The 2024 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators’ Meeting (2024 SaTC PI Meeting) will take place on Wednesday, September 4 and Thursday, September 5, 2024 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. We request that SaTC PIs plan to attend the entire meeting and book travel accordingly as there are no plans for a virtual aspect of the meeting.
The meeting provides an opportunity for SaTC PIs to meet other SaTC awardees as well as leaders of foundations, government, and industry involved in relevant research and policy areas. This year's PI Meeting represents the 12-year anniversary milestone of the NSF program and will have focused discussions about the future directions of the program among other exciting events. Meeting information will be handled through the meeting website at https://cylab.cmu.edu/satc-pimtg24. This site provides access to the meeting registration, program agenda, program material submission pages, venue/lodging, and other important information.
Who is Expected to Attend the 2024 SaTC PI Meeting?
- SaTC Large, Medium, and Small awards: The Lead PI for a collaborative award involving multiple institutions is required to ensure that at least one PI, Co-PI, or senior project personnel from each participating institution attends one SaTC PI meeting held during the term of the grant. For non-collaborative awards, at least one PI, Co-PI, or senior project personnel must also attend one SaTC PI meeting held during the term of the grant.
- SaTC Frontier awards: The Lead PI for a collaborative award involving multiple institutions is required to ensure that at least one PI, Co-PI, or senior project personnel from the *entire project* attends all SaTC PI Meetings held during the term of the grant.
- SaTC CAREER, CRII, EAGER, and RAPID awards: there is no requirement to attend the SaTC PI meeting, but we highly encourage you to attend.
Meeting Registration
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Hotel Accommodations
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Project Highlight Slide
All PIs are required to submit a highlight slide, whether attending the meeting or not. These highlight slides are extremely useful in helping the NSF highlight the wonderful work that is supported in SaTC.
The highlight slide should convey the overall research objectives and scientific directions of the project. Collaborative awards (multi-institution, each with unique award numbers) should submit a single joint highlight slide covering the entire project. The lead PI is responsible for:
- Ensuring that each aspect of the research is covered.
- Submitting the project highlight slide at: SUBMISSION LINK HERE no later than Monday, August 5, 2024.
- A submission code will be provided in the official invitation message to PIs.
Posters
All PIs of active projects are strongly encouraged to prepare one project poster and one project video. PIs have the option to add a URL or QR code to their project poster that links to the video. The video will help others learn about your work when you are not at your poster station.
Please submit your poster slide and video link at SUBMISSION LINK HERE by Monday, August 5, 2024. Collaborative awards (multi-institution, each with unique award numbers) can submit a single joint poster and abstract covering the entire project if desired. The PI of the lead institution is responsible for ensuring that each aspect of the research is covered. If you are a PI with multiple active projects, you will have the opportunity to submit artifacts for up to four projects. Posters should provide an overview of the research topics and results, with effective use of graphics. We ask that you make sure to emphasize the scientific contribution of your project with respect to secure and trustworthy systems, in general, as well as the impact in specific related topic areas. We also hope that you will explain the project as a whole, rather than only a narrow subtopic. It would be particularly helpful if you include the scientific challenge questions being addressed in the project context that will contribute new approaches for SaTC science and engineering. Please use the template on the right as a guide for preparing your poster.
A total of two poster sessions will be scheduled over the two-day meeting with one on day one and one on day two. Poster sessions will be broken into two groups: A and B. When they arrive, PIs will have the opportunity to select their poster session of choice by clipping their poster to a poster board on the easel. This will be first-come-first-served. We ask that you please do not relocate stands and labels. Group A will be the day one poster session, Group B day two poster session. Volunteers will be on hand to assist PIs with set up and at each session. PIs or alternate(s) are also responsible for:
- Preparing a poster slide in PDF format (PIs have the option of adding a URL or QR code to the poster slide.) The poster boards have a cushioned backing, the easels will accommodate posters 32"x40". Printed versions of posters may be in any format that fits within that space.
- Preparing a poster video in mp4 or mov formats (PIs have the option of adding a URL or QR code to the video.)
- Submitting both the poster slide and video link at SUBMISSION LINK HERE. A submission code will be provided to PIs.
- Printing, and bringing a poster and selecting a poster location by pinning their poster to a selected poster stand (that will be labeled A or B representing each of the two sessions).
- Presenting or identifying at least one person to present the poster during the programmed poster session time.
- Dismantling and discarding the poster at the end of the meeting.
Click on the image below to download the poster template:
Presentations for Invited Speakers
Program presentations will be in the form of invited keynotes and talks, SaTC PI project talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions. If you are invited to give a presentation, please prepare slides in a PDF format and 16:9 aspect ratio and please submit them at SUBMISSION LINK HERE. The submission code will be provided after invited speakers have been contacted and speaking role has been confirmed. Invited speakers will receive individual messages with details from an NSF program director or Program Committee member. The same template provided for developing content for the project highlight slides also serve as the template for preparing presentation slides.
A presentation laptop will be provided onsite at the PI Meeting, but please let the organizers know in advance if you plan to use your own laptop and if there are movies in your presentation.
All speakers are encouraged to conduct a tech test of their talks on the arrival night of Tuesday, September 3. Patty Duffy will reach out to set up a time with you and the Convention Center AV staff to conduct these tests. All presentations are expected to be delivered using computers and displayed via the available projector. If you have any additional specific audio-visual requirements for your presentation, please contact Patty Duffy at pduffy@globauxsource.com or Holly McMullin hmcmullin@globauxsource.com.
Should you have questions or experience technical difficulties accessing the 2024 SaTC PI Meeting website, please contact Michael Cunningham directly or the meeting organizers at satc-pimtg24@cylab.cmu.edu.
Onsite Registration
On Tuesday, September 3, 2024, attendees will be able to register from 12:00 p.m. ET to 9:00 p.m. ET for persons who wish to collect any registration materials early. The registration desk will be available at 7:00 a.m. ET on the two full meeting days.
Meals
Continental breakfasts, a.m. and p.m. refreshments, and hot lunches will be served on the full two meeting days. Light refreshments will be served during the Pre-Meeting Reception on the arrival night and during the Networking Session on day two.
Reception at Carnegie Mellon University
There will be an optional reception and dinner for meeting attendees hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute on the Carnegie Mellon University campus on Wednesday, September 4. Shuttles will be available at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center starting at 6:00 p.m. to transport meeting attendees to and from the CMU Campus for the reception and dinner. The CMU Campus is about a 20-minute drive from the Convention Center. Further details are forthcoming.