MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

but it’s not the first time I will do so. I was rather involved in doing events for breast cancer all around the world. One of the aspects that gives the researchers a big headache is logistics and dealing with all of that. You always learn something new, but I know my area. I know my city. I have my network to do that. That is not what worries me. Then the rest is the team. Maxime Descoteaux is our Program Chair with D. Louis Collins . Lena Maier- Hein and Pierre Jannin are in the program committee. I know that they are going to do a bang up job. On the other side we have Tal Arbel (Satellites Chair), Parvin Mousavi , Kevin Whittingstall and Jorge Cardoso, so I sleep very soundly. The team is good . Ralph: What are the chances that you and I will co-sign the first editorial of the MICCAI Daily 2017 ? Simon: Right now, it’s 100%. Of course, I cannot predict the future. If I did, then I’d be much richer, but I would love to. Another thing is that we would really like to see an increased presence of the students, which are about 30- 40% of the conference. It’s really the other way around of what it should be. The university students are the majority, of course. There are many things that I would like to do to promote students. First, is a decrease in price. The price in Quebec City, for all kinds of reasons, will be at least ⅓ less than what it was in previous editions. This will primarily benefit the students. The second thing is to get the student society active in MICCAI. The role they took here is great, and they will be taking that role hopefully a bit more in Quebec City as well. The third thing we’re going to do is have a platform called Jujama, which will be the registration platform. It’s also going to be the program platform, social platform, and networking platform. When you plan your week, you can meet people. You can meet industry if you are looking for a job, if you are looking for postdoc, so on and so forth. It’s great to follow-up, not just to have MICCAI be a 5 day meeting, but to start a conversation before, during, and after. CVPR Daily: Thursday MICCAI 2017 25 MICCAI Daily: Thursday The General Chair contemplating organizing MICCAI 2017