Around 20,000 people will be there. Realistically about 30 of them matter to you, and you will meet six of those by accident. Supermeet finds the rest.
Tell us you’re going to NeurIPS and we’ll start there.
The problem at this scale
Poster halls with thousands of papers and recruiters working the edges. Finding the three authors closest to your work is a search problem.
attendees, roughly — mostly machine learning researchers, PhD students and industry labs. The attendee list is the single most valuable document of the week, and almost nobody reads it.
names is about what one person can realistically prepare for and meet properly over a few days.
people here are genuinely worth your time. Finding them by walking the floor takes longer than the conference lasts.
How to work NeurIPS
Go through accepted papers in your area and list the authors before you leave. Workshops are smaller and much easier for starting conversations.
What we’re building
Live today: see who else is going and get introduced, if you both opt in. Next: eighteen names, ranked, each with one line on why this person and not the 19,982 others.
The NeurIPS attendee list, speaker page or exhibitor directory — whatever you have access to.
Three questions, ninety seconds. Hiring, raising, selling, learning — the answer changes the entire list.
Drafted in your voice, sent from your address, with a second nudge to anyone who goes quiet. That second message is the one nobody sends.
Questions
Around 20,000, based on recent public figures. Numbers change from year to year, and NeurIPS usually takes place in December.
Mostly machine learning researchers, PhD students and industry labs.
Check the speaker and exhibitor pages first, since those are usually public. On Supermeet you can pick NeurIPS and see how many others are going. If you both opt in, you can see each other’s name and role. Nobody’s email is ever shown.
Free beta
See who else is going to NeurIPS right now. The more people fromNeurIPS who join, the sooner it gets a full shortlist.
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