburg is located. It's really in the center of Europe,
at least from west to east. You can see that on the map
I was presenting before. And we are very lucky because
the conference will take place in the brand new Hamburg
Convention Center. And you can see the main amphitheater here. So
we hope to be able to be sitting next to each other as we were
in the past, that we are all missing a lot. You can see also
the exhibit that is brand new too and also the space for
moving around in the convention center which is extremely nice.
As you can see our general chairs for CHI 2023 Kaisa Vanaanen
from Tampere University in Finland, and Albrecht Schmidt
from LMU in Munich in Germany.
If we look at these three of conferences in the past, you can
see that Hamburg, as I said, will host chi 2023 in Germany,
and for CHI 2024 we have already selected the city and the
contract is being signed and it will be in North America. for
CHI 2025 you have a rule at the bottom of the
slide that tells you that we tried to do, over a
period of five years, twice in North America, once in Europe,
once in Asia and we want to get a wild card to select,
potentially, if it fits with the local community and
the finances of CHI, another location and for CHI 2025,
we are starting to work on the site selection, and we might be
selecting a country outside of these, three continents. This is
a process which is very easy to understand and to read
it presents how we make the site selection for Chi. And
you see the various entities or organization involved in this
selection. So in yellow, you see ACM, you see in green the
steering committee of CHI, and you see in blue
the executive committee of SIGCHI. So all these three entities
work together to select a site, to give some rules
about the site to select, to select some possibilities for
the site, and then to make a final selection. And you see
that we are now trying, in the center of this of this drawing,
you can see that we are now trying to avoid conflicts with
holidays, which is something that we have added recently. And
we were not that successful in the past, but we really hope
that we will do better in the near future. You can see here
a picture of Regan Mandryk who is the chair of CHI steering
committee. And you can see also that the steering committee at
the bottom of this line is doing some work on gathering
information and analyzing data. And that
the final decision, or the decision which is made for
selecting the location of CHI, is done by the executive
committee of SIGCHI, and then the work is done on making it happening by the
steering committee. That was all I wanted to present to you. I
hope you are very happy that CHI is going back to Europe. We try
to distribute the location of CHI conferences around the
world. If you have any question, please feel free to
contact me I will be very happy to answer. Thank you