Possibility to re-bid for Interspeech 2022 and deadline extension for bids for Interspeech 2023

ISCA has established a bidding process for Interspeech conferences which has been successful over the past years. In this process, feedback is provided for bidders to optimize bids prior to the deadline, the received bids are discussed first in the ISCA Advisory Council and then in the ISCA Board, and finally the ISCA Board takes a decision in terms of (one or several) votings to identify the optimum bid. For the Interspeech 2022 edition, this process led to Dublin being selected to host Interspeech 2022, as it was announced at the past Interspeech conference in Graz.

Due to several circumstances, the ISCA Board has re-assessed the Dublin bid and had to withdraw this decision very recently. As a consequence, the ISCA Board now re-opens the evaluation for Interspeech 2022 since there is currently no identified location for hosting Interspeech 2022. The ISCA Board decided that priority should be given to the bidders of the first round to update their bids, in case that they are still interested and able to host Interspeech 2022, as these bids have all been quite competitive, and the decision for Dublin was a tight one. Thus, all original bidders for Interspeech 2022 have been invited to submit an updated bid for Interspeech 2022 until November 30, 2019. These updated bids will be re-evaluated in an accelerated process, and then hopefully a new host for Interspeech 2022 will be identified. Only in case that this process leads to no adequate bid, the bid for Interspeech 2022 would be re-opened to all interested parties, possibly together with the bids for 2023.

As a consequence, also the deadline for bids for Interspeech 2023 has been postponed to February 28, 2020. All bidders which had identified themselves to us have already been informed about this deadline extension. We hope that this way we can keep the integrity and transparency of the Interspeech selection process, and identify optimum places to host Interspeech 2022 and 2023.

The ISCA Conferences team

Odette Scharenborg, Margaret Zellers, Sebastian Möller