On behalf of the JuliaCon 2018 organizing committee, we would like to invite all Julia supporters and user organizations to become a sponsor of JuliaCon 2018. This post lays out the options and benefits, and we would appreciate it if you could forward it within your organizations, and amplify this via social media.
JuliaCon 2018 will be held at University College London August 7-11. It promises to be the biggest and best JuliaCon yet, with more than 300 participants. We expect to have talks in exciting areas such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, and high performance computing including multithreaded parallel computing using GPUs.
JuliaCon 2018 sponsorship comes with the following benefits:
Platinum Sponsorship ($30,000)
- Prominent mention of your organization and logo placement in JuliaCon registration packets, brochures, materials and website
- Prominent mention of sponsorship before, after or during opening, closing and keynote addresses
- A brief 5 minute opportunity to address the participants including priority placement right after a keynote address
- Table/presentation space during the conference including priority placement
- 5 free tickets
Gold Sponsorship ($15,000)
- Prominent mention of your organization and logo placement in JuliaCon registration packets, brochures, materials and website
- Prominent mention of sponsorship before, after or during opening, closing and keynote addresses
- A brief 5 minute opportunity to address the participants
- Table/presentation space during the conference
- 3 free tickets
Silver Sponsorship ($5,000)
- Prominent mention of your organization and logo placement in JuliaCon registration packets, brochures, materials and website
- Prominent mention of sponsorship before, after or during opening, closing and keynote addresses
- 1 free ticket
We will be happy to work towards accommodating other requests our sponsors might have.
Your sponsorship will be used to support the following:
- Diversity initiatives: increase participation in JuliaCon among women and under-represented minorities through travel stipends to attend JuliaCon, presentations by women and under-represented minorities and training
- Julia training and workshops during JuliaCon for interested parties
- Travel and accommodation for presenters and participants
- Julia community infrastructure
Examples of recent JuliaCon presentations include:
| Project | Collaborators |
|---|---|
| Self-Driving Cars | UC Berkeley |
| Next-Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System X | Federal Aviation Administration, MIT Lincoln Labs |
| Celeste: Classifying 185 Million Stars and Galaxies in 14.6 Minutes Using the World’s Sixth Most Powerful Supercomputer | National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Intel, Julia Computing |
Recent JuliaCon participants have included BlackRock, Conning, IBM, Intel, Invenia and many more.
About Julia
Julia is the fastest high performance open source computing language for data, analytics, algorithmic trading, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and many other fields. Julia solves the two language problem by combining the ease of use of Python and R with the speed of C++. Julia provides parallel computing capabilities out of the box and unlimited scalability with minimal effort. For example, Julia has run at petascale on 650,000 cores with 1.3 million threads to analyze over 56 terabytes of data using Cori, the world’s sixth-largest supercomputer. With more than 1.2 million downloads and +161% annual growth, Julia is one of the top programming languages developed on GitHub. Julia adoption is growing rapidly in finance, insurance, machine learning, energy, robotics, genomics, aerospace, medicine and many other fields.