Call for sustainability chair
Call for Applications – Sustainability Chair, ECML PKDD Association
The ECML PKDD Association is seeking a new Sustainability Chair to join its Steering Committee and Board of Directors for a four-year term (renewable).
Role & Responsibilities
Modern conferences are rather resource-hungry affairs in terms of venue usage, catering, and travel of participants and making them more sustainable is a prime concern of the community.
The Sustainability Chair ensures that sustainability issues are duly considered in:
Board of Directors meetings (typically 3-5 per year)
The annual General Assembly (during the ECML PKDD Community Meeting)
The organization of the annual ECML PKDD conference
The role involves attending these meetings (or providing input otherwise), engaging with relevant stakeholders, making proposals, and gathering community input and support.
Eligibility
Proven familiarity with the ECML PKDD conference and research community
No violation of the ECML PKDD Code of Conduct
The position is voluntary and not remunerated
Application Process
Applications should be sent to the President and Secretary of the Steering Committee before Wednesday 10 September, by filling in this form, which requires:
Your name, affiliation, and institutional email address
A short informal motivation statement, including your vision on this role
A (very) brief biosketch, or a link to an online biosketch/CV
Selection Process
Eligibility will be confirmed by the Steering Committee. If there are multiple eligible candidates, the General Assembly will elect the Sustainability Chair during the Community Meeting at ECML PKDD 2025 in Porto on Wednesday 17 September 2025.
Steering Committee
The activities of the ECML PKDD community are guided by a steering committee, which consists of at most 4 chairs of the previous 3 editions of the ECML PKDD conference. The chairs ideally cover diverse roles in the organisation of the conference. The current appointed members of the steering committee are the following.Representatives 2022
Representatives 2023
Representatives 2024
Massih-Reza Amini
Peggy Cellier
Tias Guns
Grigorios Tsoumakas
Jesse Davis
Tomas Krilavičius
Panagiotis Papapetrou
Myra Spiliopoulou
At each year's conference, the steering committee organizes a community meeting and meets in a steering committee meeting before the community meeting. All chairs of the current and next edition of the conference are invited to attend the steering committee meeting. However, only appointed members of the steering committee are allowed to vote.
At most one week before the conference, the current chairs nominate at most 4 candidate members for the steering committee. The new steering committee is appointed by the outgoing steering committee during the steering committee meeting; the new steering committee assumes its position after being appointed. The president of the steering committee is elected by the steering committee for a period of 4 years. At the end of the mandate of the outgoing president, members of the steering committee may nominate a candidate president. Nominations are sent to the outgoing president. The new president is elected during the steering committee meeting, by the incoming steering committee. The new president assumes her responsibilities at the end of the community meeting, which is chaired by the outgoing president.
The president of the steering committee is elected by the steering committee for a period of 4 years. At the end of the mandate of the outgoing president, members of the steering committee may nominate a candidate president. Nominations are sent to the outgoing president. The new president is elected during the steering committee meeting, by the incoming steering committee. The new president assumes her responsibilities at the end of the community meeting, which is chaired by the outgoing president.
The steering committee is responsible for decisions that have a long-term impact on the community. This includes, the transfer of remaining funds from one conference to the next, long-term contracts with publishers, support software, etc.
Appointed Members
For these tasks, the committee assigns the following roles to suitable members of the community; they are also considered appointed members of the steering committee.
Tijl De Bie
President
Andrea Passerini
Honorary President
Saso Dzeroski
Publication Chair
Siegfried Nijssen
Secretary
Francesco Bonchi
Proposal Chair
Ioanna Miliou
Promoting and Managing Diversity
Robert Jan van Wijk
Industrial Liaisons
Albert Bifet
Proposal Chair
Arno Siebes
Treasurer
Ilaria Bordino
Industrial Liaisons
Albrecht Zimmermann
Communication and Social Media Chair
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