Student volunteers (SVs) are essential to the success of the DIS 2024 conference. Being a volunteer provides a unique opportunity to contribute to organizing a conference as well as interacting closely with DIS contributors, attendees, and your peers.
Important Dates
| Deadline to apply to be a Volunteer | May 8, 2024 |
| T-shirt design contest deadline | May 3, 2024 |
| Applicants will be informed of their acceptance or waitlist status | May 10, 2024 |
| Conference | July 1-5, 2024 |
Becoming a volunteer
To register, you must be an undergraduate, masters, or doctoral student for at least one semester during the 2023-2024 academic year. DIS 2024 will take place in person in Copenhagen. To apply, no previous experience is required, but we are looking for people who are reliable, enthusiastic, and friendly.
It is your own responsibility to obtain necessary travel visas if required. Please be aware that the visa application process should begin shortly after prospective notification of acceptance.
To be considered, please enroll yourself in the SV lottery for DIS at new.chisv.org/conference/dis24 before May 8, 2024.
What will I do as a volunteer?
As an SV, you agree to:
- Work around 20 hours before, during, or after the conference
- Attend orientation meeting
- Be available and perform assigned tasks in a timely manner
- Arrive at the conference by Monday morning at the latest
Benefits of working as a Volunteer
- Free t-shirt
- Free conference registration
- Opportunities to make new connections, both with your fellow students and with more senior researchers
- Access to the student volunteer lounge during the conference
- Breakfast and lunch on conference days
- An exclusive SV dinner on Thursday night (July 4th, 2024)
T-Shirt Design Contest
This year, we call on students to design a t-shirt that our SVs will wear while on duty. If your design is selected, you are ensured one SV spot for DIS 2024! As a winner, you can either take it or pass it on to a friend (as long as they are eligible to work as an SV). If you are interested in participating in the t-shirt design competition, please submit your design, including both the front and back of the shirt, as an image or PDF to sv@dis2024.acm.org with the subject line “DIS 2024 T-Shirt Design Contest” by May 3, 2024.
Please note that winning the contest only guarantees an SV-spot, you will still need to perform tasks with the other student volunteers at the conference.
Design Details
You may want to connect your design to the location (Copenhagen), or not, it doesn’t matter as long as it’s respectful of local culture, fun, interesting, and can stand out a bit in the crowd. Please send us front/back designs, noting that we cannot print on sleeves or the extreme edges of the shirts. Designs should be ONE color. In general, this means a black or white design on a colored shirt. The imprint size should remain within an area 30 cm wide and 35 cm high on front or back (11,8′′ x 13,7′′).
Submissions Details
The designs can be submitted as a PDF, JPG, or PNG format. If your design is selected as a winning design, we will require the final version to be either in .eps or .ai format. You can submit several designs or variations. The deadline for submission is May 3, 2024. We will select a winner in the week following the contest submission deadline.
Student Volunteer Chairs
- Arpit Bhatia, University of Copenhagen
- Aryan Saini, Monash University, Melbourne
- Martin Padalak, IT University of Copenhagen
Questions?
For further questions regarding student volunteering, please feel free to contact us: