Tentative Agenda

Morning Block

Time	Session	Duration	Agenda
08:30 – 09:00	Poster Setup	30 min	Time allocated for poster setup to help ease the flow of the morning block
09:00 – 09:10	Opening Talk	10 min	Brief talk about the workshop by the organizers
09:10 – 09:55	First Keynote	45 min	Keynote by Jean-Marc Valin (Google) Title: From Paper to Production: the Engineering and Standardization Challenges of Neural Speech Coding
09:55 – 10:15	Challenge Overview	20 min	Challenge overview talk by the challenge organizers
10:15 – 10:30	Lightning Talks	15 min	Lightning talks: select papers
10:35 – 11:00	Coffee Break	25 min	Coffee break provided by ICASSP organizers.
11:00 – 12:30	Poster Session	90 min	Poster session. Authors free to roam after 60 min.

Lunch Break

Time	Session	Duration	Agenda
12:30 – 14:30	Lunch Break	120 min	Self-arranged lunch break. Lunch is not provided by the workshop.

Afternoon Block

Time	Session	Duration	Agenda
14:30 – 15:15	Second Keynote	45 min	Keynote by Nicola Pia (Fraunhofer IIS) Title: Design Choices and Effective Evaluation of Modern Speech and Audio Codecs Based on Neural Networks
15:15 – 16:00	Oral Presentations	45 min	Oral presentations: select papers.
16:05 – 16:20	Coffee Break	15 min	Coffee break provided by ICASSP organizers.
16:20 – 17:05	Third Keynote	45 min	Keynote by Cullen Jennings (Cisco Systems) Title: More Bandwidth, More Problems: Audio Codecs in the Machine Learning Era
17:05 – 18:05	Panel Discussion	60 min	Panel Discussion Host: Minje Kim Panelists: Yossi Adi, Nicola Pia, Jean-Marc Valin, and Cullen Jennings Topic: Are Neural Codecs Ready for Low-Resource Reality? Potentials and Pitfalls in the AI Era.

Evening Event

Time	Session	Duration	Agenda
19:00 – 21:30	Conference Reception	150 min	ICASSP’s Welcome Reception

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