It was my first CVPR and my first conference too. So we were born in the same place and almost together. Wow! The funny thing is that now in Nashville we are both celebrating our 10th CVPR. Tell something to the readers who are attending their first CVPR today. Tell them how to take the most advantage of this show! I remember ResNet was first presented at CVPR 2016 and it also won the best paper award. If I take a look at that CVPR, it was a very, very big conference with many attendees. It was difficult to talk with everyone. This is the most important thing when we have the opportunity to go to conferences: it is important to connect with other participants, talk a lot with the others, meet the others and also try to understand. Step by to the posters, try to discuss with people, because we are now in a specific period in which we are starting the research activities for the next year. CVPR is important also to brainstorm and also to try and acquire all the possible knowledge from the other participants. It is also special to meet your heroes in person! Yes! Give me a couple of names that you were honored to meet in person when you started, when you didn't know yet that they were here, available in real life. Well, there are many people. Maybe when I started, when I was working on image captioning, one of the names was Devi Parikh, because she worked on similar topics. There are obviously many, many others. Ross Girshick, Raquel Urtasun, Sanja Fidler. You gave a preference to ladies. Yeah, I started to attend this type of conferences thanks to the Women in Computer Vision workshop. The workshop gave me the opportunity to attend several conferences when I was a student. Women for president! Indeed, Rita is now running for being elected rector of our university. OK, Rita for rector! We vote for her. Can we vote, Marcella? I can vote, you can't. The second ballot will be in only a few days. Now I look for an answer with passion. What will you tell the young scholar arriving at his first conference now at CVPR or to young Marcella nine years ago in Las Vegas, what would you tell them? My advice is to be curious, not be shy like me. Also, connect with the other researchers, the other students. The connections that you make during the years at the conferences will be useful to organize other activities, research papers, workshops and much more! 19 DAILY CVPR Friday Marcella Cornia
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